Toxic Metal Remediation: Recent Advances in the Development of a Green and Sustainable Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 17609
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heavy metals; functional materials; water treatment; soil remediation; health risk assessment
Interests: waste resource management; functional biochar; heavy metals; environmental self-cleaning materials
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Dear Colleagues,
For centuries, toxic metals (e.g., Cd, As, Hg, Cr, and Pb) have been considered hazardous to humans and ecotopes due to their toxicity, persistence, and biological accumulation, with damage to human health occurring through complex multi-pathways. Unfortunately, the industrialization and urbanization of the developing world and the rising demand for resources have increased the risk of exposure to these toxic metals. The continuous increase in new substances and the advent of new technologies in the modern world have also altered the transport and transformation of toxic metals through different media. In particular, water and soil are the top two media for which pollution cases are reported and require the most attention because of their direct relation to daily human life. The chemical behavior and fate of toxic metals in aquatic and soil systems, the interaction of toxic metals with various environmental elements, and the risk of their exposure to human beings through different pathways must be well understood, along with the implementation and development of remediation.
Thus, to encourage progress in the assessment and remediation of toxic metals, this Special Issue aims to highlight the application and/or development of new and/or improved approaches, models, materials, and techniques. We welcome contributions on any aspect of remediation strategies for toxic metals and their corresponding behavior and fate in water and soil systems. Contributions embracing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches are especially welcome, as are research papers, analytical reviews, case studies, conceptual frameworks, and policy-relevant articles. The goal of the Special Issue is to provide information to research fellows, policymakers, and professionals to assist in resolving toxic metal assessment and pollution control problems.
Dr. Jia Wen
Dr. Xiaofei Tan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- toxic metals
- distribution, transportation, and transformation
- enrichment and bioavailability
- functional materials
- remediation technologies
- soil and water systems
- risk assessment
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