Heavy Metals in Daily Life: Assessment and Treatment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 478
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental sciences; environmental pollution; human health; heavy metals; toxic elements; trace elements; elemental analysis; traces; instrumental techniques; ICP-OES; ICP-MS; LA-ICP-MS; risk assessment; cosmetics; forensic chemistry
Interests: forensic science; environmental protection; mercury analysis; elemental analysis; ToF-SIMS; CV AAS; ICP-OES; heavy metals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the Guest Editors of the Special Issue “Heavy Metals in Daily Life: Assessment and Treatment" in Sustainability—an Open Access Journal by MDPI (ISSN: 2071-1050, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability)—we would like to invite you to contribute an article or review paper focusing on the recent studies related to this topic. Because of the significance of this research area, manuscripts addressing new techniques and the employment of commonly applied techniques to new fields of investigation or new aims are also welcome. We have also aimed to review the literature on the toxicity mechanisms associated with heavy metals, which can expand the knowledge on their toxic effects on the body organs, leading to better management of metal poisonings.
The aim of this Special Issue is to show sustainability in everyday life. The purpose of this Special Issue is to add information on:
- The identification of heavy metals sources in the daily life;
- The reduction or risk of exposure to heavy metals (heavy metals treatment and kinetics of their removal);
- The estimation of the main ways in which toxic elements enter the human body (including the fate, mechanisms, and management of heavy metals);
- The determination of the levels of intake of heavy metals in human life, including, e.g., the diet or the cosmetics use in order to calculated and estimate the risk to human health (the risk assessment methods depending on the route of exposure);
- A better understanding of the transfer of metals in food chain and their accumulation in food web components.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Aleksandra Pawlaczyk
Dr. Elżbieta Maćkiewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental pollution
- environmental protection
- human health
- heavy metals
- toxic elements
- instrumental techniques
- trace elements
- sustainable development
- risk assessment
- daily life
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