Innovative Strategies to Decompose Pollutants
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Toxicity Reduction and Environmental Remediation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 10247
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industrial development must be accompanied by continuous environmental monitoring. Pollutants, whether in gaseous, liquid or solid form, can contaminate land, water and soil, and have adverse effects on organisms. Several techniques have been developed over time and have made it possible to mitigate the accumulation of these substances. The controlled decomposition of pollutants through photochemistry, sonochemistry, mechanochemistry and generic catalysis has been taking place in the last twenty years, as a promising breakthrough. The introduction of innovative technologies with low environmental impact makes it possible to obtain harmless substances and produce chemicals with high added value that can be part of new industrial processes. Material recycling is a new frontier that underlies the circular economy.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled "Innovative technologies to decompose pollutants", which aims to collect and highlight all the advancements that scientific research is making in this sector.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of potential research areas:
- Chemical-physical processes to decompose pollutants;
- Development of organic materials and their applications for pollutant decomposition;
- Development of composite materials and their applications for pollutant decomposition;
- Photochemical, sonochemical, mechanochemical technologies to decompose pollutants;
- General catalysis to decompose pollutants;
- Evaluation of the toxicity of pollutants and the relative decomposition products;
- Recycling of the decomposition products for circular economy.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Fabrizio Olivito
Dr. Pravin Jagdale
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pollutant decomposition
- photochemistry
- sonochemistry
- mechanochemistry
- catalysis
- toxicity
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