Toxicity Characterization, Detection and Remediation of Contaminants in Soils and Groundwater 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

The toxicity of heavy metals, pesticides, PAHs and new pollutants poses a significant threat to agricultural soil, sites and groundwater around the world, and has constituted a serious threat to human health. Researchers should aim to exploit the novel environment-friendly, cost-efficient and low-carbon emission characteristics of heavy metals, pesticides, PAHs and new pollutants remediation technology, and look to establish these detection techniques, assessment methods, novel environment-friendly functional materials and multi-technology combination repair strategies as suitable options for the management of agricultural contaminated soils, as well as site and groundwater pollutants.

This Special Issue welcomes papers on all relevant topics, including but not limited to the following:

• Toxicity characterization, transformation and degradation of contaminants in natural biogeochemical and engineered processes;
• Detection techniques and assessment methods of pollutants in agricultural soils, site and groundwater;
• Remediation technologies and models of heavy metal-, pesticides-, PAHs- and new pollutants-caused soil, site and groundwater pollution.

Dr. Junhao Qin
Dr. Peidong Su
Dr. Feng Zhu
Dr. Lin Ding
Guest Editors

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