Interaction Between Emerging Contaminants and Microalgae: Ecotoxicity and Biotechnology
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 611
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging contaminants in water environments pose great threats to ecosystems and the emergence of contaminants induces negative effects on microalgae, such as growth inhibition, oxidative damage, photosystem damage. Additionally, long-term exposure to multiple emerging contaminants may increase their potential risk; therefore, it is crucial to advance our knowledge regarding the exposure and risk of emerging contaminants in the water environment. Meanwhile, microalgae, while under stress, have the ability to biologically degrade these contaminants. Microalgae-based biodegradation technology offers an alternative strategy for water treatment, optimizing technical approaches not only to providing environmentally friendly and low-ecological-risk water treatment strategies, but also to providing more biomass-sourced energy and carbon dioxide fixation.
In light of this, this Special Issue invites you to contribute your recent research focusing on the ecotoxic effects emerging contaminants exert on microalgae, mechanisms for their removal, and risk assessments thereof, as well as feasibility studies of microalgae-based biodegradation technologies. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The ecotoxic effects emerging contaminants exert on microalgae in water environments;
- The risk assessment and management of emerging contaminants to microalgae;
- Microalgae-based biodegradation technology;
- Biomass energy related to microalgae treatment;
- Carbon fixation related to microalgae treatment.
Prof. Dr. Wei Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microalgae
- emerging contaminants
- ecotoxicity
- biodegradation
- biological wastewater treatment
- biomass and bioenergy
- carbon fixation
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