Fate and Impacts of Nanomaterials in Waste Water Treatment Plants and Effluents
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 2682
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microplastic; nanoplastic; environmental fate; UV degradation; mechanical degradation; biodegradation; ecotoxicity; analytical chemistry; particle characterisation; chemical leaching; bioavailability
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Interests: fate of organic contaminants, metals/metallic nanomaterials and synthetic polymers in organic waste resources and soils
Interests: marine ecotoxiology; occurence, fate, and effects of pollutants, including manufactured (metal) nanomaterials in the environment
Interests: marine biological effect monitoring and the application of effects directed analysis and toxicity identification evaluation in marine/freshwater and sediment; development and use of in vivo and in vitro bioassays; nano and regulatory ecotoxicology (GLP) and risk assessment; invertebrate and aquatic regulatory ecotoxicity testing, including hazard assessment of environmental mixtures and single substances in marine and freshwater systems
Interests: behavior and transformation of nanomaterials in complex and environmentally relevant matrices; development and application of novel in vitro cell-based methods for hazard identification and elucidation of mechanisms of action; interaction of particular contaminants and contaminants of emerging concern with cellular membranes and marine and freshwater organisms, immune responses, and mechanisms of defence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Particulate materials are increasingly acknowledged as a key source of environmental contamination. This class of pollutants represents an extremely diverse mixture of particles with a broad range of physical (size, shape, surface morphology) and chemical properties, including particle-associated chemicals. As a focal point for many waste streams, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are a critical step in the transport and fate of particulate pollutants, often representing the final opportunity to prevent emissions to the natural environment. Globally, WWTPs range from simple to highly sophisticated, but all of them have the purpose of removing anthropogenic pollutants from aqueous waste streams. Existing WWTPs are effective at removing particulates in the micron-size range and larger. However, their ability to retain particles in the nanoscale and the fate and impact of nano-sized materials in WWTPs is less understood.
This Special Edition of Toxics focuses on the fate and transformation of nanomaterials (including nanoplastic) in WWTPs and impacts of released nanomaterials in relevant environmental compartments. Manuscripts are invited that address topics related to the detection (identification and quantification) of nano-sized particulates in WWTPs, diurnal and seasonal variations in fluxes, retention efficiency, interaction with other particulates, the role of dissolved organics, fate and transformation processes, the impacts of nano-sized particles on WWTP functioning, and the impacts of WWTP-transformed nanomaterials in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Dr. Andrew Booth
Dr. Claire Coutris
Dr. Julia Farkas
Dr. Ailbhe Macken
Dr. Anastasia Georgantzopoulou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nanomaterials
- Wastewater treatment plants
- Aggregation
- Dissolution
- Surface chemistry
- Ecocorona
- Toxicity
- Terrestrial
- Aquatic
- Effluents
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