Ruthenium-driven catalysis for sustainable water decontamination: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters - The worldwide demand for clean water is rising worldwide, yet wastewater decontamination is actually limited by the presence of refractory organic and inorganic...     

Efficient phosphate recycling by adsorption on alkaline sludge biochar

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Large amounts of septic tank sludges from sanitation facilities are either landfilled or illegally dumped into the natural environment, leading to environmental...     

Chitosan for direct bioflocculation of wastewater

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Coagulation/flocculation is a major phenomenon occurring during industrial and municipal water treatment to remove suspended particles. Common coagulants are metal...     

Applications of chitosan in food,pharmaceuticals, medicine,cosmetics, agriculture,textiles, pulp and paper,biotechnology, and environmental chemistry

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Chitosan is a biopolymer obtained from chitin, one of the most abundant and renewable materials on Earth. Chitin is a primary component of cell walls in fungi, the...     

Clay mineral adsorbents for heavy metal removal from wastewater: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Heavy metal pollution such as water contamination by Pb, Hg, Cu, Cd and Cr ions is induced by rapid urbanization and industrialization and is a major threat to...     

Diffusive gradients in thin films: devices,materials and applications

Environmental Chemistry Letters - A large number of ex situ sampling techniques have been used traditionally to investigate the impact and fate of pollutants in soil, sediment and waters. However,...     

Unanswered questions on the airborne transmission of COVID-19

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Policies and measures to control pandemics are often failing. While biological factors controlling transmission are usually well explored, little is known about...     

Waves of pharmaceutical waste

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Planting trees to combat global warming

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Dye removal by biosorption using cross-linked chitosan-based hydrogels

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Synthetic dyes are an important class of recalcitrant organic compounds that are often found in the environment as a result of their wide industrial use....