Micropollutants are composed of natural and artificial substances, including medicine, microplastics, rhodamine b, endocrine disrupter, heavy metals, antibiotic-resistance genes, and so on. The potentially damaging environmental impacts of such pollutants have raised global concerns. The removal efficiency of micropollutants is limited during the environmental chemical treatment method, such as (bio)electrochemical process, adsorption, Fenton, etc. Although they exist at tiny contents in the environment, they still retain relatively high biological activity. Environmental stressors such as ionizing radiation and microgravity are generally encountered in space. These two factors have been topics of active investigation as their potential to cause damage to genomic DNA and increase the risk for adverse health effects.
Micropollutants can enter the natural environment via a variety of methods including the water cycle, air motion, and form transformation, environments stressors may exist in the living environments of humans and animals. It is necessary to assemble the risk analysis information for micropollutants and environmental stressors. New, reliable, and stable analytical techniques are required for the accurate quantification of microcontaminants and the monitoring of their campaigns in the environment. Hence, the crucial component of the mitigation process is contemporary treatment techniques using both abiotic and biotic treatment methods.
This Research Topic aims to discover and discuss transdisciplinary research on current developments in the fields of fate assessment, mitigation, risk analysis, and removal of micropollutants and environmental stressors.
This Research Topic welcomes contributions including Original Research, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, and Prospective articles. The areas covered by this Research Topic may include but are not limited to the following topics:
• Occurrence, transformation, and reactions of micropollutants in the solid or aquatic environment
• Construction and application of micropollutant-specific treatment techniques
• Biodegradation and degradation pathways for microcontaminants
• Risk evaluation of the presence of microcontaminants and stressors in the environment
Micropollutants are composed of natural and artificial substances, including medicine, microplastics, rhodamine b, endocrine disrupter, heavy metals, antibiotic-resistance genes, and so on. The potentially damaging environmental impacts of such pollutants have raised global concerns. The removal efficiency of micropollutants is limited during the environmental chemical treatment method, such as (bio)electrochemical process, adsorption, Fenton, etc. Although they exist at tiny contents in the environment, they still retain relatively high biological activity. Environmental stressors such as ionizing radiation and microgravity are generally encountered in space. These two factors have been topics of active investigation as their potential to cause damage to genomic DNA and increase the risk for adverse health effects.
Micropollutants can enter the natural environment via a variety of methods including the water cycle, air motion, and form transformation, environments stressors may exist in the living environments of humans and animals. It is necessary to assemble the risk analysis information for micropollutants and environmental stressors. New, reliable, and stable analytical techniques are required for the accurate quantification of microcontaminants and the monitoring of their campaigns in the environment. Hence, the crucial component of the mitigation process is contemporary treatment techniques using both abiotic and biotic treatment methods.
This Research Topic aims to discover and discuss transdisciplinary research on current developments in the fields of fate assessment, mitigation, risk analysis, and removal of micropollutants and environmental stressors.
This Research Topic welcomes contributions including Original Research, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, and Prospective articles. The areas covered by this Research Topic may include but are not limited to the following topics:
• Occurrence, transformation, and reactions of micropollutants in the solid or aquatic environment
• Construction and application of micropollutant-specific treatment techniques
• Biodegradation and degradation pathways for microcontaminants
• Risk evaluation of the presence of microcontaminants and stressors in the environment