Plastic waste discarded into aquatic environments gradually degrades into smaller fragments,known as microplastics(MPs),which range in size from 0.05 to 5 mm.The ubiquity of MPs poses a significant threat to aquatic e...
financial support by the University of Graz(Open Access Publishing Agreement);ARS would like to acknowledge the support given through ED431C2021/46-GRC attributed to Universidade de Vigo by Xunta de Galicia and IJC2020-044197-I through the Universidade de Vigo,MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033;the European Union through“Next-GenerationEU/PRTR”;This article/publication is based upon work from COST Action CA20101 Plastics monitoRIng detection RemedIaTion recoverY-PRIORITY,supported by COST(European Cooperation in Science and Technology),www.cost.eu;This work was partially supported the University of Wolverhampton Research Investment Fund(RIF4).The figures were created with BioRender.com.
Mismanaged plastics,upon entering the environment,undergo degradation through physicochemical and/or biological processes.This process often results in the formation of microplastics(MPs),the most prevalent form of pl...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772529);the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFE0107100);the Priority of Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD 4013000011).
The rapid expansion of both the global economy and the human population has led to a shortage of water resources suitable for direct human consumption.As a result,water remediation will inexorably become the primary f...
supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities projects CTM2017-91879-EXP and PID2019-103989RB-100;a predoctoral grant from UAB(PIF 2017e2018).
Using bioelectrochemical systems(BESs)to provide electrochemically generated hydrogen is a promising technology to provide electron donors for reductive dechlorination by organohalide-respiring bacteria.In this study,...
financially supported by the NSFC-EU Environmental Biotechnology joint program(No.31861133001).
Bioelectrochemical systems(BESs)have been studied extensively during the past decades owing primarily to their versatility and potential in addressing the water-energy-resource nexus.In stark contrast to the significa...
supported by the scientific research fund project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 51408347);the SDUST Graduate Technology Innovation Project(SDKDYC190321);the Major Science and Technology Innovation Projects in Shandong Province(2019JZZY020808);the Open Research Fund Program of Shandong Key Laboratory of Eco-Environmental Science for Yellow River Delta(Binzhou University)(2019KFJJ02).
In order to effectively improve the degradation rate of diesel,a systematic analysis of the degradation mechanism used by immobilized bacteria is necessary.In the present study,diesel degradation mechanisms were asses...
funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project ELECTRA under grant agreement No.826244;National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.31861133001,31861133002,31861133003);Serra Hunter Fellow(UdG-AG-575);the funding from the ICREA Academia awar;the Catalan Government with code 2017-SGR-1552;supported by the Ghent University special research fund under grant No.BOF19/GOA/026.
Lack of suitable electron donors or acceptors is in many cases the key reason for pollutants to persist in the environment.Externally supplementation of electron donors or acceptors is often difficult to control and/o...