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Organic Micropollutants in Wastewaters: Advances in Sustainable Management and Treatment Methods
Organic micropollutants present in water prepared for consumption in trace amounts can pose a serious threat to the health of consumers. Most of these compounds are hardly biodegradable; therefore, their compl...
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Extraction of Bioactive and Nutraceuticals from Plants and Their Application
Natural bioactive compounds are a useful source of molecules for the development of nutraceuticals, food additives, and functional foods because they contain a wide variety of diverse structural and functional...
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Comprehensive Methods for the Analysis of Organic Micro pollutants
An issue that civilizations have just recently had to deal with is the fate and incidence of organic micro-pollutants (OMPs) and their ecotoxicological significance. Even at relatively modest quantities, the c...
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Methods for the Preparation of Silica and Its Nanoparticles from Different Natural Sources
Silica (SiO2), a component of the earth’s crust, has been in use for many nanotechnological applications. This review presents one of the newest methods for safer, more affordable, and more ecologically friendly ...
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Characterization, biological, and antimicrobial properties of nanocellulose isolated from peanut shells (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Due to its promising features, cellulose, the most plentiful renewable material in nature, is used in a variety of industrial processes. In this work, we used peanut shells (Arachis hypogaea L.) for the purpose o...
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A novel eco-friendly source of cellulose acetate extracted from Astragalus gombo seeds: thermal, structural, and morphological characterization
In this research, cellulose derivatives were extracted from the plant Astragalus gombo. This research sought to create a new cellulose acetate source derived from Astragalus gombo. Preliminary treatment, acetylat...
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Open AccessInvestigation of adsorption kinetics and isothermal thermodynamics for optimizing methylene blue adsorption onto a modified clay with cellulose using the response surface approach
In this study, the clay was interwoven with cellulose to change its structure. The product clay/cellulose was used to assess the efficacy of the methylene blue (MB) dye removal from aqueous solutions (CC25). T...
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Food Chain Contamination and Impact of Xenobiotics on Human Health
Environmental pollution affects several fields such as soil, sediments, air, and water systems. These are due to the rapid and uncontrollable growth of means of transport (ships, automobiles, trucks, trains, p...
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Phytoremediation of Xenobiotics: Principles and Applications in Environmental Pollution Removal
Pollution of the environment in urban ecosystems such as land and water with pesticides, organic pollutants, heavy metals, fertilizers, and radionuclides has become a major concern due to present intensive agr...
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Using FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics for classifying of algerian medicinal plant species
Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of herbal products, which could vary significantly in contents. The classification, identification and discrimination of these closely-related plants is a crucial...
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Preparation, optimization and characterization of chitosan polymer from shrimp shells
In this study, chitosan is extracted from shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris shells by a chemical process involving demineralization, deproteinization, decolorization and deacetylation. The effect of chitosan degree...
