Ecotoxic pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and other emerging contaminants: A review of environmental, receptor-mediated, developmental, and epigenetic …

JL Wilkinson, PS Hooda, J Barker… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), other emerging contaminants (ECs),
and metabolites thereof are ubiquitous in the environment, both built and natural. While such …

Challenges and prospects of bio-inspired and multifunctional transparent substrates and barrier layers for optoelectronics

S Haghanifar, AJ Galante, PW Leu - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bio-inspiration and advances in micro/nanomanufacturing processes have enabled the
design and fabrication of micro/nanostructures on optoelectronic substrates and barrier …

Efficient treatment of perfluorohexanoic acid by nanofiltration followed by electrochemical degradation of the NF concentrate

Á Soriano, D Gorri, A Urtiaga - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study was aimed at the development of a strategy for removing and degrading
perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) from industrial process waters at concentrations in the …

Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) induces oxidative stress and causes developmental toxicities in zebrafish embryos

ZS Ulhaq, WKF Tse - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) is a short-chain perfluoroalkyl substance widely used
to replace the banned perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in different industrial and …

Occurrence of pharmaceuticals, hormones, and perfluorinated compounds in groundwater in Taiwan

YC Lin, WWP Lai, H Tung, AYC Lin - Environmental monitoring and …, 2015 - Springer
In this work, we investigated the emerging pollutants in Taiwanese groundwater for the first
time and correlated their presence with possible contamination sources. Fifty target …

Occurrence of emerging contaminants in aquaculture waters: cross-contamination between aquaculture systems and surrounding waters

WWP Lai, YC Lin, YH Wang, YL Guo, AYC Lin - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2018 - Springer
This study aimed to perform a preliminary screen of various waters for pollution by emerging
contaminants and identifying potential cross-contamination problems in aquaculture …

Assessment of perfluoroalkyl substances in food items at global scale

F Pérez, M Llorca, M Köck-Schulmeyer, B Škrbić… - Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study assessed the levels of 21 perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in 283 food items
(38 from Brazil, 35 from Saudi Arabia, 174 from Spain and 36 from Serbia) among the most …

Association of polyfluoroalkyl chemical exposure with serum lipids in children

XW Zeng, Z Qian, B Emo, M Vaughn, J Bao… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), as well as polymers of PFASs, have
been widely used in commercial applications and have been detected in humans and the …

Concentration-dependent toxicokinetics of novel PFOS alternatives and their chronic combined toxicity in adult zebrafish

J Huang, Y Liu, Q Wang, J Yi, H Lai, L Sun… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing use of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) alternatives has led to their release
into the aquatic environment. This study sought to determine the effects of exposure …

Distribution, sources and human risk of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in a receiving riverine environment of the Nanjing urban area, East China

H Dong, G Lu, Z Yan, J Liu, H Yang, P Zhang… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) have become ubiquitously distributed in water
environments, especially in riverine waters receiving effluents from wastewater treatment …