Effective and substantial remediation of contaminants especially heavy metals from water is
still a big challenge in terms of both environmental and biological perspectives because of …

A cycle is the quantitative characterization of the flows of a specific material into, within, and
from a given system. An anthropogenic elemental cycle can be static (for a point in time) or …

Nano-scale zero valent iron (nZVI) particles are one of the efficient materials for water
treatment. However, their tendency for agglomeration is one of the major reported …

The interests of the current and future generations concerning the access to and the use of
geologically scarce mineral resources diverge. This article explores whether this apparent …

Groundwater samples were collected from 30 sampling sites throughout the Subarnarekha
River Basin for source apportionment and risk assessment studies. The concentrations of …

By strengthening material metabolism among collocated enterprises in leading industrial
production chains in eco-industrial parks (EIPs), an industrial symbiosis (IS) system can be …

In some common uses metals are lost by intent–copper in brake pads, zinc in tires, and
germanium in retained catalyst applications being examples. In other common uses, metals …

The demand for energy and consequently the emissions from energy generation have been
increasing in recent years at rapid rates, leading to an urgent need for cleaner technologies …

Maghemite nanoparticles were prepared by a co-precipitation method and characterized by
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray …

The stocks and flows of the global silver, aluminum, chromium, copper, iron, nickel, lead,
and zinc cycles quantify over 98% of the total mass of metal mobilized by human activity at …