Sustainable personal protective clothing for healthcare applications: a review

N Karim, S Afroj, K Lloyd, LC Oaten, DV Andreeva… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from
highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19. However, hospitals have been at risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Lead pollution: Impact on environment and human health and approach for a sustainable solution

K Raj, AP Das - Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, 2023 - Elsevier
Normally the word pollution states the expulsion of many elements, components, and waste
products with a lot of harmful constituents into the natural surroundings in large quantities …

Antibacterial properties of graphene-based nanomaterials

P Kumar, P Huo, R Zhang, B Liu - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bacteria mediated infections may cause various acute or chronic illnesses and antibiotic
resistance in pathogenic bacteria has become a serious health problem around the world …

Detection, characterization and possible biofragmentation of synthetic microfibers released from domestic laundering wastewater as an emerging source of marine …

S Mishra, D Dash, AP Das - Marine pollution bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Synthetic microfibers are universally recognized as an emerging pollutant in all ecosystems.
The present investigation focuses on the evaluation and quantification of synthetic microfiber …

Antimicrobial mechanisms and effectiveness of graphene and graphene-functionalized biomaterials. A scope review

H Mohammed, A Kumar, E Bekyarova… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infections represent nowadays the major reason of biomaterials implant failure,
however, most of the available implantable materials do not hold antimicrobial properties …

Hydrogel nanocomposite adsorbents and photocatalysts for sustainable water purification

N Kumar, R Gusain, S Pandey… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have been employed for water purification applications, but their performance
and strength are unsatisfactory for widespread adoption. Recently, hydrogel …

Treatment technologies to mitigate the harmful effects of recalcitrant fluoroquinolone antibiotics on the environ-ment and human health

P Mathur, D Sanyal, DL Callahan, XA Conlan… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic proliferation in the environment and their persistent nature is an issue of global
concern as they induce antibiotic resistance threatening both human health and the …

Insight into advanced oxidation processes for the degradation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics: Removal, mechanism, and influencing factors

Z Li, J Wang, J Chang, B Fu, H Wang - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The enrichment and transport of antibiotics in the environments pose many potential
hazards to aquatic animals and humans, which has become one of the public health …

Adsorption kinetics of the photocatalytic reaction of nano-TiO2 cement-based materials: a review

ZM Jia, YR Zhao, JN Shi - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Nano-TiO 2 cement-based materials have been widely used as green building materials
due to their effective photocatalytic ability to degrade air pollutants. The photocatalytic …

Anti-bacterial activity of graphene oxide as a new weapon nanomaterial to combat multidrug-resistance bacteria

M Yousefi, M Dadashpour, M Hejazi… - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance in microbial pathogens has become a serious health problem in the
world. The increasing spread of hospital acquired infections especially in …