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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Pedro Gabriel Almeida, Luís Ferreira Gomes and Victor Cavaleiro
The risk of aquifer contamination is determined by the interaction between the pollutant load and the vulnerability of an aquifer. Owing to the decomposition of bodies and degradation of artefacts, cemeteries may have a negative impact on groundwater qua...
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Gabriela Toader, Daniela Pulpea, Aurel Diacon, Edina Rusen, Raluca Elena Ginghina, Traian Rotariu, Alice Ionela Podaru, Andreea Elena Moldovan, Maria Gavrilescu, Ana-Mihaela Gavrila and Bogdan Trica
This study presents the formulation and application of strippable coatings for the entrapment and removal of heavy metals (HMs) and radio nuclides (RNs). The ?green? formulations involve the use of a water-based solution consisting of a synthetic biodegr...
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Catalin Panaghie, Ramona Cimpoe?u, Georgeta Zegan, Ana-Maria Roman, Mircea Catalin Ivanescu, Andra Adorata Aelenei, Marcelin Benchea, Nicanor Cimpoe?u and Nicoleta Ioanid
Biodegradable metallic materials represent a new class of biocompatible materials for medical applications based on numerous advantages. Among them, those based on zinc have a rate of degradation close to the healing period required by many clinical prob...
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Zebin Wei, Yihui Chen, Xiaoqing Li, Haiyu Rong and Zhujian Huang
Chemical leaching is one of the effective methods to remove heavy metals from soil. The effects of biodegradable chelating GLDA (N, N-bis(carboxymethyl)-l-glutamic acid tetrasodium salt) on contaminated farmland soil in four different places (collected f...
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Hongzhou Dong and Sannakaisa Virtanen
Zinc-based alloys are emerging as an alternative to magnesium- and iron-based alloys for biodegradable implant applications, due to their appropriate corrosion performance and biocompatibility. However, localized corrosion occurring on the zinc surface, ...
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Moataz Abdalla, Alexander Joplin, Mohammad Elahinia and Hamdy Ibrahim
Biodegradable metals have been under significant research as promising alternatives to the currently in-use nonbiodegradable materials in the field of supportive medical implants. In this scope, magnesium and its alloys were widely investigated due to th...
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Mukesh Kumar, Jin Suk Chung and Seung Hyun Hur
The indiscriminate disposal of non-biodegradable, heavy metal ionic pollutants from various sources, such as refineries, pulp industries, lead batteries, dyes, and other industrial effluents, into the aquatic environment is highly dangerous to the human ...
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