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Assessing the effect of phosphate and silicate on Cd bioavailability in soil using an Escherichia coli cadAp::luc-based whole-cell sensor
Qi-Hui Hou, An-Zhou Ma, Ye Li, Xu-Liang Zhuang, Zhi-Hui Bai, Xin-Ke Zhang and Guo-Qiang Zhuang  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00598D, Paper

Insights into the complete and partial photooxidation of black carbon in surface waters
Collin P. Ward, Rachel L. Sleighter, Patrick G. Hatcher and Rose M. Cory  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00597F, Paper

Temporal dynamics between cattle in-stream presence and suspended solids in a headwater catchment
Julie A. Terry, Clare McW.H. Benskin, Emma F. Eastoe and Philip M. Haygarth  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00686G, Paper

Outdoor passive air monitoring of semi volatile organic compounds (SVOCs): a critical evaluation of performance and limitations of polyurethane foam (PUF) disks
P. Bohlin, O. Audy, L. Škrdlíková, P. Kukučka, P. Přibylová, R. Prokeš, Š. Vojta and J. Klánová  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 433-444
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00644A, Paper

Photometric hydroxyl radical scavenging analysis of standard natural organic matter isolates
J. E. Donham, E. J. Rosenfeldt and K. R. Wigginton  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00663H, Paper

Remedy performance monitoring at contaminated sediment sites using profiling solid phase microextraction (SPME) polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) fibers
Courtney Thomas, David Lampert and Danny Reible  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 445-452
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00695F, Paper

Cluster analysis of passive air sampling data based on the relative composition of persistent organic pollutants
Xiande Liu and Frank Wania  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 453-463
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00605K, Paper

Critical review of electrochemical advanced oxidation processes for water treatment applications
Brian P. Chaplin  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00679D, Critical Review

 
Kinetics of heterogeneous reactions of ozone with representative PAHs and an alkene at the air–ice interface at 258 and 188
K D. Ray, H. Lišková and P. Klán  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00665D, Paper

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The role of indirect photochemical degradation in the environmental fate of pesticides: a review
Christina K. Remucal
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00549F, Critical Review 

Automated method for determining the flow of surface functionalized nanoparticles through a hydraulically fractured mineral formation using plasmonic silver nanoparticles
Samuel J. Maguire-Boyle, David J. Garner, Jessica E. Heimann, Lucy Gao, Alvin W. Orbaek and Andrew R. Barron
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 220-231
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00718A, Paper 

Elevated risk from estrogens in the Yodo River basin (Japan) in winter and ozonation as a management option
Vimal Kumar, Seiya Hanamoto, Andrew C. Johnson, Naoyuki Yamashita, Norihide Nakada and Hiroaki Tanaka
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 232-238
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00219E, Paper 

Evaluation of DGT as a long-term water quality monitoring tool in natural waters; uranium as a case study
Geraldine S. C. Turner, Graham A. Mills, Michael J. Bowes, Jonathan L. Burnett, Sean Amos and Gary R. Fones
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00574G, Paper 

Nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) for the treatment of concentrated Cu(II) wastewater: a field demonstration
Shaolin Li, Wei Wang, Weile Yan and Wei-xian Zhang
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00578J, Paper

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Priority organic compounds in wastewater effluents from the Mediterranean and Atlantic basins of Andalusia (Spain)
Nieves Barco-Bonilla, Roberto Romero-González, Patricia Plaza-Bolaños, José Luis Martínez Vidal, Antonio J. Castro, Isabel Martín, Juan José Salas and Antonia Garrido Frenich  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2013,15, 2194-2203
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00329A, Paper

Photosynthetic microbial desalination cells (PMDCs) for clean energy, water and biomass production
Bahareh Kokabian and Veera Gnaneswar Gude  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2013,15, 2178-2185
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00415E, Paper

Environmental specimen banks as a resource for mercury and mercury isotope research in marine ecosystems
Rusty D. Day, Paul R. Becker, Olivier F. X. Donard, Rebecca S. Pugh and Stephen A. Wise  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 10-27
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00261F, Perspective

Effects of pretreatment on the denaturation and fragmentation of genomic DNA for DNA hybridization
Xiaofang Wang and Ahjeong Son  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2013,15, 2204-2212
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00457K, Paper

Neutral polyfluoroalkyl substances in the global Atmosphere
A. Gawor, C. Shunthirasingham, S. J. Hayward, Y. D. Lei, T. Gouin, B. T. Mmereki, W. Masamba, C. Ruepert, L. E. Castillo, M. Shoeib, S. C. Lee, T. Harner and F. Wania  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00499F, Paper

Assessment of environmentally persistent free radicals in soils and sediments from three Superfund sites
Albert Leo N. dela Cruz, Robert L. Cook, Barry Dellinger, Slawomir M. Lomnicki, Kirby C. Donnelly, Matthew A. Kelley and David Cosgriff  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 44-52
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00428G, Paper

Internal transcribed spacer rRNA gene sequencing analysis of fungal diversity in Kansas City indoor environments
William R. Rittenour, Christina E. Ciaccio, Charles S. Barnes, Michael L. Kashon, Angela R. Lemons, Donald H. Beezhold and Brett J. Green  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 33-43
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00441D, Paper

Field calibration of low density polyethylene passive samplers for gaseous POPs
Mohammed A. Khairy and Rainer Lohmann  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00493G, Paper

Bubble bursting as an aerosol generation mechanism during an oil spill in the deep-sea environment: laboratory experimental demonstration of the transport pathway
Franz S. Ehrenhauser, Paria Avij, Xin Shu, Victoria Dugas, Isaiah Woodson, Thilanga Liyana-Arachchi, Zenghui Zhang, Francisco R. Hung and Kalliat T. Valsaraj  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 65-73
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00390F, Paper

Bubble bursting as an aerosol generation mechanism during an oil spill in the deep-sea environment: molecular dynamics simulations of oil alkanes and dispersants in atmospheric air/salt water interfaces
Thilanga P. Liyana-Arachchi, Zenghui Zhang, Franz S. Ehrenhauser, Paria Avij, Kalliat T. Valsaraj and Francisco R. Hung  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014,16, 53-64
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00391D, Paper

Evaluation of a novel personal nanoparticle sampler
Yue Zhou, Hammad Irshad, Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Shao-Ming Hung and Yung-Sung Cheng  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00497J, Paper

APEX (Aqueous Photochemistry of Environmentally occurring Xenobiotics): a free software tool to predict the kinetics of photochemical processes in surface waters
Marco Bodrato and Davide Vione  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00541K, Paper

A review with recent advancements on bioremediation-based abolition of heavy metals
Nisha Gaur, Gagan Flora, Mahavir Yadav and Archana Tiwari  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00491K, Critical Review

Leaching potential of metallic elements from contaminated soils under anoxia
Ramona Balint, Gheorghe Nechifor and Franco Ajmone-Marsan  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00546A, Paper

Testing flow-through air samplers for use in near-field vapour drift studies by measuring pyrimethanil in air after spraying
Trudyanne S. Geoghegan, Kimberly J. Hageman and Andrew J. Hewitt  
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00498H, Paper

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Contaminated land: can acute exposure be a significant health risk? Two case studies and associated risk assessment methods George Kowalczyk, Mark Brown, Rebecca Twigg, William Welfare and Yolande Macklin  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00278K

The influence of glacial meltwater on alpine aquatic ecosystems: a review
Krista E. H. Slemmons, Jasmine E. Sarosa and Kevin Simon  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00243H

Use of semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) to characterize dissolved hydrocarbon fractions of both dispersed and undispersed oil
April R. Van Scoy, Jennifer Voorhees, Brian S. Anderson, Bryn M. Philips and Ronald S. Tjeerdema  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00275F

Release of TiO₂ from paints containing pigment-TiO₂ or nano-TiO₂ by weathering
Ahmed Al-Kattan, Adrian Wichser, Roger Vonbank, Samuel Brunner, Andrea Ulrich, Stefano Zuin and Bernd Nowack  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00331K

Pilot-scale in situ bioremediation of HMX and RDX in soil pore water in Hawaii
Zachary M. Payne, Krishna M. Lamichhane, Roger W. Babcock and Stephen J. Turnbull  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00320E

The impact of an anti-idling campaign on outdoor air quality at four urban schools
Patrick H. Ryan, Tiina Reponen, Mark Simmons, Michael Yermakov, Ken Sharkey, Denisha Garland-Porter, Cynthia Eghbalniad and Sergey A. Grinshpun  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00377A

Influence of organic surface coatings on the sorption of anticonvulsants on mineral surfaces
Shen Qua and David M. Cwiertny  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00288H

Detection of multiple stresses in Scots pine growing at post-mining sites using visible to near-infrared spectroscopy Lhotáková Zuzana,  Brodský Lukáš, Kupková Lucie, Kopačková Veronika, Potůčková Markéta, Mišurec Jan, Klement Aleš,   Kovářová Monika and Albrechtová Jana  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00388D

 
Human exposure to aluminium
Christopher Exleya  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00374D

 
Lability, solubility and speciation of Cd, Pb and Zn in alluvial soils of the River Trent catchment UK
Maria Izquierdo, Andrew M. Tye and Simon R. Chenery  
DOI: 10.1039/C3EM00370A

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