Environmental Science: Advances Blog

We are delighted to announce the Outstanding Papers of 2024 for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environmental Science journals. This initiative recognises some of the exceptional work published in these journals and the authors behind these articles and the winners are selected by the journals’ Editorial and Advisory Boards.

Surfactant-enhanced coagulation and flocculation improves the removal of perfluoroalkyl substances from surface water Arjun K. Venkatesan et al Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2024,3, 1714-1721

Singlet oxygen is produced from brown carbon-containing cooking organic aerosols (BrCOA) under indoor lighting Nadine Borduas-Dedekind et al Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 2024,4, 611-619

Plasmonic Based Raman sensor for ultra-sensitive detection of pharmaceutical waste Adi Salomon et al Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024,11, 2083-2090

Emission inventory of PFAS and other fluorinated organic substances for the fluoropolymer production industry in Europe Joost Dalmijn et al Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024,26, 269-287

Adsorption mechanisms of short-chain and ultrashort-chain PFAS on anion exchange resins and activated carbon Lokesh P. Padhye et al Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024,10, 1280-1293

Modelling and predicting liquid chromatography retention time for PFAS with no-code machine learning Chang-Er Chen et al Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2024,3, 198-207

The effect of temperature and relative humidity on secondary organic aerosol formation from ozonolysis of Δ3-carene Merete Bilde and Marianne Glasius et al Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 2024,4, 88-103

Uptake and physiological impacts of nanoplastics in trees with divergent water use strategies Denise M. Mitrano et al Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024,11, 3574-3584

Does green mean clean? Volatile organic emissions from regular versus green cleaning products Ellen Harding-Smith and Nicola Carslaw et al Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024,26, 436-450

Innovations in water desalination: enhancing air gap membrane distillation performance by the incorporation of clay nanoparticles into PVDF matrix membranes Maria Perez-Page et al Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024,10, 2418-2431

Metal oxide-based electrochemical sensors for pesticide detection in water and food samples: a review Wei-Hsin Chen et al Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2024,3, 154-176

The potential environmental and climate impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection: a review Han N. Huynh and V. Faye McNeill Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 2024,4, 114-143

Nanozymes: powerful catalytic materials for environmental pollutant detection and degradation Xiangheng Niu et al Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024,11, 766-796

Critical review of fluorescence and absorbance measurements as surrogates for the molecular weight and aromaticity of dissolved organic matter Julie A. Korak and Garrett McKay Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024,26, 1663-1702

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance separation by NF and RO membranes: a critical evaluation of advances and future perspectives Sharafat Ali et al Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024,10, 1994-2012

Emerging investigator series: suspended air nanobubbles in water can shuttle polystyrene nanoplastics to the air–water interface Onur G. Apul et al Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024,11, 3721-3728

Emerging investigator series: in-depth chemical profiling of tire and artificial turf crumb rubber: aging, transformation products, and transport pathways Zhenyu Tian et al Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024,26, 1703-1715

Emerging investigator series: photocatalytic treatment of PFAS in a single-step ultrafiltration membrane reactor Zongsu Wei et al Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024,10, 2062-2074