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We are delighted to announce and celebrate the outstanding papers published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environmental Science journals in 2023! This initiative identifies a selection of excellent papers highlighting the dedication, innovation and insight of researchers committed to addressing pressing environmental challenges across the globe ?? #EnvSciOutstandingPapers ? Read about this year’s outstanding papers in our Editorial ? https://lnkd.in/eprsNK_D ? Explore all of 2023’s outstanding papers in our collection ? https://lnkd.in/eviuf-zu ?? #ESAdvances Outstanding Paper has been awarded to Kapish Gobindlal, PhD and Jon Sperry ???? et al for their article titled ‘Mechanochemical destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in aqueous film-forming foams and contaminated soil’. ?Read more about their ground-breaking findings here: https://lnkd.in/eY8QFT2q ?? #ESATMOS Outstanding Paper has been awarded to Lubna Dada, PhD and Markku Kulmala et al for their article titled ‘The synergistic role of sulfuric acid, ammonia and organics in particle formation over an agricultural land’. ?Find out more about their observations in Qvidja in Southern Finland https://lnkd.in/ezb8V-z9 ?? #ESNANO Outstanding Paper has been awarded to Lyndsey Hendriks and Denise Mitrano et al for their article titled ‘Development of single-cell ICP-TOFMS to measure nanoplastics association with human cells’. Their full study can be found here: https://lnkd.in/e_gs52cS ?? #ESPI Outstanding Paper has been awarded to Amanda Rensmo et al for their article titled ‘Lithium-ion battery recycling: a source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the environment?’ Check out their article here: https://lnkd.in/eAd94BVb ?? #ESWRT Outstanding Paper has been awarded to Cristina Mejías Molina and Marta Rusi?ol et al for their article titled ‘Effectiveness of passive sampling for the detection and genetic characterization of human viruses in wastewater’. You can read their full study here: https://lnkd.in/eMqCAEBG Congratulations to all the #EnvSciOutstandingPapers winners! ?? #OpenAccess #EnvironmentalScience #RSCEnv

Our new #ESAdvances themed collection ‘Battery Material Mining and Recycling: Environmental Impacts, Challenges and Green Solutions’ is now OPEN for submissions! ???? ? Submission Deadline: 30 May 2025 The collection is supported by two excellent guest editors: Jennifer Dunn?(Northwestern University, USA) Juliana Segura-Salazar?(Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia) ? ??This gold open-access themed collection aims to highlight the environmental impact of mining and recycling of minerals and metals from batteries, welcoming papers at the social-environmental science interface. It will include topics such as, but not limited to: ?Health implications of mining activities on local populations, including air and water quality impacts ?Biodiversity impacts of mining and recycling activities ?Comparisons of environmental effects of deep sea mining and land-based mining ?Environmentally friendly strategies to reduce material demand and requirements ?Case studies of best practices in mining management for low emissions ?Circular economy and systems approaches to minimising negative environmental and social effects of the minerals supply chain ?Policy and governance in relation to the social and environmental impacts of mining and recycling activities ?Methods and data for quantifying nature positive mining in the planning stages and during actual reclamation ?Papers considering environmental justice Check out our open call for papers here: https://lnkd.in/eJBdnNUs ? #RSCEnv #Environment #Batteries #Mining #Recycling #OpenAccess

Filtration of indoor air with portable air filters reduces particle concentrations indoors, which is expected to have health benefits for building occupants ?? In this work by Richard Corsi and colleagues at the University of California, Davis titled ‘Longevity of size-dependent particle removal performance of do-it-yourself box fan air filters’, filtration performance of do-it-yourself (DIY) box fan filters deployed across a university campus was assessed over an academic year ?? Importantly this research provides insight into the ability of low-cost DIY air filters to improve the indoor environment by reducing particle concentrations and related human exposure. The study of the long term and size-dependent performance allows for the analysis of how DIY air filters will perform with regards to particles generated by different sources (e.g. wildfire smoke vs. respiratory aerosols). Read more about this work published in #ESPI here ?? https://lnkd.in/eFhK9SDX #RSCEnv #AirQuality #IndoorAirQuality #AtmosphericScience #Aerosol

New paper freshly published on the Royal Society of Chemistry Environmental Science: Atmospheres journal: "Metal speciation of volcanic aerosols from Mt. Etna at varying aerosol water content and pH obtained by different thermodynamic models". These results trace back to the crater sampling measurements during the EPL-REFLECT campaign funded by the European Commission H2020 EUROVOLC project. It is open access, download it here --> https://lnkd.in/ehR2XM5U ...and incidentally my first paper as coauthor of my old friend Chiara Giorio! We also got the Environmental Science: Atmospheres cover (picture in this post)! Isn't it nice? Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia IPSL-Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace University of Cambridge

RSC Advances is delighted to announce co-review. Check out our blog here: https://lnkd.in/eTfmVZ_c to read more about it!

We had the pleasure of interviewing #ESPI Emerging Investigator Dr Zhenyu Tian from the Northeastern University College of Science. ? Zhenyu’s article titled “In-depth chemical profiling of tire and artificial turf crumb rubber: aging, transformation products and transport pathways” focuses on the chemical profiling of crumb rubber in tire and artificial turf at different ages. ? ?? Read the #OpenAccess paper at https://lnkd.in/ep3RrKQw ? In his recent interview, Dr Tian shares insights into his research evolution, his enjoyment of working with students and motivations for answering new questions about organic contaminants. He is particularly intrigued by the question “What contaminants have the most significant impact under real environmental conditions?” ? Zhenyu shares his experience of developing a career as a scientist - " I see myself/my career as an experiment. We make hypotheses and we put in effort that we think are correct and then see if it all works. If not, we acknowledge it’s a negative result. If someday I am not working as a scientist, that means my experiment didn’t end up working." ? ?? Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/e6NDf2GM

Submissions are still OPEN for our brand new collection focussing on Solar Radiation Management! ? Submit your impactful work by January 31st 2025! https://lnkd.in/eaH5dDCD #ThemedCollection #SolarRadiationManagement #SRM #SolarRadiationModification #SolarGeoengineering #RSCEnv #ESATMOS

Explore the article behind the front cover of the latest issue of Environmental Science: Atmospheres ?? - Impact of atmospheric water-soluble iron on α-pinene-derived SOA formation and transformation in the presence of aqueous droplets – from Sabine Lüchtrath and colleagues at the Technische Universit?t Berlin and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ?? Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) have a strong impact on the Earth's radiation budget and yet many SOA formation pathways in the atmospheric multiphase system have not been fully explored. In particular, iron as the most abundant transition metal of the Earth crust is capable of transforming organic compounds in the aqueous phase in photo- and redox reactions. In this study the authors investigated the influence of ferrous iron in the aqueous phase on α-pinene SOA. Using flow reactor experiments, they found increased SOA formation from α-pinene ozonolysis in the presence of acidic iron-containing droplets, underlining the strong influence of pH and iron chemistry on SOA formation in multiphase systems! Read this #OpenAccess work here ? https://lnkd.in/e4HqsnQu #RSCEnv #AtmosphericScience #Environment #aerosols

? We are delighted to welcome Dr Ming Xie as an Associate Editor for Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology! ? Find out more about Ming here: https://lnkd.in/g_qjrr2s

Explore our latest Review article in Environmental Science: Atmospheres ?? titled “Microplastics in Asia: overcoming sampling, analysis, and regulatory challenges to protect the ecosystem – a review” – from Srinivas Srimath & colleagues at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Anna University and RSK Environment Ltd. Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles <5 mm in size and constitute a major class of environmental pollutants due to their relevance to human health and the economy. The challenges to sampling and analysing these compounds in Asia are exacerbated by uneven distribution, lack of standardised methods and contamination risks. This review examines the current knowledge of the obstacles in sampling and analysing MPs and an outline of the regulations in different Asian countries with different characterization methods to analyse the MPs. Read more from this #OpenAccess work here ?? https://lnkd.in/ecKiWiKt #RSCEnv #Microplastics #AtmosphericScience #EnvironmentalScience