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A Framework to Evaluate the Impact of Armourstones on the Chemical Quality of Surface Water

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A comparison of one-dimensional and microscale two-dimensional liquid chromatographic approaches coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry for the analysis of complex samples

article published in 2015

A rapid method to measure the solid-water distribution coefficient (Kd) for pharmaceuticals and musk fragrances in sewage sludge

scientific article published in November 2004

A toxicity identification evaluation approach to studying estrogenic substances in hog manure and agricultural runoff

scientific article published in October 2003

Advancing Biological Wastewater Treatment: Extended Anaerobic Conditions Enhance the Removal of Endocrine and Dioxin-like Activities

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Anaerobic Transformation of the Iodinated X-ray Contrast Medium Iopromide, Its Aerobic Transformation Products, and Transfer to Further Iodinated X-ray Contrast Media

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

Anaerobic biodegradation of (emerging) organic contaminants in the aquatic environment

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Analysis and sorption of psychoactive drugs onto sediment.

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Analysis of the aerobic biodegradation of glucocorticoids: Elucidation of the kinetics and transformation reactions

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Analytical method for the determination of the aminoglycoside gentamicin in hospital wastewater via liquid chromatography-electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry

scientific article published in June 2003

Antiviral drugs in wastewater and surface waters: a new pharmaceutical class of environmental relevance?

scientific article published in March 2010

Application of stable isotopes and AF4/ICP-SFMS for simultaneous tracing and quantification of iron oxide nanoparticles in a sediment–slurry matrix

scientific article published in 2016

Assessing effects of the pharmaceutical ivermectin on meiobenthic communities using freshwater microcosms

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Assessing the concentrations of polar organic microcontaminants from point sources in the aquatic environment: measure or model?

scientific article published on August 2008

Assessing the ecological long-term impact of wastewater irrigation on soil and water based on bioassays and chemical analyses

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

Assessing the photochemical transformation pathways of acetaminophen relevant to surface waters: Transformation kinetics, intermediates, and modelling

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

Assessment of the importance of sorption for steroid estrogens removal during activated sludge treatment

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Behavior of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and hormones in a sewage treatment plant.

scientific article published in July 2004

Benchmarking the in Vitro Toxicity and Chemical Composition of Plastic Consumer Products

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Benzotriazole UV stabilizers in sediments, suspended particulate matter and fish of German rivers: New insights into occurrence, time trends and persistency.

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Biodegradation of the artificial sweetener acesulfame in biological wastewater treatment and sandfilters.

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

Biogenic metals for the oxidative and reductive removal of pharmaceuticals, biocides and iodinated contrast media in a polishing membrane bioreactor

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

Biological degradation of pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater treatment: Proposing a classification scheme

scientific article published on 18 April 2006

Biological transformation of fexofenadine and sitagliptin by carrier-attached biomass and suspended sludge from a hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Biotransformation of gabapentin in surface water matrices under different redox conditions and the occurrence of one major TP in the aquatic environment.

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Biotransformation of organic micropollutants by anaerobic sludge enzymes

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

Biotransformation of selected iodinated X-ray contrast media and characterization of microbial transformation pathways

scientific article published in July 2010

Biotransformation of the UV-filter sulisobenzone: challenges for the identification of transformation products

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Biotransformation of the antiviral drugs acyclovir and penciclovir in activated sludge treatment

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Bisphenol A induces superfeminization in the ramshorn snail Marisa cornuarietis(Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) at environmentally relevant concentrations

scientific article (publication date: April 2006)

Capturing the oxic transformation of iopromide - A useful tool for an improved characterization of predominant redox conditions and the removal of trace organic compounds in biofiltration systems?

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Characterization and source identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in river bank soils

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Co-occurrence of Photochemical and Microbiological Transformation Processes in Open-Water Unit Process Wetlands

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Combined in situ and in vitro assessment of the estrogenic activity of sewage and surface water samples

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Comparing mass, retention time and tandem mass spectra as criteria for the automated screening of small molecules in aqueous environmental samples analyzed by liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Comparison of electrospray ionization and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization for multi-residue analysis of biocides, UV-filters and benzothiazoles in aqueous matrices and activated sludge by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

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Comparisons between abiotic nitration and biotransformation reactions of phenolic micropollutants in activated sludge

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Comprehensive analysis of antagonistic endocrine activity during ozone treatment of hospital wastewater

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Defining the chronic impacts of atenolol on embryo-larval development and reproduction in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas).

scientific article published on 3 December 2007

Determination of acidic pharmaceuticals, antibiotics and ivermectin in river sediment using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

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Determination of non-extractable residues in soils: Towards a standardised approach

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Determination of pharmaceuticals, iodinated contrast media and musk fragrances in sludge by LC/tandem MS and GC/MS.

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Determination of the solid-water distribution coefficient (Kd) for pharmaceuticals, estrogens and musk fragrances in digested sludge

scientific article published on 19 July 2007

Development and validation of a generic nontarget method based on liquid chromatography - high resolution mass spectrometry analysis for the evaluation of different wastewater treatment options

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Diclofenac oxidation by biogenic manganese oxides

scientific article published in May 2010

Direct coupling of thin-layer chromatography with a bioassay for the detection of estrogenic compounds: applications for effect-directed analysis

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Disinfection byproducts and halogen-specific total organic halogen speciation in chlorinated source waters - The impact of iopamidol and bromide

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Ecotoxicity of climbazole, a fungicide contained in antidandruff shampoo

scientific article (publication date: 14 November 2013)

Ecotoxicologial evaluation of wastewater ozonation based on detritus-detritivore interactions

scientific article published in November 2010

Ecotoxicological characterization of emissions from steel coatings in contact with water

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Editorial to special issue in Water Research: emerging contaminants in water

scientific article published in January 2010

Effect-based and chemical analytical methods to monitor estrogens under the European Water Framework Directive

Effects of carbamazepine and two of its metabolites on the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius in a sediment full life cycle toxicity test.

scientific article published on 2 April 2016

Effects of ivermectin-spiked cattle dung on a water-sediment system with the aquatic invertebrates Daphnia magna and Chironomus riparius

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Effects of the parasiticide ivermectin on the cladoceran Daphnia magna and the green alga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata

scientific article published on 10 July 2007

Electrochemical oxidation of tramadol in low-salinity reverse osmosis concentrates using boron-doped diamond anodes

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Elimination of micropollutants and transformation products from a wastewater treatment plant effluent through pilot scale ozonation followed by various activated carbon and biological filters

scientific article published in May 2016

Elucidation of the Transformation Pathway of the Opium Alkaloid Codeine in Biological Wastewater Treatment

scientific article published on March 23, 2011

Environmental fate of pharmaceuticals in water/sediment systems

scientific article published in July 2005

Environmental fate of the anthelmintic ivermectin in an aerobic sediment/water system

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Environmental risk assessment for the serotonin re-uptake inhibitor fluoxetine: Case study using the European risk assessment framework.

scientific article published on July 2010

Environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals in the European Union: A case study with the β-blocker atenolol

scientific article published in July 2010

Environmental risk assessment of ivermectin: A case study

scientific article published in July 2010

Evaluating the efficiency of advanced wastewater treatment: target analysis of organic contaminants and (geno-)toxicity assessment tell a different story

scientific article published on 6 December 2013

Evaluation of a membrane bioreactor system as post-treatment in waste water treatment for better removal of micropollutants

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Evaluation of the short-term fate and transport of chemicals of emerging concern during soil-aquifer treatment using select transformation products as intrinsic redox-sensitive tracers.

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Exploring Trends of C and N Isotope Fractionation to Trace Transformation Reactions of Diclofenac in Natural and Engineered Systems

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

Extended anaerobic conditions in the biological wastewater treatment: Higher reduction of toxicity compared to target organic micropollutants

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Extraction and determination of sulfonamides, macrolides, and trimethoprim in sewage sludge

scientific article published in September 2005

Fate of beta blockers and psycho-active drugs in conventional wastewater treatment

scientific article published on 3 December 2008

Fate of beta blockers in aquatic-sediment systems: sorption and biotransformation

scientific article published in February 2010

Fate of estrogens in a municipal sewage treatment plant

scientific article published in September 2003

Fate of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) during anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge.

scientific article published on 30 March 2007

Formation of DBPs and halogen-specific TOX in the presence of iopamidol and chlorinated oxidants

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Formation of toxic iodinated disinfection by-products from compounds used in medical imaging

scientific article published on 15 July 2011

Fraction-related quantification of silver nanoparticlesvia on-line species-unspecific post-channel isotope dilution in combination with asymmetric flow-field-flow fractionation (AF4)/sector field ICP-mass spectrometry (ICP-SF-MS)

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High-resolution continuum source graphite furnace molecular absorption spectrometry compared with ion chromatography for quantitative determination of dissolved fluoride in river water samples

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

ICP-MS-based characterization of inorganic nanoparticles--sample preparation and off-line fractionation strategies

scientific article published on December 2013

Identification of putative steroid receptor antagonists in bottled water: combining bioassays and high-resolution mass spectrometry

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Identification of transformation products during advanced oxidation of diatrizoate: Effect of water matrix and oxidation process

scientific article published on 30 July 2016

Identification of transformation products of antiviral drugs formed during biological wastewater treatment and their occurrence in the urban water cycle

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Impact of antibiotics on conjugational resistance gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus in sewage

scientific article published in August 2003

Impact of chlorine exposure time on disinfection byproduct formation in the presence of iopamidol and natural organic matter during chloramination

scientific article published on 29 September 2018

Impact of mechanical disturbance and acidification on the metal(loid) and C, P, S mobility at the sediment water interface examined using a fractionation meso profiling ICP-QQQ-MS approach

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In response: what are the challenges and prospects? An academic perspective

scientific article published in November 2014

Indirect human exposure to pharmaceuticals via drinking water

scientific article published on May 15, 2003

Influence of ozone pre-treatment on sludge anaerobic digestion: removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products.

scientific article published on 30 November 2006

Insights into the variability of microbial community composition and micropollutant degradation in diverse biological wastewater treatment systems

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Integrated Evaluation Concept to Assess the Efficacy of Advanced Wastewater Treatment Processes for the Elimination of Micropollutants and Pathogens

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

Investigation and risk evaluation of the occurrence of carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, their human metabolites and transformation products in the urban water cycle

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Irrigation of treated wastewater in Braunschweig, Germany: an option to remove pharmaceuticals and musk fragrances

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Is biological treatment a viable alternative for micropollutant removal in drinking water treatment processes?

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Kinetic and mechanistic investigations of the oxidation of tramadol by ferrate and ozone

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Leaching of Terbutryn and Its Photodegradation Products from Artificial Walls under Natural Weather Conditions

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Mainstream partial nitritation and anammox: long-term process stability and effluent quality at low temperatures.

scientific article published on 03 May 2016

Metal and Metalloid Size-Fractionation Strategies in Spatial High-Resolution Sediment Pore Water Profiles

scientific article published on 9 August 2016

Metal(loid) speciation and size fractionation in sediment pore water depth profiles examined with a new meso profiling system

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Micropollutant degradation via extracted native enzymes from activated sludge

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Mitigation of biocide and fungicide concentrations in flow-through vegetated stream mesocosms

scientific article published on November 2013

Multistep approach for the structural identification of biotransformation products of iodinated X-ray contrast media by liquid chromatography/hybrid triple quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometry and (1)H and (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance

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New insights into the transformation of trimethoprim during biological wastewater treatment

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

New methodical approaches for the investigation of weathered epoxy resins used for corrosion protection of steel constructions

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

New microprofiling and micro sampling system for water saturated environmental boundary layers

scientific article published on 26 June 2014

Nontarget Analysis via LC-QTOF-MS to Assess the Release of Organic Substances from Polyurethane Coating.

scientific article published on 9 August 2017

Nontarget analysis: A new tool for the evaluation of wastewater processes

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Occurrence and fate of amisulpride, sulpiride, and lamotrigine in municipal wastewater treatment plants with biological treatment and ozonation

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Occurrence of Glucocorticoids, Mineralocorticoids, and Progestogens in Various Treated Wastewater, Rivers, and Streams.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Occurrence of Iodinated X-ray Contrast Media and Their Biotransformation Products in the Urban Water Cycle

scientific article published on August 31, 2011

Occurrence of drugs in German sewage treatment plants and rivers

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Occurrence of neutral and acidic drugs in the effluents of Canadian sewage treatment plants

scientific article published in December 2003

Occurrence of venlafaxine, other antidepressants and selected metabolites in the Rhine catchment in the face of climate change

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Occurrence, fate, removal and assessment of emerging contaminants in water in the water cycle (from wastewater to drinking water).

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Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluents: a pilot study

scientific article published in June 2005

Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during water treatment with chlorine dioxide

scientific article published in September 2005

Oxidation of the antiviral drug acyclovir and its biodegradation product carboxy-acyclovir with ozone: kinetics and identification of oxidation products

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Oxypurinol - A novel marker for wastewater contamination of the aquatic environment

scientific article published on 18 February 2015

Ozonation of Sitagliptin: Removal Kinetics and Elucidation of Oxidative Transformation Products

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Ozonation of carbamazepine in drinking water: identification and kinetic study of major oxidation products

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Ozonation of metoprolol: elucidation of oxidation pathways and major oxidation products

scientific article published in July 2009

Ozonation of piperidine, piperazine and morpholine: Kinetics, stoichiometry, product formation and mechanistic considerations

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Ozonation of propranolol: formation of oxidation products

scientific article published in July 2009

Ozonation of pyridine and other N-heterocyclic aromatic compounds: Kinetics, stoichiometry, identification of products and elucidation of pathways

scientific article published on 11 June 2016

Ozonation of reverse osmosis concentrate: kinetics and efficiency of beta blocker oxidation

scientific article published on 4 April 2008

Ozonation: a tool for removal of pharmaceuticals, contrast media and musk fragrances from wastewater?

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Photodegradation of octylisothiazolinone and semi-field emissions from facade coatings

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Phytotoxicity of wastewater-born micropollutants--Characterisation of three antimycotics and a cationic surfactant

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Quantification of microplastics in environmental samples via pressurized liquid extraction and pyrolysis-gas chromatography

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Quantification of more than 150 micropollutants including transformation products in aqueous samples by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry using scheduled multiple reaction monitoring

scientific article published on 13 November 2017

Quaternary (triphenyl-) phosphonium compounds: Environmental behavior and toxicity

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Quaternary Triphenylphosphonium Compounds: A New Class of Environmental Pollutants

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

REMOVAL OF PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS: RESULTS OF THE POSEIDON PROJECT

Reactive transport of iomeprol during stream-groundwater interactions

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

Removal of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants and Pathogens from Wastewater and Drinking Water Using Nanoparticles – A Review

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Removal of antibiotics from urban wastewater by constructed wetland optimization

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Removal of estrogenic activity and formation of oxidation products during ozonation of 17alpha-ethinylestradiol

scientific article published in October 2004

Removal of estrogens in municipal wastewater treatment under aerobic and anaerobic conditions: consequences for plant optimization

scientific article published in June 2004

Removal of pharmaceuticals and fragrances in biological wastewater treatment

scientific article published in September 2005

Removal of pharmaceuticals during drinking water treatment

scientific article published in September 2002

Removal of the iodinated X-ray contrast medium diatrizoate by anaerobic transformation

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

Results of an interlaboratory comparison of analytical methods for contaminants of emerging concern in water.

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Resveratrol, a polyphenolic phytoalexin present in red wine, enhances expression and activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase.

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Scrutinizing pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater treatment.

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Sediment water (interface) mobility of metal(loid)s and nutrients under undisturbed conditions and during resuspension

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Simultaneous determination of psychoactive drugs and their metabolites in aqueous matrices by liquid chromatography mass Spectrometry

scientific article published in December 2006

Sorption behavior of potential organic wastewater indicators with soils

scientific article published on 3 December 2008

Sorption of biocides, triazine and phenylurea herbicides, and UV-filters onto secondary sludge

scientific article published on 19 April 2011

Spatial distribution and temporal trends of pharmaceuticals sorbed to suspended particulate matter of German rivers

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Spoilt for choice: A critical review on the chemical and biological assessment of current wastewater treatment technologies

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Structural elucidation of main ozonation products of the artificial sweeteners cyclamate and acesulfame

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

Survival, reproduction, growth, and parasite resistance of aquatic organisms exposed on-site to wastewater treated by advanced treatment processes

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

The EU-project ERAPharm - Incentives for the further development of guidance documents? (4 pages)

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The challenge of analyzing beta-blocker drugs in sludge and wastewater

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

The determination of the linear alkylbenzene sulfonate isomers in water samples by gas-chromatography/mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 27 November 2010

The fate of selected micropollutants in a single-house MBR.

scientific article published on 14 February 2009

The impact of iodinated X-ray contrast agents on formation and toxicity of disinfection by-products in drinking water

scientific article published in April 2017

Toxification by Transformation in Conventional and Advanced Wastewater Treatment: The Antiviral Drug Acyclovir

article by Lisa Schlüter-Vorberg et al published 25 November 2015 in Environmental science & technology letters

Tracing the limits of organic micropollutant removal in biological wastewater treatment.

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

Transformation of biocides irgarol and terbutryn in the biological wastewater treatment

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Transformation of diclofenac in hybrid biofilm-activated sludge processes

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Transformation of iopamidol during chlorination

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Transformation of oxcarbazepine and human metabolites of carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine in wastewater treatment and sand filters

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Transformation of the X-ray contrast medium iopromide in soil and biological wastewater treatment

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Transformation, CO 2 formation and uptake of four organic micropollutants by carrier-attached microorganisms

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Trifluoroacetate in precipitation: Deriving a benchmark dataset

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Under the radar - Exceptionally high environmental concentrations of the high production volume chemical sulfamic acid in the urban water cycle

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Utilization of large volume zwitterionic hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography for the analysis of polar pharmaceuticals in aqueous environmental samples: Benefits and limitations

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Water Analysis: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Water analysis: emerging contaminants and current issues

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Water analysis: emerging contaminants and current issues

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Water analysis: emerging contaminants and current issues

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

What you extract is what you see: Optimising the preparation of water and wastewater samples for in vitro bioassays

scientific article published on 02 January 2019

Why Small Differences Matter: Elucidation of the Mechanisms Underlying the Transformation of 2OH- and 3OH-Carbamazepine in Contact with Sand Filter Material

scientific article published on 24 August 2015