Editorial of the VSI "Antibiotics and heavy metals in the environment: Facing the challenge"

Avelino Núñez-Delgado; Yaoyu Zhou; Chaker Necibi; Yanbin Xu; David Fernández-Calviño

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.421

Editorial of the VSI "Antibiotics and heavy metals in the environment: Facing the challenge"

Sci Total Environ. 2019 Aug 15:678:30-32. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.421. Epub 2019 May 2.

Authors

Avelino Núñez-Delgado¹, Yaoyu Zhou², Chaker Necibi³, Yanbin Xu⁴, David Fernández-Calviño⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Engineering Polytechnic School, Campus Univ. Lugo, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Electronic address: avelino.nunez@usc.es.
² College of Resources and Environment, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
³ Laboratory of Green Chemistry, School of Engineering Science, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
⁴ Guangdong University of Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou, China.
⁵ Department of Plant Biology and Soil Science, Faculty of Sciences, Campus Univ. Ourense, University of Vigo, Spain.

PMID: 31075596
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.421

Abstract

The Virtual Special Issue (VSI) "Antibiotics and Heavy Metals in the Environment: Facing the Challenge" received more than 100 submissions from research teams around the world. Finally, more than 50 papers were accepted and published. These very interesting research papers allow going ahead in the knowledge of different aspects which determine the fate of antibiotics and heavy metals in the environmental. The success of the VSI, as well as reports from scientific databases, indicate that this field of research is clearly growing, which is expected to continue, especially considering emerging pollutants as a whole.

Keywords: Antibiotics; Depollution; Emerging pollutants; Heavy metals; Sorption.

Publication types

Editorial