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Chemical pollution: A growing peril and potential catastrophic risk to humanity by Naidu, Ravi, Biswas, Bhabananda, Willett, Ian R., Cribb, Julian, Kumar Singh, Brajesh, Paul Nathanail, C., Coulon, Frederic, Semple, Kirk T., Jones, Kevin C., Barclay, Adam, Aitken, Robert John

“…[Display omitted] •The global picture of chemical pollution in the environment is often fragmented.•This perspective highlights global picture of pollution…”
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Tracking the Global Generation and Exports of e‑Waste. Do Existing Estimates Add up? by Breivik, Knut, Armitage, James M, Wania, Frank, Jones, Kevin C

“…The transport of discarded electronic and electrical appliances (e-waste) to developing regions has received considerable attention, but it is difficult to…”
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Soil pollution at a major West African E-waste recycling site: Contamination pathways and implications for potential mitigation strategies by Moeckel, Claudia, Breivik, Knut, Nøst, Therese Haugdahl, Sankoh, Alhaji, Jones, Kevin C., Sweetman, Andrew

“…[Display omitted] •Soil pollution was compared between an e-waste and a municipal waste sitein Africa.•Heavy metals, PAHs, PBDEs, PCBs, and chlorinated…”
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A First Global Production, Emission, And Environmental Inventory For Perfluorooctane Sulfonate by Paul, Alexander G, Jones, Kevin C, Sweetman, Andrew J

“…This study makes a new estimate of the global historical production for perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (POSF), and then focuses on producing a first…”
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PAH Molecular Diagnostic Ratios Applied to Atmospheric Sources: A Critical Evaluation Using Two Decades of Source Inventory and Air Concentration Data from the UK by Katsoyiannis, Athanasios, Sweetman, Andrew J, Jones, Kevin C

“…Molecular diagnostic ratios (MDRs)the ratios of defined pairs of individual compoundshave been widely used as markers of different source categories of…”
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Occurrence and risk assessment of organophosphorus and brominated flame retardants in the River Aire (UK) by Cristale, Joyce, Katsoyiannis, Athanasios, Sweetman, Andrew J., Jones, Kevin C., Lacorte, Silvia

“…This study presents the occurrence and risk of PBDEs, new brominated and organophosphorus flame retardants along a river affected by urban and industrial…”
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Application of Simplicillium chinense for Cd and Pb biosorption and enhancing heavy metal phytoremediation of soils by Jin, Zhongmin, Deng, Songqiang, Wen, Yuchen, Jin, Yifeng, Pan, Lin, Zhang, Yanfu, Black, Tom, Jones, Kevin C., Zhang, Hao, Zhang, Dayi

“…Phytoremediation is an effective approach to control soil heavy metal pollution. This study isolated a fungus strain from soils contaminated by cadmium (Cd)…”
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Ionizing radiation‐induced acoustics for radiotherapy and diagnostic radiology applications by Hickling, Susannah, Xiang, Liangzhong, Jones, Kevin C., Parodi, Katia, Assmann, Walter, Avery, Stephen, Hobson, Maritza, El Naqa, Issam

“…Acoustic waves are induced via the thermoacoustic effect in objects exposed to a pulsed beam of ionizing radiation. This phenomenon has interesting potential…”
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Industrial source identification and emission estimation of perfluorooctane sulfonate in China by Xie, Shuangwei, Wang, Tieyu, Liu, Shijie, Jones, Kevin C., Sweetman, Andrew J., Lu, Yonglong

“…Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and related chemicals (collectively “PFOS equivalents”) are currently manufactured and used in a wide variety of industrial…”
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Evidence for Major Contributions of Unintentionally Produced PCBs in the Air of China: Implications for the National Source Inventory by Zhao, Shizhen, Jones, Kevin C, Li, Jun, Sweetman, Andrew J, Liu, Xin, Xu, Yue, Wang, Yan, Lin, Tian, Mao, Shuduan, Li, Kechang, Tang, Jiao, Zhang, Gan

“…Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were not widely manufactured or used in China before they became the subject of international bans on production. Recent work…”
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Evidence and Recommendations to Support the Use of a Novel Passive Water Sampler to Quantify Antibiotics in Wastewaters by Chen, Chang-Er, Zhang, Hao, Ying, Guang-Guo, Jones, Kevin C

“…A novel passive water sampler (diffusive gradients in thin-films for organics, o-DGT) was previously developed and successfully tested in the laboratory, but…”
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Anharmonic Vibrational Modes of Nucleic Acid Bases Revealed by 2D IR Spectroscopy by Peng, Chunte Sam, Jones, Kevin C, Tokmakoff, Andrei

“…Polarization-dependent two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectra of the purine and pyrimadine base vibrations of five nucleotide monophosphates (NMPs) were…”
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Monsoon-Driven Transport of Organochlorine Pesticides and Polychlorinated Biphenyls to the Tibetan Plateau: Three Year Atmospheric Monitoring Study by Sheng, Jiujiang, Wang, Xiaoping, Gong, Ping, Joswiak, Daniel R, Tian, Lide, Yao, Tandong, Jones, Kevin C

“…Due to the influence of the Indian monsoon system, air mass transport in and to the Tibetan Plateau shows obvious seasonality. In order to assess the responses…”
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Occurrence and sources of selected organochlorine pesticides in the soil of seven major Indian cities: Assessment of air–soil exchange by Chakraborty, Paromita, Zhang, Gan, Li, Jun, Sivakumar, A., Jones, Kevin C.

“…India is an agricultural country and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) accounts for nearly three fourth of the annual pesticide consumption. Selected OCPs were…”
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Bioavailability and metabolism in a soil-crop system compared using DGT and conventional extraction techniques by Li, Yanying, Rothwell, Shane, Cheng, Hao, Jones, Kevin C., Zhang, Hao

“…Traditional extraction methods (soil solution and solvent extraction) are simple to use and conventionally employed to assess pesticide chemical form and…”
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Intrinsic Human Elimination Half-Lives of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Derived from the Temporal Evolution of Cross-Sectional Biomonitoring Data from the United Kingdom by Ritter, Roland, Scheringer, Martin, MacLeod, Matthew, Moeckel, Claudia, Jones, Kevin C., Hungerbühler, Konrad

“…Background: Most empirical estimates of human elimination kinetics for persistent chemicals reflect apparent elimination half-lives that represent the…”
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Folding of a heterogeneous β-hairpin peptide from temperature-jump 2D IR spectroscopy by Jones, Kevin C., Peng, Chunte Sam, Tokmakoff, Andrei

“…We provide a time- and structure-resolved characterization of the folding of the heterogeneous β-hairpin peptide Tryptophan Zipper 2 (Trpzip2) using 2D IR…”
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How efficiently can HEPA purifiers remove priority fine and ultrafine particles from indoor air? by Lowther, Scott D., Deng, Wei, Fang, Zheng, Booker, Douglas, Whyatt, Duncan J., Wild, Oliver, Wang, Xinming, Jones, Kevin C.

“…•It is currently unclear how particles of different sizes are removed by air purifiers.•Three popular models were tested in China’s largest indoor smog…”
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How proton pulse characteristics influence protoacoustic determination of proton-beam range: simulation studies by Jones, Kevin C, Seghal, Chandra M, Avery, Stephen

“…The unique dose deposition of proton beams generates a distinctive thermoacoustic (protoacoustic) signal, which can be used to calculate the proton range. To…”
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Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Related Chemicals in the Global Environment: Some Personal Reflections by Jones, Kevin C

“…Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and related chemicals are fascinating because of their combination of physical-chemical properties and complex effects…”
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