Overview
- Offers state-of-the-art insights into volatile methylsiloxanes
- Examines the future of the field
- Highlights the importance of a collaborative approach
Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (HEC, volume 89)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Comprising 12 chapters, this book focuses on volatile methylsiloxanes (VMSs), the shorter-chained organosiloxanes, and reviews the main areas and environmental compartments where they have been found and studied.
It opens with a detailed description of the structural and functional properties, toxic risks and possible transformations of VMSs in the environment and their main uses in various activities and products, as well as the identification of the main sources of emission. Further chapters examine the analytical strategies and protocols that have been used to address the quantification of VMSs, including the issue of possible cross-contaminations. The book also discusses the presence of VMSs in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and in water bodies, their atmospheric fate and levels in biota, as well as occurrences of VMSs in remote areas of the world. It closes with a comprehensive conclusion and discussion on future directions for upcoming studies.
This book is not intended as a finishing line, but rather as an important step towards improving our understanding of VMSs, to fuel new collaborations between research groups and/or with industry and lastly to convince more researchers to explore the mysteries of these ubiquitous, yet understudied, chemicals.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nuno Ratola has been a Principal Researcher at the Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy (LEPABE), based at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP, Portugal) since 2019, and an Invited Assistant Professor at FEUP since 2015. He graduated in Chemical Engineering (1996), and completed his Master’s in Environmental Engineering (2002) and PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering (2009) at FEUP. He has profited from numerous external residencies at various leading foreign research institutions, including a Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Murcia (Spain) from 2012 to 2014. His research interests include environmental chemistry and the behaviour of legacy and emerging organic contaminants, field sampling strategies, advanced analytical techniques, waste valorisation for energy production and safe recycling (circular economy), human exposure assessment and climate change scenarios.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Volatile Methylsiloxanes in the Environment
Editors: Vera Homem, Nuno Ratola
Series Title: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50135-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50134-1Published: 01 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50137-2Published: 01 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50135-8Published: 30 June 2020
Series ISSN: 1867-979X
Series E-ISSN: 1616-864X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, general, Environment, general, Analytical Chemistry, Water, general