Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectives

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Vera Homem (Author) FEUP; Nuno Ratola (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

Pages: 315-320

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Associated Projects

AGRONAUT - Estudo do impacto agronómico da utilização de lamas de depuração através de uma perspectiva de exposição

LaNSiloT - LAunching New SILOxane Treatments: assessing effluent, sludge and air quality and improving biogas production in WWTPs

LEPABE - Projeto Estratégico do LEPABE - Laboratório de Engenharia de Processos, Ambiente, Biotecnologia e Energia

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Authenticus ID: P-00S-G4G

DOI: 10.1007/698_2019_411

Abstract (EN): This final chapter intends to convey to the readers the main lessons learned so far, the most important challenges found and an overview of the possible research trends yet to explore in the study of volatile methylsiloxanes (VMSs) in the environment. From all the excellent contributions to this book, besides a comprehensive and thorough display of properties, levels, trends and advances of the current state of the art in several environmental matrices, a number of gaps were detected and discussed and new solutions suggested. Therefore, it is expected that in the near future, the development of new management strategies; new findings regarding the occurrence, behaviour and toxicity of volatile methylsiloxanes; the improvement of risk assessment studies; and the inclusion of chronic exposure assays of mixtures of these substances are the pathways to enhance the expertise of scientists and stakeholders on the science of siloxanes. © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6