1st Edition
Understanding Metals in the Environment and Human Health
Introduction - Metals in Health and Environment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Carlos Lodiero and Elisabete Oliveira
1. Melding Metals Data for a Food Chain Analysis to Provide a Basis for Assessing Ecosystem and Human Health and Designing Biomonitoring
Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld
2. Indispensable Role Of LC-Based Metallomics Tools to Unravel the Mechanisms Which Causally Link Human Exposure to Toxic Metal(Loid) Species to Organ Damage
Jürgen Gailer
3. Minor To Whom? The Interaction Between Minor Metals and Plants
Davide Marzi, Maria Luisa Antenozio, Massimo Zacchini et al.
4. The Role of Chemical Metals in SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Ketolly Natanne da Silva Leal, Isabela Rocha, Alan J. Stewart et al.
S. Sánchez-Espirilla, Belén Callejón-Leblic, A. Arias-Borrego et al.
6. Last Developments in Speciation and Bioavailability Studies: Important Regulatory Implications for Health Protection
Juan José López Mayán, Elena Peña-Vázquez, María Carmen Barciela-Alonso et al.
7. Mesoporous Nanoparticles and Polymers for Entrapping Toxic Metal Ions and Antimicrobial Studies
Elisabete Oliveira, Joana Galhano, Jose Luis Capelo-Martínez et al.
8. An Insight into the Environmental Impact of Inorganic Nanoparticles: Upsides and Downsides
Ana Justo-Veja, Juan José López-Mayán, Antonio Moreda-Piñeiro et al.
9. Abandoned Mines as Sources of Metal Pollution: Eternity Costs and Everlasting Threats to the Aquatic Environment
Franz Jirsa, Jakob Windisch, and Andreas Gradwohl
10. Use of Natural Materials for Arsenic and Antimony Removal from Water
Ariana M.A. Pintor, Mariko A. Carneiro, Clara C. Costa et al.
11. Dermal Bioaccessibility and Percutaneous Penetration of Metal(loid)s in Contaminated Soils: Mechanisms, Experimental Evidence, and Implications for Human Health Exposure Assessment
Gerald J. Zagury
12. Is Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal–Contaminated Soils Using Industrial Crops a Sustainable Solution?
Leandro A. Gomes, Bruno Barbosa, Barbara Rachele Ciaramella et al.
13. Recent Advances in Dansyl-Based Fluorescent Probes for Heavy Metal Sensing and Quantification in Chemical and Biological Environments
Frederico Duarte, Inês Pereira-Gomez, Hugo Santos et al.
14. Metals in the Environment-Health Binomial: Tools for Understanding and Action
C. Morro-Blazquez, R. Callejón Fernández, C. Gomez-de las Heras et al.
Biography
Carlos Lodeiro is Professor in Chemistry at the LAQV-REQUIMTE, NOVA FCT, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, teaching Inorganic Chemistry, BioInorganic Chemistry, Instrumental Methods of Analysis since 2012, Chemistry of the Elements since 2015, Metals in Biology and Medicine since 2020 and Polymers for Bioaplications since 2023. He has published 350 papers in leading journals, several book chapters and patents.
Elisabete Oliveira is Assistant Professor at the LAQV-REQUIMTE, NOVA FCT, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, teaching Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Instrumental Methods of Analysis since 2012, and Forensic Chemistry since 2025. She was awarded with the Prize for Women in Science, “Medalhas de Honra L’Oréal Portugal para as Mulheres na Ciência” in the field of Health Sciences in 2016. She has published 96 papers in leading journals, and several book chapters.
