1. Radium in groundwater hosted in porous aquifers: estimation of retardation factor and recoil rate constant by using NAPLs

   • Alessandra Briganti
   • Mario Voltaggio
   • Michele Soligo

   Research Article 01 November 2020 Article: 1934

   

2. Machinability evaluation of coated carbide inserts in turning of super-duplex stainless steel

   • Pranay Kumar Parsi
   • R. Sreeram Kotha
   • Maheshwar Dwivedy

   Research Article 31 October 2020 Article: 1933

   

3. The polarization reverse of diode-like conical nanopore under pH gradient

   • Yinyin Peng
   • Teng Zhou
   • Liping Wen

   Research Article 31 October 2020 Article: 1932

   

4. Low-temperature synthesis of micro- and nano-crystalline CuFeS₂ polymorphs

   • Balamurugan Karuppannan
   • Jacqueline L. Sturgeon
   • Jennifer A. Aitken

   Research Article 31 October 2020 Article: 1931

   

5. Biochar and humus sediment mixture attenuates crude oil-derived PAHs in a simulated tropical ultisol

   • Nnanake-Abasi O. Offiong
   • Edu J. Inam
   • Christian C. Una

   Research Article 30 October 2020 Article: 1930

   

6. Investigating the residual characteristics of dryer lint for developing resource recovery strategies

   • Pravin Kannan
   • Fawzi Banat

   Research Article 30 October 2020 Article: 1929

   

7. State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) controller design for moving obstacle avoidance in mobile robot

   • Motahareh Asgari
   • Hoda Nokhbe Foghahayee

   Research Article 30 October 2020 Article: 1928

   

8. Impacts of nonconventional construction materials on concrete strength development: case studies

   • G. Shyamala
   • K. Rajesh Kumar
   • Oladimeji Benedict Olalusi

   Review Paper 30 October 2020 Article: 1927

   

9. Pyrolytic biochars from sunflower seed shells, peanut shells and Spirulina algae: their potential as soil amendment and natural growth regulators

   • Mariana P. Silva
   • María L. Nieva Lobos
   • Elizabeth L. Moyano

   Research Article 30 October 2020 Article: 1926

   

10. Effect of the plate bondstress-slip property on the flexural strength of FRP Plated RC beams using a displacement-based approach

    • Mohamed El-Zeadani
    • Raizal Saifulnaz Muhammad Rashid
    • Mohamed Ibrahem Swi

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1925

    

11. Study of Hopf curves in the time delayed active control of a 2DOF nonlinear dynamical system

    • Ali Kandil

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1924

    

12. In vitro optimization for enhanced cellulose degrading enzyme from Bacillus licheniformis KY962963 associated with a microalgae Chlorococcum sp. using OVAT and statistical modeling

    • Freny Shah
    • Sandhya Mishra

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1923

    

13. Using infrared spectrum analyses to predict tensile strength of fibres in a group of closely related plant species: case of Mascarenes Pandanus spp.

    • Barisoa Harijaona Rafidison
    • Hareenanden Ramasawmy
    • F. Benjamin Vincent Florens

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1922

    

14. A study on Pb removal kinetics using modified agricultural wastes from Tanzania

    • Mwemezi Johaiven Rwiza
    • Matthias Kleinke
    • Kyoung-Woong Kim

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1921

    

15. Geospatial analysis of chilghoza forest in Sulaiman Mountainous Range

    • Rabail Urooj
    • Sadia Hassan Sherani
    • Umama Izbel

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1920

    

16. Optimizing of micro-hardness of nanostructured Cu–Cr solid solution produced by mechanical alloying using ANN and genetic algorithm

    • Amine Torabi
    • R.M. Babaheydari
    • S.O. Mirabootalebi

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1919

    

17. Polymeric colloidal nanocarriers entrapped with Centella asiatica extract

    • Amanda Gomes Marcelino Perez
    • Jocasta Mileski Machado
    • Maria Helena Ambrosio Zanin

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1918

    

18. Export of nutrients to the sea in a karstic basin in the west of Cuba

    • José Miguel Febles Díaz
    • José Manuel Febles González
    • Thalia González Calvo

    Research Article 29 October 2020 Article: 1917

    

19. Methods for identifying green infrastructure

    • Erica Honeck
    • Arthur Sanguet
    • Anthony Lehmann

    Review Paper Open access 28 October 2020 Article: 1916

    

20. Environmental and health risks of metal-contaminated soil in the former tannery area of Hazaribagh, Dhaka

    • Al-Mizan
    • Md Ariful Islam Juel
    • Tanvir Ahmed

    Research Article 28 October 2020 Article: 1915

    

21. Synthesis, identification and computational studies of novel Schiff bases N-(2,6-dibenzylidenecyclohexylidene)-N′-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)hydrazine derivatives

    • Md Mizanur Rahman Badal
    • Md Zakaria Hossain
    • Mohammad Abu Yousuf

    Research Article 28 October 2020 Article: 1914

    

22. Faunal community change in the sediment impacted Bovington Stream and the River Frome (Dorset, UK) between 1998 and 2016

    • Patrick D. Armitage
    • John F. Murphy
    • J. Iwan Jones

    Research Article 28 October 2020 Article: 1913

    

23. Enhancement of tribological and thermo-mechanical properties of phenolic resin friction composites by improving interactions between elastomeric phase and matrix resin

    • Prosenjit Ghosh
    • Kinsuk Naskar
    • Narayan Chandra Das

    Research Article 28 October 2020 Article: 1912

    

24. Energy-saving method of heat transfer enhancement during magneto-thermal convection in typical thermal cavities adopting aspiration

    • Nirmalendu Biswas
    • Ali J. Chamkha
    • Nirmal K. Manna

    Research Article 28 October 2020 Article: 1911

    

25. Occurrence and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in agricultural soils of Lake Chilwa catchment in Malawi, Southern Africa

    • Chisomo Mussa
    • Timothy Biswick
    • Annett Junginger

    Research Article 28 October 2020 Article: 1910

    

26. Configurations of V⁴⁺ centers in the MoVO catalyst material. A systematic stability analysis of DFT results

    • Torstein Fjermestad
    • Wen-Qing Li
    • Notker Rösch

    Research Article 28 October 2020 Article: 1909

    

27. Statistical optimization of anticandida metabolite production process using Streptomyces hydrogenans strain from mangrove soils

    • Mary Sulakshana Palla
    • Girija Sankar Guntuku
    • Jagadeesh Panda

    Research Article 27 October 2020 Article: 1908

    

28. Methodology for the formation of photoresist films with uniform thicknesses of several hundred micrometers

    • Tamio Fujiwara
    • Haruyuki Kinoshita
    • Teruo Fujii

    Research Article 27 October 2020 Article: 1907

    

29. Exploration of bioactive compounds and antibacterial activity of marine blue-green microalgae (Oscillatoria sp.) isolated from coastal region of west Malaysia

    • Prakash Bhuyar
    • Mohd Hasbi Ab. Rahim
    • Natanamurugaraj Govindan

    Short Communication 27 October 2020 Article: 1906

    

30. Curving of tellurium nanowires with gold in the presence of bovine serum albumin

    • Radha Perumal Ramasamy

    Research Article 27 October 2020 Article: 1905

    

31. Use of lignocellulosic corn and rice wastes as substrates for oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus Jacq.) cultivation

    • Jhonatan Rafael Zárate-Salazar
    • Mirela Natália Santos
    • Ángel Alfonso Palomo Herrera

    Research Article 27 October 2020 Article: 1904

    

32. Detection and quantification of antibiotic residues in urine samples of healthy individuals from rural and urban communities in Ghana using a validated SPE-LC-MS/MS method

    • Samuel Oppong Bekoe
    • Emmanuel Orman
    • Bjarne Styrishave

    Research Article 27 October 2020 Article: 1903

    

33. Studies on imidazo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazole derivatives as new radiosensitizers

    • Krishnakishore Majalakere
    • Sarojini Balladka Kunhana
    • Bantwal Shivaram Holla

    Research Article 27 October 2020 Article: 1902

    

34. Computational screening of zeolites for the adsorption of selected pharmaceutical pollutants

    • Fred Sifuna Wanyonyi
    • Anthony Pembere
    • Hitler Louis

    Research Article 27 October 2020 Article: 1901

    

35. Formulation of edible films from fenugreek mucilage and taro starch

    • Ashish M. Mohite
    • Divya chandel

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1900

    

36. Assessing chainsaw operators’ exposure to wood dust during timber harvesting

    • Vasiliki Dimou
    • Chrisovalantis Malesios
    • Vasiliki Chatzikosti

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1899

    

37. Electrolyte dependent performance of graphene–mixed metal oxide composites for enhanced supercapacitor applications

    • Remya Simon
    • Sohini Chakraborty
    • N. L. Mary

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1898

    

38. Morphological, microstructural and mineralogical dataset of bauxite over Mainpat plateau from a part of Deccan traps, Surguja district, Chhattisgarh

    • Sanjay Kumar Balabantaray
    • S. Aravindan
    • R. Ravi

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1897

    

39. Successive sustained loading effect on the long-term deflection of flat slab

    • A. Fuzail Hashmi
    • M. Shariq
    • A. Baqi

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1896

    

40. A combined theoretical and experimental study on the structure, vibrational, and electronic properties of antiparkinsonian drug safinamide

    • Ana Estela Ledesma
    • César Atilio Nazareno Catalán
    • Silvia Antonia Brandán

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1895

    

41. Fabrication of low cost nano-grass n-type C-Si solar cell with sol–gel Al₂O₃ passivation

    • Soma Ray
    • Anup Mondal
    • Utpal Gangopadhyay

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1894

    

42. From tunnel NMO to layered polymorphs oxides for sodium ion batteries

    • Michele Nuti
    • Daniele Spada
    • Marcella Bini

    Research Article Open access 26 October 2020 Article: 1893

    

43. Optimizing the biomimetic synthesis of hydroxyapatite for the consolidation of bone using diammonium phosphate, simulated body fluid, and gelatin

    • Elisavet Nesseri
    • Stamatis C. Boyatzis
    • Georgios Panagiaris

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1892

    

44. Assessing land use land cover dynamics of wetland ecosystems using Landsat satellite data

    • Saleha Jamal
    • Wani Suhail Ahmad

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1891

    

45. Insights from long-term variations in gravel riverbed topography as an indicator of vegetation–morphology interactions

    • Fumikazu Akamatsu
    • Yoshinori Yajima
    • Junji Miwa

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1890

    

46. Assessing the factors affecting the water chemistry parameters in the auxiliary water system of a nuclear power plant

    • Parasuraman Suganya
    • Ganapathiraman Swaminathan
    • Jaganathan Nagarajan

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1889

    

47. Effect of enhanced weld cooling on the mechanical properties of a structural steel with a yield strength of 700 MPa

    • Juhani Laitila
    • Lassi Keränen
    • Jari Larkiola

    Research Article Open access 26 October 2020 Article: 1888

    

48. Correction to: Constructing a spatial analysis model in assessing the sensitivity of landscape erosion in mountainous regions of Vietnam

    • Quoc Lap Kieu
    • Thi Van Huong Do
    • Huu Tap Van

    Correction 26 October 2020 Article: 1887

49. Sorption of Pt(IV) ions on poly(m-aminobenzoic acid) chelating polymer: Equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies

    • Tuğrul Öztürk
    • Mustafa Gülfen
    • Abdil Özdemir

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1886

    

50. Multi-metal resistance and potential of Alcaligenes sp. MMA for the removal of heavy metals

    • Kushneet Kaur Sodhi
    • Mohit Kumar
    • Dileep Kumar Singh

    Research Article 26 October 2020 Article: 1885