Diane Purchase

Professor of Environmental Biotechnology

Natural Sciences, School of Science and Technology

Middlesex University

Bioremediation, Biotechnology, Contaminated Land, Biofilm, e-waste

BSc, MSc, PhD, PGCHE, FHEA, MSB, CBiol, FIEnvSc

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  1. Safdar, Muhammad Umair, Mavroulidou, Maria, Gunn, Michael, Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385, Payne, Ian and Garelick, Johanathan (2021) Electrokinetic biocementation of an organic soil. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy . ISSN 2352-5541 [Article] (Accepted/In press)
  2. Xia, Hui, Zhang, Wenjing, Yang, Yuesuo, Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385, Zhao, Chuanqi, Song, Xiaoming and Wang, Yuanyuan (2021) Degradation mechanism of Tris(2-Chloroethyl) Phosphate (TCEP) as an emerging contaminant in advanced oxidation processes: a DFT modelling approach. Chemosphere, 273 , 129674. ISSN 0045-6535 [Article] (Published online first) (doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129674)
  3. Sharma, Pooja, Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385 and Chandra, Ram (2021) Residual pollutants in treated pulp paper mill wastewater and their phytotoxicity and cytotoxicity in Allium cepa. Environmental Geochemistry and Health . ISSN 0269-4042 [Article] (Published online first) (doi:10.1007/s10653-020-00730-z)
  4. Kishor, Roop, Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385, Ferreira, Luiz Fernando R., Mulla, Sikandar I., Bilal, Muhammad and Bharagava, Ram Naresh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1092-4181 (2020) Environmental and health hazards of textile industry wastewater pollutants and its treatment approaches. In: Handbook of Environmental Materials Management. Hussain, Chaudhery Mustansar, ed. Living reference work . Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1-24. e-ISBN 9783319585383. [Book Section] (Published online first) (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_230-1)
  5. Safdar, Muhammad Umair, Mavroulidou, Maria, Gunn, Michael J, Garelick, Johanathan, Payne, Ian and Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385 (2021) Innovative methods of ground improvement for railway embankment Peat Fens foundation soil. Géotechnique . pp. 1-29. ISSN 0016-8505 [Article] (Published online first) (doi:10.1680/jgeot.19.sip.030)
  6. Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385, Abbasi, Golnoush, Bisschop, Lieselot, Chatterjee, Debashish, Ekberg, Christian, Ermolin, Mikhail, Fedotov, Petr, Garelick, Hemda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4568-2300, Isimekhai, Khadijah, Kandile, Nadia G., Lundstrom, Mari, Matharu, Avtar, Miller, Bradley W., Pineda, Antonio, Popoola, Oluseun E., Retegan, Teodora, Ruedel, Heniz, Serpe, Angela, Shevah, Yehuda, Surati, Kiran R., Walsh, Fiona, Wilson, Benjamin P. and Wong, Ming Hung (2020) Global occurrence, chemical properties, and ecological impacts of e-wastes (IUPAC technical report). Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92 (11) . pp. 1733-1767. ISSN 0033-4545 [Article] (doi:10.1515/pac-2019-0502)
  7. Islam, Mohammad, Durie, Ian, Ramadan, Reham, Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385 and Marvasi, Massimiliano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8525-7232 (2020) Exploitation of nitric oxide donors to control bacterial adhesion on ready‐to‐eat vegetables and dispersal of pathogenic biofilm from polypropylene. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 100 (7) . pp. 3078-3086. ISSN 0022-5142 [Article] (doi:10.1002/jsfa.10340)
  8. Popoola, Oluseun E., Popoola, Abiodun O. and Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385 (2019) Levels of awareness and concentrations of heavy metals in the blood of electronic waste scavengers in Nigeria. Journal of Health and Pollution, 9 (21) , 190311. pp. 1-10. ISSN 2156-9614 [Article] (doi:10.5696/2156-9614-9.21.190311)
  9. Yadav, Ashutosh, Raj, Abhay, Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385, Ferreira, Luiz Fernando R., Saratale, Ganesh Dattatraya and Bharagava, Ram Naresh (2019) Phytotoxicity, cytotoxicity and genotoxicity evaluation of organic and inorganic pollutants rich tannery wastewater from a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Unnao district, India using Vigna radiata and Allium cepa. Chemosphere, 224 . pp. 324-332. ISSN 0045-6535 [Article] (doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.02.124)
  10. Saxena, Gaurav, Purchase, Diane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4385, Mulla, Sikandar I., Saratale, Ganesh Dattatraya and Bharagava, Ram Naresh (2019) Phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated sites: Eco-environmental concerns, field studies, sustainability issues and future prospects. In: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Springer. . [Book Section] (Published online first) (doi:10.1007/398_2019_24)