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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Joseph J. Pignatello is a researcher affiliated with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on the interaction and treatment of pollutants in aquatic and soil environments.

Their research spans 55 publications in environmental science, involving significant contributions to subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, water science and technology, biomedical engineering, environmental chemistry, and pollution.

Main topics covered in their work include:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Phosphorus and nutrient management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Joseph J. Pignatello are:

  • Zhengyang Wang
  • Wenqing Xu
  • Feng Xiao
  • Bingcai Pan
  • Sanjai J. Parikh

The most common venues for their publications include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Water Research
  • Environmental Pollution
  • ACS ES&T Engineering
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Notable recent papers by Joseph J. Pignatello include:

  • The Fenton Reaction in Water Assisted by Picolinic Acid: Accelerated Iron Cycling and Co-generation of a Selective Fe-Based Oxidant, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Fe(III)-Picolinate Complexes for Efficient Water Treatment at Circumneutral pH: Fe(III)/Fe(IV) Cycle and Generation of Oxyl Radicals, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Sorption and Mobility of Charged Organic Compounds: How to Confront and Overcome Limitations in Their Assessment, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Biochar amendment as a remediation strategy for surface soils impacted by crude oil, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Mn(II) Acceleration of the Picolinic Acid-Assisted Fenton Reaction: New Insight into the Role of Manganese in Homogeneous Fenton AOPs, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

Joseph J. Pignatello was awarded the title of Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Advanced Oxidation Processes for Organic Contaminant Destruction Based on the Fenton Reaction and Related Chemistry

    Joseph J. Pignatello;Esther Oliveros;Allison Mackay

  • Mechanisms of Slow Sorption of Organic Chemicals to Natural Particles

    Joseph J. Pignatello;Baoshan Xing

  • Dark and photoassisted Fe3+ -catalyzed degradation of chlorophenoxy herbicides by hydrogen peroxide

    Joseph J. Pignatello

  • SEQUESTRATION OF HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS BY GEOSORBENTS

    Richard G. Luthy;George R. Aiken;Mark L. Brusseau;Scott D. Cunningham

  • Dual-Mode Sorption of Low-Polarity Compounds in Glassy Poly(Vinyl Chloride) and Soil Organic Matter

    Baoshan Xing;Joseph J. Pignatello

  • Comparison of halide impacts on the efficiency of contaminant degradation by sulfate and hydroxyl radical-based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs).

    Yi Yang;Joseph J. Pignatello;Jun Ma;William A. Mitch

  • Effect of halide ions and carbonates on organic contaminant degradation by hydroxyl radical-based advanced oxidation processes in saline waters.

    Janel E Grebel;Joseph J Pignatello;William A Mitch

  • Role of Quinone Intermediates as Electron Shuttles in Fenton and Photoassisted Fenton Oxidations of Aromatic Compounds

    Ruzhong Chen;Joseph J. Pignatello

  • Photochemical reactions involved in the total mineralization of 2,4-D by Fe3+/H2O2/UV

    Yunfu Sun;Joseph J. Pignatello

  • Oxidation of Organic Compounds in Water by Unactivated Peroxymonosulfate

    Yi Yang;Gourab Banerjee;Gary W. Brudvig;Jae Hong Kim

  • Persistence of 1,2-dibromoethane in soils: entrapment in intraparticle micropores

    Spencer M. Steinberg;Joseph J. Pignatello;Brij L. Sawhney

  • Evidence for an Additional Oxidant in the Photoassisted Fenton Reaction

    Joseph J. Pignatello;Di Liu;Patrick Huston

  • Effect of natural organic substances on the surface and adsorptive properties of environmental black carbon (char): attenuation of surface activity by humic and fulvic acids.

    Joseph J Pignatello;Seokjoon Kwon;Yufeung Lu

  • Speciation of the Ionizable Antibiotic Sulfamethazine on Black Carbon (Biochar)

    Marc Teixidó;Joseph J. Pignatello;Joseph J. Pignatello;José L. Beltrán;Mercè Granados

  • Degradation of selected pesticide active ingredients and commercial formulations in water by the photo-assisted Fenton reaction

    Patrick L Huston;Joseph J Pignatello

  • Characterization of Aromatic Compound Sorptive Interactions with Black Carbon (Charcoal) Assisted by Graphite as a Model

    Dongqiang Zhu;Joseph J Pignatello

  • Sorption hysteresis of benzene in charcoal particles.

    Washington J. Braida;Joseph J. Pignatello;Yuefeng Lu;Peter I. Ravikovitch

  • Chemical treatment of pesticide wastes. Evaluation of Fe(III) chelates for catalytic hydrogen peroxide oxidation of 2,4-D at circumneutral pH

    Yunfu. Sun;Joseph J. Pignatello

  • Soil organic matter as a nanoporous sorbent of organic pollutants

    Joseph J Pignatello

  • Adsorption of Single-Ring Organic Compounds to Wood Charcoals Prepared under Different Thermochemical Conditions

    Dongqiang Zhu;Seokjoon Kwon;Joseph J. Pignatello

Frequent Co-Authors

Baoshan Xing
Baoshan Xing University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jason C. White
Jason C. White Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
William A. Mitch
William A. Mitch Stanford University
Jingdong Mao
Jingdong Mao Old Dominion University
Dongqiang Zhu
Dongqiang Zhu Peking University
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr Brandeis University
Shu Tao
Shu Tao Peking University
Martin Alexander
Martin Alexander Cornell University
Robert K. Swihart
Robert K. Swihart Purdue University West Lafayette
Paulo J Ferreira
Paulo J Ferreira Instituto Superior Técnico

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