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Roberto Rosal is a researcher affiliated with the University of Alcalá in Spain. Their primary fields of study include Environmental Science and Materials Science, with subfields focusing on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Their main research topics cover Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

Roberto Rosal has contributed to multiple scientific publications, including recent papers such as:

  • Occurrence and transport of microplastics sampled within and above the planetary boundary layer (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fibers spreading worldwide: Microplastics and other anthropogenic litter in an Arctic freshwater lake (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • First detection of microplastics in the freshwater of an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (2020), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Honeybees as active samplers for microplastics (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ageing and fragmentation of marine microplastics (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include:

  • Francisca Fernández-Piñas
  • Miguel González-Pleiter
  • Francisco Leganés
  • Carlos Edo
  • Georgiana Amariei

Roberto Rosal's publications often appear in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Environmental Pollution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • Occurrence of emerging pollutants in urban wastewater and their removal through biological treatment followed by ozonation.

    Roberto Rosal;Antonio Rodríguez;José Antonio Perdigón-Melón;Alice Petre

  • Toxicity of five antibiotics and their mixtures towards photosynthetic aquatic organisms: implications for environmental risk assessment.

    Miguel González-Pleiter;Soledad Gonzalo;Ismael Rodea-Palomares;Francisco Leganés

  • Fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants and their environmental dispersion with effluent and sludge.

    Carlos Edo;Miguel González-Pleiter;Francisco Leganés;Francisca Fernández-Piñas

  • Secondary nanoplastics released from a biodegradable microplastic severely impact freshwater environments

    Miguel González-Pleiter;Miguel Tamayo-Belda;Gerardo Pulido-Reyes;Georgiana Amariei

  • Untangling the biological effects of cerium oxide nanoparticles: the role of surface valence states.

    Gerardo Pulido-Reyes;Ismael Rodea-Palomares;Soumen Das;Tamil Selvan Sakthivel

  • Kinetics of the deep oxidation of benzene, toluene, n-hexane and their binary mixtures over a platinum on γ-alumina catalyst

    Salvador Ordóñez;Lisardo Bello;Herminio Sastre;Roberto Rosal

  • Superhydrophilic anti-fouling electrospun cellulose acetate membranes coated with chitin nanocrystals for water filtration

    Lee A. Goetz;Blanca Jalvo;Roberto Rosal;Aji P. Mathew;Aji P. Mathew

  • Occurrence and transport of microplastics sampled within and above the planetary boundary layer.

    Miguel González-Pleiter;Miguel González-Pleiter;Carlos Edo;Ángeles Aguilera;Daniel Viúdez-Moreiras

  • Physicochemical characterization and ecotoxicological assessment of CeO2 nanoparticles using two aquatic microorganisms.

    Ismael Rodea-Palomares;Karina Boltes;Francisca Fernández-Piñas;Francisco Leganés

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals and kinetics of mineralization by O3/H2O2 in a biotreated municipal wastewater

    R. Rosal;A. Rodríguez;J.A. Perdigón-Melón;M. Mezcua

  • Chemical and toxicological evolution of the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole under ozone treatment in water solution.

    María del Mar Gómez-Ramos;Milagros Mezcua;Ana Agüera;Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba

  • Catalytic ozonation of naproxen and carbamazepine on titanium dioxide

    R. Rosal;A. Rodríguez.;M.S. Gonzalo;E. García-Calvo

  • Fibers spreading worldwide: Microplastics and other anthropogenic litter in an Arctic freshwater lake

    Miguel González-Pleiter;David Velázquez;Carlos Edo;Olga Carretero

  • Life Cycle Assessment of urban wastewater reuse with ozonation as tertiary treatment: a focus on toxicity-related impacts.

    Ivan Muñoz;Antonio Rodríguez;Roberto Rosal;Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba

  • Ageing and fragmentation of marine microplastics.

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  • First detection of microplastics in the freshwater of an Antarctic Specially Protected Area.

    Miguel González-Pleiter;Carlos Edo;David Velázquez;María Cristina Casero-Chamorro

  • Application of the combination index (CI)-isobologram equation to study the toxicological interactions of lipid regulators in two aquatic bioluminescent organisms

    Ismael Rodea-Palomares;Alice L. Petre;Karina Boltes;Francisco Leganés

  • Antimicrobial activity of cobalt imidazolate metal–organic frameworks

    Sonia Aguado;Jennifer Quirós;Jerome Canivet;David Farrusseng

  • Antimicrobial metal–organic frameworks incorporated into electrospun fibers

    Jennifer Quirós;Karina Boltes;Sonia Aguado;Roberto Guzman de Villoria

  • Degradation of caffeine and identification of the transformation products generated by ozonation

    Roberto Rosal;Antonio Rodríguez;José Antonio Perdigón-Melón;Alice Petre

  • Honeybees as active samplers for microplastics.

    Carlos Edo;Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba;Flemming Vejsnæs;Jozef J.M. van der Steen

  • Ecotoxicological assessment of surfactants in the aquatic environment: combined toxicity of docusate sodium with chlorinated pollutants.

    Roberto Rosal;Ismael Rodea-Palomares;Karina Boltes;Francisca Fernández-Piñas

  • Identification of intermediates and assessment of ecotoxicity in the oxidation products generated during the ozonation of clofibric acid.

    Roberto Rosal;María S. Gonzalo;Karina Boltes;Pedro Letón

Frequent Co-Authors

Eloy García-Calvo
Eloy García-Calvo University of Alcalá
Francisca Fernández-Piñas
Francisca Fernández-Piñas Autonomous University of Madrid
Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba
Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba University of Almería
Ana Agüera
Ana Agüera University of Almería
María Dolores Hernando
María Dolores Hernando University of Alcalá
Aji P. Mathew
Aji P. Mathew Stockholm University
Sudipta Seal
Sudipta Seal University of Central Florida
Vanja Kokol
Vanja Kokol University of Maribor
Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Patricia Horcajada
Patricia Horcajada IMDEA Energy Institute

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