Expected Impacts
Advance existing knowledge & make major fundamental advances in material design, synthesis, process
techniques and manufacturing tools and provide the scientific and technological foundations needed to
support the production of multifunctional nanomaterials as new products in sorptive Microextraction techniques
Monitoring and Environmental Risk Assessment study providing new insights on the occurrence,
behaviour and effects of PPCPs and their TPs in WWTPs in Greece.
Development of heterogeneous water phase photocatalysis as an environmental application for the
removal of PPCPs, using TiO2 photocatalysts.
Evaluation of the degradation kinetics and the operational parameters for the destruction of selected
PPCPs using novel chemical analytical methods.
New data on the transformation mechanisms of the selected PPCPs in wastewaters
Characterisation and quantification of microplastic contents contained in a Greek WWTP
This study would address an important data gap by providing an estimate of microplastics in the WWTP
This study would address an important data gap by providing an estimate of microplastics in the WWTP
Investigation of the relationship between population and microplastic abundance will be identified
The above-mentioned results will be communicated with an important number of technical reports and
publications in international congresses and peer-reviewed scientific journals.
support the production of multifunctional nanomaterials as new products in sorptive Microextraction techniques
The education and training of an important number of young scientists that could be the future stuff of
academic and public or private companies.
The transfer scientific knowledge between experts in coating, material preparation, sample preparation,
environmental analysis and the developed know-how to potential stakeholders and end-users inside and
outside the project
The creation of a network of laboratories between Greece and China targeting on multidisciplinary
research (i.e. monitoring and analysis of PPCPs, photocatalysis and sampling and monitoring of
microplastics) that will collaborate in relative topics in the future.