A list of scientific publications that ZeroPM has contributed to can be found below. Last updated January 16, 2026. An updated list can always be found at Zenodo.
Aggarwal, Rahul, Mikael Gustavsson, Gregory Peters, and Sverker Molander. “Extrapolation factors for calculating ecotoxicity effects in LCA.” The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 30, no. 1 (2025): 134-150.
Aggarwal, R. (2024). Comparative life cycle assessment of reusable and single use take-away lunch boxes used in student restaurants. Cleaner Environmental Systems, 14, 100223. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666789424000618
Aggarwal, R. (2025). Freshwater ecotoxicity characterization factors for PFASs. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 21(1), 208–219. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-022-00631-1
Aggarwal, R., & Peters, G. (2024). Freshwater ecotoxicity characterization factors for PMT/vPvM substances. Chemosphere, 360, 142391. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653524012840
Arp, H. P. H., Aurich, D., Schymanski, E. L., Sims, K., & Hale, S. E. (2023). Avoiding the Next Silent Spring: Our Chemical Past, Present, and Future. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(16), 6355–6359. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01735
Arp, H. P. H., Gredelj, A., Glüge, J., Scheringer, M., & Cousins, I. T. (2024). The Global Threat from the Irreversible Accumulation of Trifluoroacetic Acid (TFA). Environmental Science & Technology, 58(45), 19925–19935. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c06189
Arp, H. P. H., & Hale, S. E. (2022). Assessing the persistence and mobility of organic substances to protect freshwater resources. ACS Environmental Au, 2(6), 482–509. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsenvironau.2c00024
Arvidsson, R., Peters, G., Hansen, S. F., & Baun, A. (2022). Prospective environmental risk screening of seven advanced materials based on production volumes and aquatic ecotoxicity. NanoImpact, 25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.impact.2022.100393
Bǎlan, S. A., Andrews, D. Q., Blum, A., Diamond, M. L., Fernández, S. R., Harriman, E., Lindstrom, A. B., Reade, A., Richter, L., Sutton, R., Wang, Z., & Kwiatkowski, C. F. (2023). Optimizing Chemicals Management in the United States and Canada through the Essential-Use Approach. Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 57, Issue 4, pp. 1568–1575). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05932
Barnabas, S. J., Böhme, T., Boyer, S. K., Irmer, M., Ruttkies, C., Wetherbee, I., Kondić, T., Schymanski, E. L., & Weber, L. (2022). Extraction of chemical structures from literature and patent documents using open access chemistry toolkits: a case study with PFAS. Digital Discovery, 1(4), 490–501. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/dd/d2dd00019a
Baskaran, Sivani, Parviel Chirsir, Shira Joudan, Raoul Wolf, Evan E. Bolton, Paul A. Thiessen, and Emma L. Schymanski. “Reporting Chemical Data in the Environmental Sciences.” ACS Environmental Au 5, no. 5 (2025): 444-456.
Blumenthal, J., Diamond, M. L., Liu, G., & Wang, Z. (2022). Introducing “Embedded Toxicity”: A Necessary Metric for the Sound Management of Building Materials. Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 56, Issue 14, pp. 9838–9841). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c03128
Carlier, Maxim P., Theo Verboom, Laura Cuijpers, Lisa Baumann, Wilbert Bitter, and Timo Hamers. “PFAS-exposed zebrafish embryos show impaired innate immune response after infection with mycobacteria.” Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (2025): 117484.
Carney Almroth, B., Cornell, S. E., Diamond, M. L., de Wit, C. A., Fantke, P., & Wang, Z. (2022). Understanding and addressing the planetary crisis of chemicals and plastics. One Earth (Vol. 5, Issue 10, pp. 1070–1074). Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.09.012
Charbonnet, J. A., McDonough, C. A., Xiao, F., Schwichtenberg, T., Cao, D., Kaserzon, S., Thomas, K. V., Dewapriya, P., Place, B. J., Schymanski, E. L., Field, J. A., Helbling, D. E., & Higgins, C. P. (2022). Communicating Confidence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Identification via High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science and Technology Letters (Vol. 9, Issue 6, pp. 473–481). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00206
Chirsir, Parviel, Maria Lorena Cordero-Maldonado, Maxim P. Carlier, Timo Hamers, and Emma L. Schymanski. “Identification of persistent substructures in transformation products with zebrafish embryos using cheminformatics and a suspect screening approach.” (2025).
Cousins, I. T., Johansson, J. H., Salter, M. E., Sha, B., & Scheringer, M. (2022). Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). Environmental Science & Technology, 56(16), 11172–11179. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765
Deligiannis, M., Gkalipidou, E., Gatidou, G., Kostakis, M. G., Triantafyllos Gerokonstantis, D., Arvaniti, O. S., Thomaidis, N. S., Vyrides, I., Hale, S. E., Peter Arp, H., Fountoulakis, M. S., & Stasinakis, A. S. (2024). Study on the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances during thermophilic anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge and the role of granular activated carbon addition. Bioresource Technology, 406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131013
Figuière, Romain, Olivier Kirik, Rahul Aggarwal, Gregory Peters, and Ian T. Cousins. “Assessment of functional alternatives to fluorinated foam blowing agents in insulation materials.” RSC Sustainability (2026).
Figuière, Romain, Luc Miaz, Eleni Savvidou, and Ian Cousins. “The ZeroPM alternatives database: a tool to identify potential alternatives to PFAS.” (2025).
Figuière, Romain, Zhanyun Wang, Juliane Glüge, Martin Scheringer, Armin Siegrist, and Ian T. Cousins. “Data Requirements for Implementing the “Essential-Use” Concept in Chemical Legislation.” Environmental Science & Technology (2025).
Figuière, Romain, Luc T. Miaz, Eleni Savvidou, and Ian T. Cousins. “An overview of potential alternatives for the multiple uses of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances.” Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 4 (2025): 2031-2042.
Göckener, B., Lange, F. T., Lesmeister, L., Gökçe, E., Dahme, H. U., Bandow, N., & Biegel-Engler, A. (2022). Digging deep—implementation, standardisation and interpretation of a total oxidisable precursor (TOP) assay within the regulatory context of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in soil. Environmental Sciences Europe, 34(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-022-00631-1
Groh, K. J., Arp, H. P. H., MacLeod, M., & Wang, Z. (2022). Assessing and managing environmental hazards of polymers: historical development, science advances and policy options. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, 25. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2em00386d
Hader, John D., Martin Wagner, Hans Peter H. Arp, Ksenia J. Groh, Mari Engvig Løseth, Laura Monclús, Jane Muncke, Lisa Zimmermann, and Zhanyun Wang. “A hazard-based approach enables the efficient identification of chemicals of concern in plastics.” Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 31 (2025): 16144-16155.
Hale, S. E., & Arp, H. P. H. (2022). Tackling persistent, mobile and toxic substances in the aquatic environment through prevention, prioritization and removal strategies. Vann. https://vannforeningen.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Hale.pdf
Hale, S. E., Kalantzi, O. I., & Arp, H. P. H. (2022). Introducing the EU project ZeroPM: zero pollution of persistent, mobile substances. Environmental Sciences Europe (Vol. 34, Issue 1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-022-00681-5
Han, M., Liang, J., Jin, B., Wang, Z., Wu, W., & Arp, H. P. H. (2024). Machine learning coupled with causal inference to identify COVID-19 related chemicals that pose a high concern to drinking water. Iscience, 27(2). https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)00233-5?uuid=uuid%3A743e6dd2-c764-42c6-a53c-3e4f8098a746
Han, Min, Biao Jin, and Hans Peter H. Arp. “The Active Soil Layer of Thawing Permafrost Is an Emergent Source for Organic Substances of Concern to Water Resources.” Environmental Science & Technology Letters 12, no. 5 (2025): 558-566.
Holmquist, H., Roos, S., Schellenberger, S., Jönsson, C., & Peters, G. (2021). What difference can drop-in substitution actually make? A life cycle assessment of alternative water repellent chemicals. Journal of Cleaner Production, 329, 129661. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652621038385
Huang, C., Jin, B., Han, M., Zhang, G., & Arp, H. P. H. (2023). Identifying persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) organic compounds detected in shale gas wastewater. Science of the Total Environment, 858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159821
Hubert, M., Arp, H. P. H., Hansen, M. C., Castro, G., Meyn, T., Asimakopoulos, A. G., & Hale, S. E. (2023). Influence of grain size, organic carbon and organic matter residue content on the sorption of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in aqueous film forming foam contaminated soils-Implications for remediation using soil washing. Science of The Total Environment, 875, 162668. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723012846
Hubert, M., Meyn, T., Hansen, M. C., Hale, S. E., & Arp, H. P. H. (2024). Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) removal from soil washing water by coagulation and flocculation. Water Research, 249, 120888. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135423013283
Jurkiewicz, D., Sosnowska, A., Buławska, N., Stępnik, M., Behnisch, P., Besselink, H., & Puzyn, T. (2022). How the structure of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) influences their binding potency to the peroxisome proliferator-activated and thyroid hormone receptors–an in silico screening study. Available at SSRN 4173912. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4173912
Klotz, M., Schmidt, S., Wiesinger, H., Laner, D., Wang, Z., & Hellweg, S. (2024). Increasing the recycling of PVC flooring requires phthalate removal for ensuring consumers’ safety: A cross-checked substance flow analysis of plasticizers for Switzerland. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(42), 18686–18700. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.4c04164
Kowalska, D., Sosnowska, A., Bulawska, N., Stępnik, M., Besselink, H., Behnisch, P., & Puzyn, T. (2023). How the structure of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) influences their binding potency to the peroxisome proliferator-activated and thyroid hormone receptors—An in silico screening study. Molecules, 28(2), 479. https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/28/2/479
Landrigan, Philip J., Sarah Dunlop, Marina Treskova, Hervé Raps, Christos Symeonides, Jane Muncke, Margaret Spring et al. “The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics.” The Lancet 406, no. 10507 (2025): 1044-1062.
Langberg, H. A., Arp, H. P. H., Castro, G., Asimakopoulos, A. G., & Knutsen, H. (2024). Recycling of paper, cardboard and its PFAS in Norway. Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters, 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100096
Langberg, H. A., Breedveld, G. D., Kallenborn, R., Ali, A. M., Choyke, S., McDonough, C. A., Higgins, C. P., Jenssen, B. M., Jartun, M., Allan, I., Hamers, T., & Hale, S. E. (2024). Human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) via the consumption of fish leads to exceedance of safety thresholds. Environment International, 190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108844
Lennquist, A., Kleimark, J., Arp, H. P. H., & Hale, S. E. (2024). Facilitating the market transition away from persistent and mobile substances: a report on tools developed by ChemSec in the ZeroPM project: SIN list, Marketplace and the PFAS guide. Environmental Sciences Europe (Vol. 36, Issue 1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-023-00829-x
Leslie, Heather A., Annika Jahnke, Elisa Rojo-Nieto, and Hans Peter H. Arp. “Plastic-Associated Chemicals: Late Lessons from Early Equilibrium Partitioning Science.” Environmental Science & Technology (2025).
Liu, Min, Chunjie Xia, Hui Peng, Elizaveta Zvereva, Darcy C. Burns, Justine Fontaine, Arlene Blum et al. “Nonpolymeric Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Side-Chain Fluorinated Polymers in Canadian Building Products.” Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 38 (2025): 20642-20652.
Mayahi, Bashir, Emma Palm, and Emma Schymanski. “Browsing FAIR Transformation Product Information with FAIR-TPs.” (2025).
Mendes, Sabrina Altmeyer, Rahul Aggarwal, Magdalena Svanström, and Gregory Peters. “Review of water treatment technologies for PFAS from a life cycle perspective, with meta-analysis of financial costs and climate impacts.” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 223 (2025): 108524.
Miller, Anna, Kevin Kleemann, Juliane Glüge, Ian T. Cousins, Dorte Herzke, Rainer Lohmann, Mark F. Miller et al. “Global inventory of fluoropolymer production plants and their associated PFAS environmental contamination.” (2025).
Mohr, T., Schliebner, I., Neumann, M., Oules, L., Arp, H. P. H., & Hale, S. E. (2024). Progress in European chemicals policy to support the protection of the environment and human health from persistent, mobile and toxic and very persistent and very mobile substances. Environmental Sciences Europe (Vol. 36, Issue 1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-024-00932-7
Monclús, L., H. P. H. Arp, K. J. Groh, A. Faltynkova, M. E. Løseth, J. Muncke, Z. Wang, R. Wolf, L. Zimmermann, and M. Wagner. “Mapping the chemical complexity of plastics.” Nature 643, no. 8071 (2025): 349-355.
Mueller, L. K., Ågerstrand, M., Backhaus, T., Diamond, M., Erdelen, W. R., Evers, D., Groh, K. J., Scheringer, M., Sigmund, G., Wang, Z., & Schäffer, A. (2022). Policy options to account for multiple chemical pollutants threatening biodiversity. Environmental Science: Advances (Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 151–161). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2va00257d
Mutzner, L., Zhang, K., Luthy, R. G., Arp, H. P. H., & Spahr, S. (2023). Urban stormwater capture for water supply: look out for persistent, mobile and toxic substances. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology (Vol. 9, Issue 12, pp. 3094–3102). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ew00160a
Padhye, Lokesh P., Melanie Kah, Erin Leitao, Karl Bowles, Paul Nathanail, Ian T. Cousins, Romain Figuière et al. “The PFAS roadmap–Navigating a path together to improved management.” Sustainability Science and Technology (2025).
Palm, E. H., Chirsir, P., Krier, J., Thiessen, P. A., Zhang, J., Bolton, E. E., & Schymanski, E. L. (2023). ShinyTPs: Curating Transformation Products from Text Mining Results. Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 10(10), 865–871. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00537
Riegel, M., Haist-Gulde, B., & Sacher, F. (2023). Sorptive removal of short-chain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during drinking water treatment using activated carbon and anion exchanger. Environmental Sciences Europe, 35(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-023-00716-5
Rillig, M. C., Kim, S. W., Schäffer, A., Sigmund, G., Groh, K. J., & Wang, Z. (2022). About “controls” in Pollution-Ecology Experiments in the Anthropocene. Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 56, Issue 17, pp. 11928–11930). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05460
Roy, M. A., Cousins, I., Harriman, E., Scheringer, M., Tickner, J. A., & Wang, Z. (2022). Combined Application of the Essential-Use and Functional Substitution Concepts: Accelerating Safer Alternatives. Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 56, Issue 14, pp. 9842–9846). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c03819
Savvidou, E. K., Rensmo, A., Benskin, J. P., Schellenberger, S., Hu, X., Weil, M., & Cousins, I. T. (2024). PFAS-Free Energy Storage: Investigating Alternatives for Lithium-Ion Batteries. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(50), 21908–21917. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.4c06083
Schäffer, A., Fenner, K., Wang, Z., & Scheringer, M. (2022). To be or not to be degraded: in defense of persistence assessment of chemicals. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, 24(8), 1104–1109. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2em00213b
Scheringer, M., Johansson, J. H., Salter, M. E., Sha, B., & Cousins, I. T. (2022). Stories of Global Chemical Pollution: Will We Ever Understand Environmental Persistence? Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 56, Issue 24, pp. 17498–17501). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c06611
Schymanski, E. L., Zhang, J., Thiessen, P. A., Chirsir, P., Kondic, T., & Bolton, E. E. (2023). Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in PubChem: 7 million and growing. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(44), 16918–16928. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.3c04855
Shi, X., Langberg, H. A., Sobek, A., & Benskin, J. P. (2025). Exploiting Molecular Ions for Screening Hydrophobic Contaminants in Sediments Using Gas Chromatography-Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization-Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c13059
Sigmund, G., Ågerstrand, M., Antonelli, A., Backhaus, T., Brodin, T., Diamond, M. L., Erdelen, W. R., Evers, D. C., Hofmann, T., & Hueffer, T. (2023). Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research. Global Change Biology, 29(12), 3240–3255. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.16689
Smith, S. J., Lauria, M., Higgins, C. P., Pennell, K. D., Blotevogel, J., & Arp, H. P. H. (2024). The Need to Include a Fluorine Mass Balance in the Development of Effective Technologies for PFAS Destruction. In Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 58, Issue 6, pp. 2587–2590). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c10617
Suffill, Ellise, Svea Hörberg, Sarah E. Hale, Sabine Pahl, and Mathew P. White. “Expert and non-expert perceptions of ‘forever chemicals’: identifying commonalties and differences to inform PFAS risk communication.” Journal of Risk Research (2025): 1-22.
Tian, R., Posselt, M., Miaz, L. T., Fenner, K., & McLachlan, M. S. (2024). Influence of Season on Biodegradation Rates in Rivers. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(16), 7144–7153. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.3c10541
van Dijk, J., Figuière, R., Dekker, S. C., van Wezel, A. P., & Cousins, I. T. (2023). Managing PMT/vPvM substances in consumer products through the concepts of essential-use and functional substitution: a case-study for cosmetics. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 25(6), 1067–1081. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2023/em/d3em00025g
van Dijk, Joanke, Anezka Sharma, Bernd Nowack, Zhanyun Wang, and Martin Scheringer. “From ambition to action: Navigating obstacles and opportunities of “safe and sustainable by design”.” Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 29 (2025): 14832-14841.
Vestergren, R., Appelblom, A., Bălan, S. A., Brandsma, S. H., Bruton, T. A., Cousins, I. T., Gauthier, J. R., Heggelund, A., Ivarsson, J., Kärrman, A., Melymuk, L., Olisah, C., Rosen, A., Savvidou, E. K., Schellenberger, S., Skedung, L., Talasniemi, P., Wickman, T., Zweigle, J., … Benskin, J. P. (2024). A Systematic Workflow for Compliance Testing of Emerging International Classwide Restrictions on PFAS. Environmental Science and Technology. American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c06570
Wang, M., Carlini, G., & Wang, Z. (2023). Major International Negotiations on Chemicals and Waste for Researchers from All Disciplines to Watch for in 2023. Environmental Science and Technology Letters (Vol. 10, Issue 5, pp. 392–394). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00219
Wang, M., Green, C., & Wang, Z. (2022). Six Recommendations for Early Career Professionals to Join Work at the Science-Policy Interface: Collective Experience from Academic, Governmental, and NGO Scientists. Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 56, Issue 24, pp. 17506–17509). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c08290
Wang, Z., & Praetorius, A. (2022). Integrating a Chemicals Perspective into the Global Plastic Treaty. Environmental Science and Technology Letters (Vol. 9, Issue 12, pp. 1000–1006). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00763
Wiesinger, H., Shalin, A., Huang, X., Siegrist, A., Plinke, N., Hellweg, S., & Wang, Z. (2024). LitChemPlast: An Open Database of Chemicals Measured in Plastics. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 11(11), 1147–1160. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00355
Zahn, D., Arp, H. P. H., Fenner, K., Georgi, A., Hafner, J., Hale, S. E., Hollender, J., Letzel, T., Schymanski, E. L., Sigmund, G., & Reemtsma, T. (2024). Should Transformation Products Change the Way We Manage Chemicals? Environmental Science and Technology (Vol. 58, Issue 18, pp. 7710–7718). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c00125
Zhang, S., Chen, J., Wang, Z., Chen, C., Chen, A., Jing, Q., & Liu, J. (2023). Dynamic Source Distribution and Emission Inventory of a Persistent, Mobile, and Toxic (PMT) Substance, Melamine, in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(39), 14694–14706. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.3c02945
Zou, H., Wang, T., Wang, Z.-L., & Wang, Z. (2023). Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals. Nature Sustainability, 6(11), 1394–1405. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01158-w