Guy Ampleman

TL;DR: Despite more than two decades of intensive research to biodegrade TNT, no biomineralization-based technologies have been successful to date and research aimed at the discovery of new microorganisms and enzymes capable of mineralizing energetic chemicals and/or enhancing irreversible binding of their products to soil is presently receiving considerable attention.

TL;DR: The biodegradation of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-2,2,3-dinitroso-5-nitro- 1, 3, 5-triazine in liquid cultures with municipal anaerobic sludge showed that at least two degradation routes were involved in the disappearance of the cyclic nitramine.

TL;DR: Environmental investigations have been conducted at 23 military firing ranges in the United States and Canada, and energy compounds were determined and linked to the type of munition used and the major mechanisms of deposition.

TL;DR: The FT assay was more sensitive to the genotoxic effects of energetic compounds than was the V79 test, suggesting that the FT might be a better screening tool for the presence of these explosives.

TL;DR: The present paper describes the use of supercritical carbon dioxide, acetonitrile, and solid-phase microextraction for the extraction of explosives and their degradation products from various water, soil and plant tissue samples for subsequent analysis by either HPLC-UV, capillary electrophoresis (CE-UV) or GC-MS.