Mangalgiri, KiranmayiBond, Allison L.Thompson, JessicaResearch Experience for Undergraduates2023-08-082023-08-082023-08-02Bond, A.L., Thompson, J., Mangalgiri, K. (2023). Catalytic treatment of pharmaceutical contaminants for wastewater reclamation and reuse.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14446/338844Water quality is one of the most pressing issues for Oklahomans. Hence, wastewater is being reused to increase water availability. However, wastewater treatment plants do not remove all contaminants in wastewater which makes it unsuitable to reuse without further treatment. For example, antibiotics can go up to 85% undigested through the human body and persist in wastewater effluent. Ethylene cross bridged tetraazomamacrocycle catalysts are a potential treatment option to eliminate these contaminants to enable safe and efficient water reuse. The overall goal of this project was to analyze the extent that antibiotics can degrade with the help of catalysts.Findings from this work allow for safe reuse of wastewater that can provide Oklahomans with water for drinking as well as irrigation. In addition, these findings also address growing concerns of antibiotic resistance, a major public health threat.application/pdfIn the Oklahoma State University Library's institutional repository this paper is made available through the open access principles and the terms of agreement/consent between the author(s) and the publisher. The permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of the article falls under fair use for educational, scholarship, and research purposes. Contact Digital Resources and Discovery Services at lib-dls@okstate.edu or 405-744-9161 for further information.Posterwastewater treatmentpharmaceutical contaminantswater reclamationantibiotics