“Two Birds, One Stone”: A New Recipe for Chemical Decontamination?

Copyright: © 2014 Wang Z. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Editorial Since I was a schoolchild, I have frequently heard the phrase “to kill two birds with one stone” to describe successfully achieving two aims simultaneously. As an environmental researcher, I believe such a “Two Birds, One Stone” (TBOS) philosophy could be quite instructive to develop viable and cost-effective technologies to accomplish the simultaneous removal of couples of pollutants. To date, environmental scientists have concentrated their efforts on detoxification of a single pollutant using a variety of sophisticated technologies. Simultaneous conversion of pollutants by a facile treatment is being given more attention recently. Here we discuss the feasibility and real-world constrains of TBOS strategy in abiotic degradation of organic/ inorganic contaminants.