Meet the editors

Dr. Karthick Ramalingam is an electrochemist and photoelectrochemist. He completed his doctorate program at the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR), India, in 2018. He was a postdoctoral fellow (2018–2020) and research professor (2020–2022) at South China Normal University. He has published twenty-one articles in peer-reviewed journals and attended many international conferences. He received funding

from the Foreign Young Talent Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, PR China, in 2021–2022. His work is focused on solar–water–energy nexus technology. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland, working in the field of photoanodes development for the photoelectrochemical water splitting process.

Dr. Akif Zeb is a materials scientist and inorganic chemist. He has a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), as well as master's degrees in Chemistry and Materials Engineering. In addition to his extensive experience in academia and industry, Dr. Zeb has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his work at international conferences. He has won

several fellowships and awards, including the Anhui Government Scholarship, Guangdong Talent Fellow, Hunan Talent Fellow, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellowship. His work is focused on developing advanced materials for energy, environment, and catalysis. He is also a blogger and writes on science, society, and education.

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Improvement of Leucaena (*Leucaena leucocephala*) Benth. Seeds Emergence Using Hot Saline Water Treatment Durations *by Yunusa Muhammad Ishiaku, Usman Abdullahi, Haruna Ibrahim, Safiyanu Abdullahi Ahmed and Muhammad Rabiu Hassan*

Preface

*Desalination – Ecological Consequences* delivers a comprehensive and robust exploration

The book is organized into two sections. Section 1 on the economic impacts of desalination includes techno-economic analyses of reverse osmosis and other practices of desalinated water. Section 2 discusses desalination technologies, including advances in harvesting freshwater, as well as the biological impacts of desalination technology.

The book also includes a general discussion about desalination, technologies, materials processing agents, techno-economic analyses of reverse osmosis plants, biological property, household practices, freshwater management and impact in industrial

Laboratory of Molecular Research for Solar Energy Innovations,

**Karthick Ramalingam**

**Akif Zeb**

Guangzhou, China

Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland

South China Normal University,

of desalination, including theories, experiments, and calculations.

water treatment plants.
