Metal-covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic CO2 reduction: Mini review
August 2026
Advancements in global industrialization have led to over-reliance on fossil fuels, which has triggered a drastic surge in CO2 emissions. This renders it imperative to develop renewable energy and efficient...
Recent progress in dual-atoms catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction
August 2026
The rapid development of industrial civilization has increased the global demand for energy, which is mainly met through the widespread use of fossil fuels, bringing a prosperous lifestyle but also...
CeO2 nanoislands on LaMnO3 perovskite accelerate lattice oxygen activation for efficient toluene removal
August 2026
The development of highly stable noble metal-free catalysts is essential for the practical implementation of VOCs catalytic techniques, with recent trends focusing on perovskite materials despite concerns...
Diffusion-regulated confined interfacial polymerization for precise pore engineering in tight ultrafiltration membranes
August 2026
The selective separation of small organic molecules from high-salinity wastewater remains challenging due to the trade-off between organic rejection and salt permeability in conventional membrane processes....
Sn-Doped CuOx with engineered electronic structure for efficient CO2 electroreduction to CO
August 2026
Cu-based catalysts have attracted considerable attention for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 owing to their potential to produce value-added products. However, achieving high selectivity toward...
Comparative study on sustainable degradation of sulfamethoxazole via peroxymonosulfate activation by different transition metal-doped biochars
August 2026
Metal-loaded biochars, due to their excellent peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation capabilities, have been widely applied in water remediation. However, the effects of different transition metal loadings...
Recent advances in semiconductor-based solar evaporator: Mechanisms, designs, and water-energy applications
August 2026
Efficient application of solar energy offers a promising strategy to address water scarcity and the global energy crisis. Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) can realize localized photothermal...
Revealing the critical factors dominating permanganate activation with surface- and structure-engineered hierarchical porous graphene
August 2026
Permanganate (PM) oxidation is a promising advanced oxidation process for water purification. Metal-free carbocatalysts can effectively activate PM for water purification, while the active sites and...
Research progress on anti-fouling mechanisms and performance optimization of external field-assisted membrane separation technology
Available online 14 August 2026
Benefiting from low energy consumption, high separation performance, membrane technologies have been widely adopted in wastewater treatment and reuse. However, membrane fouling and the resulting limited...
Electrically-enhanced filtration of nanoplastics and natural organic matter via conductive CNT-based membrane: Synchronous removal and fouling mitigation
Available online 16 July 2026
The co-existence of nanoplastics (NPs) and natural organic matter (NOM) in aquatic environments forms complex composite pollutants that severely accelerate membrane fouling and impair separation performance....
Experimental and interpretable machine learning analysis of sulfamethoxazole adsorption on mineral-modified activated carbon
Available online 9 July 2026
Sulfamethoxazole (SMX), a widely detected sulfonamide antibiotic in aquatic and terrestrial environments, poses long-term ecological risks due to its persistence and potential to induce antibiotic resistance....
Mechanistic insights into fouling mitigation by electroactive cathodic dynamic membrane
Available online 8 July 2026
Membrane fouling is a critical challenge in the long-term operation of anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs), and cathodic electroactive dynamic membranes have been proposed as an effective mitigation...
Sustainable functionalization of crayfish shell waste: Progress and perspectives
Available online 2 July 2026
Crayfish shell waste, generated in large quantities from the processing of Procambarus clarkii, represents an underutilized biogenic resource rich in chitin, chitosan precursors, calcium carbonate,...
Unveiling the role of sulfuric acid post-treatment in enhancing the permeance-selectivity-antiscaling trade-off of commercial polyamide membranes
Available online 22 June 2026
Polyamide (PA) thin-film composite nanofiltration (NF) membranes are widely used in water treatment, yet the strongly coupled relationships among pore structure, crosslinking density, surface charge,...
Single-use plastic waste as a functional additive in PVA films for improved removal of acenaphthene from water: Batch and optimisation using response surface methodology
Available online 15 June 2026
This study focuses on synthesizing a polymer film from waste plastic bags blended with Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and its efficiency in adsorbing acenaphthene from water solutions. Single-use plastic was...
Synergistic interfacial polymerization of ethanolamine and hyperbranched polyamine (HBPA) for fabricating high-performance polyesteramide (PEA) nanofiltration membrane
Available online 12 June 2026
The development of high-performance nanofiltration (NF) membranes is fundamentally limited by the permeability-selectivity trade-off. This study presents a facile and practical strategy to enhance the...
Graphene quantum dot-enabled dual-modal fluorescence/ colorimetry detection of formaldehyde
April 2026
While methods for gaseous formaldehyde (HCHO) detection are well-established, rapid and sensitive sensing in aqueous matrices remains a challenge. To address this gap, we developed a dual-mode sensing...
Tailor-made adsorbent materials on machine learning instructions for efficient purification of heavy metal contaminants in wastewater
April 2026
Heavy metal pollution is becoming an increasingly serious environmental and public health concern. As a result, developing efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable wastewater treatment technologies...
Exciton engineering in organic photocatalysis: mechanisms and applications
April 2026
Organic photocatalysts, with tunable structures, abundant resources, and adjustable bandgaps, serve as versatile platforms for solar energy conversion, synthesis, and environmental remediation. To date,...
Hydrogel-based nanocomposites for enhanced environmental remediation
April 2026
Nanocomposites based on hydrogels have garnered significant attention as a class of advanced materials well-suited for environmental remediation applications due to their distinctive architecture, composition,...
Study on the performance and mechanism of in-situ introducing secondary ligands to construct efficient CoNi-MOFs photocatalysts for CO2 reduction
April 2026
This work demonstrates a rational ligand-tuning strategy to enhance the photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance of bimetallic CoNi-MOFs. By introducing secondary organic ligands (e.g., terephthalic...
Solid-state electrolytes for CO2 electroreduction: From mechanisms to applications
April 2026
Conventional liquid CO2 electroreduction faces carbonate loss, flooding, and product dilution. Separation energy and stability costs remain high. Solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) offer an alternative....
Oxygen vacancy engineered ultra-wide bandgap mesoporous Al2O3 towards optimized H2O2 photosynthesis
April 2026
Photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production offers a sustainable alternative to the energy-intensive anthraquinone process. While metal oxides are promising catalysts, Al2O3 is typically limited...
Formation of silver orthophosphate photocatalytic layer on bulk calcium phosphate via surface precipitation
Available online 24 April 2026
A mild immersion-based route was developed to immobilize silver orthophosphate (Ag3PO4) as a continuous surface layer on calcium phosphate hardened bodies derived from α-tricalcium phosphate (α-TCP,...
Tuning polyamide layer structure via interfacial modulation: Insights from molecular dynamics to membrane design
Available online 13 April 2026
The interfacial polymerization behavior of polyamide (PA) separation layers is largely constrained by the physicochemical characteristics of the aqueous-organic interface. While previous studies have...