Microalgae cultivation in photobioreactors: Sustainable solutions for a greener future
Available online 21 October 2023
Microalgae cultivation in photobioreactors has emerged as a promising and sustainable approach to address various environmental and energy challenges, offering a multitude of benefits across diverse...
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Thermochemical co-conversion of biomass-plastic waste to biochar: a review
March 2024
Biomass and plastics are two of the most common municipal solid wastes globally that have continuously placed a burden on the environment. It is therefore important that they are properly recycled....
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The stability of MOFs in aqueous solutions—research progress and prospects
June 2024
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are favored in the fields of adsorption, separation, catalysis, electrochemistry, and magnetism due to their advantages of large specific surface area, high porosity,...
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Deep eutectic solvents eutectogels: progress and challenges
December 2021
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have received widespread attention for their advantages of good electrical conductivity, stability, environmental friendliness, and easy preparation with a wide range of...
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Advancements in adsorption and photodegradation technologies for Rhodamine B dye wastewater treatment: fundamentals, applications, and future directions
Available online 30 December 2023
Organic dye pollutants present in wastewater pose a significant global challenge. Among pollutants, the synthetic dye Rhodamine B (RB) stands out due to its non-biodegradable nature and associated neurotoxic,...
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Recent advances in carbon dioxide capture and utilization with amines and ionic liquids
September 2020
Global warming and climate change due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) have aroused significant concerns at the global scale due to rapid economic growth in industries and other fields. Therefore,...
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CO2 capture and in-situ conversion: recent progresses and perspectives
September 2022
Global warming caused by excess carbon dioxide (CO2) emission has been a focus of the world. The development of neutral carbon technologies becomes a strategic choice for the sustainable human society....
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Recent advances in the biosynthesis of coumarin and its derivatives
June 2024
Coumarin and its derivatives, presenting in many organisms (plants, fungi, and bacteria), are critical metabolites composed of fused benzene and α-pyrone rings. With unique biological and chemical properties,...
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CO2 capture and utilization with solid waste
September 2022
Nowadays, the massive consumption of fossil fuels and the resulting excessive emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) have broken the original carbon balance of nature, resulting in global warming and the...
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Recent advances in electrochemical carboxylation reactions using carbon dioxide
June 2022
From the viewpoint of abundance, economy, non-toxicity, and renewability, CO2 is the ideal C1 synthon in organic synthetic chemistry. Utilizing CO2 for chemical conversion to synthesize highly value-added...
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Review in life cycle assessment of biomass conversion through pyrolysis-issues and recommendations
December 2022
Biomass, widespread and carbon-neutral energy, can provide electric energy and replace fossil fuel-derived production. Pyrolysis is the main way of converting biomass to different bioenergy products...
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Rapid chemical recycling of waste polyester plastics catalyzed by recyclable catalyst
June 2024
Waste plastics are serious environmental threats due to their low degradability and low recycling rate. Rapid and efficient waste plastics recycling technologies are urgently demanded for a sustainable...
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Revisiting greenness of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents
June 2021
Green solvents are one of the hot topics of green chemistry. Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are deemed as green solvents to a certain extent, and they have been applied in many...
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Recent advances in the microfluidic generation of shape-controllable hydrogel microparticles and their applications
March 2024
Hydrogel microparticles, generally accepted as significant green materials, have been widely used in chemical, biological, and biomedical fields owing to their excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability,...
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Polybenzimidazole (PBI) and benzimidazole-linked polymer (BILP) membranes
March 2021
Polybenzimidazoles (PBIs) and benzimidazole-linked polymers (BILPs) have exceptional thermal and chemical stability, and hence, their membranes were developed and used under harsh conditions. In this...
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FTIR investigation of the interfacial properties and mechanisms of CO2 sorption in porous ionic liquids
December 2021
Porous liquids, which are liquids with permanent porosity, have received significant attention as a new class of materials with the potential for far-reaching impacts in a variety of applications including...
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Application and progress of techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment in biomanufacturing of fuels and chemicals
June 2023
To reduce the dependency on petroleum-based products and emission of greenhouse gas, renewable biofuels and chemicals play an important role to meet the unmatched energy demands of the rapidly growing...
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Engineering Escherichia coli for high-yield production of ectoine
June 2023
Ectoine is a natural macromolecule protector and synthesized by some extremophiles. It provides protections against radiation-mediated oxidative damages and is widely used as a bioactive ingredient...
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Understanding and optimizing the gasification of biomass waste with machine learning
March 2023
Gasification is a sustainable approach for biomass waste treatment with simultaneous combustible H2-syngas production. However, this thermochemical process was quite complicated with multi-phase products...
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Dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles for enzyme immobilization
June 2024
Dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles (DMSNs) are a new class of solid porous materials used for enzyme immobilization support due to their intrinsic characteristics, including their unique open...
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Electrocatalytic NAD(P)H regeneration for biosynthesis
March 2024
The highly efficient chemoselectivity, stereoselectivity, and regioselectivity render enzyme catalysis an ideal pathway for the synthesis of various chemicals in broad applications. While the cofactor...
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Recent advances in the coupling of CO2 and epoxides into cyclic carbonates under halogen-free condition
December 2020
The chemical transformation of CO2 and epoxides into cyclic carbonates has been receiving much attention and is one of the successful examples for CO2 utilization as carbon resource. Many catalysts...
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Recent advances in hybrid water electrolysis for energy-saving hydrogen production
March 2023
Electricity-driven water splitting to convert water into hydrogen (H2) has been widely regarded as an efficient approach for H2 production. Nevertheless, the energy conversion efficiency of it is greatly...
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Green production of sugar by membrane technology: How far is it from industrialization?
March 2021
Application of membrane filtration in sugar production is attractive because it can reduce the usage of chemicals, produce high-quality clarified juice, and obtain various high value-added products....
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A comparative study of the pore characteristics and phenol adsorption performance of activated carbons prepared from oil-palm shell wastes by steam and combined steam-chemical activation
March 2024
Oil-palm shell wastes were successfully converted into useful activated carbons in a systematic and novel approach by optimizing the pyrolysis conditions and subsequent steam activation conditions to...
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