Boosting visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution through Pt site anchored 2D/2D heterostructure catalyst: Cd-TCPP(Pt)@CdS
March 2025
Solar-powered water splitting is an up-and-coming method for hydrogen production. Still, it faces several challenges, including improving light responsiveness, maximizing utilization of photocatalyst...
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Deep eutectic solvent-induced controllable synthesis of bifunctional Ni–Fe–P catalysts for electrochemical water splitting
March 2025
Developing electrocatalysts with excellent activity, high stability, and low cost is vital for large-scale hydrogen production through electrochemical water splitting. Herein, a bifunctional Ni–Fe–P...
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Flexible photosensors based on photothermal conversion
March 2025
The perception of light is crucial for humans to explore the external world. However, challenges of current planar photosensors include inherent limitations in depth of field and field of view. Flexible...
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Deep eutectic solvents for fractionation and valorization of lignocellulose
March 2025
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are recognized as an emerging green solvent that can be applied to lignocellulosic biomass fractionation and valorization. A deep understanding of the physicochemical properties...
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Switching from deep eutectic solvents to deep eutectic systems for natural product extraction
March 2025
This article presents a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in natural product extraction, focusing on the evolution from deep eutectic solvents (DESs) to deep eutectic systems (DESys) for...
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Progress in the design and performance evaluation of catalysts for low-temperature direct ammonia fuel cells
March 2025
Ammonia, a hydrogen-rich and carbon-free energy carrier, possesses advantages such as high energy density and convenient liquefaction storage and serves as an optimal medium for hydrogen storage. Low-temperature...
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Single solvent synthesis of lithium-selective hydrogen manganese oxide (HMO)-based mixed matrix membranes
Available online 29 March 2025
The rising lithium-ion battery market drives lithium demand and requires efficient and selective lithium recovery methods from aqueous sources. Membrane technologies can address environmental and inherent...
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Facile and direct approach to synthesize nitride based catalysts for ammonia synthesis
Available online 27 March 2025
Nitride based catalysts have recently emerged as efficient non-precious metal catalysts for ammonia synthesis, overcoming traditional scale-relationship limitations. However, their synthesis is often...
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Vaporization enthalpy prediction of ionic liquids based on back-propagation artificial neural network
Available online 15 March 2025
Vaporization enthalpy (ΔvapH) is a fundamental thermodynamic property of ionic liquids (ILs). Accurate prediction of vaporization enthalpy relies on appropriate mathematical models grounded in precise...
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Facile fabrication of Cu single atoms by utilizing nano-constrained environment
Available online 11 March 2025
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) exhibit exceptional catalytic activity across various processes due to their optimal utilization of metal sites at the atomic level. However, how to produce the SACs simply...
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Dynamic exchange strategy for enzyme immobilization in Zr-based metal-organic frameworks for green synthesis of β-lactam antibiotics
Available online 7 March 2025
Penicillin G acylase (PGA), a crucial biocatalyst in β-lactam antibiotic synthesis, has been significantly limited in its industrial application due to inherent stability issues. To address this critical...
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Sublimation crystallization: From mechanism to applications
Available online 21 February 2025
Sublimation crystallization, a solvent-free purification technique, has emerged as a sustainable strategy in materials science for producing high-purity substances and advanced functional materials....
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Shell engineering on mesoporous metal organic frameworks: Beyond microporous restriction in core-shell architecture
Available online 15 February 2025
Core-shell metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as a promising platform for efficient separation and sensing, benefiting from the sieving effect of the shell and the large storage capacity of...
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Numerical simulation and optimization of dimethyl carbonate melt crystallization based on computational fluid dynamics
Available online 23 January 2025
Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is widely used in organic synthesis and lithium battery industries. Melt crystallization, as a green manufacturing method, is highly important for the production of DMC with...
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Critical evaluation of feature importance assessment in FFNN-based models for predicting Kamlet-Taft parameters
Available online 10 January 2025
Mohan et al. developed a feed-forward neural network (FFNN) model to predict Kamlet-Taft parameters using quantum chemically derived features, achieving notable predictive accuracy. However, this study...
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Engineering nano-trap distribution in metal-organic frameworks enables boost of SF6/N2 separation
Available online 10 January 2025
Separating/capturing SF6, having the strongest global warming potential, from exhaust gas with low concentration (1%–10%) in the power industry is significant for both greenhouse gas emission control...
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Hydrogenolysis of lignin into phenols over a high dispersed Pd supported on WO2.72
Available online 8 January 2025
The depolymerization of lignin into aromatic monomers with high yield is the bottleneck of high valued utilization of lignin. In this work, a highly dispersed Pd supported on WO2.72 (Pd/WO2.72) catalyst...
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Elucidating solvent effects on the stability of phenoxyl radicals in monohydric alcohols via electron paramagnetic resonance
December 2024
Research on solvent effects is an important and long-standing topic, but there still is some room, especially for the special solvent effect of fluoroalcohols. In this work, we investigated the stability...
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Pool bio-oxidation and fitting analysis of low-grade arsenic-containing refractory gold ore
December 2024
To overcome the limitations of geography, climate, and ore characteristics on the ore beneficiation process, bio-oxidation studies on low-grade arsenic-bearing refractory gold ore by pool leaching were...
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Eco-friendly synthesis and environmental impact assessment of hierarchical Beta zeolite from kaolinite and recycled mother liquor
December 2024
The development of sustainable techniques to produce high-performance zeolite is essential to achieve green production in industry. Herein, we report an eco-friendly route to synthesizing hierarchical...
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Multiperiod optimization of cooling water system with flexible topology network
December 2024
Cooling water systems (CWSs) are extensively utilized in various industries to eliminate the excess heat and converse energy. Studies on CWSs mainly concentrated on finding the optimal cooler network...
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Advancements in adsorption and photodegradation technologies for Rhodamine B dye wastewater treatment: fundamentals, applications, and future directions
December 2024
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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Propylene epoxidation coupled with furfural oxidation over Pt (II)TPP porphyrin with molecular oxygen
December 2024
The development of green route for preparing propylene oxide (PO) with molecular oxygen is of significance both in academic and industrial. In this work, propylene epoxidation coupled with furfural...
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