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Sustainable Poly(Lactic Acid)/Graphene Oxide Bioelectronic Platform for Neurotransmitters Sensing and Tunable Stimulation of Astrocytes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces sustainable PLA/graphene oxide bioelectronic interfaces featuring electrodes with tunable conductivity and strong electrocatalytic performance. These platforms were used to implement a new method for tuning astrocyte Ca2+ signaling and for the efficient detection of key biomarkers.
Alessandra Scidà, Giulia Cazzador, Roberta Fabbri, Matteo Calosi, Alessandro Silvestri, Andrea Candini, Fabiola Liscio, Franco Corticelli, Aikaterini Konstantoulaki, Andrea D'Iorio, Marco Caprini, Vincenzo Palermo, Monica Bertoldo, Valentina Benfenati, Chiara Zanardi, Emanuele Treossi   +15 more
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Polyphenol‐Inspired Materials for Agricultural Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review outlines the use of polyphenol‐inspired materials for sustainable agriculture, highlighting their molecular design, interfacial assembly, structure–property relationships, and prospects toward precision agriculture, climate resilience, ecosystem protection, and circular bioeconomy strategies.
Haofu Liu, Omid Mazaheri, Zhixing Lin, Tianzheng Wang, Jingqu Chen, Yuang Gu, Xia Liang, Deli Chen, Frank Caruso   +8 more
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In Vitro Assessment of the Nutritional Value of Seed Crop Plants Damaged by Hailstorms and Strong Winds as Alternative Forages for Ruminants

Agriculture
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, has caused significant physical damage to crops worldwide. This study explores the potential of repurposing crop plants that exhibit structural breakage due to hailstorms ...
Sonia Tassone, Salvatore Barbera, Rabeb Issaoui, Hatsumi Kaihara, Sara Glorio Patrucco, Khalil Abid   +5 more
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All‐Amyloid Functional Coacervates

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces an all‐amyloid interfacial complex coacervate technique that employs charge‐mediated or functionalization‐assisted complexation of oppositely charged food protein‐derived amyloid nanofibrils to engineer functional soft constructs across multiple length scales.
Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Mohammad Peydayesh, Laura Baraldi, Mohammad Arjmand, Raffaele Mezzenga   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From weather reliance to digital empowerment: the role of the digital economy in enhancing agricultural industry resilience

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionTraditional agriculture is highly dependent on climatic conditions, making its output particularly sensitive to climate variability. The uncertainties associated with climate change pose ongoing challenges to agricultural industry resilience (
Jin Wang, Aizhi Li, Xiaobao Mao
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Synthesis and Characterization of Biocompatible Manganese‐Doped Titania Nanoparticles and Its Application to Single‐Cell Nanoencapsulation

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Biocompatible Mn‐doped TiO2 nanozymes integrate TiO2 stability with Mn redox activity, enabling dopamine‐mediated cell‐surface polymerization and single‐cell nanoencapsulation while maintaining high colloidal stability, low ROS generation, and excellent cellular compatibility.
Filip Kozłowski, Nayoung Kim, Hyunwoo Choi, Geoffrey Daniel, Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva, Insung S. Choi, Vadim G. Kessler   +6 more
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Strong Agricultural Resilience to 2022 Southern China Drought

Earth's Future
Meteorological drought, especially when influenced by human activities, significantly impacts agriculture. We assessed the Yangtze River Basin (YRB)’s crop ecosystem resilience during the 2022 southern China drought.
Yijing Cao, Yongqiang Zhang, Jing Tian, Xiaojie Li, Zixuan Tang, Xuening Yang, Xuanze Zhang, Ning Ma   +7 more
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Interannual and Intraseasonal Effects of Drought and Heatwaves on Expanding Soybean Production Regions in Brazil

Atmosphere
Climate extremes are major constraints on agricultural productivity, especially in tropical regions experiencing rapid expansion and intensification of soybean agriculture.
Greici Joana Parisoto, Francisco Muñoz-Arriola, Felipe Gustavo Pilau   +2 more
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Advanced MXene‐Based Multifunctional Nanoarchitecture Materials Engineered for Adsorptive Cleanup of Hazardous Radioactive Pollutants: A Comprehensive Critical Review

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This work critically reviews MXenes as highly effective multifunctional nanomaterials for the adsorption of radio‐contaminants, demonstrating a remarkable adsorption capacity of up to 1376.75 mg/g and cyclic stability of 2–8 cycles, with complexation, electrostatic interactions, and the numerical strength of MXene active sites playing a key operational
Stephen Sunday Emmanuel, Shepherd M. Tichapondwa   +1 more
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Does Crop–Livestock Integration Enhance Economic Resilience in Organic Farming? Evidence from Polish FADN During the 2020–2022 Multi-Crisis Period

Agriculture
Agriculture, as a production sector, is exposed to external shocks. The instability of agricultural markets, changes in prices of inputs, dropping crop prices, or changes in climate patterns put their economic resilience to the test.
Andrzej Madej, Adam Kleofas Berbeć
doaj   +1 more source