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Sustainable Cellulose Ionogels With Promising Physical Structure, Properties, and Applications

Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.
This study presents a comprehensive overview of cellulose functional gels, focusing on their molecular network design and physical properties. The extensive potential applications of cellulose gels in flexible electronics, biomedicine, and smart engineering are explored in depth. This work provides valuable insights and guidance for future research and
Wenjuan Wang, Haibo Jiang, Geyuan Jiang, Minxin Wang, Jun Guan, Jianhong Zhou, Dawei Zhao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design Strategies for Electrolytes in Lithium Metal Batteries: Insights into Liquid and Solid‐State Systems

Batteries &Supercaps, EarlyView.
This review systematically analyzes electrolyte design strategies for lithium metal batteries, covering both liquid and solid‐state systems in parallel. Liquid strategies such as high‐concentration, fluorinated, and additive‐engineered electrolytes are discussed, as well as polymer‐, ceramic‐, and composite‐based solid electrolytes, highlighting their ...
Un Hwan Lee, Seonhye Park, Joonhee Kang
wiley   +1 more source

Child abuse and pubertal timing: what is the role of child sex and identity of the perpetrator?

BMC Psychiatry
Background This study investigated the association between child abuse [child neglect (CN), emotional (CEA) and physical abuse (CPA)] and early puberty with special regard to sex-specific effects concerning child and parental perpetrator.
V. Steger, S. Stadelmann, L. White, M. Döhnert   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The West: Between Open Society and Clashing Civilizations [PDF]

, 2016
The article aims to show that by its very nature Western civilization is well suited for making a significant contribution to build the open society based on intercivilizational dialogue.
Tarasiewicz, Pawel
core  

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

Covalent organic framework membrane with hourglass-shaped nanochannels for ultrafast desalination

Nature Communications
Covalent organic framework (COF) holds great potential as next-generation high-performance desalination membrane material owing to their uniform nanochannels (homo-nanochannels) and abundant functional groups, and the hierarchical structures of ...
Xiaocui Wei, Yanan Liu, Fu Zhao, Tingyuan Wang, Zongmei Li, Chunyang Fan, Yuhan Yang, Yuhan Wang, Zhongyi Jiang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

The Doomsday Argument in Many Worlds [PDF]

, 2012
You and I are highly unlikely to exist in a civilization that has produced only 70 billion people, yet we find ourselves in just such a civilization.
Gerig, Austin
core   +1 more source

Long-term trajectories of human civilization

Foresight, 2019
PurposeThis paper aims to formalize long-term trajectories of human civilization as a scientific and ethical field of study. The long-term trajectory of human civilization can be defined as the path that human civilization takes during the entire future ...
S. Baum, S. Armstrong, Timoteus Ekenstedt, Olle Häggström, Robin Hanson, Karin Kuhlemann, M. Maas, James D. Miller, M. Salmela, A. Sandberg, Kaj Sotala, Phil Torres, Alexey Turchin, Roman V Yampolskiy   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of weight status, sex, age, sedentary behavior, pubertal status and socioeconomic status on the physical activity of children and adolescents

BMC Public Health
Background Physical inactivity, especially in the context of the worldwide childhood obesity epidemic, is still a growing public health concern. Moreover, both physical inactivity and overweight often become ingrained and subsequently persist into ...
Alma Weimann, Mandy Vogel, Tanja Poulain, Wieland Kiess   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source