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Bismuth‐Based Photocatalysts for Water Remediation: Design Strategies, Mechanisms, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights representative design strategies for bismuth‐based semiconductor photocatalysts in solar‐driven water purification. Emphasis is placed on electronic structure regulation, oxygen‐vacancy engineering, and interfacial coupling to enable efficient full‐spectrum light utilization, improved charge separation, and selective oxidation in
Shan Liu, Yi Zhao, Liming Cai, Simin Long, Jing Kang, Jingkai Lin, Jimin Shen, Zhonglin Chen, Shaobin Wang, Huayang Zhang   +9 more
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Exploring the effects of e-waste on soil, water quality and human health

Discover Civil Engineering
One of the fastest-growing waste streams globally, e-waste is a severe environmental and public health threat. India generates about 1.45 million metric tons of e-waste annually, and the recycling rate is approximately 5%.
Laxmi Kant Bhardwaj, Prangya Rath, Harshita Jain, Moharana Choudhury   +3 more
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Electronic Waste-Derived Nanomaterials: Environmental Release, Toxicity, and Public Health Risks

Nanomaterials
The rapid growth of electronic waste (e-waste) has emerged as a significant global environmental challenge, driven by increased consumption of electronic devices and shortened product lifecycles.
Nargish Parvin, Keunhwan Park, Jae Hak Jung, Tapas K. Mandal   +3 more
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Recent Trends in E-waste Generation and Management, A Review

International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering and Management (IRJAEM)
There has been a significant increase in e-waste generation in India during the last five years, as it has increased from 1.01 million metric tonnes in 2019-20 to 1.75 million metric tonnes in 2023-24. Since 2019-20, e-waste has increased in our nation at an alarming rate of 72.54 percent.
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Reconstructing Quantum Dot Surfaces via Dual‐Functional Ligand Pairing Enables Efficient Shortwave Infrared Optoelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work presents a ligand‐pairing strategy that reconstructs lead sulfide quantum dot surfaces for efficient short‐wave infrared optoelectronics. A low‐reactivity thiourea precursor combined with hydrobromic acid enables monodisperse and fully passivated quantum dots.
Dongeon Kim, Minjung Yang, Yunjin Lee, Gaeun Cho, Min‐Jae Si, Jaewoo Jeong, Seoryeon Jeong, Sol‐Hee Kim, Taeho Han, Seungin Jee, Byeong‐Chan Kim, Woong Kim, Seungmin Lee, Jun Hong Noh, Han Seul Kim, Yujin Jung, Se‐Woong Baek   +16 more
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
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Tough and Skin‐Free Porous Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogels via Salt‐Induced Aqueous Phase Separation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Controlling counterion exchange rate during aqueous phase separation enables the formation of skin‐free, homogeneously porous polyelectrolyte complex hydrogels by suppressing kinetically trapped skin layers and macrovoids. The resulting hydrogel networks exhibit exceptional toughness (∼15 MJ·m−3) and enable 3D (bio)printing and post‐functionalization ...
Adrivit Mukherjee, Vishakha Vishakha, Julien Es Sayed, Hugo Brummer, Peter Dijkstra, Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli, Ranjita K. Bose, Marleen Kamperman   +7 more
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Make‐Use‐Remake: Toward Indefinite Low‐Temperature Material Loops

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We introduce a regenerable materials platform built from microparticles bound by a temperature‐responsive polymer shell, enabling strong, processable structures from diverse feedstocks. The material is shaped at low temperatures (80°C) using common manufacturing methods and reprocessed repeatedly in the presence of water, demonstrating stable ...
Nikola Křivánková, Wouter van der Wijngaart, Ulrica Edlund   +2 more
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E-waste characterization and disposal in Ghana: A case study of Kumasi Metropolis

Next Materials
E-waste generation in urban Ghana is rising, yet formal management systems remain limited. This study assessed residents’ awareness, attitudes, and disposal practices, characterized e-waste composition, and examined informal workers’ roles in the Kumasi ...
Lyndon N.A. Sackey, Ezekiel B. Kuffour, Oparebea A. Opare-Darko, Klinsman K. Duah, Daniel K.O. Asamoah, Pauline A. Afriyie   +5 more
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Reconfigurable Au Nanoparticle Monolayers on Regenerated Cellulose Hydrogels: Highly Sensitive SERS Detection of Polystyrene Micro/Nanoplastics With Interpretable Deep Learning

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A regenerated cellulose (RC) hydrogel‐based SERS substrate integrating a Marangoni‐transferred gold nanoparticle self‐assembled monolayer (Au‐SAM) is fabricated. Reswelling‐induced hotspot formation enhances polystyrene micro/nanoplastics (PS MNPs) detection in complex matrices, providing reproducible, high‐throughput SERS signals across diverse ...
Youngho Jeon, Yu‐Jin Jeon, Suji Lee, Jeseong Kim, Dae‐Hyun Jung, Jungmok You   +5 more
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