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The Ecophysiological Role of Trees in Dryland Agroecosystems: Implications for Natural Resource Conservation and Sustainable Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Agroforestry involves maintaining trees alongside crops and is widely recognised to provide multiple benefits, including improving food security, production efficiency, and soil quality and mitigating climate change.
K. V. R. Priyadarshini, Herbert H. T. Prins, Steven de Bie   +2 more
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Rational Tuning of Hygroscopic Oscillation of Stacked Nanoflake Assemblies for Continuous Ambient Energy Harvesting

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Stacked nanoflake assembly (SNA) membranes can oscillate autonomously, offering opportunities for soft actuation and energy harvesting. This work uncovers the physical mechanism behind the sustained oscillation of SNA membranes in gradient humidity and identifies three governing dimensionless parameters, enabling rational design for optimizing SNA ...
Zijing Zhang, Jimin Fu, Gesa Zhang, Zhihua Liang, Boxun Zhang, Haimin Yao   +5 more
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Annual flower strips support pollinators and potentially enhance red clover seed yield

Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Ecological intensification provides opportunity to increase agricultural productivity while minimizing negative environmental impacts, by supporting ecosystem services such as crop pollination and biological pest control.
Maj Rundlöf, Ola Lundin, Riccardo Bommarco   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Rapic project: toward a new generation of inexpensive heat exchanger-reactors for process intensification [PDF]

, 2009
Process intensification (PI) in chemical production is a major concern of chemical manufacturers. This alternative technology involves transposing syntheses into continuous plug flow reactors with process intensification, leading to a multifunctional ...
Lomel, Sebastien, Cabassud, Michel, Picard, Florian, Peerhossaini, Hassan, Lemenand, Thierry, Della valle, Dominique, Tochon, Patrice, Couturier, Raphael, Colin, Alice, Gourdon, Christophe   +9 more
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Organic farming expansion drives natural enemy abundance but not diversity in vineyard‐dominated landscapes

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Organic farming is seen as a prototype of ecological intensification potentially able to conciliate crop productivity and biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes.
Lucile Muneret, Arthur Auriol, Olivier Bonnard, Sylvie Richart‐Cervera, Denis Thiéry, Adrien Rusch   +5 more
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Adsorption‐Engineered Hydrocarbon Ionomers for Durable Proton‐Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Hydrocarbon ionomers suffer from oxidation‐driven interfacial degradation in PEM fuel cell cathodes, leading to catalyst instability. Here, adsorption‐engineered poly(fluorene) ionomers decouple interfacial anchoring from oxidative degradation, enabling strong catalyst–ionomer interactions while resisting electrochemical oxidation.
Heemin Park, Kate Chen, Su Min Ahn, Hengquan Guo, Cy Fujimoto, Jong‐Ho Choi, Lynda Amichi, Danah Kim, Seung Geol Lee, Xiaojing Wang, Jacob S. Spendelow, Sun Young Kang, Panagiotis Bexis, Eun Joo S. Park, Yu Seung Kim   +14 more
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Restoring habitat quality for Skylarks in winter cereal fields by manipulating the crop architecture

Conservation Science and Practice
Losses of suitable foraging and nesting habitats are key drivers for ongoing declines of farmland birds. For Eurasian Skylarks (Alauda arvensis), this is reflected by the lack of sparse and short vegetation structure (i.e., crop architecture).
Sina Blösch, Markus Jenny, Judith Zellweger‐Fischer, Eva Knop   +3 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Agroecology in Sustainable Intensification

, 2015
‘Sustainable intensification’ is now often used to describe the future direction for agriculture and food production as a way to address the challenges of increasing global population, food security, climate change and resource conservation.
Lampkin, N.H., Vieweger, A., Gerrard, C., Smith, J., Creissen, H., Smith, L.G., Leake, A.R., Lloyd, S., Padel, S., Wolfe, M.S., Pearce, B.D., Girling, R.   +11 more
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