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Polypropylene microplastics exacerbate microbial phosphorus limitation and disrupt organ-specific nutrient homeostasis in maize-soil systems

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
This study examined how pristine polypropylene microplastics (PP-MPs) affect carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry across the soil-maize continuum.
Ke Zhang, Jiabao Yang, Jiawen Huang, Luyao Pan, Yongle Chen, Fuyong Liu, Nan Liu, Xiaojing Zhang, Yongpeng Ma   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Light pollution

, 2018
We need artificial light in our daily lives, but we can have too much of it. Light pollution might be defined as excess artificial light, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Gelder, J.
core  

Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Cyclodextrin‐Functionalized Light‐Driven Cu2O Micromotors for Simultaneous Capture and Degradation of Bisphenol A

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fuel‐free Cu2O‐based micromotors functionalized with β‐cyclodextrin actively remove bisphenol A from water under visible light. The cyclodextrin shell captures BPA and enhances micromotor motility, leading to faster degradation and higher overall removal than nonfunctionalized Cu2O and Cu2O@Au.
Luisa Natalia Cordoba Urresti, Rebeca Ferrer Campos, Yufen Chen, Katherine Villa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

O/C Ratio‐Driven Fluorescence Enhancement in Cellulose‐Derived Carbon Quantum Dots: Mechanistic Insights into Reaction Pathways

Advanced Science
By regulating cellulose molecular weight through enzymatic hydrolysis to obtain different carbon precursors, three types of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are synthesized via hydrothermal methods: cellulose enzyme‐hydrolyzed solids‐based carbon quantum dots (
Yarong Shi, Siyu Zhao, Xiheng Kang, Xinrui Chen, Xue Ou, Meng Nan Chong, Xueping Song, Zhanying Zhang   +7 more
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A highly efficient, organic solvent-free biorefinery strategy for high-purity Eucommia ulmoides gum extraction and its etherified lignin-modified composites

Industrial Crops and Products
An organic solvent-free biorefinery process was developed for the efficient extraction of high-purity Eucommia ulmoides gum (EUG) from seed shells by integrating alkaline pretreatment, disk milling, and air flotation purification.
Wenqiang Qi, Qinglei Xu, Gaofeng Cheng, Daquan Li, Shaochao Sun, Hui Zhao, Mingqiang Zhu, Yongming Fan, Huiqiang Chen, Douyong Min, Lianhua Fu, Changzhou Chen   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Machine Learning for Green Solvents: Assessment, Selection and Substitution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Environmental regulations have intensified demand for green solvents, but discovery is limited by Solvent Selection Guides (SSGs) that quantify solvent sustainability. Training a machine learning model on GlaxoSmithKline SSG, a database of sustainability metrics for 10,189 solvents, GreenSolventDB is developed. Integrated with Hansen solubility metrics,
Rohan Datta, Janhavi Nistane, Abhishek Sose, Harikrishna Sahu, Rampi Ramprasad   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Gas Sensors: From Sensing Mechanisms to Biomedical Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Laser‐induced graphene (LIG) provides a scalable, laser‐direct‐written route to porous graphene architecture with tunable chemistry and defect density. Through heterojunction engineering, catalytic functionalization, and intrinsic self‐heating, LIG achieves highly sensitive and selective detection of NOX, NH3, H2, and humidity, supporting next ...
Md Abu Sayeed Biswas, Ankan Dutta, Shuvendu Das, Abu Musa Abdullah, Wanqing Zhang, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Huanyu Cheng   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bifidobacterium Pseudolongum‐Derived Inosine Mitigates Polystyrene Nanoplastics‐Induced Hepatic Injury by Inhibiting the Polarization of M1 Macrophages

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Probiotic B.p colonization elevated gut‐derived inosine level in the liver, while elevated inosine activated A2AR and subsequently blocked NPs‐induced polarization of M1 macrophages by repressing the miR155/SOCS1/NF‐κB pathway. This reduced the release of inflammatory cytokines and thereby, mitigated NPs‐induced hepatic injury.
Kaikai Zhang, Yuchuan Chen, Jiayuan Wan, Jianzheng Yang, Lijian Chen, Qingyuan Li, Anding Zhou, Nian Zhou, Jiuyang Ding, Qi Wang, Jian Sun   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source