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Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Dual Impact of Nanotechnologies on Health and Environment Through Alternative Bridging Models

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores how alternative invertebrate and small‐vertebrate models advance the evaluation of nanomaterials across medicine and environmental science. By bridging cellular and organismal levels, these models enable integrated assessment of toxicity, biodistribution, and therapeutic performance.
Marie Celine Lefevre, Margherita Bernardeschi, Matteo Battaglini, Gianni Ciofani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technological Challenges to Commercial-Scale Application of Marine Renewables [PDF]

Oceanography, 2010
Marine renewable energy has many attractive qualities, including high energy densities for ocean wave and tidal power generation, and a high capacity factor for ocean thermal power generation. However, due to the corrosive and occasionally violent nature
Greg Beaudoin, Derek Robertson, Neil Davidson, Ronald Smith, Bill Staby, Laurie Meyer   +5 more
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Concerns in Marine Renewable Energy Projects [PDF]

, 2010
To accelerate the adoption of these emerging marine hydrokinetic technologies, navigational and environmental issues and concerns must be identified and addressed. As hydrokinetic projects move forward, various stakeholders will need to be engaged; one of the key issues that project proponents face as they engage stakeholders is that many conflicting ...
Sharon Kramer, Mirko Previsic, Peter Nelson, Sheri Woo   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Sculpting the Future of Bone: The Evolution of Absorbable Materials in Orthopedics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the current status of polymeric, ceramic, and metallic absorbable materials in orthopedic applications, and highlights several innovative strategies designed to enhance mechanical performance, control degradation, and promote bioactivity. We also discuss the progress and translational potential of absorbable materials in treating
Zhao Wang, Zehui Lv, Xuejie Cai, Yingjie Wang, Bo Peng, Haojing Xu, Hualuo Pang, Xingdong Yang, Jiawei Xu, Yixin Bian, Bin Feng, Peng Wen, Yufeng Zheng, Xisheng Weng   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The legal framework for offshore wind farms: A critical analysis of the consents process [PDF]

, 2010
The impact of the legal framework for the consents process on the rate of development of offshore wind farms in England, and the achievement of targets for renewable electricity generation have been reviewed.
Gibson, E, Howsam, Peter
core   +1 more source

Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Methanol on Copper‐Based Catalysts: Mechanistic Insights and Industrial Prospects

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review presents a focused and integrated perspective on copper‐based catalysts for the selective electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol. It elucidates active site dynamics, mechanistic pathways, and structure–activity relationships, while connecting fundamental insights with catalyst design, reactor engineering, and techno‐economic ...
Debabrata Bagchi, Carsten Walter, Venkata S. R. K. Tandava, Yasmin Lucero Cobos‐Becerra, Jack C. Q. Fletcher, Nico Fischer, Tobias Sontheimer, Prashanth W. Menezes   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multicatalytic Access to Renewable Poly(Silyl Ether)s with Tunable Properties

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
This work presents a one‐pot, multicatalytic approach that combines magnesium‐catalyzed esterification and borane‐mediated hydrosilylation for the synthesis of partially bio‐based poly(silyl ethers). This method allows for the tuning of thermal and mechanical properties, including exceptional extensibility (>3800%), and enables efficient chemical ...
Fan Yang, Fan Sun, Christophe M. Thomas
wiley   +2 more sources

Study on integrated development and utilization modes of China's offshore renewable energy from the perspective of new-quality productivity [PDF]

Ziyuan Kexue
[Objective] Offshore renewable energy plays a crucial role in addressing global climate change. However, the limitations of the current single utilization mode in marine energy development have become apparent.
LIU Shuguang, ZHANG Ping, ZHAO Xinyue
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Optimization and Energy Maximizing Control Systems for Wave Energy Converters

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
In recent years, we have been witnessing great interest and activity in the field of wave energy converters’ (WECs) development, striving for competitiveness and economic viability via increasing power conversion while decreasing costs and ensuring ...
Giuseppe Giorgi, Sergej Antonello Sirigu
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