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Retreaded tires are an overlooked source of microplastics with distinct additive leaching and ecotoxicity

Communications Earth & Environment
Retreaded tires constitute a substantial segment of the commercial tire market and are an important source of tire wear particles (TWPs), yet the environmental risks of this major microplastic category remain uninvestigated.
Hao Liu, Tianchi Cao, Yan Lin, Guoliang Shi, Kaiwei Huang, Zhi Cao, Tong Zhang, Thilo Hofmann, Wei Chen   +8 more
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Machine learning‐driven advances in carbon‐based quantum dots: Opportunities accompanied by challenges

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
Machine learning provides a unifying framework to connect structure, fluorescence properties, and applications of carbon‐based quantum dots. This review highlights how data‐driven strategies enable fluorescence regulation, reveal underlying mechanisms, and accelerate the rational design of functional carbon dots.
Liangfeng Chen, Siwei Yang, Xiangqian Cui, Ziheng Liu, Hang Wang, Yongqiang Li, Peng He, Miao Wang, Guqiao Ding   +8 more
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Metal-free synthesis of benzimidazoles via pyridinium-catalyzed silane activation under atmospheric CO₂

Results in Chemistry
The conversion of CO₂ into valuable nitrogen-containing heterocycles represents an attractive and sustainable strategy in green chemistry. In this work, an efficient metal-free catalytic system was developed for synthesizing benzimidazoles under mild ...
Simin Kafash, Amir Abdolmaleki
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Invisible near‐infrared thermo‐stimulated luminescence from carbon dots enabled by stepwise energy transfer for concealed information encryption

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
A fully metal‐free near‐infrared (NIR) thermo‐stimulated luminescent system is developed by embedding carbon dots into a carbon nitride matrix and integrating multistage Förster resonance energy transfer. The system exhibits long‐term charge retention, rewritable optical memory, and highly concealed NIR readout, promising for secure data encryption and
Kai Jiang, Jun Jiang, Zihan Cheng, Hao Cui, Jingmin Zhang, Hengwei Lin   +5 more
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Responsive nitric oxide‐releasing antibacterial materials for biofilm‐associated infections: Mechanisms, design strategies, and applications

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the recent progress in responsive NO‐releasing materials and their applications in biofilm‐associated infectious diseases. The design principles and response mechanisms are given to provide inspiration toward the future development of multi‐responsive NO‐releasing materials.
Wenyue Sun, Meiqi Li, Di Nan, Jiaqi Zhao, Yu Chen, Yao Gao, Shichen Zhang, Kirsten L. Van Landuyt, Manlin Qi   +8 more
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Peptide‐based responsive molecular fluorescent probes for precision oncology

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
Peptide‐based responsive fluorescent probes have emerged as adaptive functional materials for precision tumor theranostics, combining tumor‐selective recognition, programmable stimulus responsiveness, and modular tunability. They enable high‐contrast imaging, intraoperative guidance, real‐time monitoring, and multimodal applications, while next ...
Xing Wang, Wen Liu, Jiahao Zhang, Wanqi Wang, Zhicheng Jin, Yuqi Tang, Quan Li   +6 more
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Efficient water‐soluble blue/red‐emissive carbon dots matching plant absorption spectra: Synthesis, tunable control, and their applications in promoting plant growth

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
Guided by the spectral demand of plant photosystems, this review summarizes the synthesis, emission regulation, dual‐emission design, and gram‐scale production of CDs for agricultural applications. Spectrally matched blue‐ and red‐emissive CDs enhance plant light utilization by converting underutilized light into photosynthetically active radiation and
Yijing Chen, Ziyue Mu, Haoran Zhang, Xuejie Zhang, Wei Li, Bingfu Lei   +5 more
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Carbonized polymer dots with aqueous‐stable room‐temperature phosphorescence: Mechanism, matrix engineering, and application

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
This review focuses on inorganic and organic matrices that enable aqueous‐stable room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) in carbonized polymer dots (CPDs). It explains the underlying RTP mechanisms, highlights how matrix engineering provides spatial confinement and bonding interactions to stabilize triplet excitons in water, and demonstrates key ...
Yuhan Hou, Chengyu Zheng, Songyuan Tao, Yuzhuo Wang, Bai Yang   +4 more
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Carbon dots in electrochemiluminescence: Mechanisms, interface engineering, and bioanalytical applications

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
Carbon dots are emerging as versatile electrochemiluminescent nanomaterials whose structure, surface states, and interfacial design jointly determine ECL pathways and performance. This review highlights how mechanistic understanding and materials engineering enable programmable CD‐ECL systems for bioanalysis, imaging, and future intelligent analytical ...
Yuhan Zhao, Zixuan Chen, Jun‐Jie Zhu
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Alterations of human lipid profile and mitochondrial DNA copy number induced by PPD exposure

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
As a class of industrial antioxidants, N, N’-substituted p-phenylenediamines (PPDs) find extensive application in rubber product stabilization, leading to significant human exposure and various toxic implications.
Chenchen Wang, Yi Xiong, Hongliang Zheng, Jianli Qu, Weili Mao   +4 more
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