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Soil structural degradation and nutrient limitations across land use categories and climatic zones in Southern Africa [PDF]

, 2019
Although soil degradation is a major threat to food security and carbon sequestration, our knowledge of the spatial extent of the problem and its drivers is very limited in Southern Africa.
Kihara, Job, Mponela, Powell, Ndengu, Gift, Sila, Andrew M., Sileshi, Gudeta W., Tamene, Lulseged, Tondoh, Jérôme E.   +6 more
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Water‐Stable Paper‐Based Laser‐Induced Graphene With Asymmetric Water Adhesion and Wettability

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Paper‐based electronics are attractive for sustainable and disposable devices, but often fail in wet environments. By introducing Parafilm into cellulose paper combined with laser conversion, two graphene surfaces with different water interactions are created.
Lingyin Meng, Danfeng Cao, Ario Jafari, Mats Eriksson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Degradation of Cellulose Under Anaerobic Conditions

BioResources, 2022
Cellulose is a primary structural component of plants and is one of the most abundant polymers on the Earth. Degradation of this recalcitrant component of plant biomass is an important process in the global carbon cycle and can potentially provide ...
Eleanor G. Schut
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Nanozymes at the Bio‐Nano Interface: From Synthesis, Defect Engineering, Catalytic Behavior in Biological Microenvironments, and Biosafety Implications

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Nanozymes (NZs) have emerged as versatile artificial enzymes with tunable catalytic properties driven by atomic coordination, defect engineering, and surface chemistry. This review presents a bio–nano interface framework linking synthesis strategies, structural design, and catalytic behavior within complex biological microenvironments.
Karen Guadalupe Quintero‐Garrido, Aída Jimena Velarde‐Salcedo, Alejandro López‐Amador, Noé Arjona, Citlali Uitz Toalá, Carmen Gonzalez, Beatriz Liliana España‐Sánchez   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Desertification [PDF]

, 2019
IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3: Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas ...
Evans, J., Garcia-Oliva, F., Hussein, I. A. G., Iqbal, M. H., Kimutai, J., Knowles, T., Meza, F., Mirzabaev, A., Nedjroaoui, D., Tena, F., Türkeş, M., Vázquez, R. J., Weltz, M., Wu, J.   +13 more
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Contamination [PDF]

, 2011
Soil contamination occurs when substances are added to soil, resulting in increases in concentrations above background or reference levels. Pollution may follow from contamination when contaminants are present in amounts that are detrimental to soil ...
Bacon, J., Cundill, A., Dale, P., Fordyce, F.M., Fowler, D., Hedmark, A., Hern, A., Skiba, U.   +7 more
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Cap‐oPMN: Oral Inflammatory Load Quantification Using Capillary Microfluidics and Automated Image Processing

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantifying oral polymorphonuclear neutrophils (oPMNs) is a clinically validated approach for assessing periodontal inflammation. However, current methods, such as manual hemocytometry and flow cytometry, are time‐consuming (>3 h), require invasive sampling, and depend on staining and complex instrumentation, making them unsuitable for point ...
Mohsen Hassani, Azam Zare, Fatemeh Soheili, S. M. Mahdi H. Daneshvar, Mahdi Amrollahi Biouki, Yasaman Tahernezhad, Chunxiang Sun, Michael Glogauer, Ebrahim Ghafar‐Zadeh, Amir Sanati‐Nezhad   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of Calamagrostis epigejos expansion on the species composition and soil properties of mountain mesic meadows

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2016
Due to social and economic changes which have occurred in the last decades, many meadows located in mountain regions have ceased to be used. Abandonment of meadows leads to the degradation of their species composition.
Daniel Pruchniewicz, Ludwik Żołnierz
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Transcriptional Regulation of Plant Biomass Degradation and Carbohydrate Utilization Genes in the Extreme Thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor bescii. [PDF]

mSystems, 2021
Rodionov DA, Rodionova IA, Rodionov VA, Arzamasov AA, Zhang K, Rubinstein GM, Tanwee TNN, Bing RG, Crosby JR, Nookaew I, Basen M, Brown SD, Wilson CM, Klingeman DM, Poole FL, Zhang Y, Kelly RM, Adams MWW.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pollutants Biodegradation by Fungi [PDF]

, 2009
Revisión sobre los mecanismos de detoxificación de contaminantes por hongosOne of the major problems facing the industrialized world today is the contamination of soils, ground water, sediments, surfacewater and air with hazardous and toxic chemicals ...
Aleu Casatejada, Josefina, González Collado, Isidro, Pinedo Rivilla, Cristina   +2 more
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