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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

Plastic pollution of soils – assessing EU policies for a poorly regulated field

Environmental Sciences Europe
Plastic pollution is widespread in both aquatic and terrestrial environments and is also widely abundant in soils. Plastics in soils are problematic due to their persistence and near-irremovability from the environment.
Jessica Stubenrauch, Katharine Heyl
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A Perspective on the Applications of Triphasic Gas Storage in Electrochemical Systems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Gas storage in microporous materials positioned locally at an electrode or electrocatalyst surface enhances electrochemical processes. Abstract Microporous materials store gases under dry conditions (e.g., hydrogen or oxygen via physisorption), but in some cases microporous materials also show triphasic (e.g., in a solid|gas|liquid system) gas storage ...
Zhongkai Li, Corin T. Scott, Taku Suzuki‐Osborne, John P. Lowe, Dominic Taylor, Mariolino Carta, Neil B. McKeown, Andrew D. Burrows, Lucia H. Mascaro, Frank Marken   +9 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

Decarbonizing energy: Plastic waste trade for zero waste 2040

Advances in Applied Energy
Plastics are essential to human activities but also drive climate burdens and global pollution from energy-intensive material production and waste treatment.
Xiang Zhao, Fengqi You
doaj   +1 more source

The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The physiological activity of visceral organs, such as the heart, the lungs, and the gut, is surprisingly linked to many sophisticated mental operations, such as remembering the past, being aware of ourselves, making choices, and forging social bonds.
Alessandro Monti, Salvatore Maria Aglioti   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mismanaged plastic waste as a predictor for river plastic pollution

Science of The Total Environment
Hydrometeorological processes are often assumed to be key drivers of plastic transport. However, the predominant focus on these factors overlooks the impact of anthropogenic factors, such as mismanaged plastic waste (MPW) on plastic transport variability.
Pinto, Rose Boahemaa, van Emmerik, Tim H.M., Duah, Kwame, van der Ploeg, Martine, Uijlenhoet, Remko   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Engineering Microbial Particles for Next‐Generation Biomedical Platforms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Microbe‐derived particles (MDPs), which include extracellular vesicles, outer membrane vesicles, inclusion bodies, polysaccharide particles, and virus‐like particles, represent a rapidly expanding category of bioinspired nanomaterials. With their natural origin, intrinsic biocompatibility, and highly programmable functionality, MDPs serve as a ...
Yuting Li, Yunjie Lu, Ziyan Huang, Jianjiang Chen, Yanbin Liu, Lei Qin, Chao Wang, Yumin Wu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Open Burning of Plastic Wastes is an Urgent Global Health Issue

Annals of Global Health
The open burning of mixed wastes that contain plastics is a widespread practice across the globe, resulting in the release of gas emissions and ash residues that have toxic effects on human and environmental health.
Gauri Pathak, Mark Nichter, Anita Hardon, Eileen Moyer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source