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Quantifying Resource and Energy Losses from Waste Fires in Poland: A Barrier to Circular Economy Transition

Energies
Waste fires are significant sources of atmospheric pollutants that contribute to environmental degradation and public health risks. They also lead to considerable losses in recyclable materials and energy.
Katarzyna Grzesik, Magdalena Zabochnicka, Robert Oleniacz, Ryszard Kozakiewicz   +3 more
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Self‐Sintering Ionogel Binder for Flexible, Recyclable, and Healable Printed Giant Magnetoresistive Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electronic waste has emerged as a major environmental challenge, driven by the massive consumption and a limited lifetime of modern electronic devices, stimulating the development of sustainable electronics. Here, an all‐biomaterial gelatin‐choline‐citric acid ([Ch][CA]) ionogel is developed as an active binder to realize self‐sintered ...
Lin Guo, Xiaotao Wang, Guannan Mu, Proloy Taran Das, Igor Veremchuk, Conrad Schubert, Aaron D. Cross, Yevhen Zabila, Xuan Peng, Larysa Baraban, Denys Makarov   +10 more
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Fully Additive Vertical Organic Electrochemical Transistors on Renewable and Compostable Substrates Enable Ultrasensitive Bioelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Fully additive vertical organic electrochemical transistors (vOECTs) with channel‐length of 226 nm on a 50 µm compostable substrate achieve >106 current modulation and ∼36 mS transconductance. Ion‐selective integration enables 1.1 mA dec−1 sensitivity and 36 µm detection limit, highlighting a scalable platform for sustainable electronics and ...
Giulia Frusconi, Samuele Lavelli, Zsolt M. Kovács‐Vajna, Fabrizio Torricelli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design for Recycling as One of the Environmental Requirements in Product Design

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018
Research on The design of the product with the possibility of recycling in mind during the design stage, while maintaining its shape and structure and reuse it for the same functions and tasks or the use of materials in the manufacture of any product ...
Said Ahmed, Osama Mohamed, Merna Hussein
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent advances of sustainable and recyclable polymer materials from renewable resources

Resources Chemicals and Materials
With the increasing consumption of non renewable resources such as oil, the traditional polymer manufacturing industry that relies on fossil resources is facing unprecedented challenges.
Ting Luo, Yun Hu, Meng Zhang, Puyou Jia, Yonghong Zhou   +4 more
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Mechanistic Control of C─H Bond Activation and C─C Coupling in Light‐Driven Methane Conversion to C2+ Products over Multifunctional Photocatalysts

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Methane photocatalytic activation under mild conditions remains a formidable challenge in the synthesis of solar fuels. In this review, we emphasize the growing importance of multifunctional materials and hybrid systems within a unified mechanistic framework that integrates selective C─H bond activation, formation and control of intermediates, C─C ...
Di Hu, Yuheng Jiang, Vitaly V. Ordomsky, Bastian Mei, Zhiyong Tang, Andrei Y. Khodakov   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kindertijd in het antropoceen. Recycling als denkpatroon in kinderboeken

Neerlandica Wratislaviensia
This article analyses the representation in children’s literature of phenomena such as consumerism, recycling, and the use and reuse of raw materials and resources within the context of ecocritical and ethical discourse.
Irena Barbara Kalla, Aleksandra Markiewicz   +1 more
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Waste material recycling: the horrors of informal waste material picking in Zimbabwe

Journal of Responsible Production and Consumption
Purpose The transition from a linear to a circular economy has created unintended employment opportunities for marginalised communities in various developing countries. Informal waste picking, a prevalent occupation among recent migrants and individuals with limited education, highlights the complexities of ...
Paul Mukucha, Divaries Cosmas Jaravaza
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Chemically Fueled Systems Chemistry Across Length Scales

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Chemically fueled reaction cycles regulate processes through single and multiple catalytic sites on the molecular and assembly scale. This gives rise to unique kinetically controlled properties/functions like spatio‐temporal catalysis, oscillations, optical properties, and perform work.
Brigitte A. K. Kriebisch, Job Boekhoven
wiley   +1 more source