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Upcycling of Disposable Face Masks into Water‐Resistant and Flame Retardant Foams

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Disposable mask waste is upcycled into lightweight polypropylene‐based foams with tunable porosity and composite architectures reinforced by ear‐loop fibers. The sustainable solvent‐based process enables upcycling rates of 91% and solvent recovery of >90%.
Jingjing Pan, Erlantz Lizundia, Hao Jia, Lennart Bergström   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Which impacts matter for pavement management decisions? Quantifying social sustainability based on a capability approach

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This study addresses the need to evaluate the social sustainability of pavement management decisions, particularly during the use and maintenance stages.
Jessica Boakye, Egemen Okte
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Social life cycle assessment of adaptive reuse

Buildings & Cities, 2023
Adaptive reuse of existing buildings and shared spaces has been highlighted as a key circular economy concept in the built environment, with the former also having been found to increase social sustainability through the preservation of cultural heritage.
Rebecka Lundgren
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) applied to the process industry: a review [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose : Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is a well-established analytical method to quantify environmental impacts, which has been mainly applied to products. However, recent literature would suggest that it has also the potential as an analysis
Jacquemin, Leslie, Pontalier, Pierre-Yves, Sablayrolles, Caroline   +2 more
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Metronidazole‐Loaded Cyclodextrin Nanogels for Antibacterial Therapy and Microbiota Regulation in Periodontitis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A methacrylamide β‐cyclodextrin‐based nanogel (MACD nGel) is developed to load the antimicrobial drug Metronidazole (MNZ) for topical delivery for the treatment of periodontitis. It is demonstrated that cyclodextrin nanogel (nGel) loaded with metronidazole provides an efficient drug delivery route but also has potential clinical applications and offers
Yanjing Ji, Ruichen Zhang, Dongyi Xu, Patrick C. A. van der Wel, Alessia Lasorsa, Guotai Li, Fangze Guo, Qihui Zhou, Patrick van Rijn   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability of the chemical manufacturing industry - Towards a new paradigm? [PDF]

, 2010
This paper describes the current situation of the chemicalmanufacturingindustry, with special reference to Europe and looks to the future sustainability demands on the sector, and the implications of these demands for chemical engineering education ...
Allen, Allenby, American Chemistry Society, Aragon-Correa, Armstrong, Batterham, Benoit, Bucciarelli, Byrne, Clift, Coley, Curran, Cussler, Evans, Favre, Florida, Garcia-Serna, George M. Hall, Graedel, Harris, Hill, Joe Howe, Jorgensen, Judge, Kemp, Kuhn, Labuschange, Matus, McDonough, McGhee, Mitchell, Satterfield, Snow, World Commission on Environment and Development   +33 more
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Assessing the life cycle performance in the metallurgical sector. A case study in Italy [PDF]

, 2023
This study compared two types of sheets: one made of steel and one made of aluminum, using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA).
Carlo Barricella, Giuliana Vinci, Marco Ruggeri   +2 more
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Recent Advances on Thermochromic Inks for Security Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Thermochromic security inks have garnered interest in recent years as security elements for authentication, information encryption, and anti‐counterfeiting. This review outlines different types of thermochromic materials, how they have been developed as functional inks, and how advancements in property enhancement, sustainability, and printing ...
Duarte B. Oliveira, Andreia Araújo, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Marta C. Corvo, Emanuel Carlos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A statistics-based aggregation method for life cycle sustainability assessment

Discover Sustainability
Currently, two main approaches are used in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), the comparative and the integrated approaches. Comparative approaches employ multiple indicators and visualizations to assess LCSA, whereas integrated approaches ...
Feri Afrinaldi, Pramadana Agsha
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The pursuit of methodological harmonization within the holistic sustainability assessment of CCU projects: A history and critical review

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Environmental sustainability assessments have been conducted around consumer goods since the 1960's, these adopted comparative approaches and followed no accepted methodology.
Alex J. K. Newman, Peter Styring
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