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Designing Polymer Nanocomposites for X‐Ray Shielding: Mechanisms, Architectures, and Scalable Processing

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights advances in lightweight, lead‐free polymer nanocomposites for diagnostic X‐ray shielding. By linking filler chemistry, dispersion, architecture, and photon interaction mechanisms, it establishes structure–performance relationships guiding material design.
Aklilu G. Messele, Hossein Ipakchi, Tizazu H. Mekonnen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dual-loaded nano pesticide system based on industrial grade scaleable carrier materials with combinatory efficacy and improved safety

Journal of Nanobiotechnology
Repeated and widespread use of single chemical pesticides raises concerns about efficiency and safety, developing multi-component synergistic pesticides provides a new route for efficient control of diseases.
Ningjun Li, Jianxia Cui, Jianjiang Zhao, Changcheng An, Zheng Wei, Yue Shen, Changjiao Sun, Chong Wang, Shenshan Zhan, Xingye Li, Anqi Wang, Dan Luo, Yan Wang   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated Foliar Spraying Effectively Reduces Wheat Yield Losses Caused by Hot–Dry–Windy Events: Insights from High-Yield and Stable-Yield Winter Wheat Regions in China

Agronomy
Integrated foliar spraying has been proposed as an effective measure to mitigate the increasingly severe impacts of hot–dry–windy (HDW) events on winter wheat yield under ongoing climate change, and its physiological effectiveness has been ...
Oumeng Qiao, Buchun Liu, Enke Liu, Rui Han, Haoru Li, Huiqing Bai, Di Chen, Honglei Che, Yiming Zhang, Xinglin Liu, Long Chen, Xurong Mei   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Review [PDF]

Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2009
The population living in cities is continuously increasing worldwide. In developing countries, this phenomenon is exacerbated by poverty, leading to tremendous problems of employment, immigration from the rural areas, transportation, food supply and environment protection. Simultaneously with the growth of cities, a new type of agriculture has emerged;
De Bon, Hubert, Parrot, Laurent, Moustier, Paule   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova, Anna Chiara Bressi, Marina Galliani, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani, Eduardo Machado‐Charry, Hilda Gomez Bernal, Alessandra Francini, Luca Sebastiani, Francesco Greco   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A unimolecule nanopesticide delivery system applied in field scale for enhanced pest control

Nature Communications
Nanopesticides provide immense potential in reducing pesticide use and promoting sustainable agriculture for their enhanced pesticidal efficacy. Nano-enabled delivery systems can enhance pesticide penetration into both insects and leaves through their ...
Xingye Li, Xinyue Wang, Changjiao Sun, Anqi Wang, Changcheng An, Ningjun Li, Yue Shen, Jiachong Hu, Huihui Liu, Jing Xie, Dan Luo, Yan Wang   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crop Redistribution Increases Regional Production While Reducing Water Deficit, Fertilizer Use, and Production Losses: Evidence from a Multi-Objective Optimization at the County Level in Northeast China

Agronomy
Given the increasing crop yield losses, water scarcity, and fertilizer application in Northeast China, a systematic assessment is increasingly necessary to investigate the potential of crop redistribution to enhance grain production while alleviating ...
Yiming Zhang, Buchun Liu, Rui Han, Huiqing Bai, Enke Liu, Di Chen, Oumeng Qiao, Honglei Che, Xinglin Liu, Long Chen, Ningya Wu   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scientific Innovation for The Sustainable Development of African Agriculture [PDF]

Afrika Focus, 2019
The African continent has considerable potential to reap the benefits associated with modern agricultural biotechnology. Plant biotechnology and breeding represent an invaluable toolbox to face the challenges of African agriculture, such as food and nutrition security, environment protection, soil fertility, and crop adaptation to new climatic ...
Travella, Silvia, De Oliveira, Dulce, De Buck, Sylvie, Lambein, Fernand, Diasolua Ngudi, Delphin, De Bauw, Vanessa, Gheysen, Godelieve, Van Montagu, Marc, Heijde, Marc   +8 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Coating Artificial Spider Silk Fiber with Magnetic FeCo: An Effective Strategy for Creating a Flexible Magneto‐Responsive Material

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An original method is presented for producing artificial spider silk fibers with magnetic and magnetomechanical responsiveness, which consists in coating them with a nanometer‐thick layer of FeCo alloy by sputtering deposition. The challenge of combining organic materials and inorganic magnetic nanostructures is addressed, thus taking a step forward ...
Filippo Lanaro, Federico Spizzo, Gabriele Greco, Benjamin Schmuck, Anna Rising, Lucia Del Bianco   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Agricultural Policies in Barbados [PDF]

, 2019
The agricultural sector accounts for 3.8 percent of the GDP of Barbados and 2.9 percent of its jobs. The Government of Barbados considers agriculture to be one of the nation’s potential growth drivers and supports it through a combination of incentives ...
Inter-American Development Bank
core   +1 more source