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Ambient‐Dried MOF/Cellulose‐Based Aerogels for Atmospheric Water Harvesting and Sustainable Water Management in Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ambient‐dried composite aerogels integrating MOF‐303, TEMPO‐oxidized cellulose nanofibers (TOCNF), and hygroscopic salts enable high‐performance atmospheric water harvesting (AWH), achieving competitive uptake at both low and high humidity. Enhanced with a solar‐evaporation layer, these scalable aerogels support self‐sustained plant growth in a ...
Ahmadreza Ghaffarkhah, Mahyar Panahi‐Sarmad, Sara Rostami, Orysia Zaremba, Lukas Alexander Bauman, Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Subhajit Dutta, Pu Yang, Tianyu Guo, Feng Jiang, Stefan Wuttke, Mohammad Arjmand, Orlando J. Rojas   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the digital economy on enabling sustainable agriculture: Evidence from One Belt One Road countries

Cogent Food & Agriculture
The digital economy and environmental sustainability are continuously becoming important components of every economic activity, including agriculture.
Mihasina Harinaivo Andrianarimanana, Zhaohui Qin, Mirindra Finaritra Rabezanahary Tanteliniana, Zhihao Su   +3 more
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What is sustainable agriculture? [PDF]

The Biochemist, 2018
We all want to eat food that is produced sustainably. But it's not at all clear what that means in practice. Fundamentally, agriculture can be regarded as sustainable if it can continue to meet human needs whilst avoiding irreversible harm to the planet.
openaire   +2 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

CONTESTATIONS AND CONFLICTING LIFEWORLDS IN CONSERVATION FARMING PRACTICES IN ZIMBABWE: THE EXPERIENCES OF PEASANT SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN CHIVI SOUTH DISTRICT IN MASVINGO [PDF]

Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013
This study builds on an earlier research done by the researchers in Chivi south district on the impact of conservation farming on food security. The major focus of this study however is on the conflicts and contradictions embedded in conservation farming
L. Nhodo, S. Gukurume, O. Mafongoya
doaj  

Local Food, Food Democracy, and Food Hubs

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
In western North Carolina, where we and others have been working to build local food systems for the last 15 years, food hubs are part of an expanding network of local food distribution infrastructure intended to help the region's smaller local farms ...
Allison Perrett, Charlie Jackson
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Ternary Synergy in Layered Double Hydroxides for Efficient and Stable Nitrate Reduction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ternary CuZnFe LDH enables efficient electrocatalytic nitrate‐to‐ammonia conversion via controlled in situ reconstruction: zinc leaching creates porous active sites, copper reduced to metallic copper, while iron oxide keeps stable. Synergistic Cu‐Fe redox coupling drives tandem catalysis (nitrate→nitrite→NH3), achieving 95% Faraday efficiency and ...
Jiaqian Kang, Yuxuan Xiao, Lun Li, Lulu Qiao, Chunfa Liu, Chengcheng Zhong, Pengzhan Sun, Di Liu, Weng Fai Ip, Hui Pan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Robust Dual‐mode Self‐Monitoring Battery Thermal Management System via Bilayer Structural Design

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An adaptive dual‐mode material capable of both evaporative cooling and photothermal preheating is developed. It achieves a cooling efficiency of 53.9%, surpassing existing evaporative cooling counterparts, and a self‐monitoring capability, making it ideal for electric vehicles, portable electronics, and grid‐scale energy storage.
Shanchi Wang, Zhihao Huang, Zhiguang Xu, Fang Guo, Tao Zhang, Min Hong, Pingan Song, Yan Zhao   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recycling of Thermoplastics with Machine Learning: A Review

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review shows how machine learning is revolutionizing mechanical, chemical, and biological pathways, overcoming traditional challenges and optimizing sorting, efficiency, and quality. It provides a detailed analysis of effective feature engineering strategies and establishes a forward‐looking research agenda for a truly circular thermoplastic ...
Rodrigo Q. Albuquerque, Florian Stephan, Annalena Pongratz, Christian Brütting, Katharina Krause, Holger Ruckdäschel   +5 more
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Understanding Functional Materials at School

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review outlines strategies for effectively teaching nanoscience in schools, focusing on challenges such as scale comprehension and curriculum integration. Emphasizing inquiry‐based learning and chemistry core concepts, it showcases hands‐on activities, digital tools, and interdisciplinary approaches.
Johannes Claußnitzer, Jürgen Paul
wiley   +1 more source