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Upcycling of Disposable Face Masks into Water‐Resistant and Flame Retardant Foams
Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 25, 26 March 2026.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 +3 more
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Toward a Business‐Oriented Concept of Natural Capital and Its Measurement in Organizations
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 2482-2501, February 2026.ABSTRACT The growing importance of sustainability in corporate governance, driven by emerging regulations such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the forthcoming ISO 14054, has renewed interest in the concept of natural capital.
Vera Amicarelli +5 more
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Humanitarian Contexts of Technical Education in Russia
Высшее образование в России, 2021 The article deals with the problem of formation of social and humanitarian competen[1]cies in Russian engineering education. The author shows how different views on the relationship between man and machine, as well as between society and the technosphere,
A. L. Andreev
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Improving Hygienic Characteristics of Coated Electrodes for Welding High-Alloy Steels [PDF]
, 2017 The article presents the results of experimental studies showing that the use of an inverter power supply instead of a diode rectifier provides:: fine-droplet electrode metal transfer which reduces generation time by 46% and transfer time by 28 ...
Chinakhov, Dmitriy Anatol'evich +3 more
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ChemBioEng Reviews, Volume 13, Issue 1, February 2026.Microorganisms generate versatile biosurfactants with a wide range of uses. Although cost issues still exist, industrial interest is growing because to the advantages of sustainability, which are enhanced by genetic engineering; life cycle evaluation is crucial for scalable, environmentally responsible production.
Lavanya M., Rishabh Agarwala
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Социокультурный анализ исторической эволюции техносферы [PDF]
, 2016 The article is devoted to problems of social and cultural analysis of the historical evolution of technosphere. Socio-cultural analysis allows us to examine the development of the technosphere in conjunction with the processes of social stratification ...
Терехов, В. С.
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Obtaining Red Phosphate Coatings on Steel at Room Temperature
Engineering Proceedings, 2023 The article discusses the aspects of obtaining red-colored phosphate coatings on the surface of steel at low temperatures. The solution for color phosphating is based on a modified composition based on the chemical «Majef» with sodium nitrite as an ...
Viktoriya S. Konovalova +1 more
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Viewing the technosphere in an interplanetary light [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I argue that discussion about the ‘technosphere’ as an emergent new Earth system needs to be situated within wider reflection about how technospheres might arise on other worlds.
Szerszynski, Bronislaw
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Recent Advances in Life Cycle Assessment and Other Sustainability Metrics
cScience, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 2025.ABSTRACT This article is a review of advances in sustainability metric (SM), focusing on life cycle assessment (LCA) and material flow analysis (MFA), the most commonly used among all SMs. The presentations at the past 10 Society and Materials (SAM) conferences were used as a database.
Jean‐Pierre Birat, Gaël Fick
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Technology as a socio-historical phenomenon
Історія науки і техніки, 2021 The article reveals the authors' vision of the essence of the technology as a sociohistorical phenomenon. It is based on the idea that technology is not only a set of technical devices but a segment of the general system – a society – located between a ...
Леонид Гриффен +1 more
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