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Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics

Environmental Research Letters
India faces significant air quality challenges, with one of the highest air pollution levels of any country in the world. Here, we examine two decades (2001–2019) of both particulate matter (PM _2.5 ) concentration and aerosol optical depth (AOD) over ...
Prathmesh Namdeo, TC Chakraborty, Abhishek Chakraborty   +2 more
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Autonomous Solar Metallurgy for High‐Purity Gold Recovery from Electronic Waste

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by microbial strategies for metal uptake and biomineralization, defect‐rich copper sulfide (Cu31S16) functions as a solar metallurgical platform that unifies Au(III) capture, reduction, and self‐separation. The bioinspired design enables ultrafast gold recovery from electronic‐waste leachates and the spontaneous formation of millimeter‐scale ...
Chaopeng Liu, Jiajun Li, Jialin Ruan, Wei Zhang, Wei Sun, Hongmei Li, Lei Xie, Min Liu   +7 more
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Polydopamine‐Wool Textiles for Sustainable Interfacial Solar Vapor Generation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A natural wool textile engineered for high solar absorbance and a fast‐wicking structure serves as a highly efficient, single‐layer system for interfacial solar vapor generation (ISVG). This integrated evaporator seamlessly couples rapid water transport with continuous evaporation. Ultimately, this sustainable photothermal design offers a scalable, eco‐
Kyuin Park, Jintong Gao, Hansadi Jayamaha, Yipu Wang, Mia Bressler, Lenan Zhang, Larissa M. Shepherd   +6 more
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A review of methane emissions source types, characteristics, rates, and mitigation effectiveness across U.S. and Canadian cities

Environmental Research Letters
Cities are major aggregated sources of methane (CH _4 ) emissions and can therefore play a role in mitigating climate warming. However, diverse, spatially distributed sources make characterizing urban CH _4 emissions challenging.
Coleman Vollrath, Zhenyu Xing, Chris H Hugenholtz, Thomas E Barchyn, Jennifer Winter   +4 more
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Cross‐scale Material‐Structure Synergy for 2D Metamaterials: Toward Customizable Intelligent Electromagnetic Manipulation in Multiphysics Fields

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Recent advances in metasurface‐enabled low‐observable technologies are reviewed from the perspective of cross‐scale material–structure synergy. Electromagnetic, thermal, optical, and acoustic stealth are highlighted together with dynamic tuning, programmable coding, data‐driven inverse design, artificial intelligence, multispectral compatibility, and ...
Shuhao Wang, Xing Yang, Liping Liu, Yang Peng, Yangyang Wang, Hualiang Lv   +5 more
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Сорбционни свойства на урбанизирани, горски и Техногенни почви от Софийски район

Почвознание, агрохимия и екология, 2013
Are tested sorption properties of soils from urban, semi-urban and mountainous parts of the Sofia Valley. And have taken samples of Technogenic Soils of metallurgical output of metallurgic plant “Kremikovtzi”.
ВАНЯ ДОЙЧИНОВА, КИТКА ЙОРОВА   +1 more
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Optimized Land–Water Management Expands Afforestation Potential Under Land and Human Water‐Use Constraints

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Human water demand constrains China's feasible afforestation potential more strongly than is commonly recognized, and future climate change further intensifies this limitation. Integrating land‐use optimization with water‐saving measures substantially expands feasible afforestation area and associated carbon sinks, revealing a practical pathway to ...
Binbin Huang, Fei Lu, Yuebo Su, Xuming Wang, Hua Zheng, Zhiyun Ouyang   +5 more
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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
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The Potential of Self‐Maintainable Living Materials

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Self‐maintainable living materials are presented as the next generation of bioadaptive systems, integrating continuous sensing, decision‐making, response, self‐repair, and adaptation in a closed‐loop framework. This review highlights the design principles and emerging technologies that enable autonomous, long‐term functionality for future regenerative ...
Mohammadsadegh Nadimifar, Tatiane Eufrásio‐da‐Silva, Lidia Maeso, Gorka Orive, Alireza Dolatshahi‐Pirouz   +4 more
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Multi‐Functional Smart Skin for High‐Efficiency Energy‐Saving Buildings

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A scalable multifunctional smart skin (MSS) with broadband modulation, zero‐energy input controllable operation mode, and thermal insulation is designed by assembling thermal managing unit of high solar reflectance and low thermal conductivity and actuation unit of multi‐responsive shape‐memory effect.
Zongxu Na, Li Yu, Bo Lu, Jing Li, Xianyang Yue, Qian Wang   +5 more
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