Researchers at Aarhus University have shown that intense ultraviolet light alone can break apart per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...

Researchers at Kyushu University and partner institutions have created a solid material that converts ordinary visible ...

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are tiny carbon-based nanomaterials that have attracted increasing attention as environmentally ...

Water contamination is a serious environmental and health hazard. Contaminants found in industrial and municipal wastewaters, such as dyes, medications, pesticides, detergents, and heavy metal ions, ...

In recent years, the use of self-electrophoretic micro/nanomotors in biomedicine has grown, prompting a focus on their stability in high-ionic-strength environments. Here, we propose a simple amino ...

Postgraduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Caxias do Sul, 95070560 Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Postgraduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering, ...

Recent increases in human activity at the level of home sectors 1, agricultural sectors 2 and municipal sectors 3 resulting increase in the organic contaminants in wastewater treatment facilities, ...

In this work, ZnO nanosheets with a tunable thickness were produced by a microwave-assisted hydrothermal-based method. The product was well characterized by various tools such as XRD, SEM, EDX ...

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City. Generally, surface modification of the semiconductor with noble metal nanoparticles expands the absorption of the ...

Human skin exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) results in a dramatic increase in the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The sudden increase in ROS shifts the natural balance toward ...

Solar-powered chemical production from CO 2 promises to alleviate petrochemical consumption. Hybrid systems of an inorganic semiconductor light harvester and a microbial catalyst offer a viable way ...

Department of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, University of Gabes, Gabes, Tunisia. In ...