The third MetOp weather satellite is being put to the test.
Environment
Frozen: Soil Remediation Below Zero Degrees
Soil remediation after an environmental disaster is literally a matter of rescuing an entire ecosystem from the ground up.
Celebrate Pantone Color of the Year: Read some ‘Greenery’-Inspired Science
‘Greenery’-inspired science from Advanced Functional Materials and Advanced Science.
A Burning Question: Anthropogenic Methane!
What are we going to do with the rapidly increasing concentrations of CH4 and associated combustion product CO2 building up in our atmosphere?
The Effect of Doping on the Photocatalytic Activity of Graphene Quantum Dots
A new strategy to produce heteroatoms-doped GQDs as photocatalysts with control over heteroatom types, constitution and content.
Quantifying the Fate of Metals and Metalloids During Water Storage in Aquifers
A probabilistic approach is applied to quantify metal(loid) fate in urban stormwater recycling via the aquifer.
Slippery Wood
Huizhang Guo, Ingo Burgert and colleagues from ETH Zurich and Empa in Switzerland have developed both superhydrophobic and omniphobic wooden surfaces.
Global Graphene Challenge Competition
Bachelor student Nadia Ayad is winner of the Graphene Challenge. Her idea: using graphene for a filtration device and system for desalinization.
Now open for submissions: Advanced Sustainable Systems!
Advanced Sustainable Systems is a new international journal for interdisciplinary research on sustainability in all scientific disciplines.
Environmentally friendly nanogenerators for versatile energy harvesting and self-powered sensors
Recently, Prof. Jianhua Hao’s group from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University introduced a hydrogel-based triboelectric nanogenerator (Hydrogel-TENG).
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