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Agriculture

A Novel Iron-Modified Corn Straw Biochar Enhanced Cd Immobilization in Soil and Reduced Cd Uptake in Lettuce
- Cadmium (Cd) contamination poses significant risks to agricultural productivity and ecosystems, necessitating effective remediation strategies. This study evaluated the efficacy of iron...
Machine Biography as Digital Human Twin: artistic explorations of predictive identity in the age of behavioural data
23/02/2026 - Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum seriously threatens tomato production. At present, tomato bacterial wilt control mainly relies on chemical agents, but long-term use can lead...
Performance of Kinetic Models on Prediction of Biogas From Food Waste With/Without Pretreatment
14/02/2026 - Study evaluates kinetic models for simulating biogas yield from anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste with/without garden waste under various pretreatments. Pretreatment enhances hydrolysis and...
Heterophase fcc‐hcp‐fcc High‐Entropy Alloy Nanomaterials with Tailored Electron Divergence for Selective Ammonia Electrosynthesis
22/01/2026 - Heterophase fcc‐hcp‐fcc RuFeMMnMo (M═CoNi, Co, and Ni) high‐entropy alloy nanomaterials have been successfully synthesized using a one‐pot approach. The highly random distribution of...
Investigating the Optimization of Enzyme-assisted Mechanical Extraction On Garden Cress Seed Oil Quality Parameters and Nutritional Properties
- Fats and oils are pillars of human nutrition, with oilseeds being the primary source of oil and constituting more than 75% of the world’s lipid consumption. The oil extraction methods...
Practical sparse data-driven constitutive modeling via transfer learning in physics-encoded neural networks
05/01/2026 - Lead (Pb) contamination in phosphate mining wasteland soils severely inhibits plant growth and compromises ecological safety, thereby necessitating long-term remediation strategies to restore...
Asymmetric flow in multi-mode continuous casting and rolling mold under electromagnetic braking
25/12/2025 - Coke oven gas (COG) and natural gas (NG), both high-calorific by-products derived from the steel industry, have gained prominence as alternative fuels in the sintering process, thereby supporting...
Bacterial community dynamics in early gametophyte developmental stages of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus) C. Agardh
18/11/2025 - The extensive use of chemical fertilizers causes a detrimental effect on crop yields and soil crust. A potential alternative to chemical fertilizers is the use of plant beneficial microbes to...
Regulation of Interfacial Ion Transport via Honeycomb‐Architected Covalent Organic Frameworks for Lithium Metal Batteries
17/10/2025 - This work fabricates honeycomb‐like covalent organic frameworks vertically aligned on graphene oxide (HCCOF‐GO) via one‐pot colloidal assembly as an ASEI. The abundant binding sites...
Robust Sustainable Interfacial Evaporators from Lignin for Wastewater Treatment
25/08/2025 - This work developes a series of sustainable metal‐lignin composites via a one‐pot reaction between lignin and heavy metal ion‐containing wastewater. The resulting metal‐lignin composites...
Stretchable, Adhesive, Anti‐Freezing Hydrogel Electrolytes with Dual‐Functional Water Regulation Enabled by Amide Group–Salt–Water Interactions for All‐Climate Zinc‐Ion Batteries
11/08/2025 - A stretchable, adhesive, anti‐freezing hydrogel electrolyte with dual‐functional water regulation is constructed via a one‐pot strategy, integrating acetate anions and the hydrophilic amide...
Characterization and Application of a Thermostable HAD Phosphatase From Thermophilibacter mediterraneus for Glucosamine Production
28/07/2025 - Graphical Abstract and Lay SummaryGlucosamine is traditionally produced through chitin hydrolysis or fermentation. Here, we characterized a thermostable phosphatase (TmHAD) with high specificity for...
Towards improving community detection in multilayer networks using semi-supervised matrix factorization
17/07/2025 - Spring phenology is one of the most sensitive ecological indicators of forest responses to climate warming. Understanding the precise climatic drivers of bud break in keystone species is crucial...
Regulating Electron Transfer in Vanadium‐Based Metal–Organic Frameworks via the Synergy of Linker Engineering and Machine Learning for Efficient and Reversible Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries
11/06/2025 - This study proposes a ligand‐engineering strategy to construct a series of functionalized X‐MIL(V)‐47 framework materials, enabling a systematic elucidation of the synergistic mechanisms...
One‐Pot Single‐Step Approach for the Controlled Synthesis of Multifunctional Microparticles
05/06/2025 - A versatile one‐pot strategy combines bipolar electrochemistry and the water‐organic interface to synthesize in a single‐step complex patchy particles, which cannot be achieved by any other...
Multi‐Generational Frontal Curing and Chemical Recycling of Polydicyclopentadiene Thermosets
16/05/2025 - Frontal polymerization meets chemical recycling: repeated rapid frontal curing, deconstruction, and chemical regeneration of polydicyclopentadiene thermosets are enabled by a small amount of a...
Mesoporous Silica Microspheres by Super‐Fast Alkaline Etching of Micrometer‐Sized Stöber Particles
13/05/2025 - Microscale silica particles are prepared along with a modified, scalable Stöber synthesis using the continuous addition of tetraethoxy silane to an ethanolic solution of ammonia with KCl. Etching...
Solution‐Processable PEDOT for Organic Solar Cells: From One‐Pot Synthesis to Kinetically‐Controlled Polymerization
21/04/2025 - It is shown that the synthesis of solution‐processable poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) hole transporting materials (HTMs) follows the principle of oxidative polymerization‐induced...