Physical adsorption is considered to be a more effective, green and economical way to remove organic pollutants. However, it still remains a challenge to simultaneously obtain the adsorbent materials with low density, high adsorption capacity and selectivity, and superior elasticity to satisfy...

Paper products are widely used in daily life, while the lack of antibacterial activity has made them become some disease transmission media. Herein, we introduced NIR-responsive molybdenum disulfide nanosheets (MoS2) to endow nanocellulose paper antibacterial activity by electrostatic...

The continuous growth of e-waste necessitates an efficient method to recover their metal contents to improve their recycling rate. The successful recovery of the metallic component from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) can generate great economic benefits to incentivize the...

The recovery and reuse of adsorbents is crucial for the effectiveness and sustainability of mitigation methods for groundwater pollution. Considering the difficulty in recovering powder materials and the low mechanical strength of membrane materials, we developed a sheet material with good...

With the large-scale development of shale gas, oil-based drilling fluids are widely used, generating significant amounts of solid wastes from oil-based shale drilling cutting (OBSDC), which are difficult to degrade and biologically toxic. The current treatment methods do not meet the...

Decentralized systems applied at the point-of-use (POU) could be an alternative for a safe drinking water supply in isolated regions and developing countries. Based on that, it was investigated the recycling of end-of-life reverse osmosis (EoL-RO) household modules as an alternative for...

Reusing the wastewater byproduct of the hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) process as a water source to prepare biomass slurry feedstock for the next HTC run provides a feasible wastewater disposal method. However, the influence of various organic components contained in the HTC wastewater (HW) on...

Foam materials have been widely used in a variety of applications. However, plastic foams pose a particularly complex problem because they are mostly disposable, hard to recycle in most areas, and can never be fully degraded. Here, naturally degradable cellulose-based bio-foam was obtained by...

The black liquor is valuable biomass that can be recycled as renewable energy in the form of CO2 -neutral fuels. However, the combustion of biomass results in a large amount of ash deposits reducing heat transfer efficiency. Therefore, all recovery boilers have an ash deposit removal system...