Water is a colossal reservoir of clean energy as it adsorbs thirty-five percent of solar energy
reaching the Earth's surface. More than half of the adsorbed energy turns into latent heat for …

Minerals are widely assumed to protect organic matter (OM) from degradation in the
environment, promoting the persistence of carbon in soil and sediments. In this Review, we …

Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Ozonation process has been widely applied in water and wastewater treatment, such as for
disinfection, for degradation of toxic organic pollutants. However, the utilization efficiency of …

In this review, we discuss the most recent developments in the field of green binders for
batteries and supercapacitors and explain how they could decrease cost and environmental …

In the present environmentally conscious world, there is a paradigm shift from using harmful
cutting fluids to bio-oil based cutting fluids in machining applications. Vegetable oils, as …

Minerals and organic matter (OM) may form intricate associations via myriad interactions. In
soils, the associations of OM with mineral surfaces are mainly investigated because of their …

The modification of surfaces by the deposition of a robust overlayer provides an excellent
handle with which to tune the properties of a bulk substrate to those of interest. Such control …

The sluggish ion diffusion and electrolyte freezing with volumetric changes limit the low‐
temperature performance of rechargeable batteries. Herein, a high‐rate aqueous proton …

Defects are critically important for metal oxides in chemical and physical applications.
Compared with the often studied oxygen vacancies, engineering metal vacancies in n-type …