Biochar, a carbon-rich material made from the partial combustion of biomass wastes, is an
emerging material of interest as it can remediate pollutants and serve as a negative carbon …

Biochar has shown large potential in environmental remediation because of its low cost,
large specific surface area, porosity, and high conductivity. Biochar-assisted advanced …

Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and
burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia …

Biochar is an emerging, cost-effective, and renewable carbonaceous material with abundant
functional groups and tuneable mesoporous structure, showing a promising performance in …

Biochar has triggered a black gold rush in environmental studies as a carbon-rich material
with well-developed porous structure and tunable functionality. While much attention has …

Microplastics may experience photoaging and breakdown into nanoplastics in aquatic
environment as a result of long-term light irradiation. However, the underlying mechanisms …

Environmentally friendly and low-cost catalysts are important for the rapid mineralization of
organic contaminants in powerful advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). In this study, we …

Singlet oxygen (1O2) is a reactive oxygen species produced in sunlit waters via energy
transfer from the triplet states of natural sensitizers. There has been an increasing interest in …

Environment-friendly and cost-effective disposal and reutilization of sludge wastes are
essential in wastewater treatment processes (WWTPs). Converting activated sludge into …

Microplastics (MPs) are presumed to be inert during aging under ambient conditions. In this
study, four types of virgin MPs, including polystyrene (PS), phenol-formaldehyde resin (PF) …