Designing post COVID-19 buildings: Approaches for achieving healthy buildings

S Navaratnam, K Nguyen, K Selvaranjan, G Zhang… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the accessibility, social gathering, lifestyle, and working
environment to be changed to reduce the infection. Coronavirus spreads between people in …

A review on indoor environmental quality in sports facilities: Indoor air quality and ventilation during a pandemic

D Zhang, MA Ortiz… - Indoor and Built …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Because of COVID-19, the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in sports facilities has been a
concern to environmental health practitioners. To develop an overall understanding of the …

Cleaning behavior based on waste textile before resource conversion and its challenges in China–A comprehensive review

F Han, C Lang, Y Qiu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
As the reverse management of the textile industry, the recycling of waste textiles alleviates
resource shortage and environmental pressure. The treatments mainly involve exports …

Energy-saving COVID–19 biomedical plastic waste treatment using the thermal-Catalytic pyrolysis

R Choudhary, A Mukhija, S Sharma, R Choudhary… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The rate of Biomedical waste generation increases exponentially during infectious diseases,
such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which burst in December 2019 and spread worldwide in a …

Back to basics: Choosing the appropriate surface disinfectant

A Artasensi, S Mazzotta, L Fumagalli - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
From viruses to bacteria, our lives are filled with exposure to germs. In built environments,
exposure to infectious microorganisms and their byproducts is clearly linked to human …

[HTML][HTML] Visible light-supported efficient photocatalytic disinfection using a robust silver-doped boron photocatalyst

P Qiu, J Zhu, C Zhang, T Liu, H Fang, L Shen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic sterilization is attracting attention because of its potential to prevent the
dissemination of antimicrobial resistance. Here, a novel silver-doped boron (AgB) …

Advanced electrocatalytic redox processes for environmental remediation of halogenated organic water pollutants

MK Wilsey, T Taseska, Z Meng, W Yu… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Halogenated organic compounds are widespread, and decades of heavy use have resulted
in global bioaccumulation and contamination of the environment, including water sources …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental factors and mobility predict COVID-19 seasonality in the Netherlands

MJ Hoogeveen, ACM Kroes, EK Hoogeveen - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Background We recently showed that seasonal patterns of COVID-19 incidence and
Influenza-Like Illnesses incidence are highly similar, in a country in the temperate climate …

Unorthodox Approach to Realize the Correlation between the Dielectric Constant and Electronic Disorder in Cr-Doped PrFeO3

A Kumar, OV Rambadey… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here, in the present report, an attempt has been made to explore a quantitative correlation
between the Urbach energy (EU) and the dielectric constant (ε) by using a Bohr-like model …

Conceptual Ultraviolet‐C Light Source Based on Up‐Conversion Luminescence

X Zhao, F Liu, T Shi, H Wu, L Zhang… - Advanced Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ultraviolet‐C illumination may provide a promising solution for the disinfection technology,
and thus the development of novel type of ultraviolet‐C light sources is continuously …