The growth of the human population is causing an exponential increase in the need for food.
Fertilizers are one of the most important elements to meet this increased demand and to …

Excess fertilizer released into the environment from low-efficiency fertilizers has created a
global impact on sustainable agriculture, including environmental, economic, and social …

Biobased superabsorbent is considered as an interesting polymeric material with excellent
water absorption capacity. It can act as an active agent carrier and soil conditioner along …

Loss control of nutrients and water has been considered as a global challenge of agriculture
because it faced with concurrent management of these two necessities of crop production …

Fertilizer consumption is increasing drastically along with the rapid expansion of farming in
response to the ever-growing population. However, a significant portion of the nutrients in …

Agriculture systems worldwide rely on synthetic fertilizers to meet the food production
demand of the burgeoning population. Over the decades, the abundant use of these …

The preparation method of hydrogels has a significant effect on their structural and
physicochemical properties. In this report, physically and chemically cross-linked poly (vinyl …

Phosphorous (P) recovery from wastewater is a promising solution to the depleting
nonrenewable phosphate rocks as the raw material for fertilizer production and to the …

This study provides a novel and straightforward method for preparing nanocomposite
polymer hydrogels (NPHs) as high-performance forward osmosis (FO) draw agents. Pure …

Plants constitute the world's primary food source. Thus, due to demographic growth in recent
years there has been a tendency to maximize agricultural yields. Active molecules are useful …