RSC Advances  

Efficient electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction reaction (eCO₂RR) to various products, such as carbon monoxide (CO), is crucial for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and enabling renewable energy storage.

Environmental degradation and energy constraint are important risks to long-term sustainability in the modern world.

Analyzed the microorganisms cold-adapted mechanism, and summarized the degradation pathway of nitro-aromatic compounds. Evaluated safety of microbial agents according to the existing application restoration cases under freeze-thaw cycles condition.

Bicyclic guanidines are utilized in organic synthesis as base catalysts or reagents.

Synthesis and investigation on the increase of V_max of immobilized pepsin and lipase enzymes in double enzyme medium.

A direct and practical method for photocatalyzed hydrodecarboxylation of fatty acids is reported herein.

In this study, we explord the catalytic activity of MoCoFephosphide nanosheets as highly active and stable catalysts for OER. Electrochemical analysis exhibits a low overpotential of 250 mV in (1 M KOH), achieving a current density of 10 mA cm⁻² with a low Tafel slope of 43.38 mV dec⁻².

This review examines the escalating issue of plastic pollution, specifically highlighting the detrimental effects on the environment and human health caused by microplastics and nanoplastics.

Addition of Re into the binary Pt–Sn catalyst increases electrical performance for ethanol oxidation reaction. Ternary based Pt–Sn–Re/MC (80 : 15 : 05) enhances the performance compared to the mono and bimetallic catalysts in the ethanol oxidation reaction in a membraneless fuel cell.

The transition from conventional polyurethane (PU) to non isocyanate polyurethane (NIPU) is driven mainly by safety concerns, environmental considerations, and sustainability issues associated with the current PU technology.

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent simple devices that harness the metabolic activities of microorganisms to produce electrical energy from diverse sources such as organic waste and sustainable biomass.

The efficacy of green solvents and neat conditions in organocatalysed reactions were investigated. The results suggest cyclopentyl methyl ether and neat conditions could serve as alternatives, potentially enhancing the processes' sustainability.

This review investigated the breakthroughs in porous photoactive materials such as metal oxides, metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, graphitic carbon nitride, and MXene for the PEC detection of environmental contaminants.

The development of non-noble metal based and cost-effective electrocatalysts for water splitting has attracted significant attention due to their potential in production of clean and green hydrogen fuel.

The photo-peroxidase catalyst HRP/Zn-CN-ZIF was used for efficient removal of indole in water without the need for additional hydrogen peroxide.

In our DAMFC study, NiCu/rGO has stronger catalytic activity than pure NiCu and NiCu/GO composites. rGO and GO supporters improved the NiCu performance by 468.2% and 377.7% in methanol and by 255.6% and 105.9% in ethanol, respectively.

Modification techniques to oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts for direct seawater electrolysis (DSWE) to mitigate chloride corrosion from seawater.

Ethanol electrooxidation is an important reaction for fuel cells, however, the major obstacle to ethanol electrocatalysis is the splitting of the carbon–carbon bond to CO₂ at lower overpotentials.

Acquiring cost-effective, high-performance, non-precious metal catalysts is crucial for substituting precious metal catalysts in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to ensure sustainable energy conversion.

A heterogeneous oxidative process is reported towards sustainable production of valuable catechol derivatives from the depolymerization of Tung nutshell C/G lignin by Cu–NC catalytic process. The CuO and Cu₂O might be active species for oxidation.

This work describes novel transaminase fusions, with potential for converting fatty acids into amines and more complex natural products.

A sensing system for glucose derived from a self-assembled copper nanoclusters-based nano-enzyme and glucose oxidase.

A hierarchically micro-/nanostructured Si@Au-based artificial enzyme with high-density accessible active sites shows high peroxidase-mimicking catalytic activity, excellent stability and good reusability.