Themed collection Outstanding Papers 2024 – Environmental Science: Nano

This perspective illuminates the crucial need to consider gas feedstock purity and source when designing new electrified CO₂ conversion nanomaterials.

ESKAPEE pathogens: where we can find them in hospital environments and how to detect them through nanotechnologies devices.

The distinct molecules composing the biological fluids lead to different coronas on NMs, altering their physicochemical properties and affect their biological fate.

This review summarizes the key roles of various vacancy defects in PS-AOPs and provides insights into the understanding of vacancy defect in persulfate activation to promote the development of PS-AOPs in water treatments.

The critical review covers the applications, associated mechanisms, challenges, and prospects of magnetically recyclable nanophotocatalysts in photocatalysis-related processes.

Here we made a critical review on nanozyme-involved detection and degradation of environmental pollutants, and the research progress achieved in the last five years was emphatically concluded.

Suspended nanoplastics can be removed from the water column with nanobubbles if interparticle repulsive forces are overcome by pH adjustment.

This study explores the theoretical foundation behind the application of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for neonicotinoid quantification.

Light-activated UL₃ generates active species (h⁺) to attack DCF in a water environment, realizing efficient clean water purification.

Manganese dioxide nanoparticles decrease Cd uptake and oxidatives, enhancing wheat tolerance and improving crop resilience in contaminated soils.

Construction of heterostructures has been an effective approach for suppressing recombination of photogenerated charge carriers of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) materials and facilitating solar energy harvesting.

An easy recoverable TiO₂-immobilized PVDF bead photocatalyst with stable Ti–F binding for water treatment under UVA LED irradiation and efficient usage of TiO₂ nanoparticles is presented.

Anthropogenic contaminants can place significant stress on vegetation, especially when they are taken up into plants.

AMEA supports innovators in the earliest phases of material development. AMEA provides design rules and recommends more testing requirements and/or specific methods depending on the positioning of the material in categories.

Pharmaceutical waste and contaminants pose a significant global concern for water and food safety.

This study explores mucin's ability to selectively recover gold (Au) from metal wastewater. The Au, in the form of a nanoparticle, was utilized in peroxymonosulfate activation for the degradation of bisphenol A.

This study focuses on using gold nanostar-based SERS substrates to detect 4 different types of plastic (6 particle sizes within the submicron- and nano-regimes). Substrates could be used to detect concentrations of plastics as low as 625 ng mL⁻¹.

The growing application of nanocellulose in various industrial sectors with potential release into the natural environment demands a safety assessment and thus ecotoxicity.