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Sustainable Chemistry, Volume 3, Issue 2

June 2022 - 8 articles

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Cover Story: Environmentally benign sorbents with amphoteric nature offer high surface activities, selectivity for analytes, a wide isoelectric range, and bioactivity, enabling complex matrixes to be handled. Most sorbents are either silica-based or organic polymer-based and need post-functionalization to improve the selectivity for analytes. In contrast, considering the potential stability of metal–phenolate coordination bonds together with the growing global demand to broaden the use of biomass, this de novo natural sorbent with an amphoteric character allows selective extraction of inorganic contaminants from aqueous media. Exhibiting great promise as a rich supply of precursors for green chemistry and strong ion-exchangers that could charge across the entire pH range of operation, porous iron-tannate microstructures are appealing for solid-phase extraction. View this paper

Articles (8)

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,480 Views
27 Pages

Recent Advances in RO(CO)P of Bio-Based Monomers

  • Orlando Santoro,
  • Lorella Izzo and
  • Francesco Della Monica

Synthetic polymers have a key role in modern society as they have allowed for great technological advancement since their discovery. However, the use of fossil-fuel-based raw materials and the pollution derived from plastics accumulation in the envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,371 Views
11 Pages

Single-network hydrogels can have an internal porous structure and biocompatibility, but have lower mechanical properties. Combining these properties with another biocompatible and mechanically strong network can help in mimicking the extracellular m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,086 Views
10 Pages

This study investigated and compared the acid-free electropolishing of copper with the state-of-the-art acidic electropolishing process. The acid-free medium used in this study is based on a deep eutectic solvent comprised of 2:1 ethylene glycol and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,476 Views
33 Pages

Sustainable chemicals and materials management deals with both the risks and the opportunities of chemicals and products. It is not only focused on hazards and risks of chemicals for human health and the environment but also includes the management o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,211 Views
13 Pages

Green Synthesis of De Novo Bioinspired Porous Iron-Tannate Microstructures with Amphoteric Surface Properties

  • Hemali Rathnayake,
  • Sheeba Dawood,
  • Gayani Pathiraja,
  • Kelvin Adrah and
  • Olubunmi Ayodele

Bioinspired porous microstructures of iron-tannate (Fe(III)-TA) coordination polymer framework were synthesized by catenating natural tannic acid with iron(II), using a scalable aqueous synthesis method in ambient conditions. The chemical composition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,581 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2022

In this work, the photocatalytic activity of Hydrated Niobium Pentoxide (synthesized by a simple and inexpensive method) was explored in two unknown reactions reported for this catalyst: the photodegradation of phenol in seawater and the photoreformi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
24,005 Views
23 Pages

1921–2021: A Century of Renewable Ammonia Synthesis

  • Kevin H. R. Rouwenhorst,
  • Anthony S. Travis and
  • Leon Lefferts

7 April 2022

Synthetic ammonia, manufactured by the Haber–Bosch process and its variants, is the key to securing global food security. Hydrogen is the most important feedstock for all synthetic ammonia processes. Renewable ammonia production relies on hydro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,893 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Na Doping on the Electrochemical Performance of Li1.2Ni0.13Co0.13Mn0.54O2 Cathode for Lithium-Ion Batteries

  • Ahmed M. Hashem,
  • Ashraf E. Abdel-Ghany,
  • Rasha S. El-Tawil,
  • Alain Mauger and
  • Christian M. Julien

25 March 2022

This study aims to investigate the effect of Na doping on the structure, electrical, and electrochemical properties of lithium-rich cathode material. Pristine Li1.2Ni0.13Mn0.54Co0.13O2 (LNMC) and Na-doped Li1.17Na0.03Ni0.13Mn0.54Co0.13O2 (Na-LNMC) la...