This article describes and discusses an innovative index-based environmental protection mechanism involving both tourists and local firms of a given region. The public administration offers tourists (non-polluting firms) the possibility of being reim...
Metal oxide semiconductor (MOX) sensors are emerging as a groundbreaking technology due to their remarkable features: high sensitivity, rapid response time, low cost, and potential for miniaturization. Their ability to detect volatile organic compoun...
With the increasing global concern for environmental protection and sustainable development, the low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industries has become a top priority. The rapid development of green digital technology (GDT) provides new...
Emerging organic pollutants (EOPs), including endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), and persistent organic pollutants (POPs), constitute a problem in the environmental field as they are difficult t...
Corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance has emerged as a critical focus of societal and academic interest. This study employs an empirical analysis utilizing a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies to investigate the re...
Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) is a promising wastewater treatment technology owing to its various advantages such as rapid reactions and non-polluting products. However, problems like corrosion and salt decomposition set obstacles to its comme...
Phytoremediation is an eco-friendly technology that utilizes plants and plant–microbe interactions to remove a wide spectrum of organic and inorganic pollutants from contaminated environments such as soils, waters and sediments. This low-impact...
Electrolysis utilizing renewable electricity is an environmentally friendly, non-polluting, and sustainable method of hydrogen production. Seawater is the most desirable and inexpensive electrolyte for this process to achieve commercial acceptance co...
This research examines the integration of eco-economics principles into environmental policy management, with a focus on resource limitations and pollution resulting from economic activities. This study aims to identify rational behaviors in energy s...
Preharvest bagging is a key agricultural technology in the process of the growth and development of young fruits. It can effectively improve the appearance quality of fruits, reduce pesticide residues on the surface of fruits and prevent pests and bi...
Phenolic pollutants are toxic and widespread, making their removal an urgent priority. Metal-modified biochar (MBC) shows great potential for non-radical activation of persulfate (PS), enabling efficient and low-carbon removal of phenolic pollutants....
With the continuous advancement of global industrialization, a large amount of organic and inorganic pollutants have been discharged into the environment, which is essential for human survival. Consequently, the issue of water environment pollution h...
As humans spend more time indoors, ensuring acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ) through ubiquitous sensing systems has become a necessity. Although extensive studies have been conducted on the IAQ sensing systems, a holistic review of the performance...
Amid the global trend of green transformation, existing studies have explored the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on economic performance and technological innovation. However, micro-level empirical analyses on how OFDI facilitates...
As sustainable development gains importance, corporate ESG performance has become a key factor in investment decisions and long-term business growth. Drawing on upper echelon theory and stakeholder theory, this study examines the impact of executives...
This study investigates the impact of digital finance on corporate ESG performance, using panel data from A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets between 2011 and 2022. Our findings demonstrate that digital finance signifi...
Several proteins from animal and plant origin act as microbial transglutaminase substrate, a crosslinking enzyme capable of introducing isopeptide bonds into proteins between the aminoacids glutamines and lysines. This feature has been widely exploit...
Two-dimensional film materials with unique atomic structures and electronic operation modes have demonstrated amazing application potential and value in the field of high technology. Among the various methods for preparing 2D film materials, PLD tech...
Passive small direct alcohol fuel cells (PS-DAFCs) are compact, standalone devices capable of electrochemically converting the chemical energy in the fuel/alcohol into electricity, with low pollutant emissions and high energy density. Thus, PS-DAFCs...
Against the pressing backdrop of global climate change, various environmental issues are becoming increasingly prominent, posing unprecedented challenges to both the global economic system and business operations. Green technology innovation, as a cr...
There is a general concern about the rationalization of resources and the management of waste. Plant residues can contribute to the development of new non-polluting construction materials. The objective of this study was to valorize a plant residue s...
As people’s living standards rise, textile waste becomes more significant, and the number of waste textiles grows swiftly, wreaking havoc on the earth’s ecosystem. Simultaneously, the creation of furniture consumes a significant amount of...
With the advantages of non-pollution and energy-saving, hydrogen fuel cell hybrid vehicles (HFCHVs) are regarded as one of the potential traveling ways in the future. The energy management of FCHVs has a huge energy-efficient potential which is combi...
Hydrogen-based energy storage and generation is an increasingly used technology, especially in renewable systems because they are non-polluting devices. Fuel cells are complex nonlinear systems, so a good model is required to establish efficient cont...
Traditional soil nitrogen detection methods have the characteristics of being time-consuming and having an environmental pollution effect. We urgently need a rapid, easy-to-operate, and non-polluting soil nitrogen detection technology. In order to qu...
Nitrogen removal in the sewage treatment process is a significant challenge. The increase in nitrogen content in sewage leads to the eutrophication of water bodies and the deterioration of water quality in polluted environments. Therefore, converting...
In this study, a novel method for the high-performance treatment of oily wastewater was introduced using a tungsten (VI) oxide (WO3)/MXene composite membrane based on poly (arylene ether sulfone) (PAES). Composite membranes were fabricated with super...
The microwave heating/healing technique is regarded as a green maintenance approach for asphalt pavements thanks to its promising environmental and economic benefits. However, the main concern about this technology is represented by the possible agin...
Solar photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) technology is the main strategy for harvesting solar energy due to its non-polluting, stability, good visibility and security features. The aim of the project is to develop a mathematical model of a PV/T module integ...
With the intensification of global resource shortages and the environmental crisis, hydrogen energy has garnered significant attention as a renewable and clean energy source. Water splitting is considered the most promising method of hydrogen product...
Combining advanced extraction technologies with non-pollutant solvents represents a sustainable approach toward valorizing medicinal plants and aligns with the principles of green chemistry. This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of microwave-as...
Taking into account the international policies in the field of environmental protection in the world in general, and in the European Union in particular, the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and primarily of carbon dioxide, has become one...
Artificial intelligence (AI) serves as a vanguard technology in the modern epoch, playing an essential part in fostering ecological and sustainable progress. By utilizing longitudinal data from Chinese A-share corporations between 2014 and 2023, this...
In recent years, advanced CO2 cycles, including supercritical CO2 power cycles, transcritical CO2 power cycles and refrigeration cycles, have demonstrated significant potential for application across a broad spectrum of energy conversion processes, o...
Urban air mobility (UAM), defined as safe and efficient air traffic operations in a metropolitan area for manned aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems, is being researched and developed by industry, academia, and government. This kind of mobility of...
Hydrogen is a clean, non-polluting fuel and a key player in decarbonizing the energy sector. Interest in hydrogen production has grown due to climate change concerns and the need for sustainable alternatives. Despite advancements in waste-to-hydrogen...
The Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) system is a promising energy storage technology that has the advantages of low investment cost, high safety, long life, and is clean and non-polluting. The compressor/expander is the core equipment of the CAES...
According to their origin, major postharvest losses of citrus fruit are caused by weight loss, fungal diseases, physiological disorders, and quarantine pests. Cold storage and postharvest treatments with conventional chemical fungicides, synthetic wa...
The shortage of water resources has always been one of the most difficult problems that perplexes humanity. Solar steam generation (SSG) has been a new non-polluting and low-cost water purification method in recent years. However, the high cost of tr...
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With the development of the economy and science technology, global resource shortages and environmental pressures have become the focus of attention. More and more consumers tend to buy non-polluting and environmentally friendly green products, and m...
The use of supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) coiled tubing drilling technology for developing heavy oil and other special reservoirs offers significant advantages, including non-pollution of oil layers, prevention of clay swelling, avoidance of r...
Hydrogen (H2) energy is an ideal non-polluting renewable energy and can achieve long-term energy storage, which can effectively regulate the intermittence and seasonal fluctuation of solar energy. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) can generate electricit...
Soil microorganisms play important roles in the plant health and agricultural production. However, little is known about the complex responses of microbial communities and interaction networks to different agricultural management practices in tea pla...
Renewable energy resources and technologies are sufficient to meet all of humanity’s energy requirements, provided that the transition to renewables is accompanied in parallel by intense, disciplined initiatives to design, fabricate, and distribute u...
Laser cleaning has received extensive attention due to its high efficiency, non-pollution and easy automation. However, how to improve the cleaning quality has become the focus of current research. In this paper, we used a pulsed laser for cleaning e...
Soil organic carbon (SOC), an important indicator to evaluate soil fertility, is essential in agricultural production. The traditional methods of measuring SOC are time-consuming and expensive, and it is difficult for these methods to achieve large a...
To contribute to the realization of the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, the non-polluting and sustainable nature of new energy sources such as wind, photovoltaic power, and energy storage has gained widespread attention, and new-energy dis...
The continued use of energy sources based on fossil fuels has various repercussions for the environment. These repercussions are being minimized through the use of renewable energy supplies and new techniques to decarbonize the global energy matrix....
The overuse of fossil fuels has caused a serious energy crisis and environmental pollution. Due to these challenges, the search for alternative energy sources that can replace fossil fuels is necessary. Hydrogen is a widely acknowledged future energy...
The agricultural non-point source (NPS) pollution caused by non-irrigated farming, such as heavy metals, nitrogen and phosphorus, has posed an extreme threat to the security of agricultural product quality and watershed ecology. Thus, it is urgent to...
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