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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,330 Views
24 Pages

3 July 2022

Identifying technological opportunities early on is critical for the development of radical inventions (RIs). Patents are recognized as one of the most reliable resources for identifying technological opportunities. In line with this, this study aime...

  • Review
  • Open Access
448 Views
29 Pages

Radiation- and Radical-Induced Graft Copolymers for Environmental Remediation and Separation Technologies

  • Nelson Rotich Kiprono,
  • Stephen Kabasa,
  • Geeva Prasanth Annamalaisamy and
  • Hanna Lewandowska

18 August 2026

Modern separation and purification technologies increasingly require materials that combine high selectivity, chemical robustness, and long-term operational stability without compromising mechanical performance. Radiation- and radical-induced graft c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Polymer Functionalization Methods Toward Smart, Sustainable and High-Performance Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,523 Views
20 Pages

13 May 2022

Cross-domain knowledge can stimulate radical concept generation (RCG), but there is a lack of guidance to utilize the cross-domain knowledge for RCG. This paper proposes an effective process of RCG in four steps: (1) Identifying radical technology op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,963 Views
15 Pages

19 June 2023

This study analyzed the sustainable economic development of some organizations for the period of 2020–2022. The authors found that organizations’ sustainable development is influenced by technological superiority based on the creation and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Large-Scale Systems: Sustainable Economy and Transport in the Modern World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,288 Views
22 Pages

17 March 2024

The reasonable application of cross-domain knowledge tends to promote the generation of radical innovation. However, it is difficult to accurately capture the cross-domain knowledge needed for radical innovation. To solve this problem, this paper pro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Paradigms, Systems and Enabling Technologies for Product Life Cycle)
  • Discussion
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,989 Views
14 Pages

5 July 2012

Innovations that initiate new technology cycles, i.e., radical innovations, bring tremendous value to Society and build for the companies that deploy them sustainable competitive advantages. However, large firms have typically been relatively ineffic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
13,285 Views
16 Pages

One of the fundamental problems in the field of technological studies is to clarify the drivers and dynamics of technological evolution for sustaining industrial and economic change. This study confronts the problem by analyzing the converging techno...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,462 Views
18 Pages

23 November 2019

Radical innovation has attracted increasing attention in corporate sustainability research. Employing a social capital perspective, we explore how and when entrepreneurial business ties (EBTs) enhance radical innovation by considering risk taking as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Innovation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,327 Views
17 Pages

Nerve-Sparing in High-Risk Prostate Cancer: Advantages and Pitfalls of Current Strategies and Technologies

  • Daniele Robesti,
  • Pierluigi Russo,
  • Giuseppe Fallara,
  • Fernando Blank,
  • Massimo Valerio,
  • Ashutosh K. Tewari,
  • Francesco Montorsi,
  • Guillaume Ploussard,
  • Nilesh Patil and
  • Alberto Martini

13 March 2026

Background and Objective: Positive surgical margins (PSMs) remain a major challenge during radical prostatectomy, particularly in patients with high-risk prostate cancer (HR-PCa), where extracapsular extension, multifocal disease, and aggressive tumo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Minimally Invasive Approaches in Urological Oncology: Current Trends and Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
157 Citations
11,072 Views
18 Pages

8 September 2017

Water scarcity and water pollution is a worldwide problem and has driven research into eco-friendly and low-energy cost efficient remediation. The reuse of wastewater for non-potable purpose after proper treatment is the only sustainable solution to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,123 Views
10 Pages

Impact of Robotic Technologies on Prostate Cancer Patients’ Choice for Radical Treatment

  • Francesco Esperto,
  • Loris Cacciatore,
  • Francesco Tedesco,
  • Antonio Testa,
  • Pasquale Callè,
  • Alberto Ragusa,
  • Noemi Deanesi,
  • Antonio Minore,
  • Francesco Prata and
  • Roberto Mario Scarpa
  • + 2 authors

Prostate cancer (PCa) surgery has a strong impact on men’s social and sexual lives. For this reason, many patients ask for robotic surgery. To assess the rate of lost patients due to the lack of a robotic platform (RPl) at our center, we retros...

(This article belongs to the Section Personalized Therapy in Clinical Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,640 Views
9 Pages

5 March 2020

In order to understand the reaction mechanism of lignin pyrolysis, the pyrolysis process of guaiacol (o-methoxyphenol) as a lignin model compound was studied by free radical detection technology (electron paramagnetic resonance, EPR) in this paper. I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Perspectives in Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis, Catalytic Hydrodeoxygenation, and Catalytic Fast Hydropyrolysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,866 Views
35 Pages

Synthesis and Application Dichalcogenides as Radical Reagents with Photochemical Technology

  • Cairong Wang,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Kai Sun,
  • Tingting Yu,
  • Fei Liu and
  • Xin Wang

20 February 2023

Dichalcogenides (disulfides and diselenides), as reactants for organic transformations, are important and widely used because of their potential to react with nucleophiles, electrophilic reagents, and radical precursors. In recent years, in combinati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthesis and Modification of Nitrogen Heterocyclic Compounds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,718 Views
16 Pages

11 October 2018

The metal-free CDots/g-C3N4 composite, normally used as the photocatalyst in H2 generation and organic degradation, can also be applied as an environmental catalyst by in-situ production of strong oxidant hydroxyl radical (HO·) via catalytic decompos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends in Catalytic Wet Peroxide Oxidation Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,954 Views
16 Pages

Plastics Recycling with Tracer-Based-Sorting: Challenges of a Potential Radical Technology

  • Johannes Gasde,
  • Jörg Woidasky,
  • Jochen Moesslein and
  • Claus Lang-Koetz

30 December 2020

To improve the recycling quality of plastics packaging and achieve high recycling rates new identification and sorting technologies are required. Tracer-based-sorting (TBS) is an innovative identification technology based on fluorescent tracers and a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recycling and Sustainability of Plastics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,652 Views
13 Pages

Sulfate Radicals-Based Technology as a Promising Strategy for Wastewater

  • María Arellano,
  • Marta Pazos and
  • María Ángeles Sanromán

15 August 2019

This study was focused on the generation of sulfate radicals and their applicability as powerful oxidants for degrading complex organic compounds with the final objective of operating in flow systems. To this end, the removal of two compounds from th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Water and Wastewater Monitoring and Treatment Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
11,218 Views
18 Pages

A Review of Sulfate Radical-Based and Singlet Oxygen-Based Advanced Oxidation Technologies: Recent Advances and Prospects

  • Zhendong Li,
  • Yanmei Sun,
  • Dongfang Liu,
  • Malan Yi,
  • Fang Chang,
  • Huiting Li and
  • Yunyi Du

21 September 2022

In recent years, advanced oxidation process (AOPs) based on sulfate radical (SO4●−) and singlet oxygen (1O2) has attracted a lot of attention because of its characteristics of rapid reaction, efficient treatment, safety and stability, and...

(This article belongs to the Topic Novel Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Treatment)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,940 Views
46 Pages

Recent Advances in Catalytic and Technology-Driven Radical Addition to N,N-Disubstituted Iminium Species

  • Sylvain Oudeyer,
  • Vincent Levacher,
  • Hélène Beucher and
  • Jean-François Brière

20 January 2023

Recently, radical chemistry has grown exponentially in the toolbox of organic synthetic chemists. Upon the (re)introduction of modern catalytic and technology-driven strategies, the implementation of highly reactive radical species is currently facil...

(This article belongs to the Section Organic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,080 Views
32 Pages

18 December 2020

There is a broad consensus worldwide that anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact. Likewise, the fact is that the UN’s efforts to address climate change over the last 28 years have not been successful enough. It is evident that the gl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,424 Views
19 Pages

14 December 2019

Academic literature has often emphasized how firms in regional clusters exploit both place-specific local resources and external, world-class knowledge to strengthen their competitiveness by expanding the influence of regional systems of innovation....

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,517 Views
17 Pages

This study examines the use of a covalently selenium-bonded peptide and phage that binds to the Yersinia pestis F1 antigen for the targeting and killing of E. coli expressing this surface antigen. Using a Ph.D.-12 phage-display library for affinity s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Potent Antibacterial Agents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,553 Views
18 Pages

Building Exploitation Routines in the Circular Supply Chain to Obtain Radical Innovations

  • Sara Alonso-Muñoz,
  • Rocío González-Sánchez,
  • Cristina Siligardi and
  • Fernando Enrique García-Muiña

The adaptation of the supply chain makes it an effective tool in the management of a circular economy, as it allows aspects of sustainability and regeneration to be incorporated into production. However, empirical evidence is still insufficient. In a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,989 Views
27 Pages

27 May 2020

Novel fluorescent sensors with electron-donating or electron-withdrawing substituents incorporated into a chromophore group based on 2,6-diphenylpyridine were designed and synthesised. The spectroscopic properties of these compounds were studied. Mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluorescence-Based Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,075 Views
18 Pages

9 May 2026

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....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs): Emerging Materials for Environmental Remediation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
957 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2026

Oil-contaminated wastewater generated in oil-producing regions requires effective treatment methods capable of degrading persistent petroleum hydrocarbons and reducing the overall organic load. This study investigated plasma–ozone treatment of...

(This article belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,919 Views
17 Pages

Time Coherent Full-Body Poses Estimated Using Only Five Inertial Sensors: Deep versus Shallow Learning

  • Frank J. Wouda,
  • Matteo Giuberti,
  • Nina Rudigkeit,
  • Bert-Jan F. van Beijnum,
  • Mannes Poel and
  • Peter H. Veltink

27 August 2019

Full-body motion capture typically requires sensors/markers to be placed on each rigid body segment, which results in long setup times and is obtrusive. The number of sensors/markers can be reduced using deep learning or offline methods. However, thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensor Signal in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
15,075 Views
15 Pages

This article examines the radicalization of young adults in relation to internet access and the social media content produced and managed by radical groups in Indonesia. Some of the research problems that become the major concern of this article were...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Policy and Welfare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,264 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2020

Radical low-carbon innovations have considerable technological and revolutionary influences. These key technologies considerably reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This study examines the role of carbon finance development in China’s radical low-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,172 Views
28 Pages

Implementing Radical Innovation in Renewable Energy Experience Curves

  • Paul Kerr,
  • Donald R. Noble,
  • Jonathan Hodges and
  • Henry Jeffrey

21 April 2021

Cost reductions in nascent forms of Renewable Energy Technology (RET) are essential for them to contribute to the energy mix. Policy intervention can facilitate this cost reduction; however, this may require a significant investment from the public s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Policy and Policy Implications 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,682 Views
15 Pages

District Heating Tariffs, Economic Optimisation and Local Strategies during Radical Technological Change

  • Søren Djørup,
  • Karl Sperling,
  • Steffen Nielsen,
  • Poul Alborg Østergaard,
  • Jakob Zinck Thellufsen,
  • Peter Sorknæs,
  • Henrik Lund and
  • David Drysdale

4 March 2020

This paper addresses economic aspects of heat savings in the context of strategic heat planning. The analysis uses the city of Aalborg, Denmark, as a case where municipalisation through a recent acquisition of a coal-fired cogeneration of heat and po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from SDEWES 2019 conferences on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
997 Views
4 Pages

From Oxidation Chemistry to Intelligent Water Systems: Emerging Directions in Process Optimization and Environmental Engineering

  • Gassan Hodaifa,
  • Antonio Zuorro,
  • Joaquín R. Dominguez,
  • Juan García Rodríguez,
  • José A. Peres,
  • Zacharias Frontistis and
  • Mha Albqmi

5 April 2026

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are treatment technologies designed to generate highly reactive oxidizing species, mainly hydroxyl radicals and, in some systems, sulfate radicals, for the degradation of refractory organic pollutants that are diff...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Oxidation Processes: Applications and Prospects, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,331 Views
16 Pages

RadicalRetro: A Deep Learning-Based Retrosynthesis Model for Radical Reactions

  • Jiangcheng Xu,
  • Jun Dong,
  • Kui Du,
  • Wenwen Liu,
  • Jiehai Peng and
  • Wenbo Yu

5 June 2025

With the rapid development of radical initiation technologies such as photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, radical reactions have become an increasingly attractive approach for constructing target molecules. However, designing efficient synthetic rou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Optimization of Chemical Processes)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,197 Views
12 Pages

Experience in the Application of Augmented Reality Technology in the Surgical Treatment of Patients Suffering Primary and Recurrent Pelvic Tumors

  • Vladimir M. Ivanov,
  • Anton M. Krivtsov,
  • Anton Yu. Smirnov,
  • Vladimir G. Grebenkov,
  • Dmitry A. Surov,
  • Michail S. Korzhuk,
  • Sergey V. Strelkov and
  • Elena G. Ivanova

22 December 2023

Surgical treatment of locally spread tumors in pelvic organs remains an urgent and complicated oncological problem. The recurrence rate after radical treatment ranges from 15.1% to 45.2%. The key to successful and safe surgical intervention lies in m...

(This article belongs to the Section Personalized Therapy in Clinical Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,385 Views
16 Pages

Facile Detection of Light-Controlled Radical Scavengers from Natural Products Using In Situ UV-LED NMR Spectroscopy

  • InWha Park,
  • Goeun Park,
  • Yoojin Choi,
  • Seung-Woo Jo,
  • Hak Cheol Kwon,
  • Jin-Soo Park and
  • Jin Wook Cha

8 November 2022

With the recent development of chemical analysis technology, attention has been placed on natural light-sensitive compounds that exhibit photoreactivity to expand the structural diversity of natural product chemistry. Photochemical reactions that pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antioxidants: Sources, Methods, Health Benefits and Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,538 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2022

Based on a resource-based view, we explore the relationship between ambidextrous innovation human capital and the efficiency of technological innovation and its stage efficiency in big data enterprises. We divide their technological innovation into t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,551 Views
31 Pages

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance in Lignocellulosic Biomass Pyrolysis Mechanism: Advancements, Applications, and Prospects

  • Zhongyang Luo,
  • Longyi Liu,
  • Feiting Miao,
  • Wanchen Zhu,
  • Longfei Li and
  • Yuanlin Wang

23 March 2025

Lignocellulosic biomass can be converted into high-value-added bio-based materials through pyrolysis; however, an unclear pyrolysis mechanism hinders its further application. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is the most common techn...

(This article belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,015 Views
28 Pages

6 June 2025

With the continuous development of today’s economy and the growing interest in green technological innovation, this study investigates the impact of executive political connection heterogeneity (EPCH) on corporate green technological innovation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Strategies and Organizational Transitions for Green Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,632 Views
6 Pages

RADiCAL—Precision Timing, Ultracompact, Radiation-Hard Electromagnetic Calorimetry

  • Thomas Anderson,
  • Thomas Barbera,
  • Bradley Cox,
  • Paul Debbins,
  • Maxwell Dubnowski,
  • Kiva Ford,
  • Maxwell Herrmann,
  • Chen Hu,
  • Colin Jessop and
  • Ren-Yuan Zhu
  • + 12 authors

To address the challenges of providing high-performance calorimetry in future hadron collider experiments under conditions of high luminosity and high radiation (FCC-hh environments), we conducted R&D on advanced calorimetry techniques suitable f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 19th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics (CALOR 2022))
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,008 Views
18 Pages

Structural Lesions of Proteins Connected to Lipid Membrane Damages Caused by Radical Stress: Assessment by Biomimetic Systems and Raman Spectroscopy

  • Armida Torreggiani,
  • Anna Tinti,
  • Zuzana Jurasekova,
  • Mercè Capdevila,
  • Michela Saracino and
  • Michele Di Foggia

27 November 2019

Model systems constituted by proteins and unsaturated lipid vesicles were used to gain more insight into the effects of the propagation of an initial radical damage on protein to the lipid compartment. The latter is based on liposome technology and a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plasma Membrane Lipid Domains As a Favorable Environment for Protein:Lipid Interactions?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,208 Views
17 Pages

1 September 2025

This study investigates Fenton-based processes for textile dye degradation, focusing on Direct Red 28 (DR28), Reactive Blue 19 (RB19), and Reactive Black 5 (RBk5). Results reveal varying effectiveness of catalyst–radical combinations, with copp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,423 Views
26 Pages

16 February 2025

Ivo Radić (Split, 1930–Split, 2006) is a prominent Croatian architect who contributed mostly to the field of residential architecture and tourism facilities. The most important buildings that he designed were realised in Split, a city in t...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,765 Views
22 Pages

12 March 2025

Specialized, Refined, Differentiated, and Innovative (SRDI) enterprises are crucial to China’s economic development. It is important to examine how various factors’ combinations impact the radical innovation performance of SRDI enterprise...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,832 Views
13 Pages

7 February 2023

Understanding the properties of the •OH radical in aqueous environments is essential for biochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and the development of green chemistry technologies. In particular, the technological applications involve knowledge of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in 'Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics' 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
26,157 Views
30 Pages

22 April 2015

The internet provides the means through which a “self-activating terrorist” may first self-radicalize through some imaginary or sympathetic connection with an organized terrorist network. Additionally, the internet allows such a self-activating terro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Imaginative Criminology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,076 Views
11 Pages

1 October 2025

This study investigates the formation of hydroxyl radicals (OH radicals) in cavitation bubble plasma-treated water (CBPTW) using a chemical probe method. CBPTW samples were prepared with different electrode materials (W, Fe, Cu, and Ag), and the chem...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Liquids)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,700 Views
28 Pages

26 March 2021

sp2 Nanocarbons such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene molecules are not only open-shell species, but spatially extended, due to which their chemistry is quite specific. Cogently revealed dependence of the final products composition on si...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in the Science and Engineering of Carbons)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,855 Views
26 Pages

15 August 2025

Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly used in firm innovation. While AI has contributed to innovation improvement, direct evidence of its effectiveness in radical innovation is limited. This study fills this gap by...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
361 Citations
24,121 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of Sulfate Radical-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment: A Review

  • Sonia Guerra-Rodríguez,
  • Encarnación Rodríguez,
  • Devendra Narain Singh and
  • Jorge Rodríguez-Chueca

11 December 2018

High oxidation potential as well as other advantages over other tertiary wastewater treatments have led in recent years to a focus on the development of advanced oxidation processes based on sulfate radicals (SR-AOPs). These radicals can be generated...

(This article belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,805 Views
14 Pages

Modification of Macromolecules of Polyimide Films by Electron Irradiation

  • Roza Abdulkarimova,
  • Abyl Muradov,
  • Kanat Mukashev,
  • Gulmira Yar-Mukhamedova and
  • Nursultan Japashov

8 May 2023

New polymeric materials formation by controlling their properties is the primary and most challenging problem in developing a methodology for synthesizing a chosen technology and its use. The combined effect of high-energy electron radiation and tens...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Processing and Engineering)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,948 Views
3 Pages

Catalytic Methods in Flow Chemistry

  • Christophe Len and
  • Renzo Luisi

2 August 2019

Continuous flow chemistry is radically changing the way of performing chemical synthesis, and several chemical and pharmaceutical companies are now investing in this enabling technology [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Catalytic Methods in Flow Chemistry)

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