Advancements in production techniques in PCB manufacturing industries are still required as compared to silicon-ICs fabrications. One of the concerned areas in PCBs fabrication is the use of conventional methodologies for metallization. Most of the m...
The use of additive manufacturing and different metallization techniques for prototyping radio frequency components such as antennas and waveguides are rising owing to their high precision and low costs. Over time, additive manufacturing has improved...
The selection of a rubber compound has a determining influence on the final characteristics of rubber-metal springs. Therefore, the correct selection of a rubber compound is a key factor for development of rubber-metal vibration isolation springs wit...
The selective separation of metal species from various sources is highly desirable in applications such as hydrometallurgy, water treatment, and energy production but also challenging. Monovalent cation exchange membranes (CEMs) show a great potentia...
This study explores the selective hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde using a series of metal catalysts supported on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and conventional activated carbon (AC). Catalysts based on Pt, Pd, Rh, Ru, and Co were synthesized with cont...
Development of sensor materials based on metal oxide semiconductors (MOS) for selective gas sensors is challenging for the tasks of air quality monitoring, early fire detection, gas leaks search, breath analysis, etc. An extensive range of sensor mat...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a critical global health challenge in the 21st century, with drug-resistant infections accounting for approximately 4.95 million deaths annually; moreover, forecasts suggest a significant increase in this tol...
Decreasing ore grades and an increasing consumption of metals has led to a shortage of important primary raw materials. Therefore, the urban mining of different deposits and anthropogenic stocks is of increasing interest. Basic oxygen furnace (BOF) s...
Nanosized noble metal catalysts supported on high-surface-area support are of great importance for numerous industrial chemical processes to mediate reaction pathways in heterogeneous catalysis. Control of surface area and surface energy of nanocatal...
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a novel type of porous crystalline materials assembled from metal ions and organic linkers. Their derivatives can inherit characteristics such as high specific surface area, tunable porosity, and unique topol...
The purpose of this study was to design a powerful fibrous sorbent for recovering precious metals such as Pd(II) and Pt(IV), and moreover for identifying its selectivity toward Pd(II) or Pt(IV) from a binary metal solution. For the development of the...
The introduction of selective recognition sites toward certain heavy metal ions (HMIs) is a great challenge, which has a major role when the separation of species with similar physicochemical features is considered. In this context, ion-imprinted pol...
The rapid growth of electronic waste (e-waste) demands sustainable recovery solutions based on green chemistry. Conventional recycling relies on energy-intensive pyrometallurgical routes that cause emissions and material losses. This study applies Mo...
The chlorination of oxides of major concern in cassiterite concentrate with various chlorinating agents is investigated in light of their thermodynamic feasibilities to extract and recover their valuable metal components. Mechanisms responsible for t...
The formose reaction is an autocatalytic series of aldol condensations that allows one to obtain monosaccharides from formaldehyde. The formose reaction suffers from a lack of selectivity, which hinders practical applications at the industrial level....
Almost half of all known proteins contain metal co-factors. Crucial for the flawless performance of a metalloprotein is the selection with high fidelity of the cognate metal cation from the surrounding biological fluids. Therefore, elucidating the fa...
The accumulation of rare-earth and heavy metal ions from wastewater is important for industrial technology. However, practical accumulators of metal ions are expensive with respect procurement of raw materials, synthesis, and preparation. Therefore,...
Protein phosphatase PPM1A plays a critical role in cellular signaling by dephosphorylating key regulatory proteins. According to experimental data, the enzyme requires either Mn2+ or Mg2+ bound in the active center(s), hence its catalytic activity st...
This article presents the results of research on the morphological composition of selectively collected plastics and metals conducted in four voivodeships in Poland from late 2024 to early 2025, before the introduction of the deposit-return system. A...
A review of some papers published in the last fifty years that focus on the semiconducting metal oxide (SMO) based sensors for the selective and sensitive detection of various environmental pollutants is presented.
The selective catalytic oxidation of NH3 (NH3-SCO) into N2 and H2O is an efficient technology for NH3 abatement in diesel vehicles. However, the catalysts dedicated to NH3-SCO are still under development. One of the groups of such catalysts constitut...
Nitrogen oxides released from the combustion of fossil fuels are one of the main air pollutants. Selective catalytic reduction technology is the most widely used nitrogen oxide removal technology in the industry. With the development of nanomaterials...
The adsorption capacity of synthetic NaX zeolite for Pb2+, Cd2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+ in single and multi-component systems were investigated. The effects of electronegativity and hydration energy on the selective adsorption, as well as potential selective...
With the rapid development of modern society, the consumption of fossil fuels during the industrial production process produces a significant amount of carcinogens. Converting the highly toxic biphenyl (BP) to the valuable product cyclohexylbenzene (...
Multifunctionality is the hallmark of most modern commercial heterogeneous catalyst systems in use today, including those used for the selective ammoxidation of propylene to acrylonitrile. It is the quintessential principle underlying commercial cata...
Calcium alginate (CA) beads as a green sorbent were easily fabricated in this study using sodium alginate crosslinking with CaCl2, and the crosslinking pathway was the exchange between the sodium ion of α-L-guluronic acid and Ca(II). The experimental...
A new metal–organic coordination polymer [Zn2(sedc)2(dabco)] (1se; sedc2− = selepophene-2,5-dicarboxylate; dabco = 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane) was synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. This MOF is...
Detection of heavy meals in aqueous media challenges worldwide research in developing particularly fast and affordable methods. Fluorescent sensors look to be an appropriate instrument for such a task, as recently they have been found to have made la...
Accumulation of heavy metals (HMs) in agricultural soil following the application of superphosphate fertilisers seems to induce resistance of soil bacteria to HMs and appears to co-select for resistance to antibiotics (Ab). This study aimed to invest...
Environmental and health risks associated with heavy metal pollution are serious. Human health can be adversely affected by the smallest amount of heavy metals. Modeling spectrum requires the careful selection of variables. Hence, simple variables th...
We present a novel method of surface processing of complex polymer-metal composite substrates. Atmospheric-pressure plasma etching in pure H2, N2, H2/N2 and air plasmas was used to fabricate flexible transparent composite poly(methyl methacrylate) (P...
Honeycomb films pore-filled with metal (Au, Ag, and Cu) nanoparticles were successfully prepared by combining the breath figure method and an in situ reduction reaction. First, a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-based star-shaped polymer s...
Biodegradable metallic implants represent a paradigm shift in implantology, eliminating secondary removal surgeries through predictable controlled degradation. This review systematizes current achievements in selective laser melting (SLM) of biodegra...
Selective metallization of polymeric materials using the technique known as laser direct structuring (LDS) is intensively developed. In this technique, metallized products can be manufactured by injection molding or by 3D printing process if rapid pr...
Metal-air batteries are attracting increasing attention as a superior renewable energy conversion device due to their high performance and strong potential. However, the high cost and low stability of the current Pt catalyst is the main obstacle prev...
Monolayer (1L) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are attractive materials for several optoelectronic applications because of their strong excitonic resonances and valley-selective response. Valley excitons in 1L-TMDCs are formed at opposite po...
A series of transition metal sulphonato-Schiff base complexes were intercalated into Mg–Al layered-double hydroxides (LDHs). The obtained catalysts were characterized by FTIR, XRD, N2 sorption, SEM and elemental analysis, and then were used in the se...
In recent years, the demand for highly integrated and lightweight components has been rising sharply, especially in plastics processing. One strategy for weight-saving solutions is the development of conductive tracks and layouts directly on the poly...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) form a convenient structural series of molecules with which to examine the selectivity exerted on their removal by soil microbiota. It is known that there is an inverse relationship between PAH molecular size a...
The sensor selection problem was investigated for the application of classification of a set of ginsengs using a metal-oxide sensor-based homemade electronic nose with linear discriminant analysis. Samples (315) were measured for nine kinds of ginsen...
Fluorescent metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are ideal materials for sensors because of their adjustable pore size and functional groups, which provide them with favorable metal ion selective recognition. In this paper, a new cadmium-based MOF was syn...
The poisoning effects of alkali metals (K and Na) and alkaline earth metals (Ca and Mg) on catalytic performance of the 2Nb4Ce/Zr-PILC catalyst for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3 (NH3-SCR) were investigated, and physicochemical pro...
Nowadays, gas sensors play a vital role in a plethora of applications. However, there are still some important shortcomings, such as the scarce selectivity and sensitivity, especially at low operating temperatures. Herein, we report the successful se...
The adsorption of NO, NH3, H2O, and SO2 gaseous molecules on different transition metal oxides was studied based on density function theory (DFT), and three better-performing transition metal elements (Fe, Co, and Ce) were selected. Cu–Mn/SAPO-...
The sustainable recycling of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is critical for resource conservation and environmental protection but remains challenging due to the complex coexistence of target and impurity metals. This study s...
The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect enables the spin-selective transport of electrons through chiral systems, linking handedness with spin polarization. This review provides a comprehensive examination of the emerging field of chiral el...
Given the growing interest in contaminant detection, research has addressed the functionalization behavior of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with thiol (-SH) and amino (-NH2) groups to optimize and improve the selective detection of heavy metals in was...
Metal–oxide interfaces play a prominent role in heterogeneous catalysis. Tailoring the metal–oxide interfaces effectively enhance the catalytic activities and thermal stability of noble metal catalysts. In this work, polyvinyl alcohol-pro...
Bonding agents have been developed to improve bond strength between ceramic and Co-Cr metal. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of two bonding agents on bond strength of Co-Cr metal fabricated by selective laser melting (SLM). Bon...
A solid-contact ion-selective electrode was developed for detecting potassium in environmental water. Two versions of a stable cadmium acylhydrazone-based metal organic framework, i.e., JUK-13 and JUK-13_H2O, were used for the construction of the med...
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