Marine shelled organisms exhibit diverse growth strategies shaped by species-specific traits and environmental conditions that critically influence their ecological roles, particularly within Marine Animal Forests (MAF), which are structurally comple...
Scaphopod molluscs are marine, infaunal, cosmopolitan animals. They encase their soft tissue with an aragonitic tusk-shaped shell that has at its two ends an orifice, the aperture and the apex. We investigated the shell of the dentaliid species Fissi...
Hulls and shells are an abundant by-product from almond production with potential as an organic matter amendment (OMA). A combination of incubation study and field research was conducted in 2019–2021 to evaluate the impacts of three practices i...
In view of the continuous decline in organic carbon content in citrus orchard soil, to explore the effects of biochar and farmland waste on the transformation of organic carbon in citrus orchard soil. In this study, the soil of a citrus orchard in Ya...
Shells are primarily composed of calcite and aragonite, making the inclusion of micronized shells as bio-based fillers in organic coatings a potential means to enhance the mechanical properties of the layers. A water-based coating was reinforced with...
The preparation of ordered macroporous SiCN ceramics has attracted significant interest and is an attractive area for various applications, e.g., in the fields of catalysis, gas adsorption, or membranes. Non-oxidic ceramics, such as SiCN, own a great...
Core–shell metal–organic framework (MOF) composites, owing to their unique structural advantages, have emerged as a prominent research focus in the field of chemistry, advanced materials and chemical engineering. By integrating MOFs with...
This research focuses on enhancing the optical efficacy of organic photovoltaic cells, specifically their optical absorbance and electrical parameters. The absorbance of photons in organic solar cells (OSCs) was studied by incorporating an optical sp...
The content of trace metals, namely Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, Cd, and Hg, in four types of media, i.e., soft tissues, shells, and the products of shell demineralization (organic matrix—conchix and extract) of the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus gallopro...
Environmental problems arising from conventional production models have posed a significant challenge in the search for renewable sources as raw materials for the production of everyday chemical compounds through more sustainable alternatives. The ob...
Sizing agents are essential to address the increasing demands of enhanced carbon fibers (CFs), where increasing interfacial adhesion and the analysis of mechanical properties are achieved for critical engineering applications. In this work, five type...
In this work, a SiO2-doped natural photocatalyst derived from waste mussel shell (HAS) was prepared by acidification. The as-prepared sample was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), inductively...
The chiral covalent-organic framework (CCOF) is a new kind of chiral porous material, which has been broadly applied in many fields owing to its high porosity, regular pores, and structural adjustability. However, conventional CCOF particles have the...
Both complete and uncompleted radiolarian siliceous shells were developed at Wufeng-Longmaxi radiolarian siliceous shale laminae in Sichuan Basin. Micro- and ultra-micropetrological observation suggests that they were successively filled by calcite,...
This paper studies the composition and properties of shells of bivalve mollusks (Crenomytilus grayanus, Callista brevisiphonata, and Mizuhopecten yessoensis) from coastal discharges with a view to the possibility of their use in photocatalytic water...
Some emerging concepts of nuclear structure are overviewed. (i) Background: the many-body quantum structure of atomic nucleus, a complex system comprising protons and neutrons (called nucleons collectively), has been studied largely based on the idea...
The preparation of highly ordered colloidal architectures has attracted significant attention and is a rapidly growing field for various applications, e.g., sensors, absorbers, and membranes. A promising technique for the preparation of elastomeric i...
Biochar and organic fertilizer can significantly increase soil organic carbon (SOC) and promote agricultural production, but it is still unclear how they affect forest SOC after. Here, low-quality plantation soil was subjected to four distinct fertil...
Seafood waste is often landfilled and/or discarded into water, raising microbiological pollution and environment policy concerns. Repurposing this low-cost biomass collected at point-source processing centers can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Hard-shelled organisms colonizing marine engineering surfaces accumulate carbonate inorganic carbon in their shells, yet quantification typically relies on destructive sampling, hindering long-term monitoring. This study develops a deep learning-base...
Shell is a typical biomineralized inorganic–organic composite material. The essence of scallop deshelling is caused by the fracture failure at the interface of the organic and inorganic–organic matter composites. The constitutive equation...
This paper reports the synthesis of yellow-charged particles with a core–shell structure by modifying yellow pigment 181 particles using an ionic liquid under the sol–gel and grafting methods. The core–shell particles were character...
Efficient waste management, especially in relation to swaste reuse, has become a pressing societal issue. The waste bittern generated during salt production and discarded oyster shells present formidable environmental challenges and a waste of resour...
Radium-226 (226Ra) measurement in living organisms, such as the American oyster (Crassostrea virginica), is an analytical challenge: the matrix complexity and the extremely low Ra levels require a purification/preconcentration step prior to its quant...
A green and mild chemical reaction of calcium citrate (CC) was successfully prepared from reactions between mussel shell waste and citric acid in the presence of acetone (AC), ethanol (Et), and isopropyl alcohol (IPA). All the synthesized CCs contain...
Improvements in using geothermal sources can be attained through the installation of power plants taking advantage of low and medium enthalpy available in poorly exploited geothermal sites. Geothermal fluids at medium and low temperature could be con...
Covalent organic framework materials (COFs) are promising for pollutant adsorption owing to their high specific surface area, tunable pores and functional designability, but their microcrystalline powder form leads to poor mechanical strength and pro...
A disadvantage of the use of pentacene and typical organic materials in electronics is that their precursors are toxic for manufacturers and the environment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of an n-type non-toxic semiconductor...
Drilling fluid systems for deep and ultra-deep wells are hampered by both high-temperature downhole environments and lengthy cycle periods. Suppose that the gel particle-plugging agent, the primary treatment agent in the system, fails to offer durabl...
The metal-organic zeolite imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) supported gold-silver bimetallic catalysts with a core-shell structure (Au@Ag/ZIF-8 and Ag@Au/ZIF-8) and cluster structure (AuAg/ZIF-8) were successfully prepared by the deposition-redispersio...
Bearing in mind the need to develop optimal transition metal oxide-based catalysts for the combustion of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), yolk-shell materials were proposed. The constructed composites contained catalytically active Co3O4 nanopartic...
Mollusk shells, especially the nacre, are of commercial interest as well as palaeoenvironmental proxies. They are also investigated as biomaterials for medical purposes and biomimetics. Although the mineralogy is well-known and unique (aragonite tabl...
Molluscs are known for their ability to produce a calcified shell resulting from a genetically controlled and matrix-mediated process, performed extracellularly. The occluded organic matrix consists of a complex mixture of proteins, glycoproteins and...
In this work, magnetic CuFe2O4/Ag nanoparticles activated by porous covalent organic frameworks (COF) was fabricated to evaluate the heterogenous reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP). The core-shell CuFe2O4/Ag@COF was successfully prepared by polydopami...
The selective removal of electron-rich emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) from aquatic environments remains a critical challenge, as conventional radical-based oxidation processes suffer from poor selectivity and interference from background consti...
The valorization of agricultural waste has gained attention due to the need for sustainable technologies addressing environmental and economic challenges. The aim of this work is to investigate the electrochemical transformation of anacardic acid, a...
Fluoropolymers represent a unique class of functional polymers due to their various interesting and important properties such as thermal stability, resistance toward chemicals, repellent behaviors, and their low refractive indices in comparison to ot...
Nanoparticles are coated in-flight with a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process at ambient or elevated temperatures (up to 300 °C). Two silicon precursors, tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO), are...
For many optoelectronic applications, it is desirable for the lanthanide-doped phosphors to have broad excitation spectrum. The excitation mechanism of the lanthanide-doped YVO4, a high quantum efficient lasing material, primarily originates from the...
Bivalve shells are extensively used as bioarchives for paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Proxy calibrations in recent shells are the basis for sclerochronology and the applications of geochemistry data to fossils. Shell geochemical...
Organic dyes such as methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine 6G (Rh 6G), when dissolved in water, pose a serious threat to the environment, humans, and aquatic life. In this study, we report the synthesis of Fe-doped ZnCuInS/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (Fe...
A simple and effective method to eliminate the organic component from mussel shells is presented. It is based on the use of hot hydrogen peroxide. Mollusc shells are composite materials made of a calcium carbonate matrix with different polymorphs and...
This study investigated the accumulation and distribution of cadmium (Cd) in the Soil-Lilium system and researched the effects and mechanisms of applying oyster shell powder (OSP) and organic fertilizer (OF) on reducing Cd accumulation and enhancing...
The widespread use of plastics has inevitably led to the accumulation of persistent plastic debris in aquatic systems, where gradual fragmentation generates microplastics (MPs) that threaten ecological and biological health. Their small size, chemica...
Hybridizing concentrated solar power (CSP) with residual biomass allows supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power cycles to deliver dispatchable low-carbon electricity, but it is unclear whether the extra equipment of the more efficient layouts adds a life-cycl...
Hybrid inorganic-organic core-shell nanoparticles (CSNPs) are an emerging paradigm of nanodrug carriers in the targeted photodynamic therapy (TPDT) of cancer. Typically, metallic cores and organic polymer shells are used due to their submicron sizes...
The soft-shell clam Mya arenaria is one of the most ancient invaders of European coasts and is present in many coastal ecosystems, yet little is known about its genetic structure in Europe. We collected 266 samples spanning a latitudinal cline from t...
The genera: Lerniana Delicado et Hauffe, 2022, Trichonia Schütt, 1980, and two clades (“Radomaniola” elongata Radoman, 1973, and an unnamed clade referred to as “Radomaniola” sp. 1, sp. 2) whose assignment to any genus re...
Breast cancer remains the most common malignancy in women, yet, many patients fail to achieve full remission despite significant advancements. This is largely due to tumour heterogeneity and the limitations of current experimental models in accuratel...
Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) are widely recognized as an effective solution for waste heat recovery (WHR). However, the design and optimization of these systems must address the tradeoff between computational efficiency and the need to capture compl...
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