Biosensors for Public Health and Environmental Monitoring: The Case for Sustainable Biosensing DOI Creative Commons
Ajoke Williams,

Mauricio R. Aguilar,

Keshani G. Gunasinghe Pattiya Arachchillage

и другие.

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(28), С. 10296 - 10312

Опубликована: Июль 1, 2024

Climate change is a profound crisis that affects every aspect of life, including public health. Changes in environmental conditions can promote the spread pathogens and development new mutants strains. Early detection essential managing controlling this improving overall health outcomes. This perspective article introduces basic biosensing concepts various biosensors, electrochemical, optical, mass-based, nano single-molecule as important sustainability preventive tools. The discussion also includes how biosensor crucial to minimizing impacts ensuring long-term availability vital technologies resources for healthcare, monitoring, beyond. One promising avenue pathogen screening could be electrical biomolecules at level, some recent developments based on bioelectronics using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy-assisted break junctions (STM-BJ) technique are shown here. Using technique, detected with high sensitivity, eliminating need amplification cell culture steps, thereby enhancing speed efficiency. Furthermore, STM-BJ demonstrates exceptional specificity, accurately detects single-base mismatches, exhibits limit essentially level individual biomolecules. Finally, case made here sustainable they help, paradigm shift needed achieve them, potential applications.

Язык: Английский

Role of the e-exhibition industry in the green growth of businesses and recovery DOI Open Access
Yunfeng Shang,

Yuanjie Pu,

Yiting Yu

и другие.

Economic Change and Restructuring, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 56(3), С. 2003 - 2020

Опубликована: Март 20, 2023

Язык: Английский

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From risks to rewards: A comprehensive guide to sustainable investment decisions in renewable energy using a hybrid facial expression-based fuzzy decision-making approach DOI
Gang Kou, Dragan Pamucar, Hasan Di̇nçer

и другие.

Applied Soft Computing, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 142, С. 110365 - 110365

Опубликована: Май 2, 2023

Язык: Английский

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An overview of technologies for capturing, storing, and utilizing carbon dioxide: Technology readiness, large-scale demonstration, and cost DOI
Divya Baskaran, Panchamoorthy Saravanan, L. Nagarajan

и другие.

Chemical Engineering Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 491, С. 151998 - 151998

Опубликована: Май 7, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Adapting cities to the surge: A comprehensive review of climate-induced urban flooding DOI Creative Commons

Gangani Dharmarathne,

Anushka Osadhi Waduge,

Madhusha Bogahawaththa

и другие.

Results in Engineering, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 22, С. 102123 - 102123

Опубликована: Апрель 9, 2024

Climate change is a serious global issue causing more extreme weather patterns, resulting in frequent and severe events like urban flooding. This review explores the connection between climate flooding, offering statistical, scientific, advanced perspectives. Analyses of precipitation patterns show clear changes, establishing strong link heightened intensity rainfall events. Hydrological modeling case studies provide compelling scientific evidence attributing flooding to climate-induced changes. Urban infrastructure, including transportation networks critical facilities, increasingly vulnerable, worsening impact on people's lives businesses. Examining adaptation strategies, highlights need for resilient planning integration green infrastructure. Additionally, it delves into role technologies, such as artificial intelligence, remote sensing, predictive modeling, improving flood prediction, monitoring, management. The socio-economic implications are discussed, emphasizing unequal vulnerability importance inclusive policies. In conclusion, stresses urgency addressing through holistic analysis statistical trends, evidence, infrastructure vulnerabilities, adaptive measures. technologies comprehensive understanding essential developing effective, strategies. serves valuable resource, insights policymakers, researchers, practitioners striving climate-resilient futures amid escalating impacts.

Язык: Английский

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Adaptation to climate change: A study on regional climate change adaptation policy and practice framework DOI Creative Commons
Rahul Ray Biswas, Anisur Rahman

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 336, С. 117666 - 117666

Опубликована: Март 8, 2023

Although planning and policy instruments are important for climate change adaptation, the implementation of these measures is critical success. This paper studies different adaptation strategies by analysing adopted stakeholders in charge government development to minimise impacts northern tropical region Queensland, Australia. Local organisations responsible taking a leading role adaptation. State commonwealth agencies primarily developing transition policies guidelines, as well providing limited financial aid help support local government. Interviews were conducted with practitioners identified from authorities study region. all bodies made some progress better policies, interview participants that lot more needs be done, especially implementation, including devising application relevant action plans, economic assessments, stakeholder participations engagement. From practitioners' viewpoint, both water sector economy will face highest immediate if actions not adequately implemented at level There currently no notable legal bindings address risks In addition, liability assessments due cost-share mechanisms among levels prepare hardly exist. respondents recognise their high importance. As there uncertainties achievements standpoint, should take appropriate integrate mitigation works rather than focusing only on The informed work has been done identify flood prone areas few documents exist accommodate sea rise practice, but fragments holistic monitoring or evaluation plans put place.

Язык: Английский

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Significance of precise documentation of hosts and geospatial data of fungal collections, with an emphasis on plant-associated fungi DOI
Achala R. Rathnayaka, Danushka S. Tennakoon, E.B. Gareth Jones

и другие.

New Zealand Journal of Botany, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 28

Опубликована: Июль 28, 2024

In taxonomy, precision of species collection data is a cornerstone for advancing research and its diverse applications. Despite the widespread recognition significance these data, researchers have frequently neglected some important details in published taxonomic studies. Historically, fungal studies leaned heavily on morphological delineation taxa. contrast, methods currently employ synthesis combination morpho-molecular markers, chemical attributes both ecological geographic data. Even with new methods, mycologists value derived from old records as essential guides current future Therefore, this underscores importance careful documentation habits habitats parallel collection. While collecting specimens fungi, it to record metadata such sampling location, habitat (host/substrate), season (date or specific season) physical information specimen itself. These datasets will provide rich source ecology conservation resources. Understanding distribution patterns possible explanations real challenge conserving biodiversity, lack data-recording creates substantial obstacles. Accurate fungarium are basic understanding richness assessing red-listed invasive species. This paper explores additions recording, emphasising hosts locations. We also discuss significant roles seemingly insignificant recording enhance about relationships

Язык: Английский

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Supercapatteries as Hybrid Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices: Current Status and Future Prospects DOI Creative Commons
Subarna Rudra, Hyun Woo Seo, Subrata Sarker

и другие.

Molecules, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 29(1), С. 243 - 243

Опубликована: Янв. 2, 2024

Among electrochemical energy storage (EES) technologies, rechargeable batteries (RBs) and supercapacitors (SCs) are the two most desired candidates for powering a range of electrical electronic devices. The RB operates on Faradaic processes, whereas underlying mechanisms SCs vary, as non-Faradaic in double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), at surface electrodes pseudo-capacitors (PCs), combination both hybrid (HSCs). EDLCs offer high power density but low density. HSCs take advantage process without compromising their capacitive nature. Unlike batteries, provide numerous charge–discharge cycles; however, lags that batteries. Supercapatteries, generic term refers to EES devices combine merits RBs, have emerged, bridging gap between RBs. There articles reviews EES, many those emphasized various aspects supercapatteries. However, there no recent dealt with supercapatteries general. Here, we review recently published critically selected discusses different how from others. Also discussed properties, design strategies, future perspectives

Язык: Английский

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Securing a sustainable future: the climate change threat to agriculture, food security, and sustainable development goals DOI Creative Commons

Anam Saleem,

Sobia Anwar,

Taufiq Nawaz

и другие.

Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Июль 11, 2024

Abstract Climate alteration poses a consistent threat to food security and agriculture production system. Agriculture sector encounters severe challenges in achieving the sustainable development goals due direct indirect effects inflicted by ongoing climate change. Although many industries are confronting challenge of change, impact on agricultural industry is huge. Irrational weather changes have raised imminent public concerns, as adequate output supplies under continuous threat. Food system negatively threatened changing climatic patterns thereby increasing risk poverty. It has led concerning state affairs regarding global eating patterns, particularly countries where plays significant role their economies productivity levels. The focus this review deteriorating consequences with prime emphasis how altering affect either directly or indirectly. shifts resultant temperature ranges put survival validity species at risk, which exaggerated biodiversity loss progressively fluctuating ecological structures. influence variation results poor quality higher costs well insufficient systems distribution. concluding segment underscores policy implementation aimed mitigating both regional scale. data study been gathered from various research organizations, newspapers, papers, other sources aid readers understanding issue. execution also analyzed depicted that government engrossment indispensable for long-term progress nation, because it will guarantee stringent accountability tools regulations previously implemented create state-of-the-art policy. Therefore, crucial reduce adapt change because, order ensure survival, addressing worldwide peril necessitates collective commitment mitigate its dire consequences.

Язык: Английский

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Phosphorous ‐ Containing Activated Carbon Derived From Natural Honeydew Peel Powers Aqueous Supercapacitors DOI Creative Commons
Manickam Minakshi,

Achini Samayamanthry,

Jonathan Whale

и другие.

Chemistry - An Asian Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Июль 3, 2024

Abstract The introduction of phosphorous (P), and oxygen (O) heteroatoms in the natural honeydew chemical structure is one most effective, practical approaches to synthesizing activated carbon for possible high‐performance energy storage applications. performance metrics supercapacitors depend on surface functional groups high‐surface‐area electrodes that can play a dominant role areas require high‐power Here, we report co‐doped peel‐derived (HDP‐AC) electrode with low area supercapacitor via H 3 PO 4 activation. This activator forms phosphorylation cellulose fibers HDP. formation stabilizes by preventing levoglucosan (C 6 10 O 5 ), combustion product, which would otherwise offer pathway substantial degradation into volatile products. Therefore, heteroatom doping has proved improving electrochemical properties AC‐based supercapacitors. specific capacitance HDP‐AC exhibits greatly improved increasing carbon‐to‐H ratio, especially density power density. attributed high hierarchical porous structure, enables transportation ions at higher current rates. 486, 478 F/g 0.6, 1.3 A/g 1 M 2 SO electrolyte prominent retention 98.5 % observed having an impregnation ratio : 4. yield could only be obtained activation temperature 500 °C optimized amount ratio. findings suggest concentration as synthesized depends chosen biomass precursor processing conditions. work opens new avenues utilizing biomass‐derived materials storage, emphasizing importance sustainable practices addressing environmental challenges advancing toward greener future.

Язык: Английский

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Technological solutions to landfill management: Towards recovery of biomethane and carbon neutrality DOI
Hussein E. Al‐Hazmi, Gamal K. Hassan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan

и другие.

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 354, С. 120414 - 120414

Опубликована: Фев. 26, 2024

Язык: Английский

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