In the effort toward sustainable advanced functional materials, nanocelluloses have
attracted extensive recent attention. Nanocelluloses range from rod‐like highly crystalline …

Efficient wastewater treatment accompanied by sustainable “nutrients/pollutants waste-
wastewater-resources/energy nexus” management is acting as a prominent and urgent …

Living materials, which are fabricated by encapsulating living biological cells within a non‐
living matrix, have gained increasing attention in recent years. Their fabrication in spatially …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is one of the microscopic techniques with the highest lateral
resolution. It can usually be applied in air or even in liquids, enabling the investigation of a …

Microorganism-cell-based biohybrid materials have attracted considerable attention over the
last several decades. They are applied in a broad spectrum of areas, such as …

Microalgae are a group of microscopic eukaryotic organisms that can transform carbon
dioxide into diverse bioactive compounds through photosynthesis using chlorophyll a. Over …

Diatoms have long been used as living biological indicators for the assessment of water
quality in lakes and rivers worldwide. While this approach benefits from the great diversity of …

Hydrogen (H 2) is a promising fuel in the context of climate neutral energy carriers and
photosynthesis-driven H 2-production is an interesting option relying mainly on sunlight and …

Despite being a promising feedstock for food, feed, chemicals, and biofuels, microalgal
production processes are still uneconomical due to slow growth rates, costly media …

Solar energy is the largest energy source on Earth. In contrast to the limited and greenhouse
gases‐emitting fossil fuels, solar energy is inexhaustible, carbon neutral, and nonpolluting …