Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems

SH Van Delden, M SharathKumar, M Butturini… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Vertical farming can produce food in a climate-resilient manner, potentially emitting zero
pesticides and fertilizers, and with lower land and water use than conventional agriculture …

Perfecting electrocatalysts via imperfections: towards the large-scale deployment of water electrolysis technology

S Jiao, X Fu, S Wang, Y Zhao - Energy & Environmental Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As a potential energy carrier, hydrogen has surged up the priority list as part of broader
decarbonization efforts and strategies to build or acquire clean energy economies. Driven by …

[HTML][HTML] Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future

CJA Bradshaw, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little
attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental …

Engineering graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4) for catalytic reduction of CO 2 to fuels and chemicals: Strategy and mechanism

Q Lu, K Eid, W Li, AM Abdullah, G Xu, RS Varma - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The reduction of carbon dioxide to useful fuels/chemicals, such as methane, formic, and
methanol, is an innovative way to address looming energy and environmental issues …

[HTML][HTML] Low level carbon dioxide indoors—a pollution indicator or a pollutant? A health-based perspective

SD Lowther, S Dimitroulopoulou, K Foxall, C Shrubsole… - Environments, 2021 - mdpi.com
With modern populations in developed countries spending approximately 90% of their time
indoors, and with carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations inside being able to accumulate to …

Switching of metal–oxygen hybridization for selective CO2 electrohydrogenation under mild temperature and pressure

M Li, B Hua, LC Wang, JD Sugar, W Wu, Y Ding, J Li… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Artificial carbon fixation contributes to closing the anthropogenic carbon cycle. However,
large-scale conversion of CO2 into selective products remains a challenge. Coupled thermal …

Closing the Anthropogenic Chemical Carbon Cycle toward a Sustainable Future via CO2 Valorization

J Zhang, CD Sewell, H Huang… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Concerns over the massive increase in CO2 emissions induced by overconsumption of
fossil fuels have driven the rapid development of CO2 valorization techniques. Carbon …

[HTML][HTML] A Review on MoS2 Energy Applications: Recent Developments and Challenges

O Samy, A El Moutaouakil - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a promising transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) that has
exceptional electronic, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties. It can be …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollution and life expectancy in Europe: Does investment in renewable energy matter?

A Rodriguez-Alvarez - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the relationship between health and air pollution using a novel
approach that allows differentiation between potential and observed health. It also permits …

[HTML][HTML] Nanostructured gas sensors: From air quality and environmental monitoring to healthcare and medical applications

X Chen, M Leishman, D Bagnall, N Nasiri - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the last decades, nanomaterials have emerged as multifunctional building blocks for the
development of next generation sensing technologies for a wide range of industrial sectors …