Themed collection Advanced Materials

Wendel Wohlleben, Jerome Rose, Mark Wiesner and Peter Vikesland introduce the Environmental Science: Nano themed collection on advanced materials.

This review examines the intersection of self-healing materials, biomedicine, and the circular economy, focusing on the challenges, advantages, and future perspectives associated with their implementation.

Hydroxyapatite and MXenes are potentially ideal adsorbents for uranium as a nuclear contaminant possessing radioactivity and chemical toxicity.

This review provides new insights for the development of nanomaterials with potential immunomodulatory effects in plants towards resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses.

This study demonstrates that GO membranes enable efficient separation of aqueous and alcoholic vapor mixtures and discusses the critical vapor-permeation mechanism.

Methanol probe chemisorption quantifies the number of reactive surface sites of engineered nanomaterials, enabling normalization per reactive site in reactivity and toxicity tests, rather than per mass or physical surface area.

Exposure to AgNP-polymer nanocomposites and its individual component materials results in widespread but differing toxicologic effects.

Abrasion study of Ag–PETG nanocomposites helps to estimate how much AgNP microplastics are released from composite products during use or into the environment during their lifecycle.

AMEA supports innovators in the earliest phases of material development. AMEA provides design rules and recommends more testing requirements and/or specific methods depending on the positioning of the material in categories.

Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is globally considered one of the most important agricultural pests.

Antibiotic overuse prompts mutation, and ecotoxicity, requiring precise ronidazole (RZ) detection; we developed zinc chromium layered double hydroxide with nickel cobalt sulfide (ZC/NCS) based electrochemical sensor to monitor RZ in diverse matrices.

Magnetite nanoparticles are abundant in the environment and are notably used for environmental applications due to their unique magnetic, adsorption and redox properties.

An improved electrochemical sensing platform with a vital strategy for NTM antiandrogen drug detection in real environmental and biofluid samples.

This study discloses the design of nanohybrid Biomass@MOF resulting from the functionalization of a hydrochar (HC) through hydrothermal treatment (HT) of corn cob residues and MIL-53(Al).

A combination of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with TiO₂ can improve the performance of TiO₂ in the photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants.

Laser-induced graphene (LIG) has gained dominance recently as a very sought after material for fabrication, patterning graphitic structures, and electrodes for various applications in electronics.

Utilization of waste biomass derived photocatalyst to tackle the severe environmental pollution.

Concepts of similarity applied to complex multicomponent advanced materials for an informed balance of performance and hazard.

Herein, we prepared a series of InVO₄ photocatalysts with different dominant surface defects (V_O or V_V) using different surfactants to investigate the effect of the surface defects of InVO₄ catalysts upon photo-Fenton activity.

Combination of methods for early screening of AdMa environmental behaviour and effects.

Graphitic carbon nitride (g-CN) catalyzes various energy and environmental applications. Evaluating physicochemical properties and sustainability metrics presents valuable insights into designing minimally impactful, high-performing g-CN materials.

Biomass-derived carbon quantum dots are gaining a lot of attention from contemporary world because of their fascinating physical, chemical and electronic properties which bestowed them excellent water solubility, low cytotoxicity, good biocompatibility and high photostability.

The fate and impact of silver nanowires incorporated in a paper-based nano-enabled product (NEP) was investigated in freshwater mesocosms.