Themed collection Highlights from Environmental Science: Nano in 2024

This perspective illuminates the crucial need to consider gas feedstock purity and source when designing new electrified CO₂ conversion nanomaterials.

Membranes have become a basis in tackling the global challenge of freshwater scarcity, notably in the fields of desalination and water purification.

ESKAPEE pathogens: where we can find them in hospital environments and how to detect them through nanotechnologies devices.

The distinct molecules composing the biological fluids lead to different coronas on NMs, altering their physicochemical properties and affect their biological fate.

The critical review covers the applications, associated mechanisms, challenges, and prospects of magnetically recyclable nanophotocatalysts in photocatalysis-related processes.

Suspended nanoplastics can be removed from the water column with nanobubbles if interparticle repulsive forces are overcome by pH adjustment.

Polymer–iron oxide nanofiber composites.

Regardless of changes of ZnO NPs after interaction with the soil solutions, it remains active!

This paper investigates the toxicological concerns associated with nickel–silicon carbide (Ni–SiC) electroplated nanocomposite coatings as an alternative to conventional chromium electrodeposition.

This study determines the critical interactions that dictate the adsorption characteristics of fluorotelomers in the confined pores of neutral, low and high charged clay minerals in soil.

Implementation of the safe and sustainable by design framework using cement mortar containing an SiO₂@ZnO multi-component nanomaterial for NO_x degradation as a case study.

Top-side foliar application of layered double hydroxide penetrates the cuticle better, accumulates between epidermal cell walls, and improves plant performance more than bottom-side application.

nZnO exposure disrupts metabolism and delays post-hypoxic recovery in mussels.

Size-dependent adsorption of Cu²⁺ ions onto polystyrene nanoparticles in aquatic environments: influence of UV-ageing, temperature and salt ions in the medium.

Extracellular polymeric substances from the diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana adsorb onto citrate-coated nAg, forming an eco-corona and reducing nanoparticle dissolution and aggregation.

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.

An easy recoverable TiO₂-immobilized PVDF bead photocatalyst with stable Ti–F binding for water treatment under UVA LED irradiation and efficient usage of TiO₂ nanoparticles is presented.

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.

Storage conditions affect the initial tetrahedral iron and hydroxyl populations of ferrihydrite, both are correlated and decrease over time as function of ageing.

This study explores mucin's ability to selectively recover gold (Au) from metal wastewater. The Au, in the form of a nanoparticle, was utilized in peroxymonosulfate activation for the degradation of bisphenol A.