Polymers are widely used in industry and in our daily life because of their diverse functionality,
light weight, low cost and excellent chemical stability. However, on some applications …

Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat exchangers…

Harvesting heat from the environment into electricity has the potential to power Internet-of-things
(IoT) sensors, freeing them from cables or batteries and thus making them especially …

Microplastics contamination in the environment is a global problem, but little is known about
their dynamics in urban river networks, an important site of microplastics occurrence and …

Thermal conductivity and interfacial thermal conductance play crucial roles in the design of
engineering systems where temperature and thermal stress are of concerns. To date, a …

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground
liquid scintillator detector, was proposed with the determination of the neutrino mass …

Solar vapour generation is an efficient way of harvesting solar energy for the purification of
polluted or saline water. However, water evaporation suffers from either inefficient utilization …

Background Lifestyle interventions can delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in people with
impaired glucose tolerance, but whether this leads subsequently to fewer complications or to …

We propose an efficient and clean avenue for ammonia synthesis, via electroreduction of
nitrate which could be obtained from industrial wastewater, domestic sewage, sodium nitrate …

The modified BCR (the European Community Bureau of Reference) sequential extraction
procedure was applied for partitioning and evaluating the mobility, availability and persistence …