Two-sided cellular and physiological effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles (nZnO): a critical review

Anqi Sun, Shuoli Ma and Wen-Xiong Wang* (王文雄, 香港城市大学)

👉 The balanced presence of zinc oxide nanoparticles (nZnO) offers essential nutritional properties, whereas an excessive amount of nZnO can trigger ecotoxicity, both at the cellular and individual levels.

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Chemical reactivity of weathered nanoplastics and their interactions with heavy metals

Yingnan Huang, Fei Dang*(党菲, 中国科学院南京土壤研究所) and Yujun Wang

👉 Nanoplastics (NPs) are chemically reactive following abiotic and biotic weathering processes. These weathered NPs have the potential to facilitate the transformation of legacy contaminants, such as heavy metals.

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Photocatalytic NO removal: complete oxidation and reduction reaction for by-product inhibition and end-product recovery

Wen Cui, Jiaqi Wang, Yan Li, Pingqu Liu and Fan Dong* (董帆, 电子科技大学)

👉 Photocatalysis is an eco-friendly and cost-effective method to realize the purification of ppb-level NO, and the end-product (nitrate/ammonia) of the photocatalytic NO complete oxidation/reduction reaction can be further recycled.

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How metal/support interaction improved degradation performance in the peroxymonosulfate activation process: significance of high-valent cobalt-oxo species

Xing Fan, Wei Zhang, Huchuan Yan, Cui Lai*(赖萃, 湖南大学), Dengsheng Ma, Shiyu Liu, Mingming Zhang, Ling Li, Xuerong Zhou, Xiuqin Huo, Fuhang Xu, Xiaorui Hu, Biting Wang, Hao Sun and Wuqiang He

👉 10-CFS exhibited outstanding PMS activation ability, 98.7% of CIP was degraded within 30 min. The result demonstrated that the presence of Co(IV) O caused the better degradation performance of 10-CFS.

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Mn₃O₄ nanoparticles maintain ROS homeostasis to modulate stomatal aperture to improve cotton drought tolerance

Yanhui Li, Yunpeng Tao, Wenying Xu, Han Wu, Guangjing Li, Lin Yue, Jiangjiang Gu, Fangjun Li, Honghong Wu*(吴洪洪, 华中农业大学), Juan Pablo Giraldo* (美国加利福尼亚大学) and Zhaohu Li* (李召虎, 华中农业大学)

👉 Mn₃O₄ nanoparticles scavenged accumulated ROS and maintained stomatal aperture, thus improving cotton drought tolerance.

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Characterizing airborne nanoparticles in six Chinese cities based on their interactions with natural air ions

Jin Wu, Hao Wu, Yiran Li, Tingyu Liu, Mei Zheng, Cheng Huang, Fang Zhang, Jun Zhao, Jianwu Shi, Xiaoxiao Li, Yongchun Liu, Rujing Yin, Xiaotong Chen, Qiang Zhang, Jiming Hao and Jingkun Jiang*(蒋靖坤, 清华大学)

👉 The airborne nanoparticles in six cities were characterized and their interactions with air ions were investigated.

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Effective separation of metal impurities from gypsum nanosludge: synergism of mechanical force and metal species regulation

Changzhou Weng, Zhengqiang Zheng, Chen Tian* (田晨, 中南大学) and Zhang Lin* (林璋, 中南大学)

👉 A novel and sustainable method combining mechanical force and species regulation enables a two-step dehydration–rehydration process, achieving full extraction of impurities like P, or heavy metals like Cr, As, Sr, Cd, and Hg from gypsum waste.

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Multi-omics revealed the mechanisms of AgNP-priming enhanced rice salinity tolerance

Si Chen, Zhengyan Pan, Jose R. Peralta-Videa and Lijuan Zhao* (赵丽娟, 南京大学)

👉 AgNPs, as nanobiostimulants, increase the grain yield of rice grown in a saline land.

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Salinity alters the toxicity of copper nanoparticles to anammox consortia through modulating extracellular polymeric substances and membrane permeability

Ya-Fei Cheng, Meng Li, Hai-Tian Xu, Shu-Yang Fang, Yu Zhang, Zheng-Zhe Zhang* (张正哲, 杭州师范大学) and Ren-Cun Jin* (金仁村, 杭州师范大学)

👉 Among numerous engineered nanoparticles (NPs), CuNPs have been identified as a kind of high-risk inhibitor to anammox bacteria; however, the potential effects of salinity on the toxicity of CuNPs to anammox consortia remain unclear.

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Effects of fullerene C₆₀ on the uptake of nitrogen and mineral elements in crops using synchrotron radiation micro-X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (SR-μXRF) and stable isotope labelling

Wenwen Wang, Boning Liu, Lingyun Chen, Haoxue Xia, Peng Chen, Ping Zhang, He Lin* (蔺何, 新疆大学) and Xueling Chang* (常雪灵, 中国科学院高能物理研究所)

👉 C₆₀ could regulate the absorption of nitrogen and 15 nutrient elements in these crops. Their contents and changes were determined simultaneously by using stable isotope labeling technology combined with SR-μXRF.

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Nanoarchitectonics with W₁₈O₄₉ nanobelts and B-doped g-C₃N₄ nanosheets towards NO and 4-nitrophenol conversion

Xiao Zhang*, Xiang Xia and Ping Yang* (杨萍, 济南大学)

👉 Construction of heterostructures has been an effective approach for suppressing recombination of photogenerated charge carriers of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) materials and facilitating solar energy harvesting.

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Catalytic activity of Cu–cysteine coated on Ti₃C₂MXene toward peroxymonosulfate activation for carbamazepine degradation

Pascaline Sanga, Haitham Saad Al-mashriqi, Jing Xiao, Jia Chen* (陈佳, 中国科学院兰州化学物理研究所) and Hongdeng Qiu* (邱洪灯, 中国科学院兰州化学物理研究所)

👉 Construction of heterostructures has been an effective approach for suppressing recombination of photogenerated charge carriers of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) materials and facilitating solar energy harvesting.

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Differential blocking effects of Fe0 nanoplates on rice accumulation of typical essential and non-essential heavy metal elements in paddy fields

Saiyong Zhu, Minjie Chen, Huiwang Dai, Saiqa Menhas, Jiang Xu and Daohui Lin* (林道辉, 浙江大学)

👉 Better blocking performance of Fe⁰ nanoplates on non-essential Cd than essential Cu and Zn in the soil–rice system.

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Filter prepared from Janus-like graphene oxide nanosheets with heterogeneous nanochannels for highly efficient dye removal

Yingkun Song, Zejun Zhang, Hongsheng Yang, Xin Luan, Jianming Zhang* (张建明, 青岛科技大学) and Gang Wei* (魏刚, 青岛大学)

👉 A Janus graphene oxide filter with heterogeneous nanochannels exhibits a high interception rate and water flux towards dye removal.

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Potassium-based nanomaterials significantly enhance nutrient utilization efficiency and promote high crop yields

Qibin Wang, Ying Liao, Weichen Zhao, Tianjing Yi, Yaqi Jiang, Guikai Zhu, Yi Sun, Quanlong Wang, Lili Huang, Fangwu Chen, Peng Zhang* and Yukui Rui* (芮玉奎, 中国农业大学)

👉 Using potassium-based nanomaterials to save potassium resources and studying their effects and mechanisms on soybean growth.

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Ruthenium confined within hollow spherical carbon nitride as an efficient catalyst for triggering peroxymonosulfate

Yu Yin, Shuoyuan Tian, Bing Hu, Abdul Hannan Asif, Sheng Cui* (崔升, 南京工业大学), Shaobin Wang and Hongqi Sun* (孙红旗, 澳大利亚西澳大学)

👉 Ruthenium species were confined within hollow carbon nitride spheres to efficiently activate peroxymonosulfate to produce reactive radicals and singlet oxygen for decomposing a pharmaceutical contaminant in wastewater, i.e., acetaminophen.

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A new mechanism for visible light photocatalysis: generation of intraband by adsorbed organic compounds with wide-bandgap semiconductors

Teng Wang, Jiachun Cao, Juan Li, Juntian Li, Didi Li, Shaobin Wang and Zhimin Ao* (敖志敏, 北京师范大学)

👉 A novel mechanism has been revealed by the study that the adsorption of VOC molecules on the surface of semiconductors formed midgap states between the ground state of the VOCs and the conduction band of the semiconductor.

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