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{"title":"Improved adsorption of Fuschin Blue with Sn2+ impregnated Zn-Bi mixed metal hydroxide","authors":"Mehak Bansal ,&nbsp;Bonamali Pal ,&nbsp;Raj Kumar Das","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The issue of water contamination resulting from textile dyes has garnered public attention. To address this issue, a new highly stable, greener, nontoxic composite material (ZBH.Sn) consisting of Sn²⁺ doped Zn-Bi mixed metal hydroxide (ZBH) was effectively fabricated. The adsorbent underwent a thorough investigation of its structural and morphological properties utilizing XRD, HR-TEM, FE-SEM, FTIR, XPS, Zeta, and DLS. XRD confirms the crystallinity of mixed phases of both zinc and bismuth hydroxides. The hexagonal sheet-like morphology is evident in SEM, and elemental mappings show that individual elements are evenly distributed on the external surface. The ZBH.Sn adsorbent demonstrates an adsorption efficiency in the removal of Fuschin blue (F.B.) from wastewater systems. With optimized 2.5 mg ZBH.Sn in 20 mL (0.05 mM) of F.B concentration at pH 6, the maximum adsorption capacity was 80.56 % in 180 minutes at 298 K. The detailed thermodynamic information (ΔG= −2.477 KJ/mol) including adsorption maximum capacity q_max (1472.75 mg/g), adsorption equilibrium constant (k₂= 3.7×10⁵ g.mg¹.min¹), and adsorption efficiency (80.56 %) were obtained to evaluate the different reaction performances for F.B by ZBH.Sn. Such observation suggests that these materials could serve as effective adsorbents for removing F.B. from wastewater because of their high adsorption capabilities and low cost.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100060"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000370/pdfft?md5=22fee9cf874fa38ece2a7f28104b6e2b&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000370-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141607932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Facile process for recycling the monomers from waste polyurethane with energy recovery","authors":"Hannatu Abubakar Sani ,&nbsp;Miftahu Muhammad ,&nbsp;Aliyu Muhammad ,&nbsp;Tawfik A. Saleh","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Polyurethane is a useful thermoset polymer worldwide, especially for insulation characteristics, mattresses, and cushioning. Waste management of polyurethane has become a great challenge to our society. Numerous ways of waste management have been tested, and among them, pyrolysis is the most promising solution as well best way of recycling its monomers and energy recovery. A thermal analysis was performed to evaluate the best use for such waste. Gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection and the pyrolysis method were used to analyze flexible waste polyurethane material at various pyrolytic temperatures (350, 400, and 450 °C). The results show numerous organic components with functionalities like alcohols, heterocyclic acids, alkanones, etc., compounds of nitrogen and silicone base compounds. Also, some trace amounts of chlorine compounds were observed. The results of the uncatalyzed process yield show that there is a substantial difference (P &lt; 0.05) between values of oil products recorded at 350, 400, and 450 °C. The Neat kaolin catalyzed process indicated that there is a substantial difference (P &lt; 0. 05) in both gas and oil products recorded at 350 °C, 400 °C, and 450 °C. For the Copper oxide nanoparticles catalyzed products, it is evident that the percentage yield of oil is significantly changed (P &lt; 0.05) while the percentage gas formation is significantly different (P &lt; 0.05) at 350 °C, but between 400 °C to 450 °C are not significantly different. Finally, the mixture of copper oxide nanoparticles and Kaolin makes the yield of both the oil, gas, and residue significantly different, and more oil is produced at the uncatalyzed process than the catalyze.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100024"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000011/pdfft?md5=53373fa847ec1917de72d35aadf9e46a&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000011-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139653783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recent advances in MOF-5-based photocatalysts for efficient degradation of toxic organic dyes in aqueous medium","authors":"Anindita Bhuyan,&nbsp;Md. Ahmaruzzaman","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2023.100016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2023.100016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rapidly increasing industrial activities and uncontrolled wastewater disposal in the different dye sectors, such as textiles, plastic, leather, cosmetics, and food industries, have severely threatened the environment and human health in recent years. Photocatalysis has emerged as an attractive ecofriendly and cost-efficient technology for environmental remediation and the development of stable and efficient photocatalysts is highly crucial. Recently, Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted attention as a prominent class of porous materials with robust topology and excellent potential in photocatalytic water remediation applications. Numerous literatures have reviewed the photocatalytic activity of MOF-based materials for environmental and energy applications. However, only a few articles focus on the pioneering role of MOF-5, a Zn-based MOF in growing contemporary applications. Moreover, a review focused primarily on MOF-5 photocatalysts – their synthesis, application, and detailed mechanism studies for the removal of toxic organic pollutants from an aqueous medium has not been made. In this review, we summarized the recent advances in MOF-5-based photocatalysts and their application in the photocatalytic of dye pollutants from an aqueous medium. The fundamental structure and principle of MOF-5 as a photocatalytic material have been discussed. The various synthesis methods employed for the preparation of MOF-5-based photocatalysts have been discussed. This article compiles and reviews the recent advancements in utilizing MO-5-based materials for the photodegradation of dyes from water. The detailed analysis of the literature revealed that the MOF-5 photocatalysts demonstrate excellent photocatalytic performance toward the elimination of organic dye pollutants such as methylene blue, rhodamine B, congo red, and methyl orange from an aqueous medium. Furthermore, an overview of the general mechanism and pathways observed in the photodegradation of dyes using MOF-5 has also been provided. Finally, the review provides insight into the challenges and solutions in the utilization of MOF-5 as a potential photocatalyst and provides a future perspective to design and develop advanced, cost-effective, stable, and efficient MOF-5 photocatalysts for water remediation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100016"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823623000168/pdfft?md5=774a4799678f858fd6247f4df92091e9&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823623000168-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139100974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atomically dispersed catalysts toward the oxygen evolution reaction in electrochemical water splitting: from catalyst design, performance to catalytic mechanism","authors":"Xinzhang Lin ,&nbsp;Junyuan Xu ,&nbsp;Zhangquan Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2023.100023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2023.100023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electrochemical water splitting driven by renewable energy is a sustainable and environmentally friendly way to produce clean hydrogen fuel. Due to the slow reaction kinetics, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) occurring in the anode side is regarded as the bottleneck of the overall water splitting and can only take place at a decent rate in the presence of efficient catalysts containing transition or noble metals. Given the huge demand for green hydrogen to decarbonize the energy sector and chemical industry, the global supply of metal catalysts has become a large concern. In this context, atomically dispersed catalysts (ADCs) have been proposed to be a promising alternative to the conventional nanoparticulate catalysts, enabling maximal utilization of metals and in the meantime good OER performance in the aqueous solutions of both alkali and acid. In view of huge potential application in the OER as well as water splitting, well-designed ADCs composing of transition metals (iron, cobalt or nickel) or noble metals (ruthenium or iridium) as active sites are summarized firstly in the current review. Next, the powerful tools in the investigation of structure-performance relationship and OER catalytic mechanism have been elaborated, including various <em>in-situ</em> characterizations and theoretical calculation. Finally, some challenges and perspectives for future development of ADCs are also listed, such as increasing the apparent activity, operation stability as well as possible device performance verification. The purpose of this review is to provide recent process in this field and our understanding in the future research of ADCs toward OER and to promote the further application in OER and water splitting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100023"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823623000235/pdfft?md5=cdbe3dc4ea7929858824419c99c14801&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823623000235-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139108644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Architecture of a dual scheme MXene/CoFe2O4/g-C3N4 heterojunction for sustainable water remediation","authors":"Sandra Mathew,&nbsp;Arun Varghese,&nbsp;Sunaja Devi K. R. ,&nbsp;Dephan Pinheiro","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Water pollution, aggravated by the release of industrial dyes into the water bodies, is a significant environmental issue. This study presents the synthesis and characterization of a MXene-based composite, MXene/CoFe₂O₄/g-C₃N₄, tailored for enhanced photocatalytic dye degradation. The resulting composite is systematically analyzed through various physico-chemical and optical characterization techniques to explore the morphological features and photocatalytic efficacy. The results unveils a multilayered structure for MXene/CoFe₂O₄/g-C₃N₄, characterized by a suitable bandgap, enhanced light harvesting efficiency, as well as proficient charge carrier separation, and low recombination rate. It forms a Z-scheme/Schottky heterojunction exhibiting higher efficiency for degradation of rhodamine B (93.1 % in 180 min) under visible light. Active species like O₂^•− and ^•OH play a vital role in the photodegradation process, and the prepared catalyst exhibits a stable performance up to 5 cycles. This work reveals new possibilities for designing and fabricating heterojunction photocatalysts, showcasing excellent capabilities for efficient and sustainable environmental remediation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100049"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000266/pdfft?md5=02344fea3575ae1bbc66c41173718790&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000266-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141292363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Industrial climate mitigation strategies and the remaining fair carbon budget – The case of Sweden","authors":"Eva C. Alfredsson ,&nbsp;Daniel Lindvall ,&nbsp;Mikael Karlsson ,&nbsp;Mikael J. Malmaeus","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article explores the climate mitigation strategies of the 15 industries with the largest carbon dioxide emissions in Sweden. Starting from two carbon budget alternatives, we analyse the mitigation projections of the companies in relation to what can be considered their fair share of the remaining carbon budget for Sweden. We furthermore determine the uncertainties associated with the strategies. The results suggest that if the communicated mitigation plans are implemented as planned, the companies overdraft our main, 1.5-degree, budget option but stay within the alternative 1.7-degree budget. The analysis shows, however, that the timing and efficiency of emission reductions are crucial. Already small delays or lower efficiency in implementation, result in evident overdrafts of also the alternative budget. There are also substantial political and technical risks which can prevent timely mitigations. The article makes a novel contribution by analyzing industries’ mitigation strategies relative to their share of the remaining carbon budget. The article demonstrates the importance of transparent industrial climate mitigation strategies and in particular the need for policymakers to set incentive structures to promote strategy implementation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000084/pdfft?md5=2526eee41136883af8771df8be1b6752&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000084-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140112923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing carbon emission reductions and removals in Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka: REDD+ project contributions to sustainability","authors":"Sharaniya Vijitharan ,&nbsp;Nophea Sasaki ,&nbsp;Nitin Kumar Tripathi ,&nbsp;Malay Pramanik ,&nbsp;Takuji W. Tsusaka","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Carbon revenues from the REDD+ projects are important to reduce deforestation and increase carbon sinks in developing countries. Such revenues are not possible without assessing the baseline emissions, the forest reference emission level (FREL), and the effectiveness of the REDD+ activities. This study aimed to assess the carbon emission reductions from reducing deforestation, carbon removals from enhancing forest carbon stocks, and carbon revenues in the Vavuniya district, Sri Lanka by assessing baseline emissions and FREL (2001 – 2020) in dry monsoon forest using the Google Earth Engine and the phenology-based threshold classification. The Vavuniya district is one of the war-affected dry zone districts showing a significant loss in forest cover. This study considered the carbon pools aboveground, belowground biomass, and litter to calculate forest carbon stocks since a significant change can be observed in these pools due to forest loss. The estimation shows that the annual depletion of carbon stocks was 45,083.6 MgC between 2001 and 2020, which accounts for the total carbon emissions of 165,306.6 MgCO₂. FREL established for the period of the Paris Agreement was at 155,187.9 MgCO₂ yr⁻¹. Around 94,331.0 MgCO₂ of annual carbon emissions could be reduced if REDD+ actions are implemented between 2020 and 2030. While annual carbon removals from the open forest could be 7731.5 MgCO₂. Based on the carbon price selected at the voluntary carbon market and the European Union emission trading system, total emission reductions and removals can be equivalent to carbon revenues ranging from approximately USD 7.3 million to USD 87.5 million. These revenues are important for the Sri Lankan government to promote conservation efforts for the remaining forests to better conserve biodiversity. The estimation suggests high carbon revenues, which can attract successful implementation of the projects through appropriate policy interventions and sectoral collaboration, which can then contribute to long-term economic development and climate change mitigation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100035"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000126/pdfft?md5=ffbd6eb27b3c8a7bb0b83b9f3cfec1a3&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000126-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140347066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hazardous effects of waste transformer oil and its prevention: A review","authors":"Richa Tiwari ,&nbsp;Pratibha S. Agrawal ,&nbsp;Pramod N. Belkhode ,&nbsp;Joseph V.L. Ruatpuia ,&nbsp;Samuel Lalthazuala Rokhum","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transformer oil is the insulating oil that is utilized in power transformers for insulation and cooling during the operation of transformers. After a long run, the properties of the transformer oil such as breakdown voltage, and dielectric dissipation factor decrease to 32 kV, 0.41% while water content increases by 31 ppm resulting in waste oil. The disposal of waste transformer oil (WTO) is a big issue since it is contaminated with many virulent pollutants such as PCBs, PAHs, harmful gases, etc. which have adverse effects on the environment and living beings. Many scientists in this area studied to reduce its environmental impact and disposal problem by using different methods of recycling and re-use of WTO or re-refined into new transformer oil and also utilized in blended form with diesel fuel as an alternative fuel in diesel engines resulting in less smoke and hydrocarbon emission, increased BTE and NOx emission. In this review, we provide information about waste transformer oil, its toxic effects on the environment, the various techniques to recycle WTO, and its application in alternate fuels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000035/pdfft?md5=96debd1663fccd7553b3572beba41db3&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000035-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139699988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining","authors":"Celso F. Baspineiro,&nbsp;Victoria Flexer","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lithium mining from brines raise environmental issues due to huge volumes of both saline and freshwater being constantly pumped in desertic environments. Data indicating the slow depletion of both underground water levels and lagoon surfaces in the regions where large lithium brine mining exploitations are located have recently being disclosed. Amongst different direct lithium extraction methodologies, DLE, for more sustainable lithium recovery, a few proposals aim at the recovery of freshwater from the high salinity brines. About 900 kg of freshwater could potentially be recovered per cubic meter of processed native brine. The water evaporation and freshwater production capabilities of a simple and an active solar still are compared in this work. These are two simple and relatively low-cost technologies that could be adapted to existing solar evaporation ponds. The two systems were thermodynamically modelled. Equations were derived which were fed with real meteorological data from the Olaroz salt lake location and brine properties derived from the Pitzer model for the said brine. Analysis of the heat fluxes show that the behavior of both systems is relatively similar with large heat losses that are responsible for neither of the systems reaching the evaporation rate of the evaporation ponds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100055"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000321/pdfft?md5=9121372e9bf7e159e8fb018406d3477d&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000321-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141482160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catalytic pyrolysis of polypropylene waste for liquid fuels production using Ni/Al-MOF-derived catalysts","authors":"Wenfei Cai ,&nbsp;Reeti Kumar ,&nbsp;Zhi Zhu ,&nbsp;Sunita Varjani ,&nbsp;Zhong-Ting Hu ,&nbsp;Jonathan Woon-Chung Wong ,&nbsp;Jun Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Waste plastics pose significant environmental risks due to their non-biodegradable nature and accumulation in the environment. The pandemic has exacerbated this issue by increasing the production of plastic medical waste such as surgical masks. This study developed Ni/Al-MOF-derived catalysts for pyrolysis, an effective plastic waste utilization technology. By optimizing conditions, the study successfully converted waste surgical masks, made primarily of polypropylene, into gasoline or diesel range chemicals. The oil yield from polypropylene waste reached 72.8 % using Ni/Al-MOF-derived catalysts with 5 % Ni loading at 450°C, while surgical masks yielded 58.9 % oil under the same conditions. Catalyst characterization revealed a high surface area and evenly distributed Ni particles in MOF-derived Al₂O₃, maximizing catalytic performance. This catalyst provides a promising solution for converting waste surgical masks into liquid fuels, reducing the environmental impact of plastic products, and promoting plastic waste recycling.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100960,"journal":{"name":"Next Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100059"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949823624000369/pdfft?md5=933fdb3940cd094d9a2bef35c81f9c98&pid=1-s2.0-S2949823624000369-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141540216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}