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Plasma-modified biochar for energy and environmental sustainability 等离子体改性生物炭的能源和环境可持续性

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101166

Sachini Supunsala Senadheera , Xiangzhou Yuan , Baojun Yi , Seong Kyun Im , Yong Sik Ok

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Systematic multiscale strategies for chemical process/product design 化工过程/产品设计的系统化多尺度策略

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101153

Mariano Martín, Sofía González-Núñez

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Editorial overview: Kinetic models for radical polymerization and polymer recycling 编辑概述：自由基聚合和聚合物回收的动力学模型

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101164

Jie Jin, Yin-Ning Zhou, Zheng-Hong Luo

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Electrochemical organic waste conversion: a route toward food security and a circular economy 电化学有机废物转化：实现粮食安全和循环经济的途径

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101156

Daniela Ferreira-Garcia , Suhail Haque , Ben Burke , Ariel L Furst , Gerardine G Botte

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Intensified physical and chemical processing using cavitation: how far are we from commercial applications of hydrodynamic cavitation? 利用空化强化物理和化学处理：我们离水动力空化的商业应用还有多远？

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101154

Surya Teja Malkapuram, Shirish H Sonawane

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Editorial overview: Intensified physical and chemical processing 编辑概述：加强物理和化学处理

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101155

Parag Gogate , Sivakumar Manickam

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Customized membranes: needs and opportunities for moving beyond conventional interfacial polymerization for desalination membranes 定制膜：需要和机会超越传统的界面聚合脱盐膜

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101151

Mert Can Hacıfazlıoğlu , Salman Ahmadipouya , Deniz Ipekci , Ying Li , Manish Kumar , Jamie Warner , Yuepeng Zhang , Jeffrey R. McCutcheon

{"title":"Customized membranes: needs and opportunities for moving beyond conventional interfacial polymerization for desalination membranes","authors":"Mert Can Hacıfazlıoğlu , Salman Ahmadipouya , Deniz Ipekci , Ying Li , Manish Kumar , Jamie Warner , Yuepeng Zhang , Jeffrey R. McCutcheon","doi":"10.1016/j.coche.2025.101151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coche.2025.101151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reverse osmosis (RO) has constituted most of the installed desalination capacity in recent decades. Commercial membranes offer excellent selectivity and reasonable productivity. These membranes, however, suffer from several weaknesses that stem from the use of interfacial polymerization as a means of manufacturing. The inability to control thickness, adjust easily to new chemistries, and avoid surface roughness that enhances foulilng propensity are a few of the weaknesses to conventional membrane fabrication. Numerous materials have been proposed as alternatives to polyamide for RO in recent decades. However, in spite of numerous publications on these new materials, it is remarkable to see how <em>none</em> has even come close to succeeding in replacing conventional RO membrane materials in a commercial setting. This is largely because many of these new materials are incompatible with existing membrane manufacturing approaches such as interfacial polymerization. We must be able to process new materials into thin, defect-free films on conventional supports. This is a significant hurdle for new material adoption in membranes today. New manufacturing methods are needed to address the inherent weaknesses of interfacial polymerization for polyamide and the general processing of newly discovered materials into thin film composite membranes for RO and nanofiltration platforms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":292,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101151"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Erratum to “Photogenerated charge carriers in photocatalytic materials for solar hydrogen evolution” [Curr Opin Chem Eng 47 (2025) 1087] “太阳能析氢光催化材料中的光生载流子”的勘误[当代化学工程47 (2025)1087]

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101149

Nguyên Hoàng Ly , Lalitha Gnanasekaran , Tejraj M Aminabhavi , Yasser Vasseghian , Sang-Woo Joo

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Kinetic modeling for radical polymerization and depolymerization 自由基聚合与解聚的动力学模型

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101152

Yue Fang, Hanyu Gao

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Next-generation nanobioengineered materials for micro- and nano-plastic detection 用于微和纳米塑料检测的下一代纳米生物工程材料

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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2025.101102

Kshitij RB Singh , Jay Singh , Shyam S. Pandey

{"title":"Next-generation nanobioengineered materials for micro- and nano-plastic detection","authors":"Kshitij RB Singh , Jay Singh , Shyam S. Pandey","doi":"10.1016/j.coche.2025.101102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coche.2025.101102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) have garnered global attention as pervasive and emerging contaminants due to their potential risks to humans and the environment. Their toxicity, bioaccumulation, and oxidative stress disrupt ecosystems, demanding an urgent need for risk monitoring. A thorough understanding of the extent of the problem and the need for an amicable solution utilizing nanobioengineered materials is highly desired owing to their unique properties, such as tailored surface chemistry, specificity, and high sensitivity. These properties allow them to interact with the contaminants at the molecular level, making them suitable for MNP detection. Moreover, they have the potential to overcome challenges, such as the complex environmental matrices, data reproducibility, and inefficient sampling faced by pre-existing techniques, making them a promising tool for detecting MNPs. This review presents the importance of next-generation nanobioengineered materials for developing biosensors for MNP detection, and efforts have also been directed to enrich the awareness of the researchers working in this domain by providing innovative solutions to challenges faced by pre-existing techniques. Additionally, utilizing these materials in biosensing devices helps to attain the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations by bridging Nano-biotechnology and environmental science, fostering future research, and shaping policies to combat MNP pollution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":292,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 101102"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144240724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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