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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04039F, PaperMarco Giuseppe Geloso, Sajjad Ghojavand, Chunzheng Wang, Edwin Clatworthy, Oleg I. Lebedev, Diogenes Honorato-Piva, Francesco Dalena, Glorija Medak, Aymeric Magisson, Hristiyan A Aleksandrov, Georgi N. Vayssilov, Svetlana Mintova
Our study addresses a critical challenge in the development of thermally stable, selective, and efficient catalysts for lean methane (CH4) combustion. This reaction is of paramount importance for environmental remediation,...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04491J, PerspectiveZijing Suo, Yuyao Sun, Jianping Lai, Lei Wang
Strategies and pathways for electrocatalytic methane conversion to C2+ products.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04492H, PaperJiayu Zhang, Ji Zhang, Ping Zhu, Zhenming Xu, Lingen Zhang
Inefficient e-waste recycling exacerbates critical metal shortages and hazardous waste risks. Chlorination roasting is a common process for recovering rare metals, but waste fluctuations and coupled variables make traditional optimisation...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04390E, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Biao Ouyang, Ming Yang, Lin-Bo Liu, Shuo Liu, Yan Li, Xian-Zhu Fu, Yifei Sun, Subiao Liu, Jing-Li Luo
Perovskite cathodes for CO2 electrolysis offer excellent redox stability but suffer from limited activity. Although in situ exsolution of B-site cations is a powerful strategy to alleviate this issue, this...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03577E, PerspectiveBingxu Wang, Xiao Tang, Fahao Sun, Sailong Wang, Xiaobin Liu, Jianping Lai, Jingqi Chi, Lei Wang
This study focuses on MSOEs as electrocatalysts for seawater oxygen evolution reaction (OER), summarizes strategies for improving the OER activity and durability, and discusses OER in seawater its improvement strategies based on sustainability.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04143K, PaperYang Ma, Xi-Man Yang, Hao-Nan Shi, Junfang Li, Xiao-Yan Wang, Yong Tang
To help alleviate resource waste and environmental pollution from discarded poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), we demonstrate facile synthesis and efficient catalytic depolymerization of high-molecular-weight PMMA. A small fraction of C–Me bonds...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04056F, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Emanuella F. Fiandra, matthieu starck, Elliot K. Findlay, Josephine Binks, Gang Si, Ruth Chilton, Mark R. Sivik, Richard Thompson, Mark Richard Wilson, Clare Mahon
Soil release polymers (SRPs) are used in laundry detergent formulations to enable the cleaning of textiles at lower wash temperatures and using shorter cycles. By modifying the fabric surface, SRPs...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03788C, PaperSupongsenla Ao, Shuyang Zhang, Peter K. Karoki, Rohit Kousika, Gabriel A. Goenaga-Jimenez, Tyler McCoy, Wei Wang, Nara Han, Chang Geun Yoo, Chandrakanta Guchhait, Bimalendu Adhikari, Xianzhi Meng, Thomas A. Zawodzinski, Samuel Lalthazuala Rokhum, Arthur J. Ragauskas
A superhydrophobic biochar catalyst from orange peel sustains ∼99% biodiesel yield for 10 cycles by resisting water-driven deactivation, while LCA highlights its lower carbon footprint relative to conventional solid acid catalysts.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04357C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Lorette Fernandez, Helen Hölzel, Pedro Ferreira, Nicolò Baggi, Kévin Moreno, Zhihang Wang, Kasper Moth-Poulsen
Molecular solar thermal energy storage systems (MOST), which absorb sunlight, store this energy in chemical bonds, and release it as heat, are receiving increasing attention in renewable energy storage applications....
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03637B, PaperZiyan Wu, Guodong Fang, Xindi Li, Yuhao Wu, Jinshan Li, Yan Feng, Jialin Xie, Xueqing Zhou, Zhenchang Wen, Chunman Jia
A new method is presented for the efficient synthesis of challenging 3FpDA diamine monomers from anilines and fluoral hydrate at the kilogram level.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03303A, Tutorial ReviewHaijing Ma, Ziyang Zhang, Yuli Wang, Jiangbo Wang, Heyu Chen, Shaohua Jiang, Xiaoshuai Han
Modification of lignin and its application in specialty and green adhesives gives excellent properties to the adhesive.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04831A, PaperChengguang Yue, Jiaxin Li, Mei-Yan Wang, Zhiyi Yang, Tiantian Xiao, Ji Qi, Shouying Huang, Yue Wang, Liang-Nian He, Xinbin Ma
Electronic-grade cyclic carbonates, synthesized via the cycloaddition of CO2 with epoxides, are important reagents widely used as lithium-ion battery electrolytes, polar aprotic solvents, and polymer monomers. However, current manufacturing processes...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04243G, PaperWeize Chen, Hui Su, Xuan Zheng, Xiaoping Chen, Jing Tang, Yi Li, Qingxiang Wang, Yun Ling
Co–O–Si interfacial engineering in hierarchical CoSiOx nanoflowers with abundant oxygen vacancies enables nearly 100% faradaic efficiency for selective eight-electron nitrate-to-ammonia conversion under ambient conditions.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03587B, CommunicationXin Zhou, Changhao Li, Jianfeng Lin, Guang Yang, Zipei Zhang, Zhangfeng Wu, Mi Lu, Jianping Lin
Natural evaporation offers vast emission-free energy. We overcome low power limitations using a novel hybrid evaporative-thermoelectric generator. This sustainable synergy yielded 11.37 W/m2 (31.45% increase) at 100°C with a p-Bi2Te3...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04166J, Tutorial ReviewZhenlin Mo, Wei Guo, Laiji Xu, Yiwen Chen, Shaoqi Zhou, Baojun Liu
Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction (eNO₃RR) offers a promising route for sustainable water remediation coupled with resource recovery, yet the translation from lab-scale catalyst innovation to field-scale implementation faces significant barriers. This...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03270A, PaperYu Ni, Shanjian Liu, Weiming Yi, Jiyan Ma, Qing Dong, Chengxizi Zhang
Metal-modified biochar catalysts induce microwave–metal synergistic effects during polyurethane–biomass co-pyrolysis. These effects enhance thermal and electromagnetic interactions, promoting the selective formation of nitrogen-containing chemicals.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04343C, PaperJin-Da Zhuang, Jin-Min Shi, Ai-Min Lu, Li Liu, Josef Voglmeir
Chitin, a widely available biomass, was efficiently converted to glucose using a modular multienzyme cascade without requiring ATP.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03829D, PaperShengqin Liu, Yangxin Jin, Qi Zhu, Xiaodan Xu, Shan Shao, Kartick Chandra Majhi, Qingguo Le, Jieming Huang, Jian Zhang, Zupeng Chen, Jason Chun-Ho Lam
A green and sustainable one-pot paired electrolysis method is introduced for the conversion of furfural (FAL), a biomass-derived platform compound, into gamma-butyrolactone (GBL).
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03785A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Xiaoying Xu, Arezu Sehati, Lukas Marcos Celada, Peter Olsén, Lars Berglund, Yuanyuan Li
A green and efficient approach for synthesizing strong cellulosic aerogels was developed through ambient-temperature wood cell wall nano-reconstruction, with a detailed study of the generation of mesoporosity and lumina nanofibril networks.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03681J, PaperSheng Chang, Jing Gao, Yimin Xuan, Kui Wang
The tandem Zn@Cu electrode enables spontaneous CO spillover from Zn to Cu, which boosts the *CO coverage on Cu and facilitates efficient C–N coupling to synthesize urea.
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