2025 Vol. 10, No. 1

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Poly (lactic acid)/Poly (butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) films with simultaneous high oxygen barrier and fast degradation properties
Mengjing Yang, Yuxi Mao, Penghui Zhang, Jie Li, Zeming Tong, Zhenguo Liu, Yanhui Chen
2025, 10(1): 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.09.011
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Although poly (lactic acid) (PLA) is a good environmentally-friendly bio-degradable polymer which is used to substitute traditional petrochemical-based polymer packaging films, the barrier properties of PLA films are still insufficient for high-barrier packaging applications. In this study, oxygen s...
Review Article
Direct seawater splitting for hydrogen production: Recent advances in materials synthesis and technological innovation
Yilin Zhao, Zhipeng Yu, Aimin Ge, Lujia Liu, Joaquim Luis Faria, Guiyin Xu, Meifang Zhu
2025, 10(1): 11-33. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.001
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Direct seawater splitting has emerged as a popular and promising research direction for synthesising clean, green, non-polluting, and sustainable hydrogen energy without depending on high-purity water in the face of the world's shortage of fossil energy. However, efficient seawater splitting is hind...
Industrial solid wastes to environmental protection materials for removal of gaseous pollutants: A review
Jiacheng Bao, Xin Sun, Ping Ning, Kai Li, Jie Yang, Fei Wang, Lei Shi, Maohong Fan
2025, 10(1): 34-83. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.01.006
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The application of industrial solid wastes as environmentally functional materials for air pollutants control has gained much attention in recent years due to its potential to reduce air pollution in a cost-effective manner. In this review, we investigate the development of industrial-waste-based fu...
Recent advances of metal vacancies in energy and environmental catalysis: Synthesis, characterization, and roles
Long Sun, Shunzheng Zhao, Sirui Gao, Ronghui Zhu, Yiran Tan, Xiaolong Tang, Honghong Yi
2025, 10(1): 84-108. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.005
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With the ongoing depletion of fossil fuels, energy and environmental issues have become increasingly critical, necessitating the search for effective solutions. Catalysis, being one of the hallmarks of modern industry, offers a promising avenue for researchers. However, the question of how to signif...
Optimizing electronic structure through point defect engineering for enhanced electrocatalytic energy conversion
Wei Ma, Jiahao Yao, Fang Xie, Xinqi Wang, Hao Wan, Xiangjian Shen, Lili Zhang, Menggai Jiao, Zhen Zhou
2025, 10(1): 109-131. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.006
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Point defect engineering endows catalysts with novel physical and chemical properties, elevating their electrocatalytic efficiency. The introduction of defects emerges as a promising strategy, effectively modifying the electronic structure of active sites. This optimization influences the adsorption...
Research Paper
High-throughput screening of CO2 cycloaddition MOF catalyst with an explainable machine learning model
Xuefeng Bai, Yi Li, Yabo Xie, Qiancheng Chen, Xin Zhang, Jian-Rong Li
2025, 10(1): 132-138. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.01.010
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The high porosity and tunable chemical functionality of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) make it a promising catalyst design platform. High-throughput screening of catalytic performance is feasible since the large MOF structure database is available. In this study, we report a machine learning model ...
Ammonia-induced CuO/13X for H2S removal from simulated blast furnace gas at low temperature
Erping Cao, Yuhua Zheng, Hao Zhang, Jianshan Wang, Yuran Li, Tingyu Zhu, Zhan-guo Zhang, Guangwen Xu, Yanbin Cui
2025, 10(1): 139-149. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.002
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Blast furnace gas (BFG) is an important by-product energy for the iron and steel industry and has been widely used for heating or electricity generation. However, the undesirable contaminants in BFG (especially H2S) generate harmful environmental emissions. The desulfurization of BFG is urgent for i...
Boosting high-performance in Zr-rich side protonic solid oxide electrolysis cells by optimizing functional interlayer
Chunmei Tang, Ning Wang, Sho Kitano, Hiroki Habazaki, Yoshitaka Aoki, Siyu Ye
2025, 10(1): 150-160. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.003
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Protonic solid oxide electrolysis cells (P-SOECs) are a promising technology for water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen. However, there are still challenges related key materials and anode/electrolyte interface. P-SOECs with Zr-rich electrolyte, called Zr-rich side P-SOECs, possess high thermo...
Atmospheric reductive catalytic fractionation of lignocellulose integrated with one-pot catalytic conversion of carbohydrate yielding valuable lignin monomers and platform chemicals from corn straw
Meng-Ying Liu, Zhe-Hui Zhang, Xue-Qi Wang, Qian Sun, Chen Zhang, Yu Li, Zhuohua Sun, Katalin Barta, Feng Peng, Tong-Qi Yuan
2025, 10(1): 161-172. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.004
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Developing a cost-effective and environmentally friendly process for the production of valuable chemicals from abundant herbal biomass receives great attentions in recent years. Herein, taking advantage of the “lignin first” strategy, corn straw is converted to valuable chemicals including lignin mo...
A functional cathode sodium compensation agent for stable sodium-ion batteries
Wei Wu, Zhenglin Hu, Zhengfei Zhao, Aoxuan Wang, Jiayan Luo
2025, 10(1): 173-182. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.009
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Hard carbon (HC) is widely used in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), but its performance has always been limited by low initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) and cycling stability. Cathode compensation agent is a favorable strategy to make up for the loss of active sodium ions consumed by HC anode. Yet it l...
Design of multifunctional interfaces on ceramic solid electrolytes for high-performance lithium-air batteries
Yunxin Shi, Ziyang Guo, Changhong Wang, Mingze Gao, Xiaoting Lin, Hui Duan, Yonggang Wang, Xueliang Sun
2025, 10(1): 183-192. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.02.010
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High-energy-density lithium (Li)-air cells have been considered a promising energy-storage system, but the liquid electrolyte-related safety and side-reaction problems seriously hinder their development. To address these above issues, solid-state Li-air batteries have been widely developed. However,...
CoTCPP integrates with BiOBr microspheres for improved solar-driven CO2 reduction performance
Lina Li, Yi Zhang, Gaopeng Liu, Tiange Wei, Junze Zhao, Bin Wang, Mengxia Ji, Yuanbin She, Jiexiang Xia, Huaming Li
2025, 10(1): 193-202. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.01.008
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CO2 photoreduction into carbon-based chemicals has been considered as an appropriate way to alleviate the energy issue and greenhouse effect. Herein, the 5, 10, 15, 20-tetra (4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin cobalt (II) (CoTCPP) has been integrated with BiOBr microspheres and formed the CoTCPP/BiOBr compo...
Merging polymers of intrinsic microporosity and porous carbon-based zinc oxide composites in novel mixed matrix membranes for efficient gas separation
Muning Chen, Jiemei Zhou, Jing Ma, Weigang Zheng, Guanying Dong, Xin Li, Zhihong Tian, Yatao Zhang, Jing Wang, Yong Wang
2025, 10(1): 203-213. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.03.002
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Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) have demonstrated significant promise in energy-intensive gas separations by amalgamating the unique properties of fillers with the facile processability of polymers. However, achieving a simultaneous enhancement of permeability and selectivity remains a formidable chal...
Synergistically S/N self-doped biochar as a green bifunctional cathode catalyst in electrochemical degradation of organic pollutant
Xuechun Wang, Huizhong Wu, Jiana Jing, Ge Song, Xuyang Zhang, Minghua Zhou, Raf Dewil
2025, 10(1): 214-230. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.03.001
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Biomass-derived heteroatom self-doped cathode catalysts has attracted considerable interest for electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) due to its high performance and sustainable synthesis. Herein, we illustrated the morphological fates of waste leaf-derived graphitic carbon (WLGC) pro...
g-C3N4 nanosheets coupled with CoSe2 as co-catalyst for efficient photooxidation of xylose to xylonic acid
Qi Hao, Yijun Liu, Ren Zou, Ge Shi, Shilian Yang, Linxin Zhong, Wu Yang, Xiao Chi, Yunpeng Liu, Shimelis Admassie, Xinwen Peng
2025, 10(1): 231-238. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.04.004
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Photocatalysis has emerged as an effective approach to sustainably convert biomass into value-added products. CoSe2 is a promising non-precious, efficient cocatalyst for photooxidation, which can facilitate the separation of photogenerated electron-holes, increase the reaction rates, and enhance pho...

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