Emerging engineered wood for building applications

Y Ding, Z Pang, K Lan, Y Yao, G Panzarasa… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The building sector, including building operations and materials, was responsible for the
emission of∼ 11.9 gigatons of global energy-related CO2 in 2020, accounting for 37% of the …

Inspired by wood: thick electrodes for supercapacitors

F Wang, J Lee, L Chen, G Zhang, S He, J Han, J Ahn… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The emergence and development of thick electrodes provide an efficient way for the high-
energy-density supercapacitor design. Wood is a kind of biomass material with porous …

Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

L Mo, CM Zohner, PB Reich, J Liang, S De Miguel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and
climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system. Remote-sensing estimates to …

Developing fibrillated cellulose as a sustainable technological material

T Li, C Chen, AH Brozena, JY Zhu, L Xu, C Driemeier… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, found in trees, waste from agricultural
crops and other biomass. The fibres that comprise cellulose can be broken down into …

An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

M Brandt, CJ Tucker, A Kariryaa, K Rasmussen, C Abel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests

NT Hoang, K Kanemoto - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Deforestation, a significant threat to biodiversity, is accelerated by global demand for
commodities. Although prior literature has linked deforestation to global supply chains, here …

Forests and deforestation

H Ritchie, F Spooner, M Roser - Our world in data, 2021 - ourworldindata.org
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[图书][B] Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures

M Sheldrake - 2021 - books.google.com
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• A “brilliant [and] entrancing”(The Guardian) journey into
the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and …

Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

C Tucker, M Brandt, P Hiernaux, A Kariryaa… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The distribution of dryland trees and their density, cover, size, mass and carbon content are
not well known at sub-continental to continental scales,,,,,,,,,,,,–. This information is important …

Turning dead leaves into an active multifunctional material as evaporator, photocatalyst, and bioplastic

S Fang, X Lyu, T Tong, AI Lim, T Li, J Bao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Large numbers of leaves fall on the earth each autumn. The current treatments of dead
leaves mainly involve completely destroying the biocomponents, which causes considerable …