The devastating effects of global climate change on crop production and exponential
population growth pose a major challenge to agricultural yields. To cope with this problem …

As a result of climate change and increasing engineering activities, soil-related disasters
such as slope failures and sandstorms have become more frequent worldwide. These …

Water pollution and freshwater shortage have deteriorated the global water crisis.
Developing sustainable methods to alleviate contaminated water has become an urgent …

Solar steam generation is emerging as promising solar-energy conversion technology for
potential applications in desalination, sterilization and chemical purification. Despite the …

Aims In the face of problems caused by 'intensive agriculture'dominated by large areas of
monocultures, mixed intercropping mimicking natural ecosystems has been reported to …

Evaporation, pervaporation, and forward osmosis are processes leading to a mass transfer
of solvent across an interface: gas/liquid for evaporation and solid/liquid (membrane) for …

Urban temperature increase is a critical problem for many cities. Green roofing is an
approach to mitigating urban temperature increase, while the maintenance of the green roof …

Solar-powered water purification is one of the promising choices for clean water production.
However, it remains challenging to develop aerogel solar evaporators that simultaneously …

Drought stress (DS) is a major environmental factor limiting plant growth and crop
productivity worldwide. It has been established that exogenous spermidine (Spd) stimulates …

The complex mechanism behind the laser-induced cavitation bubble has led to challenges
in its modeling. Current models can only predict the radius of the single laser-induced …