Transparent wood-based materials (TWMs), made by either bottom-up or top-down
strategies, have attracted great attention owing to their transparency, sustainability and …

The industrial revolution has led to different types of environmental pollution, including
frequent leakage of crude oil to marine waters and the contamination of wastewater with …

Wood is a renewable and eco-friendly resource with great promise to advance sustainability
in various industries, particularly those associated with construction and building materials …

Rational design and fabrication of nonprecious metal-based electrocatalysts with high
activity and excellent stability for overall water splitting (OWS) is still a grand challenge. Here …

Considering the urgent need for alternative biorefinery schemes based on sustainable
development, this review aims to summarize the state-of-the-art in the use of deep eutectic …

The accumulation of salt crystals on the solar-absorbing surface of the evaporator is one of
the main challenges associated with solar desalination. To solve this problem, sustainable …

Light is a powerful and sustainable resource, but it can be detrimental to the performance
and longevity of optical devices. Materials with near-zero light reflectance, ie superblack …

Forests have an important role in mitigating greenhouse gasses and global climate warming
by storing carbon. Carbon is locked in trees through photosynthesis, which contributes …

Constructing a crystalline-amorphous hybrid structure is an effective strategy to overcome
the conflict between the strength and toughness of materials. However, achieving such a …

As the traditional aerogel has defects such as poor mechanical properties, complicated
preparation process, high energy consumption and non-renewable, wood aerogel as a new …