Environmental Science: Advances Blog

Environmental Science: Advances is pleased to present a new themed collection on the topic of Environmental Photocatalysis in the context of Carbon Neutralisation.

Despite decades of development, photocatalytic technology still has many key scientific problems to solve, including the bottleneck of large-scale application in environmental pollution control, the utilisation efficiency of sunlight, the selectivity of products in photosynthesis and so on.

Guest Edited by Liwu Zhang, Zhenfeng Bian, Hiromi Yamashita, and Jonathan Bloh, the work in this collection seeks to address some of these challenges.

Read the full collection online.

It includes:

Critical Review

Advancements in visible light-driven micro/nanomotors for photodegradation of environmental pollutants

Vanessa R. Ferreira and Manuel Azenha, Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2024, 3, 1474-1499

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Optimizing the electronic configuration of h-BN for boosting the photocatalytic transformation of acid gases under visible light

Can Yang, et al, Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2024, 3, 97-108

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Surface etching to tune the behaviours of photogenerated charges on a decahedron BiVO₄ crystal for efficient photocatalysis

Feng Pan, Rengui Li, et al, Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2023, 2, 1189-1195

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Study of the different morphologies of Zn_0.5Cd_0.5S for photocatalytic H₂ production

Xiuzhen Zheng, Shifu Chen, et al, Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2023, 2, 721-730

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Crystal phase engineering SiC nanosheets for enhancing photocatalytic CO₂ reduction

Zizhong Zhang, et al, Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2023, 2, 132-139

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Sequencing batch photocatalytic H₂O₂ production over a magnetic resorcinol–formaldehyde polymer for on-site water purification by UV light irradiation

Mingce Long, et al, Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2023, 2, 98-106

We hope you find these articles interesting. Please contact the editorial office if you have any questions about this themed collection or Environmental Science: Advances.

Environmental Science: Advances is pleased to announce a new themed collection on Soil Protection and Regeneration that is now open for submissions.

Guest Edited by co-Editors-in-Chief Kevin Jones and Célia Manaia, this collection aims to update recent developments in soil science, soil-dependent ecosystem services, and the impacts and potential barriers of soil in the face of pollution and climate change. The collection seeks contributions from a variety of fields, including but not limited to agro-food/agro-forestry, botany, chemistry, geology, hydrology, and more.

Topic include, but are not limited to:

• Soil quality standards and objectives
• Soil health- definition and enhancement
• Practical management of soils
• Remediation and recovery of damaged and polluted soils
• The role of soil microbial ecology
• Managing soil carbon and nutrients for sustainable soil systems
• Soil-dependent ecosystem services
• Integration of different trophic levels in soil and potential threats
• One soil, multiple habitats and functions
• Managing and protecting soil interfaces
• Anthropogenic soils

We can consider review articles as well as original research. Contributions from policy and industrial viewpoints are also welcome.

The submission deadline for this collection is 1st March 2025.

If you have suitable work you would like to be considered for this collection, you can submit an article through our submissions portal. If you have any queries, please contact the editorial office at esadvances-rsc@rsc.org, where a member of our team will be happy to help.