There are many who believe that combined heat and power (CHP) will be the norm in building design for the next generation of engineers. A discussion about CHP is not complete until one considers the ...

In this work, starch/poly(acylic acid) hydrogels were synthesized through a free radical polymerization technique. The molar ratios of acrylic acid to N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide were 95:5, 94:6, and ...

To study the water absorption characteristics of corn, rice, and wheat straw after thermal pretreatment (120 ~ 200 °C). This work introduces an internal particle diffusion model for the moisture ...

Rivers, lakes and oceans worldwide are home to trillions of pieces of plastic pollution that are smaller than five millimeters in length, known as microplastics, and their size allows them to easily ...

To combat water scarcity, producing water from unconventional sources is strategically important. One promising approach is atmospheric water harvesting, a technology proposed in recent years to ...

A research team has made a breakthrough in surface science by introducing a new active mechanism of adsorption. Such adsorption-based phenomena, in which molecules are attracted onto a solid surface, ...

Several factors, such as surface area, pore size distribution, temperature, pressure, and the nature of both the gas and porous material, influence the rate and extent of gas sorption. The size and ...