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Zhiyi Tang, Chao Cao, Kunxian Tang, Hongshuai Qi, Yuanmin Sun and Jiangbo Yang
Carbon and nitrogen contents and their isotopic components, and AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) radiocarbon dating ages, were measured for 57 coastal sediments from Weizhou Island to analyze the distribution of total inorganic carbon (TIC) and its ca...
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Gang Li, Zhi Zhang, Linlu Shi, Yan Zhou, Meng Yang, Jiaxi Cao, Shuhong Wu and Guangchun Lei
Inappropriate grazing management is one of the most common causes of grassland degradation, and thus, an assessment of soil properties under different grazing intensities is critical for understanding its effects on ecosystem nutrient cycling and for for...
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Xuyuan Zhang, Yingqing Guo, Haoran Luo, Tao Liu and Yijun Bao
The rapid identification of the amount and characteristics of chemical oxygen demand (COD) in influent water is critical to the operation of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), especially for WWTPs in the face of influent water with a low carbon/nitroge...
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Yu Kong, Jing Hu, Xiwu Lu and Changgen Cheng
The tail wastewater from sewage treatment facilities usually lacks carbon sources, and its subsequent treatment for deep nitrogen removal is difficult in natural conditions. In this study, the constructed wetland (CW) was integrated with microbial fuel c...
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Zuli Mao and Li Yang
We report the synthesis of SiC/Si3N4 coatings on carbon/carbon composites via pack cementation and heat treatment with nitrogen gas, the latter of which improves the coating wear resistance. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), en...
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Pranav K. Tripathi, Shane Durbach and Neil J. Coville
Plastic waste leaves a serious environmental footprint on the planet and it is imperative to reduce this. Consequently, recycling has been regarded as an important approach in providing one solution to this problem. In this study, we enhanced the value o...
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Huizhong Ma, Liandi Wang, Na Li, Junpu Li and Lan Zhang
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) has attracted much attention due to its unique properties such as high chemical inertness, optical transparency, and high biocompatibility. In this study, the total gas flow rate was kept constant, while the ratio of reactive ga...
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Yubo Li, Qin Zhu, Yang Zhang, Shuang Liu, Xiaoting Wang and Enheng Wang
Winter cover crops have been shown to promote the accumulation of microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen, enhance nutrient cycling, reduce erosion, improve ecosystem stability, etc. In the black soil area of Northeast China, Triticum aestivum L., Medicago...
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Huandi Li, Jiang Li, Xiyun Jiao, Hongzhe Jiang, Yong Liu, Xinglang Wang and Chao Ma
Due to containing an abundance of essential nutrients, straw has significant potential to mitigate carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) deficits in soil. However, a lack of comprehensive and systematic reviews on C, N, P, and K rel...
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Monika Skowronska, Sebastian Kusmierz and Jacek Walczak
Carbon and nitrogen compounds in agroecosystems have attracted much attention in recent years due to their key roles in crop production and their impacts on environment quality and/or climate change. Since fertilization profoundly disrupted the C and N c...
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Urte Stulpinaite, Vita Tilvikiene and Modupe Olufemi Doyeni
Improving soil health across agroecosystems has continued to receive attention around the globe, with an emphasis on sustainable organic inputs from agricultural practice. It is well known that different organic materials, such as composts, manure and ce...
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Nana Chen, Xin Zhao, Shuxian Dou, Aixing Deng, Chengyan Zheng, Tiehua Cao, Zhenwei Song and Weijian Zhang
Conservation tillage has received strong support globally to achieve food security and minimize environmental impacts. However, there are comprehensive debates on whether it can achieve the synergy between maintaining crop yields and improving soil quali...
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Zehua Liu, Hanghang Liu, Binbin Tan, Xidui Wang and Peifang Chong
Soil salinization is a common abiotic stress that severely limits the growth of Reaumuria soongarica and reduces its application value. To better understand the response of R. soongarica to salt stress and the physiological mechanisms of exogenous Ca2+ a...
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Mariana Brondi, Mohamed Eisa, Ricardo Bortoletto-Santos, Donata Drapanauskaite, Tara Reddington, Clinton Williams, Caue Ribeiro and Jonas Baltrusaitis
Ammonium carbonates are a group of fertilizer materials that include ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate hydrate, and ammonium carbamate. They can be synthesized from diverse nutrient-bearing liquid waste streams but are unstable in a moist environm...
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Larry E. Chase and Riccardo Fortina
The dairy industry is under pressure to reduce its environmental impact while producing more milk to meet society?s needs. Precision feed management (PFM) is one tool that can be used to meet this challenge. A simple definition of PFM is to provide adequ...
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Li Wang, Baobao Li, Hongyu Bai, Hong Ding, Na Xu, Chaofan Yin, Jingjing Xiong, Zhiwei Yang, Xianfa Rao and Binbin Dong
The pyrolytic carbon of polymer adsorbent resin (SAP) is used as a waste carbon source, which can be used as a porous carbon network via pyrolysis to remove surface sodium carbonate and other substances. In this paper, a ZnFe2O4/nitrogen-doped porous car...
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Dongwang Wang, Liang Zhang, Jinzhu Zhang, Wenhao Li, Haiqiang Li, Yonghui Liang, Yue Han, Pengcheng Luo and Zhenhua Wang
Xinjiang is short on freshwater resources and rich in ones. The unregulated use of brackish water for agriculture leads to the aggravation of secondary salinization in soil; however, magnetization can improve the quality of brackish water. To evaluate th...
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Yubo Zhao, Kexun Li, Bangsong Sheng, Feiyong Chen and Yang Song
Fluorine pollution of wastewater is a global environmental problem. Capacitive deionization has unique advantages in the defluorination of fluorine-containing wastewater; however, the low electrosorption capacity significantly restricts its further devel...
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Marina V. Il?ina, Olga I. Soboleva, Soslan A. Khubezov, Vladimir A. Smirnov and Oleg I. Il?in
The creation of sustainable power sources for wearable electronics and self-powered systems is a promising direction of modern electronics. At the moment, a search for functional materials with high values of piezoelectric coefficient and elasticity, as ...
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Danyang Li, Jinpei Yan, Zhiqiang Lu, Tianshu Chu, Jun Li and Tajen Chu
Organic matter in the productive mangrove?estuary ecosystem plays an important role in global climate changes. In recent years, the eutrophication in such areas caused by anthropogenic inputs of sewage has been revealed, highlighting the need to understa...
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