A Strategy to Revalue a Wood Waste for Simultaneous Cadmium Removal and Wastewater Disinfection by Aleksandra Ivanovska, Sonja Veljović, Biljana Dojčinović, Nenad Tadić, Katarina Mihajlovski, Maja Natić, Mirjana Kostić

“…All samples were characterized in terms of their crystallinity index and crystallite size, amount of functional groups, and surface chemistry (determined by ATR-FTIR) as well as antibacterial activity. …”
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Upgrade of a variable temperature scanning tunneling microscope for nanometer-scale spectromicroscopy by B. Cirera, A. Sáez-Coronado, D. Arribas, J. Méndez, A. Sagwal, R. de Campos Ferreira, M. Švec, P. Merino

“…This upgrade opens new possibilities for studying surface chemistry, catalysis, and molecular electronics at state-of-the-art spatial and spectral resolutions using accessible SPM systems. • Portable lens holder • In-situ adjustable position • Nanometer-scale vibrational spectroscopy…”
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In-situ probing of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction on Co single crystal surfaces up to 1 bar by Patrick Lömker, David Degerman, Christopher M. Goodwin, Mikhail Shipilin, Peter Amann, Gabriel L. S. Rodrigues, Fernando Garcia-Martinez, Raffael Rameshan, Jörgen Gladh, Hsin-Yi Wang, Markus Soldemo, Alexander Holm, Steffen Tober, Jan-Christian Schober, Leon Jacobse, Vedran Vonk, Robert Gleißner, Heshmat Noei, Zoltan Hegedues, Andreas Stierle, Christoph Schlueter, Anders Nilsson

“…Abstract The surface chemistry of the Fischer-Tropsch catalytic reaction over Co has still several unknows. …”
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PLLA honeycombs activated by plasma and high-energy excimer laser for stem cell support by P. Slepička, N. Slepičková Kasálková, J. Musílková, L. Bačáková, B. Frýdlová, P. Sajdl, Z. Kolská, E. Rebollar, V. Švorčík

“…The surface morphologies of the pristine and laser-treated PLLA patterns were studied using atomic force and scanning electron microscopy. The surface chemistry was analyzed using energy-dispersive spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. …”
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Fish Scale-Derived Scaffolds for Culturing Human Corneal Endothelial Cells by Mohit Parekh, Bert Van den Bogerd, Nadia Zakaria, Diego Ponzin, Stefano Ferrari

“…FSS needs further modification in terms of structure and surface chemistry before considering it as a potential carrier for cultured HCEnCs.…”
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Ultrafast Sintering of Dense Li7La3Zr2O12 Membranes for Li Metal All‐Solid‐State Batteries by Faruk Okur, Huanyu Zhang, Julian F. Baumgärtner, Jaka Sivavec, Matthias Klimpel, Gregor Paul Wasser, Romain Dubey, Lars P.H. Jeurgens, Dmitry Chernyshov, Wouter vanBeek, Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk, Maksym V. Kovalenko

“…The chemical and structural evolution of LLZO membranes during the UFS process is characterized through in situ synchrotron X‐ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis‐mass spectrometry, complemented by an in‐depth investigation of surface chemistry using X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. …”
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Fiber-tip photonic crystal for real-time referenced biosensing in serum by Mathias Dolci, Paco Dreverman, Mildred S. Cano-Velázquez, Arthur L. Hendriks, Emiel Veth, P.J. van Veldhoven, Andrea Fiore, Peter Zijlstra

“…Here, we demonstrate the use of a PhC transferred to the tip of a single-mode fiber for biosensing. The control of surface chemistry provides a sensitive platform for the molecular recognition of antibody biomarkers. …”
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Quantification and identification of microfibers released from textiles during simulated accelerated washing by João Pinto da Costa, Ana Costa, Andréa Marinho, Alcina Pimenta, Ana Paula Fonte, Ana L. Patrício Silva, António José Fernandes, Florinda M. Costa, Damià Barceló, Lúcia H.M.L.M. Santos, Armando Duarte, Teresa Rocha-Santos

“…Microplastics, including plastic microfibers, consist of a wide range of materials of varying composition and morphology, as well as surface chemistry. Given their already demonstrated ubiquity in the environment and the inherent complexity of the different matrices in which these are found, detection and quantification methods are, consequently, quite disparate and gathered data are often not amenable for comparison. …”
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Synthesis of Mg-, Al- and Mg/Al-date palm fronds modified biochars: characterization and investigations on phosphorus adsorption characteristics by Jellali, Salah, Hadroug, Samar, Al-Wardy, Malik, Hamdi, Helmi,  Al-Sabahi, Jamal, Bekri, Imene, Al-Raeesi, Ahmed, Hamdi, Wissem,  Jeguirim, Mejdi

“…Subsequently, the structural, textural, and surface chemistry properties of these biochars were assessed. …”
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Scalable Fabrication of Light-Responsive Superhydrophobic Composite Phase Change Materials via Bionic-Engineered Wood for Solar–Thermal Energy Management by Yang Meng, Jiangyu Zhang, Yuchan Li, Hui Jiang, Delong Xie

“…Herein, a multifunctional composite phase change material (CPCM) is developed using a balsa-derived morphology genetic scaffold, engineered via bionic catechol surface chemistry. The scaffold undergoes selective delignification, followed by a simple, room-temperature polydopamine (PDA) modification to deposit Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) and graft octadecyl chains, resulting in a superhydrophobic hierarchical structure. …”
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g-C₃N₄ Modified with Metal Sulfides for Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants by Shoaib Mukhtar, Erzsébet Szabó-Bárdos, Csilla Őze, Tatjána Juzsakova, Kornél Rácz, Miklós Németh, Ottó Horváth

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Adsorption performance of hydrophobically modified silica gel for the vapors of -hexane and water by Weiqiu Huang, Jixing Xu, Bo Tang, Hongning Wang, Xiaobin Tan, Aihua Lv

“…The hydrophobic properties modified silica gel (SG-2) was analyzed by comparing the difference changes of surface chemistries. Then, the adsorption capacities of SG-1 and SG-2 to the n -hexane vapor and water vapor, respectively, were investigated and compared with the capacities of activated carbon and SG-3 (hydrophobically modified using the same composite modifier without microwave exposure). …”
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Probing Silica—Organic Hybrid Materials Using Small Probes: Simulation of Adsorption Equilibria Influenced by Cooperativity Effects by Anton Panteleimonov, Oleg Tkachenko, Andrey Baraban, Edilson V. Benvenutti, Yoshitaka Gushikem, Yuriy Kholin

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