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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04073F, PaperJingkai Yan, Manohar Salla, Yuxi Song, Hang Zhang, Linbo Wang, Dao Gen Lek, Mengxiao Li, Junzhe Pei, Qinghua Xu, Qing Wang
A vanadium redox flow cell enables the electrified oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde with nearly 100% selectivity, preventing overoxidation and concurrently producing hydrogen, offering a scalable and energy-efficient synthesis strategy.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04716A, PaperHuidi Shi, Yiqun Du, Liu Yang, Bingying Sun, Ximing Yu, Anbin Hu, Shuhua Yang, Jinkai Li, Bingqiang Cao
The practical deployment of aqueous zinc batteries (AZBs) is impeded by hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) and uncontrolled dendrite formation on the zinc anode. This study proposes a green electrolyte engineering...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04157K, PaperLuisa Scolari, Oliver Musl, Nadine Kohlhuber, Irina Sulaeva, Stefan Grasböck, Josef Füssl, Michael Harasek, Antje Potthast, Markus Lukacevic
Fully biobased lignocellulosic biocomposites were fabricated by impregnating holocellulose fiber sheets with the ethanol-soluble fraction of technical lignins, followed by hot-pressing.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03769G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Antonio Leon-Vaz, Martin Plöhn, Juan Cubero-Cardoso, Juan Urbano, Christiane Funk
Development of a sustainable, low-cost sorbent, which highly efficiently removes heavy metals from complex mixtures and is reusable.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04489H, PaperStiven López Guzmán, Lisa Schlott, Cristina Luengo, Marine Reynaud, Marcus Fehse, Montse Galceran
A direct recycling approach for Si/Gr scrap electrodes was evaluated, showcasing a compelling combination of conservation of material properties and cost-effectiveness.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04596G, PaperJinglian Nong, Zehui Cao, Qin He, Yangyang Zhang, Jichao Chen, Yaxin Wang
We have developed a versatile, tunable method for NaNO2/HX (Cl or Br)-mediated radical nitration or vicinal dihalogenation of olefins.
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Green Chem., 2025, 27,13953-13954
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC90203G, Correction Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Zixiao Wang, Yuanyuan Qiu, Zheju Cheng, Honglu Huang, Yang Sui, Xin Liu, Yijie Yang, Yue Lu, Huie Zhu, Qingqing Ji, Jiajun Yan
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04476F, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Tamon Yamauchi, Taku Kitayama, Kaiji Uchida, Nino Keuzenkamp, Hiroaki Iguchi, Ryojun Toyoda, Ryota Sakamoto, Hao Xue, Naoki Kishimoto, Shin-ichiro Noro, Shinya Takaishi
Mn-PCy3 showed the highest H2/D2 separation ability among known materials due to a large difference in ZPVE. D2 separation with pressure swing adsorption using Mn-PCy3 could be achieved with ∼1/10 of the energy cost for distillation.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04601G, PaperZhuohang Li, Xuezi Xing, Ruichao Zhang, Xue Zeng, Ke Chu
Ag1/TiO2−x is explored as an efficient catalyst for urea electrosynthesis. Through a plasma-electrochemical route it achieves an exceptional urea faradaic efficiency of 75.7% and urea yield rate of 74.6 mmol h−1 g−1.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04025F, PaperYucheng Hu, Shixu Yu, Guohua Miao, Yuan He, Xiaoying Shen, Haichao Li, Feng Xu
Conceptual diagrams illustrating molecular insights into labile and stable interaction domains.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03212A, PaperYing Jiang, Dongfang Hou, Siyue Li, Sinan Xiao, Jiashuo Liu, Fenglan Lu, Xiu-Qing Qiao, Bojing Sun, Dong-Sheng Li
This study shows that the synergistic effect of a strong interface electric field, single-atom active sites, and photothermal effects of VDZIS/CoPPc can simultaneously improve photocatalytic hydrogen energy and high-value chemical production.
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC05166E, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Juho Pekka Helaja, Anna Lenarda, Itisha Jain, Aleksi Kaleva, Valtteri Oksanen, Sami Heikkinen, R. T. Koivula, Tom Wirtanen, Michele Melchionna, Tao Hu
Activated carbon derived porous materials, effectively enriched with OH and C=O groups, were found to mediate, in a cascade manner, the condensation between anilines and 3-hexenones or β-tetralones, followed by...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04437E, PaperKe Li, Xu Zhao, Dongchu Liu, Weifeng Jia, Qiang Peng
Epoxy thermosets' superior properties enable widespread applications, yet simultaneously impose persistent environmental burdens. Current recycling approaches remain hindered by insufficient understanding of degradation mechanisms and inadequate process control, resulting in...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04923G, PaperZi-Hang He, Wei-Lin Wang, Bin Li, Chang Liu
Peroxydisulfate (PDS)-based advanced oxidation processes are promising for reclaimed water treatment; however, they are often hindered by high energy demands, costly and complex catalyst synthesis, and the requirement for external...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04711K, PaperThomas Joseph Neal, Arturo Josue Ledezma Fierro, Fanny Coumes, Giovanni Poli, Alexandre Pradal, Jutta Rieger
We report the synthesis of a novel aromatic vinyl ketone monomer (BioPVK) from an abundant product of lignin depolymerisation, syringaldehyde. We demonstrate that BioPVK can be homopolymerised and copolymerised with...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03792A, PaperYuanyuan Yan, Wunengerile Zhang, Tegshi Muschin, Agula Bao, Chaolumen Bai, Dan Liu, Yong-Sheng Bao
The site-selective cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) of two simple arenes is an ideal C-C bond forming strategy to furnish structurally diverse molecules. In general, the site-selectivity represents the state-of-the-art in organic...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04825G, PaperQiong Chai, Babar Hussain Shah, Fengming Zhang, Meiqi Li, Yong Jian Zhang
An easily made and highly efficient vinyl-functionalized amphiphilic polymer, polyethylene glycol-polyvinylethylene glycol (PEG-PVEG), designed based on the metal-olefin interactions, has been developed via one-step allylic etherification polymerization. The superior performance...
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Green Chem., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC04123F, PaperKuangjia Tian, Jiali Zhang, Jiaxi Bai, Yi Liang, Wenzhuo Shen, Min Zhong, Shouwu Guo
Recovery and reuse of electrode materials from spent lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the sustainable development of the lithium-ion battery industry. In this study, we describe an aqueous solution based...
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02358K, Communication Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Momoko Ishii, Maria M. Paulsen, Remi A. Mellinghoff, Heather O. LeClerc, Ho Yin Tse, Hanno C. Erythropel, Julie B. Zimmerman, Paul T. Anastas, Darren S. Lee
Alternating polarity enhanced redox-neutral electrochemical formation of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from CO2 and methanol. Alternating the polarity was found to be necessary for efficient reoxidation of Pd0 → Pd2+ thus enabling higher yields of DMC.
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Green Chem., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5GC02878G, PaperHui Peng, Kaifa Dong, Xin Wang, Yaping Jing, Pengyun Xie, Xuan Xie, Zhe Zhang, Guofu Ma
Green CPL co-solvents work by restructuring the Zn2+ solvation structure and the electrode/electrolyte interface Helmholtz layer, building a dynamic SEI, and favoring Zn(002)-oriented nucleation, which enables efficient Zn2+ energy storage systems.
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