Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100628
Simon Elias Bibri, Jeffrey Huang
<div><div>Buildings are among the largest contributors to global energy consumption and carbon emissions, making their transformation essential for advancing environmental sustainability goals. Innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twins (DTs) offer powerful tools for optimizing performance in smart, green, and zero-energy buildings. However, existing research remains fragmented—AI and AI-driven DT applications are often confined to isolated functions or specific building types—resulting in a limited, non-cohesive understanding of their collective potential in the built environment. This fragmentation, in turn, has hindered the development of integrated strategies that link building-level efficiencies with the broader environmental objectives of smart cities. To address these interrelated gaps, this study conducts a comprehensive systematic review of leading-edge AI and AI-powered DT solutions applied across smart, green, and zero-energy buildings. It aims to provide a holistic understanding of how these solutions enhance environmental performance through the analysis of key building-related indicators. By synthesizing, comparing, and evaluating recent research, it examines how AI and AI-powered DT technologies facilitate integrated, system-level strategies that promote environmentally sustainable smart practices across the built environment. The study reveals that AI enhances smart buildings by enabling dynamic energy optimization, occupant-centered environmental control, improved thermal comfort, renewable energy integration, and predictive system management. In green buildings, <span>AI</span> contributes to greater resource efficiency, minimizes construction and operational waste, promotes the use of sustainable materials, strengthens cost estimation and risk assessment processes, and supports adaptive design strategies. For zero-energy buildings, <span>AI</span> facilitates multi-objective optimization, advances explainable and transparent AI-driven control systems, supports performance benchmarking against net and nearly zero-energy standards, and enables renewable energy integration tailored to diverse climatic and regulatory contexts. Furthermore, AI-powered DTs enable real-time environmental monitoring, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and adaptive operational strategies, thereby enhancing building performance, energy optimization, and resilience. At broader spatial scales, these technologies foster interconnected urban ecosystems, advancing environmental sustainability, sustainable development, and smart city initiatives. Building on these insights, this study introduces a novel integrated framework that positions AI and AI-driven DTs as systemic enablers of environmentally sustainable smart built and urban environments, emphasizing their cross-scale convergence in promoting carbon neutrality, circular economy principles, climate resilience, and regenerative urban strategies. The findings offer
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100636
Zhicong Yin , Yu Lei , Xi Lu , Qiang Zhang , Jicheng Gong , Xin Liu , Wei Li , Cilan Cai , Qimin Chai , Renjie Chen , Wenhui Chen , Hancheng Dai , Zhanfeng Dong , Jingli Fan , Guannan Geng , Cunrui Huang , Jianlin Hu , Shan Hu , Moyu Li , Tiantian Li , Kebin He
Addressing climate change and air pollution exhibits strong synergy, and the Chinese government is actively promoting the integrated management of these two issues. Since 2019, the China Clean Air Policy Partnership has released annual reports on China's progress in climate and air pollution governance. These reports track and analyze the challenges and propose solutions for China's pursuit of carbon neutrality and clean air by developing and monitoring key indicators across five areas. This report is the fourth annual report. Building on previous research, it further refines the collaborative governance monitoring indicator system, including the addition of climate change and extreme weather, atmospheric greenhouse gases, and enhanced efficiency of pollution removal technologies. The report includes the following components: (1) an analysis of the interactions between air pollution and climate change; (2) a discussion of governance systems and practices, with an emphasis on policy implementation and local experiences; (3) coverage of structural changes and emission reduction technologies, including energy and industrial transitions, transportation, low-carbon buildings, carbon capture and storage, and power systems; (4) an overview of atmospheric dynamics and emission pathways, examining emission drivers and offering insights for future coordinated governance; and (5) an evaluation of the health impacts and benefits of joint actions. These efforts underscore China's commitment to integrated control, resulting in slowed carbon emission growth, improved air quality, and enhanced health benefits.
{"title":"The 2024 report of the synergetic roadmap on carbon neutrality and clean air for China: Pollution and carbon reduction promote green economic development","authors":"Zhicong Yin , Yu Lei , Xi Lu , Qiang Zhang , Jicheng Gong , Xin Liu , Wei Li , Cilan Cai , Qimin Chai , Renjie Chen , Wenhui Chen , Hancheng Dai , Zhanfeng Dong , Jingli Fan , Guannan Geng , Cunrui Huang , Jianlin Hu , Shan Hu , Moyu Li , Tiantian Li , Kebin He","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100636","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100636","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing climate change and air pollution exhibits strong synergy, and the Chinese government is actively promoting the integrated management of these two issues. Since 2019, the China Clean Air Policy Partnership has released annual reports on China's progress in climate and air pollution governance. These reports track and analyze the challenges and propose solutions for China's pursuit of carbon neutrality and clean air by developing and monitoring key indicators across five areas. This report is the fourth annual report. Building on previous research, it further refines the collaborative governance monitoring indicator system, including the addition of climate change and extreme weather, atmospheric greenhouse gases, and enhanced efficiency of pollution removal technologies. The report includes the following components: (1) an analysis of the interactions between air pollution and climate change; (2) a discussion of governance systems and practices, with an emphasis on policy implementation and local experiences; (3) coverage of structural changes and emission reduction technologies, including energy and industrial transitions, transportation, low-carbon buildings, carbon capture and storage, and power systems; (4) an overview of atmospheric dynamics and emission pathways, examining emission drivers and offering insights for future coordinated governance; and (5) an evaluation of the health impacts and benefits of joint actions. These efforts underscore China's commitment to integrated control, resulting in slowed carbon emission growth, improved air quality, and enhanced health benefits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 100636"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145681499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100631
Petr Znachor , Dušan Kosour , Luděk Rederer , Václav Koza , Vojtěch Kolář , Jiří Nedoma
Freshwater reservoirs are critical for water management but face increasing impacts from climate change, which alters their thermal regimes and affects ecosystem functions globally. In temperate regions, surface water temperatures have risen at rates often surpassing those of air temperature, driven by atmospheric warming, hydrological processes, and reservoir morphometry. However, long-term studies on reservoir-specific thermal responses, particularly short-term variability, remain scarce. An important question is how environmental drivers influence both long-term warming trends and daily thermal fluctuations in managed water bodies. Here we show that over 31 years (1991–2021), surface water temperatures in 35 Czech reservoirs increased by an average of 0.59 °C per decade, with air temperature, altitude, and retention time as primary predictors of mean temperatures. A novel corrected metric for day-to-day variability (DTDV) revealed that inflow rate, depth, and retention time strongly influence short-term fluctuations, and DTDV trends positively correlated with warming rates, indicating linked drivers of thermal reorganization. Seasonal patterns showed strongest warming in April, with an anomaly of minimal change in May, likely tied to regional climatic shifts. These findings elucidate climate-driven thermal dynamics in reservoirs, highlighting the interaction of climatic and local factors. By combining statistical modeling with process-based indicators, this study informs adaptive strategies to mitigate impacts on water quality, stratification, and biodiversity under changing climates.
{"title":"Tracking reservoir warming in a changing climate: A 31-year study from Czechia","authors":"Petr Znachor , Dušan Kosour , Luděk Rederer , Václav Koza , Vojtěch Kolář , Jiří Nedoma","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Freshwater reservoirs are critical for water management but face increasing impacts from climate change, which alters their thermal regimes and affects ecosystem functions globally. In temperate regions, surface water temperatures have risen at rates often surpassing those of air temperature, driven by atmospheric warming, hydrological processes, and reservoir morphometry. However, long-term studies on reservoir-specific thermal responses, particularly short-term variability, remain scarce. An important question is how environmental drivers influence both long-term warming trends and daily thermal fluctuations in managed water bodies. Here we show that over 31 years (1991–2021), surface water temperatures in 35 Czech reservoirs increased by an average of 0.59 °C per decade, with air temperature, altitude, and retention time as primary predictors of mean temperatures. A novel corrected metric for day-to-day variability (<em>DTDV</em>) revealed that inflow rate, depth, and retention time strongly influence short-term fluctuations, and <em>DTDV</em> trends positively correlated with warming rates, indicating linked drivers of thermal reorganization. Seasonal patterns showed strongest warming in April, with an anomaly of minimal change in May, likely tied to regional climatic shifts. These findings elucidate climate-driven thermal dynamics in reservoirs, highlighting the interaction of climatic and local factors. By combining statistical modeling with process-based indicators, this study informs adaptive strategies to mitigate impacts on water quality, stratification, and biodiversity under changing climates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 100631"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145418223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100633
Rundong Feng , Bin Chen , Shenghe Liu , Fuyuan Wang , Kaiyong Wang , Bojie Fu
Urban greenspaces enhance human well-being and promote sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions by delivering vital ecosystem services, including cooling, air purification, and recreation. In China, where cities accommodate a large share of the population amid persistent environmental pressures, disparities in greenspace exposure pose a major obstacle to equitable access; these disparities arise from geographic, climatic, socioeconomic, and landscape factors. Although awareness of such inequalities is growing, their long-term trajectories, demographic and city-scale patterns, and viable spatial optimization approaches remain largely unexplored. Here we show that greenspace exposure inequality across 246 Chinese cities increased by 25 % from 2000 to 2020 and is projected to rise further by 12.2–15.7 % by 2050 under middle-of-the-road and fossil-fueled development scenarios, disproportionately affecting older, less-educated women and megacity residents. Geodetector and random forest analyses reveal that this rise results from interactions among greenspace coverage, population density, and patch connectivity, which explain 83.9 % of the inequality. A network-based optimization approach that improves patch connectivity—without expanding total greenspace—can reduce disparities by 10.3–20.8 %, with greater efficacy in high-inequality cities and among vulnerable populations. Our results highlight how precise landscape interventions can advance social equity in greenspace access, supporting Sustainable Development Goal 11 for inclusive, resilient urban environments.
{"title":"Utilizing network optimization to mitigate rising greenspace exposure inequalities in Chinese cities from 2000 to 2050","authors":"Rundong Feng , Bin Chen , Shenghe Liu , Fuyuan Wang , Kaiyong Wang , Bojie Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban greenspaces enhance human well-being and promote sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions by delivering vital ecosystem services, including cooling, air purification, and recreation. In China, where cities accommodate a large share of the population amid persistent environmental pressures, disparities in greenspace exposure pose a major obstacle to equitable access; these disparities arise from geographic, climatic, socioeconomic, and landscape factors. Although awareness of such inequalities is growing, their long-term trajectories, demographic and city-scale patterns, and viable spatial optimization approaches remain largely unexplored. Here we show that greenspace exposure inequality across 246 Chinese cities increased by 25 % from 2000 to 2020 and is projected to rise further by 12.2–15.7 % by 2050 under middle-of-the-road and fossil-fueled development scenarios, disproportionately affecting older, less-educated women and megacity residents. Geodetector and random forest analyses reveal that this rise results from interactions among greenspace coverage, population density, and patch connectivity, which explain 83.9 % of the inequality. A network-based optimization approach that improves patch connectivity—without expanding total greenspace—can reduce disparities by 10.3–20.8 %, with greater efficacy in high-inequality cities and among vulnerable populations. Our results highlight how precise landscape interventions can advance social equity in greenspace access, supporting Sustainable Development Goal 11 for inclusive, resilient urban environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 100633"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100634
Dong Xu, Yi-Chen Wang
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100637
Gabriele Ghiotto, Luca Francescato, Maria Agustina Biancalani, Laura Treu, Stefano Campanaro
Microbial communities drive essential bioprocesses, including the conversion of synthesis gas into biomethane, a sustainable energy source that supports circular carbon economies. In anaerobic environments, specialized consortia of bacteria and archaea facilitate syngas methanation through syntrophic interactions, where hydrogenotrophic methanogens play a central role in reducing carbon dioxide and monoxide with hydrogen. However, imbalances in gas ratios, particularly excess hydrogen, can disrupt these interactions and impair overall efficiency. Yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying microbial responses to such imbalances remain poorly understood. Here we show that hydrogen excess triggers profound metabolic and viral remodeling in a thermophilic anaerobic microbiome, leading to reduced methane yields and ecological instability. This reprogramming involves transcriptional downregulation of methanogenesis genes in the dominant archaeon Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus, coupled with upregulation of CRISPR-Cas and restriction-modification systems that correlate with diminished activity of an associated phage, indicating activated host defenses against viral threats. Concurrently, bacterial species such as those from Tepidanaerobacteraceae enhance carbon fixation via the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway, serving as electron sinks to mitigate redox imbalance. These adaptive responses highlight the microbiome's resilience mechanisms under stress, revealing viruses as both stressors and selective forces in syntrophic systems. Such insights advance our understanding of microbiome dynamics in bioconversion processes and guide the engineering of more stable microbial consortia for optimized syngas-to-methane conversion amid variable feedstocks.
{"title":"Hydrogen excess drives metabolic reprogramming and viral dynamics in syngas-converting microbiomes","authors":"Gabriele Ghiotto, Luca Francescato, Maria Agustina Biancalani, Laura Treu, Stefano Campanaro","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100637","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100637","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microbial communities drive essential bioprocesses, including the conversion of synthesis gas into biomethane, a sustainable energy source that supports circular carbon economies. In anaerobic environments, specialized consortia of bacteria and archaea facilitate syngas methanation through syntrophic interactions, where hydrogenotrophic methanogens play a central role in reducing carbon dioxide and monoxide with hydrogen. However, imbalances in gas ratios, particularly excess hydrogen, can disrupt these interactions and impair overall efficiency. Yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying microbial responses to such imbalances remain poorly understood. Here we show that hydrogen excess triggers profound metabolic and viral remodeling in a thermophilic anaerobic microbiome, leading to reduced methane yields and ecological instability. This reprogramming involves transcriptional downregulation of methanogenesis genes in the dominant archaeon <em>Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus</em>, coupled with upregulation of CRISPR-Cas and restriction-modification systems that correlate with diminished activity of an associated phage, indicating activated host defenses against viral threats. Concurrently, bacterial species such as those from Tepidanaerobacteraceae enhance carbon fixation via the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway, serving as electron sinks to mitigate redox imbalance. These adaptive responses highlight the microbiome's resilience mechanisms under stress, revealing viruses as both stressors and selective forces in syntrophic systems. Such insights advance our understanding of microbiome dynamics in bioconversion processes and guide the engineering of more stable microbial consortia for optimized syngas-to-methane conversion amid variable feedstocks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 100637"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145736104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100627
Xi-Ze Min , Fei Chen , Zhi-Zhong Zhang , Lu Wang , Aasim M. Ali , Håkon A. Langberg , Sarah E. Hale , Gijsbert D. Breedveld , Bjørn Munro Jenssen , Åse-Karen Mortensen , Tomasz Ciesielski , Geir Wing Gabrielsen , Nan-Qi Ren , Yi-Fan Li , Zi-Feng Zhang , Roland Kallenborn
The Arctic, though remote, is exceptionally vulnerable to chemical contaminants that threaten its fragile ecosystems. Bisphenols (BPs), a class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals used in plastics and resins, are now detected across the Arctic, but the risks posed by their many analogues are poorly understood. Most studies have focused on documenting their presence, leaving a critical gap in our understanding of whether these compounds bioaccumulate in Arctic food webs and to what extent local, within-Arctic pollution contributes to the overall burden. Here we show, through a comprehensive analysis of 32 BPs in 134 samples from a Norwegian Arctic food web, that multiple BP analogues not only bioaccumulate but also biomagnify from plankton up to polar bears. We found that 5,5′-(1-methylethylidene)bis [(1,1′-biphenyl)-2-ol] (BPPH) exhibited the highest trophic magnification factor (TMF = 2.3), and we documented total BP concentrations in polar bear tissues up to 1396 ng g−1 wet weight, orders of magnitude higher than in lower-trophic-level species. Furthermore, our analysis identified distinct local pollution sources, such as a firefighting training site releasing 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TBP) and landfill leachate contributing other BPs to the local environment. These findings provide the first evidence of trophic magnification for multiple BPs in a polar food chain and underscore the urgent need to incorporate food-web dynamics and local source management into ecological risk assessments for the Arctic.
北极虽然地处偏远，但却特别容易受到威胁其脆弱生态系统的化学污染物的影响。双酚（bp）是一种用于塑料和树脂的内分泌干扰化学物质，现在在整个北极地区都被检测到，但人们对它们的许多类似物所带来的风险知之甚少。大多数研究都集中在记录它们的存在，这给我们的理解留下了一个关键的空白，即这些化合物是否在北极食物网中生物积累，以及北极内部的局部污染在多大程度上造成了总体负担。在这里，我们通过对来自挪威北极食物网的134个样本中的32种BP的综合分析表明，多种BP类似物不仅可以生物积累，还可以生物放大，从浮游生物到北极熊。我们发现5,5 ' -（1-甲基乙基）二[（1,1 ' -联苯）-2-醇]（BPPH）具有最高的营养放大因子（TMF = 2.3），并且我们记录了北极熊组织中的总BP浓度高达1396 ng g - 1湿重，比低营养水平物种高几个数量级。此外，我们的分析确定了不同的当地污染源，如消防训练场地释放2,4,6-三氯苯酚（2,4,6- tbp）和垃圾填埋场渗滤液，这些污染物对当地环境产生了其他bp。这些发现为极地食物链中多个bp的营养放大提供了第一个证据，并强调了将食物网动态和当地资源管理纳入北极生态风险评估的迫切需要。
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Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) offers a unique window into the health and habits of communities through the analysis of pollutants and biomarkers in sewage. Traditionally focused on small molecules, such as pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs, recent advances in environmental proteomics have expanded WBE to include large biomolecules such as proteins. Notably, novel sampling methods using polymeric probes and high-resolution mass spectrometry have facilitated the detection of human and animal proteins, both soluble and in particulate material, linking them to specific populations and industrial activities. An immunological dimension to this approach is fundamental to include the recognition of host immunoglobulins, immune-response proteins, and pathogen antigens in wastewater, potentially serving as indicators of community immune status, infection prevalence, and vaccination coverage. This review consolidates the latest advancements in environmental proteomics as applied to WBE, emphasizing an immunological perspective as a comprehensive tool for assessing population health and environmental conditions to bridge environmental monitoring, public health, and clinical diagnostics.
{"title":"Immunoproteomics for wastewater-based health surveillance: A review","authors":"Jaxaira Maggi , Joaquin Abian , Antoni Ginebreda , Damià Barceló , Montserrat Carrascal","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100626","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100626","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) offers a unique window into the health and habits of communities through the analysis of pollutants and biomarkers in sewage. Traditionally focused on small molecules, such as pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs, recent advances in environmental proteomics have expanded WBE to include large biomolecules such as proteins. Notably, novel sampling methods using polymeric probes and high-resolution mass spectrometry have facilitated the detection of human and animal proteins, both soluble and in particulate material, linking them to specific populations and industrial activities. An immunological dimension to this approach is fundamental to include the recognition of host immunoglobulins, immune-response proteins, and pathogen antigens in wastewater, potentially serving as indicators of community immune status, infection prevalence, and vaccination coverage. This review consolidates the latest advancements in environmental proteomics as applied to WBE, emphasizing an immunological perspective as a comprehensive tool for assessing population health and environmental conditions to bridge environmental monitoring, public health, and clinical diagnostics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"28 ","pages":"Article 100626"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145467089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100639
Yanjiao Li , Lianfeng Wang , Yuting Ning , Ying Yuan , Xinping Fu , Jun Cui , Yu Jiang
Environmental pollution from persistent pharmaceuticals like carbamazepine (CBZ) poses severe risks to aquatic ecosystems and human health, yet conventional treatments struggle with low concentrations and secondary pollution. Piezo-photocatalysis, which harnesses mechanical and solar energies to drive charge separation, offers a promising alternative using materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), whose layered structure enables tunable piezoelectricity but is hindered by rapid electron-hole recombination and structural instability. However, the mechanistic role of oxygen doping in repairing sulfur vacancies and enhancing symmetry-breaking for improved performance remains underexplored. Here we show that hydrothermally synthesized oxygen-doped MoS2 (O5-MoS2) fully degrades 2 mg L−1 CBZ in 25 min under combined ultrasound and visible light, achieving a rate constant (kobs) of 0.13 min−1—11.4 times higher than undoped MoS2. This stems from oxygen substitution narrowing the bandgap to 1.94 eV, boosting the piezoelectric coefficient to 63 p.m. V−1 (versus 26 p.m. V−1), and generating a 0.19 V built-in potential that drives charge separation, as confirmed by 4.18 μA cm−2 synergistic photocurrents, density functional theory calculations revealing heightened Mo–O charge transfer (2.08–2.36 e−), and finite element simulations of deformation-induced fields. Over five cycles, O5-MoS2 retains 100 % efficiency with minimal Mo leaching (1.9 %), reducing product toxicity across fish, daphnid, and algal models. These findings delineate oxygen doping's dual role in defect mitigation and polarization enhancement, paving the way for robust piezo-photocatalytic systems in real-world water purification.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2025.100629
Xizi Long , Yuanyuan Jiang , Zhaozhong Zhu , Yu Li , Nan Hu , Junzhan Hong , Hui Wang , Fei Yang
Uranium contamination from mining and natural sources poses a major environmental and health risk, as soluble uranium U(VI) readily migrates through groundwater systems. Microbial reduction to insoluble U(IV) via dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria offers a sustainable remediation method, relying on extracellular electron transfer (EET) to shuttle electrons to extracellular acceptors. Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (S.MR-1) serves as a model organism for this process, but its EET efficiency is hindered by limited endogenous redox mediators and biofilm conductivity. Despite advances in genetic engineering, the potential of synthetic microbial communities to enhance EET through interspecies interactions remains underexplored. Here we show a synthetic consortium comprising S.MR-1 and a non-U-reducing isolate, Pseudomonas aeruginosa LXZ1 (P.LXZ1), that fully reduces U(VI) within 48 h, compared to only 60 % reduction by S.MR-1 alone. This enhancement stems from P.LXZ1-secreted pyocyanin, which binds selectively to S.MR-1's outer-membrane cytochrome OmcA, shifting its redox potential to facilitate directional electron flow along a thermodynamic gradient. Concurrently, conductive extracellular DNA released by P. LXZ1 promotes electron transport and aggregate formation, as evidenced by electrochemical assays, transcriptomics, and molecular dynamics simulations. These synergistic mechanisms alleviate proton-transfer limitations and upregulate metabolic pathways, boosting overall EET rates. By harnessing natural microbial cooperation, this approach provides insights into community-driven metal reduction and paves the way for efficient, scalable bioremediation strategies in contaminated sites.
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