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Elise Bertheau, Valérie Simon and Christine Delgado Raynaud
Wood-based panels are ubiquitous in our daily lives, both as building materials and as furnishing materials. Numerous studies have revealed that these materials emit volatile organic compounds, such as formaldehyde, into indoor air, which can be harmful ...
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Francesca Merli, Said Bouzit, Mohamed Taha and Cinzia Buratti
Due to the high impact of the building sector on the environment, a growing interest focuses on insulating materials able to ensure good thermo-acoustic performance for the building envelope from a sustainable and circular economy perspective. In this co...
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Martina Bertolini, Sarah Zecchin and Lucia Cavalca
Chlorinated ethene contamination is a worldwide relevant health issue. In anaerobic aquifers, highly chlorinated ethenes are transformed by microbially-mediated organohalide respiration metabolism. For this reason, in the last few years, bioremediation i...
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Omar El Hawary, Luca Boccarusso, Martin P. Ansell, Massimo Durante and Fulvio Pinto
Environmental emergency awareness has been gaining momentum in recent years in the composite manufacturing industry, with a new generation of composite materials minimizing their harmful environmental impacts by employing more sustainable manufacturing p...
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Henriette Fischer and Azra Korjenic
The use of renewable building materials in construction is crucial to minimising the environmental impact of new buildings. Bio-based building materials have a wide range of positive properties, many of which are due to their hygroscopic behaviour. The p...
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Simone Becarelli, Giacomo Bernabei, Giovanna Siracusa, Diego Baderna, Monica Ruffini Castiglione, Giampiero De Simone and Simona Di Gregorio
To accelerate the depletion of total petroleum hydrocarbons, a hydrocarburoclastic ascomycetes, Lambertella sp. MUT 5852, was bioaugmented to dredged sediments co-composting with a lignocellulosic matrix. After only 28 days of incubation, a complete depl...
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António A. S. Correia, Joana B. Caldeira, Rita Branco and Paula V. Morais
Traditional soil stabilization methods are usually associated with high energy consumption, carbon emissions, and long-term environmental impact. Recent developments have shown the potential use of bio-based techniques as eco-friendly alternatives for so...
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Bahia Karkach, Mohammed Tahiri, Achraf Haibi, Mohsine Bouya and Fatima Kifani-Sahban
The fast depletion of fossil fuels and growing concerns about environmental sustainability have increased interest in using biomass as a renewable energy source. Fast pyrolysis, a thermochemical conversion process, has emerged as a promising technique fo...
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Albert A. Griño, Jr., Hannah Shane P. Soriano, Michael Angelo B. Promentilla and Jason Maximino C. Ongpeng
This study explored self-healing in geopolymer mortar cured at ambient temperature using polypropylene fibers and bacterial co-cultures of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus megaterium. Damage degree, compressive strength, ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), st...
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Mary T. Motloung, Sifiso I. Magagula, Andiswa Kaleni, Tlholohelo S. Sikhosana, Kgomotso Lebelo and Mokgaotsa J. Mochane
Clean water is very important for the good health of society. In South Africa, it is estimated that people need 20 to 50 litres of safe water daily for basic hygiene, drinking, and cooking. In recent times, water bodies have harboured harmful pollutants,...
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