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In the context of global climate change, the demand for new functional materials that are sustainable and environmentally friendly is rapidly increasing. Cellulose and lignin are the two most abundant raw materials in nature, and are ideal components for functional materials. [...]

The energy density of lithium-metal batteries (LMBs) relies substantially on the thickness of the lithium-metal anode. However, a bare, thin lithium foil electrode is vulnerable to fragmentation due to the inhomogeneity of the lithium stripping/plating process, disrupting the electron conduction pathway along the electrode. [...]

Nanopowders of the magnetite–maghemite series have been synthesized by coprecipitation from aqueous solutions and by the sol–gel method, and a comparative comprehensive study of their structure has been carried out using X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microscopy, low-temperature nitrogen adsorption, and small-angle polarized neutron scattering. It has been established that the resulting iron oxide nanopowders are porous systems that, depending on the synthesis method, have a one-level, two-level (for powders obtained by aqueous synthesis), or three-level (for powders obtained by the sol–gel method) hierarchical structure organization with different scales and different types of aggregation for each of the structural levels, and the characteristic size for the larger level in both cases is >45 nm [...]

Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) is apowerful non-destructive assay for toxic elementssuch as Cd, Hg or Pb in radioactive packages [1,2]. Inparticular, for long-lived actinides, e.g [...]