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Accordingly, mechanisms based on Carman-Kozeny equation and Flory-Huggins lattice theory were proposed to interpret SFR of SMPs with low and high MW, respectively. Simulating these two mechanistic models on PEG samples resulted in the comparable SFR data to the experimental ones, indicating the correctness and feasibility of the proposed mechanisms. The proposed mechanisms provided in-depth understanding of membrane fouling regarding MW, facilitating to develop effective membrane fouling mitigation strategies. CO2 reduction offers an attractive alternative green synthetic route for ethylene, especially where CO2 could be sourced from industrial exhausts and in combination with green power sources. However, practical applications are currently limited due to the unfortunately low selectivity of cathode materials towards ethylene. This work uses polymers with intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) to improve the performance of copper gas diffusion electrodes for CO2 reduction to ethylene. We report an improved selectivity and activity towards ethylene with the addition of a thin PIMs layer, which is seen as improved Faradaic efficiency, increased stability and a shift in the reduction to lower overpotential. This improvement is highly dependent on the thickness of the added polymer layer, with too thick a layer having a detrimental impact on the hydrophobicity of the gas diffusion layer. With a compromise in loading, PIMs can be used to enhance the activity and selectivity of catalysts for targeted CO2 reduction to ethylene.The intermolecular interactions of natural organic matter (NOM) play a key role in the fate and transport of organic carbon and pollutants in environmental and engineered systems. In this study, the impact of origin and structure on the aggregation behavior of NOM was investigated in the presence of naturally abundant cations. The physicochemical properties of NOM were quantified using a range of indices. Thermodynamic analysis suggests that the colloidal stability of NOM was mainly determined by its hydrophobicity (i.e., Lewis acid-base interactions). All NOM can be coagulated by Ca2+ owing to the strong cation-NOM interactions, which lead to bridging effect and lower Lewis acid-base interactions. Terrestrial NOM can be coagulated by Mg2+ while aquatic NOM cannot, owing to their different hydrophobicity. The critical coagulation concentrations of tested terrestrial NOM in the presence of Ca2+ (CCC-Ca) were quite similar at 1.94-4.88 mM despite their different structural properties. The CCC-Ca of tested aquatic NOM varied significantly from 46.89 mM to 110.40 mM depending on their structure. The optical indices including E2/E3, FI, and HIX can be potentially used as convenient indicators for assessing the colloidal stability of aquatic NOM for water treatment and risk assessment purposes. In this study, derivatives of two common fatty acids in plant root exudates, sodium palmitate and sodium linoleate (sodium aliphatates), were added to an aged Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminated soil to estimate their effectiveness in the removal of PAHs. Sodium linoleate was more effective in lowering PAHs and especially high-molecular-weight (4-6 ring) PAHs (HMW-PAHs). Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) indicates that both amendments led to a shift in the soil bacterial community. Moreover, linear discriminant effect size (LEfSe) analysis demonstrates that the specific PAHs degraders Pseudomonas, Arenimonas, Pseudoxanthomonas and Lysobacter belonging to the γ-proteobacteria and Nocardia and Rhodococcus belonging to the Actinobacteria were the biomarkers of, respectively, sodium linoleate and sodium palmitate amendments. Correlation analysis suggests that four biomarkers in the sodium linoleate amendment treatment from γ-proteobacteria were all highly linearly negatively related to HMW-PAHs residues (p  less then  0.01) while two biomarkers in the sodium palmitate amendment treatment from Actinobacteria were highly linearly negatively related to LMW-PAHs residues (p  less then  0.01). Higher removal efficiency of PAHs (especially HMW-PAHs) in the sodium linoleate amendment treatment than in the sodium palmitate amendment treatment might be ascribed to the specific enrichment of microbes from the γ-proteobacteria. The bacterial functional KEGG orthologs (KOs) assigned to PAHs metabolism and functional C23O and C12O genes related to cleavage of the benzene ring were both up-regulated. These results provide new insight into the mechanisms of the two sodium aliphatate amendments in accelerating PAHs biodegradation and have implications for practical application in the remediation of PAHs-contaminated soils. Theoretical calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) were employed to uncover the molecular-level oxidation mechanism of HCHO over Pt/TiO2 surface. All the three possible reaction mechanisms including Eley-Rideal mechanism, Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism and Mars-Van Krevelen mechanism were deeply investigated to determine the primary channel of HCHO oxidation on Pt/TiO2 catalyst. The adsorption energies and geometries show that HCHO and O2 are chemically adsorbed on Pt and Ti sites of the Pt/TiO2 catalyst surface, respectively. The adsorption energy of O2 (-141.91 kJ/mol) is higher than that of HCHO (-122.03 kJ/mol). HCHO oxidation reaction mainly occurs through the Eley-Rideal mechanism gaseous HCHO reacts with activated O produced from the dissociation reaction of molecular oxygen on Pt/TiO2 surface by comparing the three possible mechanisms. HCHO oxidation reaction prefers the pathway of HCHO → H2CO2 → HCO2 → CO2. In the whole HCHO oxidation reaction, the elementary reaction of HCO2 dehydrogenation presents the highest activation energy barrier of 230.45 kJ/mol. Therefore, HCO2 dehydrogenation is recognized as the rate-determining step. The proposed skeletal reaction scheme can be used to well understand the microcosmic reaction process of HCHO oxidation on Pt/TiO2 catalyst. Clam farming comprises an important part of China's economy. However, increasing pollution in the ocean caused by toxic metals has led to the bioaccumulation of toxic metals in marine animals, especially the bivalves such as clams, and the consequence of heavy metal-associated toxicity in these animals. Such toxicity can enhance the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within the tissues of the animals. In aquatic species, oxidative stress mechanisms have been studied by measuring the antioxidant and oxidative damage index in the tissues. Ziprasidone The objectives of this study were to investigate the levels of different toxic metals and the extent of oxidative stress responses in the clam Sinonovacula constricta at different growth periods (from May to October) in an aquaculture farm in Wengyang, an important economic shellfish culture zone in Zhejiang Province, China. Water and sediment samples taken from the farm were subjected to Pb, Hg, Cd, Cr assays. Overall, the levels of these metals in the water and sediment could be considered as light pollution, though the levels of Hg in the water (0.