Hydrothermal conversion of biomass waste for valuable chemicals and materials is a promising environment friendly option for biomass resource utilization.

Electrochemical reactions and processes offer a wide and flexible set of tools that enable innovative and varied separations.

The improvements in upstream have boosted high productivity in the bio-manufacturing industry, which is shifting the bottlenecks to downstream processing. A multiscale approach of rational design would be introduced to improve the efficiency of downstream bioprocesses.

The valorization of waste biomass, lipid or lignocellulosic, has been proposed as an alternative to first generation biofuels as well as for producing high value chemicals and related products.

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has considerable epidemiological ramifications, predicted to reach pandemic proportions in the next few decades. Although AR is traditionally linked to hospitals and the community, there is growing evidence that it is also associated with the environment.

Since accession of WTO in 2002, China’s export and annual GDP growth has accelerated, so has environmental aggravation, triggering the “pollution haven” debate.

Ultrafine particles [PM0.1 or nanoparticles (NPs)] are prevalent in the atmosphere, originating from fuel combustion and terrestrial vegetation.

High temperature solar thermochemical energy storage (STCES) has promise to provide a low cost and high temperature storage solution for solar thermal applications.  However, the current status of STCES is at an early stage of development and substantial research and development is required

2018 continued to be an eventful year in the world in terms of extreme weather with heatwaves, wild fires, extreme rainfall, and destructive tropical cyclones ravaging different parts of the world.  The year 2019 also started with extreme temperatures ranging from exceeding 49oC in parts of