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Nanocomposites for Environmental and Energy Applications
No full textEnvironmental and energy issues are the two major problems that our world is facing today. The establishment of sustainable and innovative solutions are needed to address emerging problems. Functional nanocomposites are emerging materials that have become important due to their astonishing chemical and physical properties. The synergy effects rendered by a wide spectrum of nanomaterials and host materials have shown unlimited potential and advantages in many practical applications. Specifically, various nanocomposites are known to serve as sustainable solutions to curb global issues that are related to environmental pollution and energy shortage. This Special Issue of Nanomaterials, “Nanocomposites for Environmental and Energy Applications”, aims at collecting a compilation of articles, which cover research articles, reviews, and communications, with topic areas focused on the development of the state-of-the-art nanocomposites to tackle environment and energy-related issues
Nanocomposites for Environmental and Energy Applications
Get PDFEnvironmental and energy issues are the two major problems that our world is facing today. The establishment of sustainable and innovative solutions are needed to address emerging problems. Functional nanocomposites are emerging materials that have become important due to their astonishing chemical and physical properties. The synergy effects rendered by a wide spectrum of nanomaterials and host materials have shown unlimited potential and advantages in many practical applications. Specifically, various nanocomposites are known to serve as sustainable solutions to curb global issues that are related to environmental pollution and energy shortage. This Special Issue of Nanomaterials, “Nanocomposites for Environmental and Energy Applications”, aims at collecting a compilation of articles, which cover research articles, reviews, and communications, with topic areas focused on the development of the state-of-the-art nanocomposites to tackle environment and energy-related issues
Carbon-based nanomaterials for the removal of emerging water pollutants
No full textThe presence of emerging pollutants in water, including pesticides, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and unregulated compounds, has raised serious concerns due to their potential harm to human health and the environment, even at low concentrations. Traditional wastewater treatment methods struggle to completely eliminate these pollutants, necessitating innovative solutions. This chapter investigates the critical role of carbon-based nanomaterials, such as activated carbon nanoparticles, nanodiamonds, fullerenes, graphene and its oxides, carbon and graphene quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and nanofibers, and carbon aerogel, in addressing the challenge of emerging pollutant removal. Carbon nanomaterials are highlighted for their exceptional surface properties, adaptability, large surface area, adjustable structural modifications, and high chemical stability, making them ideal candidates for the removal of emerging pollutants. This chapter is expected to pave the way towards offering novel prospects for increasing the utilization of carbon-based nanomaterials and it may serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers, and policymakers, seeking to address the pressing issue of emerging water pollutants and enhance the protection of our vital water resources and public well-being
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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