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Seaweed’s role in energetic transition: From environmental pollution challenges to enhanced electrochemical devices
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Resulting from the growing human population and the long dependency on fossil-based energies, the planet is facing a critical rise in global temperature, which is affecting all ecosystem networks. With a growing consciousness this issue, the EU has defined several strategies towards environment sustainability, where biodiversity restoration and preservation, pollution reduction, circular economy, and energetic transition are paramount issues. To achieve the ambitious goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2050, it is vital to mitigate the environmental footprint of the energetic transition, namely heavy metal pollution resulting from mining and processing of raw materials and from electronic waste disposal. Additionally, it is vital to find alternative materials to enhance the efficiency of energy storage devices. This review addresses the environmental challenges associated with energetic transition, with particular emphasis on the emergence of new alternative materials for the development of cleaner energy technologies and on the environmental impacts of mitigation
strategies. We compile the most recent advances on natural sources, particularly seaweed, with regard to their use in metal recycling, bioremediation, and as valuable biomass to produce biochar for electrochemical applications.
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Funding: This work was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the POCI project—01-0247-FEDER-070155—ORCHESTRA—add value to ORChards through thE full valoriSaTion of macroalgae and by FEDER—European Regional Development Fund of the European Union, under the Portugal 2020 Programme, through COMPETE 2020—Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program. It was also supported through the FCT projects: UIDP/04292/2020 and UIDB/04292/2020 granted to MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre; CROSS-ATLANTIC (PTDC/BIA-OUT/29250/2017), co-financed by COMPETE (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029250).
Keywords
Climate change Critical raw materials Bioremediation Marine macroalgae Electronic waste Biochar Energy-storage devices Renewable energies Supercapacitors Rare earth elements
Citation
Pinteus, S.; Susano, P.; Alves, C.; Silva, J.; Martins, A.; Pedrosa, R. Seaweed’s Role in Energetic Transition—From Environmental Pollution Challenges to Enhanced Electrochemical Devices. Biology 2022, 11, 458. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11030458
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MDPI