Digital image processing: A new tool for morphological measurements of freshwater turtles under rehabilitation.

Freshwater fauna is facing an uphill task for survival in the Ganga Basin, India, due to a range of factors causing habitat degradation and fragmentation, necessitating conservation interventions. As part of the ongoing efforts to conserve the freshwater fauna of the Basin, we are working on rehabilitating rescued freshwater chelonians. We carry out various interventions to restore rescued individuals to an apparent state of fitness for their release in suitable natural habitats.

Recent advances in conducting polymer-based magnetic nanosorbents for dyes and heavy metal removal: fabrication, applications, and perspective.

Globally, treating and disposing of industrial pollutants is a techno-economic challenge. Industries' large production of harmful heavy metal ions (HMIs) and dyes and inappropriate disposal worsen water contamination. Much attention is required on the development of efficient and cost-effective technologies and approaches for removing toxic HMIs and dyes from wastewater as they pose a severe threat to public health and aquatic ecosystems.

The impact of electrolytic pH on photoelectrochemical water oxidation.

Harnessing solar energy for clean and sustainable fuel production by photoelectrochemical water oxidation over different timescales has been extensively investigated. However, the light-driven photoelectrochemical water oxidation reaction for artificial photosynthesis suffers from poor photon-to-current efficiency. Herein, we demonstrate an experimental analysis of electrolytic pH on photoelectrochemical syngas production by varying the pH of the KOH and NaOH electrolytes using the N-ZnO photoelectrode and analyzing all variables.

BiVO/FeO/ZnFeO; triple heterojunction for an enhanced PEC performance for hydrogen generation.

n/n/n triple heterojunction photoanodes made up of Zr:W-BiVO, FeO, and ZnFeO metal oxides are fabricated through a simplistic spray pyrolysis method. Use of Zr and W as dopants in BiVO plays an important role as Zr increases the carrier density and W reduces the charge recombination. Further, FeO and ZnFeO serve as a protective layer for Zr:W-BiVO, which augmented the photoelectrochemical performance and achieved a 1.

Phylogenetic relationship and molecular dating of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) with other extant pangolin species based on complete cytochrome b mitochondrial gene.

Pangolins are a group of eight endangered mammalian species included in the family Manidae (Order Pholidota) and divided into four each African (Arboreal species; Phataginus tetradactyla, Phataginus tricuspis, Ground dwelling species; Smutsia gigantea and Smutsia temminckii) and Asian (Ground dwelling; Manis crassicaudata, Manis pentadactyla, Manis javanica and Manis culionensis) species. The taxonomy of all the eight extant pangolin species based on molecular genetics studies, remains unresolved and poorly examined. The present study is to address this lacuna by studying the phylogenetic, taxonomic status and molecular dating of Indian pangolin with other six out of eight extant pangolins (Sunda pangolin possibly extinct) based on complete coding region of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.

Enhanced photoelectrochemical response of plasmonic Au embedded BiVO/FeO heterojunction.

The effect of embedding Au nanoparticles (NPs) in a BiVO/FeO heterojunction for photoelectrochemical water splitting is studied here for the first time. The present nanostructured heterojunction offers three major advantages over pristine BiVO and FeO: (i) the formation of a heterojunction between BiVO and FeO enhances the charge carrier separation and transfer, (ii) the layer of FeO provides protection to BiVO from photocorrosion and, (iii) the Au NPs possessing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhance the photoelectrochemical response by transferring energy to metal oxides by hot electron transfer (HET) and plasmon resonant energy transfer (PRET). The present study reveals that the heterojunction ITO/BiVO/FeO (with 32% v/v Au solution in both layers) gives the best performance and mitigates the limitations of both pristine FeO and BiVO.

Gradient doping - a case study with Ti-FeO towards an improved photoelectrochemical response.

The present study investigates the effect of gradient doping on modifying the photoelectrochemical response of Ti-doped FeO photoanodes for their use in sunlight based water splitting for hydrogen evolution. The deposition of a thin film over the ITO (tin doped indium oxide) substrate was carried out using a spray pyrolysis method. The concentration of dopant was varied from 0.