Huabo Duan

Aug 5, 2024 | nature.com | Huabo Duan |Ning Zhang |Travis Miller |Jinhui Li

AbstractThe Montreal Protocol has been successful in safeguarding the ozone layer and curbing climate change. However, accurately estimating and reducing the time-lagged emissions of ozone-depleting substances or their substitutes, such as produced but not-yet-emitted fluorocarbon banks, remains a significant challenge.

Jun 13, 2024 | nature.com | Ning Zhang |Hessam AzariJafari |Zhi Cao |Yuli Shan |Huanyu Li |Huabo Duan

AbstractThe renewal and expansion of the built environment within the context of rapid urbanization are imposing new benchmarks for resource management, particularly concerning the billions of tons of consumption and waste generation of concrete materials. The commercialization of carbonation in cementitious materials is underway, opening up possibilities for nitrogenation that has been well documented in recent experimental studies.

Nov 6, 2023 | nature.com | Ning Zhang |Huabo Duan |Yuli Shan |Jiakuan Yang

The rapid spread of solar power plants onto cropland is having increasingly detrimental impacts. Targeted policy and technological solutions are urgently needed to resolve the tension between renewable energy and food production. The spatial mismatch between energy demand and supply in China exacerbates the situation. Production of solar energy is shifting from the land- and solar-radiation-rich west of China towards the east, where energy demand and markets are well developed (Fig. 2e).