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ArticleNature communications2025

Isolated iridium oxide sites on modified carbon nitride for photoreforming of plastic derivatives.

Pawan Kumar, Hongguang Zhang, Asfaw G Yohannes, Jiu Wang, Ali Shayesteh Zeraati, Soumyabrata Roy, Xiyang Wang, Karthick Kannimuthu, Abdelrahman M Askar, Kristen A Miller and 18 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors.

Pawan Kumar *Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-9298
Hongguang Zhang *Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Asfaw G Yohannes *Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-1965
Jiu WangDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Ali Shayesteh ZeraatiDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3534-6792
Soumyabrata RoyDepartment of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208016, India.
Xiyang WangDepartment of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, Materials Interface Foundry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7591-6676
Karthick KannimuthuDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2689-0657
Abdelrahman M AskarSchool of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6092-0031
Kristen A MillerDepartment of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Kexin LingDepartment of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
Muflih AdnanDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Sung-Fu HungDepartment of Applied Chemistry and Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7423-2723
Jian-Jie MaDepartment of Applied Chemistry and Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Wei-Hsiang HuangNational Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9503-0373
Dhwanil TrivediDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Maria MolinaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4886-0192
Heng ZhaoDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Angel A MartíDepartment of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Adam F G LeontowichCanadian Light Source, 44 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
George K H ShimizuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3697-9890
David SintonDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Michael M AdachiSchool of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3015-2606
Yimin A WuDepartment of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, Materials Interface Foundry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3807-8431
Pulickel M AjayanDepartment of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX, 77030, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8323-7860
Samira SiahrostamiDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. samira_siahrostami@sfu.ca.
Jinguang HuDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. Jinguang.hu@ucalgary.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8033-7102
Md Golam KibriaDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. md.kibria@ucalgary.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3105-5576

Funding

Canadian Light Source (Centre Canadien de Rayonnement Synchrotron) 35G12344Gouvernement du Canada | National Research Council Canada (Conseil national de recherches Canada) CH-MCF-115-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rising concentration of plastics due to extensive disposal and inefficient recycling of plastic waste poses an imminent and critical threat to the environment and ecological systems. Photocatalytic reforming of plastic derivatives to value-added chemicals under ambient conditions proceeds at lower oxidation potential which galvanizes the hydrogen evolution. We report the synthesis of a narrow band gap NCN-functionalized O-bridged carbon nitride (MC) through condensation polymerization of hydrogen-bonded melem (M)-cyameluric acid (C) macromolecular aggregate. The MC scaffold hosts well-dispersed Ir single atom (MCIrSA) sites which catalyze oxidative photoreforming of alkali-treated polylactic acid (PLA) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) derivatives to produce H

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PMCPMC11933312

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