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ReviewEnvironmental science and ecotechnology2026

Quorum sensing for carbon-neutral wastewater treatment: Mechanisms, challenges, technological pathways, and future prospects.

Wen-Qian Wang, Yong-Mei Wang, Xiao-Chi Feng, How Yong Ng, Nan-Qi Ren

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Review in Environmental science and ecotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

5 authors.

Wen-Qian WangState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
Yong-Mei WangDivision of Soil and Water Management, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 20, Leuven, 3001, Belgium.
Xiao-Chi FengState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
How Yong NgCenter for Water Research, Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, 519087, China.
Nan-Qi RenState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global climate targets demand a rapid transition to carbon neutrality across all industrial sectors, including wastewater management. Wastewater treatment plants are historically energy-intensive and remain significant sources of potent greenhouse gases, primarily nitrous oxide (N

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Carbon neutralityEnergy consumption and recoveryGreenhouse gas emissionQuorum sensingWastewater treatment

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PMID42169757
PMCPMC13188143

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