Photocatalytic Upcycling of Toxic Glyphosate Waste Into Compound Fertilizer for Corn Growth.

Yuanyuan Jiang, Zhenhua Pan, Yuta Egawa, Kenji Katayama, Sheng Ye, Yujie Xiong

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 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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Yuanyuan JiangAnhui Engineering Research Center of Carbon Neutrality, Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, School of Smart Materials and Future Energy, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.

Zhenhua PanDepartment of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9838-7685

Yuta EgawaDepartment of Applied Chemistry, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.

Kenji KatayamaDepartment of Applied Chemistry, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.

Sheng YeAnhui Engineering Research Center of Carbon Neutrality, Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, School of Smart Materials and Future Energy, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2314-2856

Yujie XiongAnhui Engineering Research Center of Carbon Neutrality, Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, School of Smart Materials and Future Energy, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1995-8257

Funding

Anhui Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars 2408085Y008Asahi Glass FoundationJSPS JP24K17774JSPS JP26K01609National Natural Science Foundation of China 22372001National Natural Science Foundation of China 52261135635Starting Fund for the Doctoral Research at Anhui Normal University 762634

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Abstract

Glyphosate (GP), the most widely used herbicide worldwide, poses serious ecological and health risks due to its persistence and toxic degradation intermediates. Although semiconductor photocatalysis offers a promising remediation pathway, the interplay between degradation selectivity, the secondary utilization of products, and environmental sustainability remains poorly understood. Here, we present a facet-dependent photocatalytic degradation of GP using bismuth oxybromide (BiOBr) nanosheets with dominant (001), (010), and (102) facets. Spectroscopic and theoretical analyses reveal that BiOBr-(010) and BiOBr-(102) achieve faster GP degradation via enhanced charge separation and dual adsorption of carboxyl and phosphate groups. However, they predominantly yield and accumulate aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), a toxic and recalcitrant intermediate. In contrast, the (001) facet selectively cleaves the C─N bond in GP via stronger hole accumulation and higher AMPA affinity, producing NH

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FertilizersGlycinePhotochemical ProcessesZea maysCatalysisGlyphosateHerbicidesOrganophosphonatesFertilizersGlycineGlyphosateHerbicidesOrganophosphonatesBiOBrfacet‐dependentglyphosatephotocatalytic upcyclingselectivity

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PMID42473936

DOI10.1002/adma.74094

PMCPMC13508762

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