Prioritizing ecological restoration in hydrologically sensitive areas to improve groundwater quality

Yao Wang, Yiqi Yu, Xin Luo, Qiaoguo Tan, Yuqi Fu, Chenhe Zheng, Deli Wang*, Nengwang Chen*Water Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121247Published: March 15, 2024AbstractGreening is the optimal way to mitigate climate change and water quality degradation caused by agricultural expansion and rapid urbanization. However, the ideal sites to plant trees or grass to achieve a win–win sol...

Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea exhibit differential nitrogen source preferences

Wei Qin*, Stephany P. Wei, Yue Zheng, Eunkyung Choi, Xiangpeng Li, Juliet Johnston, Xianhui Wan, Britt Abrahamson, Zachary Flinkstrom, Baozhan Wang, Hanyan Li, Lei Hou, Qing Tao, Wyatt W. Chlouber, Xin Sun, Michael Wells, Long Ngo, Kristopher A. Hunt, Hidetoshi Urakawa, Xuanyu Tao, Dongyu Wang, Xiaoyuan Yan, Dazhi Wang, Chongle Pan, Peter K. Weber, Jiandong Jiang, Jizhong Zhou, Yao Zhang, David...

Sustainable lithium extraction enabled by responsive metal-organic frameworks with ion-sieving adsorption effects

Xu Wu*, Huacheng Zhang*, Xinyu Zhang, Qian Guan, Xiaocong Tang, Hao Wu, Mingbao Feng, Huanting Wang, and Ranwen Ou*Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americahttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309852121Published: February 2, 2024AbstractMetal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are superior ion adsorbents for selectively capturing toxic ions from water. Nevertheles...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in a subtropical river-mangrove estuary-bay system

Xingwei Xie, Yonglong Lu*, Pei Wang, Haojie Lei, Zian Liang Science of The Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162492Published: 10 June 2023AbstractPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a large and complex class of synthetic chemicals widely used in industrial and domestic products. This study compiled and analyzed the distribution and composition of PFASs in mar...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in marine organisms along the coast of China

Xingwei Xie, Yonglong Lu, Pei Wang, Haojie Lei, Nengwang Chen, Zian Liang, Xudong Jiang, Jialong Li, Zhiwei Cao, Jieming Liao, Kongming LiJournal of Hazardous Materialshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132937Published: 15 February 2024AbstractMangrove estuaries are one of the most economically valuable and biologically diverse coastal ecosystems. However, knowledge of emerging pollutants i...

Priority Actions for Enhancing Global Change Program to Provide Global Sustainable Solutions

YONGLONG LU, BOJIE FU, TANDONG YAO, AND DAHE QINECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITYhttps://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/ehs.0143Published: 15 November 2023AbstractIn the divided changing world, there is a pressing need for a global science program to promote the delivery of sustainable development goals (SDGs), even though Future Earth is an international science program that was launched to st...

Simultaneous Measurement of Trace Levels of Hg, As, Sb, and Bi in Coastal Seawater with a Multichannel Chemical Vapor Generation Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometer

Luodan Chen, Qinling Lin, Dongxing Yuan, and Zhenbin Gong*Analytical ChemistryPublished: October 10, 2023https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02755AbstractTrace levels of Hg, As, Sb, and Bi in coastal seawater have been simultaneously detected by a laboratory-built multichannel chemical vapor generation coupled to an atomic fluorescence spectrometer. The system was configured with a built-in ...

Redox Property of Coordinated Iron Ion Enables Activation of O2 via in-situ Generated H2O2 and Additionally Added H2O2 in EDTA-Chelated Fenton Reaction

Yuan Gao, Pengyi Wang, Yu Chu, Fan Kang, Yue Cheng, Eveliina Repo, Mingbao Feng, Xin Yu, Huabin ZengWater Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120826Published: 3 November 2023AbstractThe Fenton system was a generation system of reactive oxygen species via the chain reactions, which employed H2O2 and O2 as radical precursors and Fe2+/Fe3+ as electron-donor/acceptor for triggering or ter...

Towards Citizen Science-Based Ocean Acidification Observations Using Smartphone Devices

Hangqian Li, Shulu Zheng, Qiao-Guo Tan, Liyang Zhan, Todd R. Martz, and Jian Ma*Analytical Chemistryhttps://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03720Published: 21 September 2023AbstractpH is a key parameter in many chemical, biological, and biogeochemical processes, making it a fundamental aspect of environmental monitoring. Rapid and accurate seawater pH measurements are essential for effective oce...

Emerging contaminants in the water environment: Disinfection-induced viable but non-culturable waterborne pathogens

Chengsong Ye, Chenlan Chen, Ranwen Ou, Mingbao Feng, Xin Yu* Journal of Hazardous Materialshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132666Published: 5 January 2024AbstractDisinfection is essential for the control of waterborne pathogens (WPs), especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. WP can enter the viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state to evade disinfection, seriously threatening water safety....