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Guanghui Yu is affiliated with Tianjin University in China and specializes in environmental science with a focus on soil science and related interdisciplinary fields. Their work spans several subfields including soil science, electrical and electronic engineering, plant science, materials chemistry, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's primary research interests center on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, geochemistry and elemental analysis, iron oxide chemistry and applications, arsenic contamination and mitigation, heavy metals in the environment, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, and radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Guanghui Yu has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • Coupled iron cycling and organic matter transformation across redox interfaces, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Fenton chemistry and reactive oxygen species in soil: Abiotic mechanisms of biotic processes, controls and consequences for carbon and nutrient cycling, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Root exudate chemistry affects soil carbon mobilization via microbial community reassembly, 2022, Fundamental Research
  • Rusty sink of rhizodeposits and associated keystone microbiomes, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Guanghui Yu include:

  • Fu-Sheng Sun (12 publications)
  • Cong-Qiang Liu (12 publications)
  • Yakov Kuzyakov (11 publications)
  • Andreas Kappler (7 publications)
  • Zhi-Lai Chi (7 publications)

The scientist's work has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 8 publications
  • Environmental Science & Technology with 6 publications
  • The Science of The Total Environment with 3 publications
  • Geoderma with 3 publications
  • Science China Earth Sciences with 3 publications

Guanghui Yu's research integrates multiple disciplines to explore environmental processes related to soil and elemental chemistry. This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in their publication record and collaborations, which bridge fundamental research in geochemical cycling and applied aspects of materials chemistry and environmental contamination.

Best Publications

  • Stratification structure of sludge flocs with implications to dewaterability.

    Guang-Hui Yu;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao;Pei-Pei He

  • Characteristics of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) fractions from excess sludges and their effects on bioflocculability.

    Guang-Hui Yu;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao

  • Insights into extracellular polymeric substances of cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa using fractionation procedure and parallel factor analysis

    Huacheng Xu;Haiyuan Cai;Guanghui Yu;Helong Jiang

  • Extracellular proteins, polysaccharides and enzymes impact on sludge aerobic digestion after ultrasonic pretreatment.

    Guang-Hui Yu;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao;Yi-Shu Zhu

  • Changes in biochemical and microbiological parameters during the period of rapid composting of dairy manure with rice chaff

    Dongyang Liu;Ruifu Zhang;Hongsheng Wu;Dabing Xu

  • Functional Groups Determine Biochar Properties (pH and EC) as Studied by Two-Dimensional 13C NMR Correlation Spectroscopy

    Xiaoming Li;Qirong Shen;Dongqing Zhang;Xinlan Mei

  • Mineral Availability as a Key Regulator of Soil Carbon Storage

    Guanghui Yu;Guanghui Yu;Jian Xiao;Shuijin Hu;Shuijin Hu;Matthew L. Polizzotto

  • Fenton chemistry and reactive oxygen species in soil: Abiotic mechanisms of biotic processes, controls and consequences for carbon and nutrient cycling

    Guang-Hui Yu;Yakov Kuzyakov

  • Novel insights into sludge dewaterability by fluorescence excitation-emission matrix combined with parallel factor analysis.

    Guang-Hui Yu;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao

  • Heavy metal concentrations and arsenic speciation in animal manure composts in China

    Xinping Yang;Qian Li;Zhu Tang;Wenwen Zhang

  • Binding of organic ligands with Al(III) in dissolved organic matter from soil: implications for soil organic carbon storage.

    Guang-Hui Yu;Min-Jie Wu;Guan-Ran Wei;Yi-Hong Luo

  • Harzianolide, a novel plant growth regulator and systemic resistance elicitor from Trichoderma harzianum.

    Feng Cai;Guanghui Yu;Ping Wang;Zhong Wei

  • A review on halloysite-based adsorbents to remove pollutants in water and wastewater

    Ioannis Anastopoulos;Alok Mittal;Muhammad Usman;Muhammad Usman;Jyoti Mittal

  • Combination of two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy and parallel factor analysis to characterize the binding of heavy metals with DOM in lake sediments

    Huacheng Xu;Guanghui Yu;Liuyan Yang;Helong Jiang

  • Effect of proteins, polysaccharides, and particle sizes on sludge dewaterability

    Liming Shao;Peipei He;Guanghui Yu;Pinjing He

  • In situ observation of the growth of biofouling layer in osmotic membrane bioreactors by multiple fluorescence labeling and confocal laser scanning microscopy

    Bo Yuan;Xinhua Wang;Chuyang Tang;Xiufen Li

  • High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping Platform (HT3P) as a Novel Tool for Estimating Agronomic Traits From the Lab to the Field

    Daoliang Li;Chaoqun Quan;Zhaoyang Song;Xiang Li

  • Toward understanding the mechanism of improving the production of volatile fatty acids from activated sludge at pH 10.0.

    Guang-Hui Yu;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao;Pei-Pei He

  • Investigation on extracellular polymeric substances from mucilaginous cyanobacterial blooms in eutrophic freshwater lakes

    Huacheng Xu;Guanghui Yu;Helong Jiang

  • Enzyme activities in activated sludge flocs

    Guang-Hui Yu;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao;Duu-Jong Lee

  • Response of the bacterial diversity and soil enzyme activity in particle-size fractions of Mollisol after different fertilization in a long-term experiment

    Ning Ling;Yuming Sun;Jinghua Ma;Junjie Guo

  • PARAFAC modeling of fluorescence excitation−emission spectra for rapid assessment of compost maturity

    Guang-Hui Yu;Yi-Hong Luo;Min-Jie Wu;Zhu Tang

Frequent Co-Authors

Qirong Shen
Qirong Shen Nanjing Agricultural University
Wei Ran
Wei Ran Nanjing Agricultural University
Pinjing He
Pinjing He Tongji University
Xinhua He
Xinhua He University of Western Australia
Liming Shao
Liming Shao Tongji University
Huacheng Xu
Huacheng Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Duu-Jong Lee
Duu-Jong Lee National Taiwan University
Helong Jiang
Helong Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fang-Jie Zhao
Fang-Jie Zhao Nanjing Agricultural University

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