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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
6791
World Ranking
6481
National Ranking
655

Best Publications

  • Microplastics in the soil-groundwater environment: Aging, migration, and co-transport of contaminants - A critical review.

    Zhefan Ren;Xiangyang Gui;Xiaoyun Xu;Ling Zhao

  • Mitigation effects of silicon rich amendments on heavy metal accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa L.) planted on multi-metal contaminated acidic soil

    Hai-Hong Gu;Hao Qiu;Tian Tian;Shu-Shun Zhan

  • Persulfate Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole by Magnetic Iron-Char Composites via Nonradical Pathways: Fe(IV) Versus Surface-Mediated Electron Transfer.

    Jun Liang;Xiaoguang Duan;Xiaoyun Xu;Kexin Chen

  • Physicochemical property and colloidal stability of micron- and nano-particle biochar derived from a variety of feedstock sources.

    Bingqing Song;Ming Chen;Ling Zhao;Hao Qiu

  • One-pot synthesis of nZVI-embedded biochar for remediation of two mining arsenic-contaminated soils: Arsenic immobilization associated with iron transformation.

    Jin Fan;Xiang Chen;Zibo Xu;Xiaoyun Xu

  • Cadmium tolerance of carbon assimilation enzymes and chloroplast in Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator Picris divaricata.

    Rong-Rong Ying;Rong-Liang Qiu;Ye-Tao Tang;Peng-Jie Hu

  • Different mechanisms between biochar and activated carbon for the persulfate catalytic degradation of sulfamethoxazole: Roles of radicals in solution or solid phase

    Jun Liang;Xiaoyun Xu;Waqas Qamar Zaman;Xiaofang Hu

  • Maternal exposure to polystyrene nanoparticles retarded fetal growth and triggered metabolic disorders of placenta and fetus in mice.

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  • Chemical and photo-initiated aging enhances transport risk of microplastics in saturated soils: Key factors, mechanisms, and modeling.

    Zhefan Ren;Xiangyang Gui;Yaqiang Wei;Xiang Chen

  • Pyrolysis-temperature depended quinone and carbonyl groups as the electron accepting sites in barley grass derived biochar

    Yue Zhang;Xiaoyun Xu;Pengyu Zhang;Ling Zhao

  • The crucial role of a protein corona in determining the aggregation kinetics and colloidal stability of polystyrene nanoplastics

    Xing Li;Erkai He;Ke Jiang;Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg

  • pH-dependent generation of radical and nonradical species for sulfamethoxazole degradation in different carbon/persulfate systems.

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  • Impact of CeO2 nanoparticles on the aggregation kinetics and stability of polystyrene nanoplastics: Importance of surface functionalization and solution chemistry.

    Xing Li;Erkai He;Bing Xia;Cornelis A.M. Van Gestel

  • Different alkaline minerals interacted with biomass carbon during pyrolysis: Which one improved biochar carbon sequestration?

    Hongyan Nan;Ling Zhao;Fan Yang;Yang Liu

  • Evaluation of long-term carbon sequestration of biochar in soil with biogeochemical field model.

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  • Development of phosphorus composite biochar for simultaneous enhanced carbon sink and heavy metal immobilization in soil.

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  • Protein corona-induced aggregation of differently sized nanoplastics: impacts of protein type and concentration

    Xing Li;Erkai He;Bing Xia;Yang Liu

  • Roles of the mineral constituents in sludge-derived biochar in persulfate activation for phenol degradation.

    Jun Liang;Xiaoyun Xu;Qijun Zhong;Zibo Xu

  • Biomass-derived pyrolytic carbons accelerated Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox cycle for persulfate activation: Pyrolysis temperature-depended performance and mechanisms

    Jun Liang;Xiaoguang Duan;Xiaoyun Xu;Kexin Chen

  • Two years of aging influences the distribution and lability of metal(loid)s in a contaminated soil amended with different biochars

    Erkai He;Yuxi Yang;Zibo Xu;Hao Qiu

Frequent Co-Authors

H. S. Matis
H. S. Matis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zubayer Ahammed
Zubayer Ahammed Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
D. Keane
D. Keane Kent State University
Bedangadas Mohanty
Bedangadas Mohanty National Institute of Science Education and Research
E. P. Sichtermann
E. P. Sichtermann Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bernd Surrow
Bernd Surrow Temple University
H. H. Wieman
H. H. Wieman Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
J. Sandweiss
J. Sandweiss Yale University
F. Wang
F. Wang Purdue University West Lafayette
Madan M. Aggarwal
Madan M. Aggarwal Panjab University

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