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Ling Zhao is affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in pollution, biomedical engineering, water science and technology, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and biomaterials.

Their work encompasses a range of topics within environmental science, including:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties

Ling Zhao has published extensively in numerous scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Water Research
  • Environmental Pollution

Among the recent papers associated with Ling Zhao are:

  • "Persulfate Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole by Magnetic Iron-Char Composites via Nonradical Pathways: Fe(IV) Versus Surface-Mediated Electron Transfer," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Biochar as simultaneous shelter, adsorbent, pH buffer, and substrate of Pseudomonas citronellolis to promote biodegradation of high concentrations of phenol in wastewater," 2020, Water Research
  • "A review of pristine and modified biochar immobilizing typical heavy metals in soil: Applications and challenges," 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Country-level potential of carbon sequestration and environmental benefits by utilizing crop residues for biochar implementation," 2020, Applied Energy
  • "Chemical and photo-initiated aging enhances transport risk of microplastics in saturated soils: Key factors, mechanisms, and modeling," 2021, Water Research

Ling Zhao collaborates frequently with several co-authors, some of whom have partnered on numerous research projects. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Xinde Cao
  • Xiaoyun Xu
  • Hao Qiu
  • Erkai He
  • Deping Li

The scope of Ling Zhao's research integrates a considerable number of scientific disciplines and topics, emphasizing both fundamental and applied aspects of environmental remediation and engineering. Their contributions address pollutant removal techniques, biochar applications, microplastic transport, and advanced oxidation methods for water treatment.

Best Publications

  • Heterogeneity of biochar properties as a function of feedstock sources and production temperatures.

    Ling Zhao;Xinde Cao;Ondřej Mašek;Andrew Zimmerman

  • Removal of Cu, Zn, and Cd from aqueous solutions by the dairy manure-derived biochar

    Xiaoyun Xu;Xinde Cao;Ling Zhao;Hailong Wang

  • Comparison of rice husk- and dairy manure-derived biochars for simultaneously removing heavy metals from aqueous solutions: role of mineral components in biochars.

    Xiaoyun Xu;Xinde Cao;Ling Zhao

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

    Zhefan Ren;Xiangyang Gui;Xiaoyun Xu;Ling Zhao

  • The Interfacial Behavior between Biochar and Soil Minerals and Its Effect on Biochar Stability.

    Fan Yang;Ling Zhao;Bin Gao;Bin Gao;Xiaoyun Xu

  • Effects of Mineral Additives on Biochar Formation: Carbon Retention, Stability, and Properties

    Feiyue Li;Xinde Cao;Ling Zhao;Jianfei Wang

  • Indispensable role of biochar-inherent mineral constituents in its environmental applications: A review

    Xiaoyun Xu;Yinghao Zhao;Jingke Sima;Ling Zhao

  • 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

  • Biochar as simultaneous shelter, adsorbent, pH buffer, and substrate of Pseudomonas citronellolis to promote biodegradation of high concentrations of phenol in wastewater.

    Ling Zhao;Donglin Xiao;Yang Liu;Huacheng Xu

  • Copyrolysis of Biomass with Phosphate Fertilizers To Improve Biochar Carbon Retention, Slow Nutrient Release, and Stabilize Heavy Metals in Soil

    Ling Zhao;Xinde Cao;Wei Zheng;John W. Scott

  • Chemical transformation of CO2 during its capture by waste biomass derived biochars.

    Xiaoyun Xu;Yue Kan;Ling Zhao;Xinde Cao

  • 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

  • Low-temperature H2S removal from gas streams with SBA-15 supported ZnO nanoparticles

    Xiaohui Wang;Tonghua Sun;Ji Yang;Ling Zhao

  • Effect of air-flow rate and turning frequency on bio-drying of dewatered sludge.

    Ling Zhao;Wei-Mei Gu;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao

  • Roles of Phosphoric Acid in Biochar Formation: Synchronously Improving Carbon Retention and Sorption Capacity.

    Ling Zhao;Wei Zheng;Ondřej Mašek;Xiang Chen

  • 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

  • Comparison of sewage sludge- and pig manure-derived biochars for hydrogen sulfide removal

    Xiaoyun Xu;Xinde Cao;Ling Zhao;Tonghua Sun

  • 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

  • Country-level potential of carbon sequestration and environmental benefits by utilizing crop residues for biochar implementation

    Qiushuang Yang;Ondřej Mašek;Ling Zhao;Hongyan Nan

  • Treatment Technologies for Organic Wastewater

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  • Mineral constituents profile of biochar derived from diversified waste biomasses: implications for agricultural applications.

    Ling Zhao;Xinde Cao;Qun Wang;Fan Yang

  • Biochar- and phosphate-induced immobilization of heavy metals in contaminated soil and water: implication on simultaneous remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater

    Yuan Liang;Xinde Cao;Ling Zhao;Eduardo Arellano

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinde Cao
Xinde Cao Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xiaoyun Xu
Xiaoyun Xu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hao Qiu
Hao Qiu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bin Gao
Bin Gao University of Florida
Ondřej Mašek
Ondřej Mašek University of Edinburgh
Pinjing He
Pinjing He Tongji University
Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg
Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg Leiden University
Liming Shao
Liming Shao Tongji University
Jinping Jia
Jinping Jia Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Daniel C.W. Tsang
Daniel C.W. Tsang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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