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Overview

Liuyan Yang is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on several interconnected subfields. Their research encompasses plant science, molecular biology, materials chemistry, pollution, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of nanoparticles, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, microplastics and plastic pollution, plant reproductive biology, chemical synthesis and alkaloids, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, and plant molecular biology research.

Frequent publication venues for Liuyan Yang's work include the Journal of Hazardous Materials, where they have published seven papers, Environmental Science & Technology with four publications, Environment International and The Science of The Total Environment with three papers each, and Environmental Science and Pollution Research, also with three papers.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Liuyan Yang are:

  • Photodegradation of carbon dots cause cytotoxicity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Suspect and non-target screening of pesticides and pharmaceuticals transformation products in wastewater using QTOF-MS, 2020, Environment International
  • Bioaccumulation of differently-sized polystyrene nanoplastics by human lung and intestine cells, 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Perturbation of calcium homeostasis and multixenobiotic resistance by nanoplastics in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Changes in carbohydrate metabolism and endogenous hormone regulation during bulblet initiation and development in Lycoris radiata, 2020, BMC Plant Biology

Liuyan Yang has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Ai-Jun Miao, Youming Cai, Yongchun Zhang, and Chao Wu, with whom they have co-authored multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Effects of feedstock type, production method, and pyrolysis temperature on biochar and hydrochar properties

    Yining Sun;Yining Sun;Bin Gao;Ying Yao;Ying Yao;June Fang

  • Engineered Biochar Reclaiming Phosphate from Aqueous Solutions: Mechanisms and Potential Application as a Slow-Release Fertilizer

    Ying Yao;Bin Gao;Jianjun Chen;Liuyan Yang

  • Biochar derived from anaerobically digested sugar beet tailings: characterization and phosphate removal potential.

    Ying Yao;Bin Gao;Mandu Inyang;Andrew R. Zimmerman

  • Removal of phosphate from aqueous solution by biochar derived from anaerobically digested sugar beet tailings.

    Ying Yao;Bin Gao;Mandu Inyang;Andrew R. Zimmerman

  • Characterization and environmental applications of clay–biochar composites

    Ying Yao;Ying Yao;Bin Gao;June Fang;Ming Zhang

  • Engineered carbon (biochar) prepared by direct pyrolysis of Mg-accumulated tomato tissues: characterization and phosphate removal potential.

    Ying Yao;Bin Gao;Jianjun Chen;Ming Zhang

  • Adsorption of sulfamethoxazole on biochar and its impact on reclaimed water irrigation.

    Ying Yao;Bin Gao;Hao Chen;Lijuan Jiang

  • Photodegradation of carbon dots cause cytotoxicity

    Yue-Yue Liu;Nan-Yang Yu;Wen-Di Fang;Qiao-Guo Tan

  • 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

  • Toxicity and bioaccumulation kinetics of arsenate in two freshwater green algae under different phosphate regimes.

    Ning-Xin Wang;Yan Li;Xi-Hai Deng;Ai-Jun Miao

  • Combined Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles with Hematite or Plastic Nanoparticles toward Two Freshwater Algae.

    Bin Huang;Zhong-Bo Wei;Liu-Yan Yang;Ke Pan

  • Application potential of a newly isolated indigenous aerobic denitrifier for nitrate and ammonium removal of eutrophic lake water.

    Liyun Guo;Qiankun Chen;Fei Fang;Zhixin Hu

  • Mechanism and control of lake eutrophication

    Boqiang Qin;Liuyan Yang;Liuyan Yang;Feizhou Chen;Guangwei Zhu

  • Deposition and transport of graphene oxide in saturated and unsaturated porous media

    Lin Liu;Lin Liu;Bin Gao;Lei Wu;Verónica L. Morales

  • Biochar from Alternanthera philoxeroides could remove Pb(II) efficiently.

    Yu Yang;Zhongbo Wei;Xiaolong Zhang;Xu Chen

  • Engineered Biochar from Biofuel Residue: Characterization and Its Silver Removal Potential

    Ying Yao;Ying Yao;Bin Gao;Feng Wu;Cunzhong Zhang

  • Performance of a full-scale modified anaerobic/anoxic/oxic process: High-throughput sequence analysis of its microbial structures and their community functions.

    Yasong Chen;Zheng Zhao;Yuke Peng;Jie Li

  • Effect of plant physiological characteristics on the removal of conventional and emerging pollutants from aquaculture wastewater by constructed wetlands

    Xiang-feng Huang;Guang-yu Ye;Nai-kang Yi;Li-jun Lu

  • Intensified nitrate and phosphorus removal in an electrolysis -integrated horizontal subsurface-flow constructed wetland.

    Y. Gao;Y.W. Xie;Q. Zhang;A.L. Wang

  • Suspect and non-target screening of pesticides and pharmaceuticals transformation products in wastewater using QTOF-MS.

    Xuebing Wang;Nanyang Yu;Jingping Yang;Ling Jin

  • TiO2 Nanoparticles Act As a Carrier of Cd Bioaccumulation in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila

    Wei-Wan Yang;Ying Wang;Bin Huang;Ning-Xin Wang

  • Microcystin-LR induced oxidative stress and ultrastructural alterations in mesophyll cells of submerged macrophyte Vallisneria natans (Lour.) Hara

    Jinlin Jiang;Xueyuan Gu;Rui Song;Xiaorong Wang

  • Vertical distribution of bacterial community structure in the sediments of two eutrophic lakes revealed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and multivariate analysis techniques

    Jin Zeng;Liuyan Yang;Jiayun Li;Yi Liang

  • Cd2+ Toxicity to a green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as influenced by its adsorption on TiO2 engineered nanoparticles.

    Wei-Wan Yang;Ai-Jun Miao;Liu-Yan Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Gao
Bin Gao University of Florida
Xu-Xiang Zhang
Xu-Xiang Zhang Nanjing University
Rong Ji
Rong Ji Nanjing University
Boqiang Qin
Boqiang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guanghui Yu
Guanghui Yu Tianjin University
Wen-Xiong Wang
Wen-Xiong Wang City University of Hong Kong
Helong Jiang
Helong Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ying Wang
Ying Wang Nanjing University
Yanmei Zhou
Yanmei Zhou Henan University
Huacheng Xu
Huacheng Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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