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Sachi Taniyasu is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences. The main subfields of study include health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, pollution, and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's work centers on key topics in environmental science such as:

  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution

Sachi Taniyasu has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Chemosphere
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • BUNSEKI KAGAKU
  • Water Research
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Air Particles of Asia: Levels, Seasonality, and Size-Dependent Distribution" (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • "What's in the water? - Target and suspect screening of contaminants of emerging concern in raw water and drinking water from Europe and Asia" (2021, Water Research)
  • "Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in surface water, gas and particle in open ocean and coastal environment" (2021, Chemosphere)
  • "Nontarget Discovery of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Atmospheric Particulate Matter and Gaseous Phase Using Cryogenic Air Sampler" (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • "Nationwide distribution and potential risk of bisphenol analogues in Indian waters" (2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety)

The scientist collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Nobuyoshi Yamashita
  • Eriko Yamazaki
  • Paul K.S. Lam
  • Huiju Lin
  • Heesoo Eun

Best Publications

  • A global survey of perfluorinated acids in oceans.

    Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Sachi Taniyasu;Yuichi Horii

  • Efficient Decomposition of Environmentally Persistent Perfluorocarboxylic Acids by Use of Persulfate as a Photochemical Oxidant

    Hisao Hori;Ari Yamamoto;Etsuko Hayakawa;Sachi Taniyasu

  • Analysis of fluorotelomer alcohols, fluorotelomer acids, and short- and long-chain perfluorinated acids in water and biota

    Sachi Taniyasu;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Man Ka So;Anna Gulkowska

  • Removal of antibiotics from wastewater by sewage treatment facilities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China.

    A. Gulkowska;H.W. Leung;M.K. So;S. Taniyasu

  • A survey of perfluorooctane sulfonate and related perfluorinated organic compounds in water, fish, birds, and humans from Japan.

    Sachi Taniyasu;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Yuichi Horii;Nobuyasu Hanari

  • Bisphenol A and other bisphenol analogues including BPS and BPF in surface water samples from Japan, China, Korea and India.

    Eriko Yamazaki;Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Sachi Taniyasu;James Lam

  • Perfluorinated Compounds in Coastal Waters of Hong Kong, South China, and Korea

    M. K. So;S. Taniyasu;N. Yamashita;J. P. Giesy

  • Analysis of Perfluorinated Acids at Parts-Per-Quadrillion Levels in Seawater Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Sachi Taniyasu;Yuichi Horii

  • Perfluorinated compounds in the Pearl River and Yangtze River of China.

    M. K. So;Y. Miyake;W. Y. Yeung;Y. M. Ho

  • Occurrence, distribution and ecological risk assessment of multiple classes of UV filters in surface waters from different countries.

    Mirabelle M.P. Tsui;H.W. Leung;Tak-Cheung Wai;Nobuyoshi Yamashita

  • Distribution of polyfluoroalkyl compounds in water, suspended particulate matter and sediment from Tokyo Bay, Japan.

    Lutz Ahrens;Sachi Taniyasu;Leo W.Y. Yeung;Leo W.Y. Yeung;Nobuyoshi Yamashita

  • Perfluorinated acids as novel chemical tracers of global circulation of ocean waters.

    Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Sachi Taniyasu;Gert Petrick;Si Wei

  • Perfluorinated Compounds in Tap Water from China and Several Other Countries

    Yim Ling Mak;Sachi Taniyasu;Leo W. Y. Yeung;Guohui Lu

  • Health risks in infants associated with exposure to perfluorinated compounds in human breast milk from Zhoushan, China.

    Man Ka So;Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Sachi Taniyasu;Qinting Jiang

  • Trophic Magnification of Poly- and Perfluorinated Compounds in a Subtropical Food Web

    Eva I. H. Loi;Leo W. Y. Yeung;Leo W. Y. Yeung;Leo W. Y. Yeung;Sachi Taniyasu;Paul K. S. Lam

  • Efficient decomposition of environmentally persistent perfluorooctanesulfonate and related fluorochemicals using zerovalent iron in subcritical water.

    Hisao Hori;Yumiko Nagaoka;Ari Yamamoto;Taizo Sano

  • Analysis of trifluoroacetic acid and other short-chain perfluorinated acids (C2–C4) in precipitation by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry: Comparison to patterns of long-chain perfluorinated acids (C5–C18)

    Sachi Taniyasu;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Leo W.Y. Yeung;Karen Y. Kwok

  • Persistent perfluorinated acids in seafood collected from two cities of China.

    Anna Gulkowska;Qinting Jiang;Man Ka So;Sachi Taniyasu

  • Is fish a major source of fluorinated surfactants and repellents in humans living on the Baltic Coast

    Jerzy Falandysz;Sachi Taniyasu;Anna Gulkowska;Nobuyoshi Yamashita

  • Partitioning Behavior of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Compounds between Pore Water and Sediment in Two Sediment Cores from Tokyo Bay, Japan

    Lutz Ahrens;Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Leo W. Y. Yeung;Sachi Taniyasu

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuyoshi Yamashita
Nobuyoshi Yamashita National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Paul K.S. Lam
Paul K.S. Lam Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Leo W.Y. Yeung
Leo W.Y. Yeung Örebro University
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan University at Albany, State University of New York
Jerzy Falandysz
Jerzy Falandysz Medical University of Lodz
John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy University of Saskatchewan
Toshitaka Gamo
Toshitaka Gamo University of Tokyo
Lutz Ahrens
Lutz Ahrens Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Xinyu Guo
Xinyu Guo Ehime University
James Lam
James Lam University of Hong Kong

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