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Tangfu Xiao is a researcher primarily affiliated with Guangzhou University in China. Their main research domain is Environmental Science, with a strong focus on various subfields such as Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Inorganic Chemistry, and Surgery.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics including:

  • Thallium and Germanium Studies
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Analytical chemistry methods development

Tangfu Xiao has authored numerous papers, with some recent representative publications including:

  • Geochemical transfer of cadmium in river sediments near a lead-zinc smelter (2020), published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Microbial insights into the biogeochemical features of thallium occurrence: A case study from polluted river sediments (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Transformation and fate of thallium and accompanying metal(loid)s in paddy soils and rice: A case study from a large-scale industrial area in China (2021), published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Cadmium isotopic fractionation in lead-zinc smelting process and signatures in fluvial sediments (2020), published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Microbial response and adaption to thallium contamination in soil profiles (2021), published in Journal of Hazardous Materials

Frequent publication venues for Tangfu Xiao include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (11 publications)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials (6 publications)
  • Journal of Environmental Management (3 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)

Xiao often collaborates with a set of coauthors, who include:

  • Juan Liu (12 joint publications)
  • Jin Wang (11 joint publications)
  • Enzong Xiao (11 joint publications)
  • Zengping Ning (8 joint publications)
  • Xudong Wei (6 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Thallium pollution in China: A geo-environmental perspective.

    Tangfu Xiao;Fei Yang;Shehong Li;Baoshan Zheng

  • Environmental concerns related to high thallium levels in soils and thallium uptake by plants in southwest Guizhou, China.

    Tangfu Xiao;Jayanta Guha;Dan Boyle;Cong-Qiang Liu

  • Removal of fluoride from industrial wastewater by using different adsorbents: A review.

    Kuilin Wan;Lei Huang;Jia Yan;Boyan Ma

  • A review of water pollution arising from agriculture and mining activities in Central Asia: Facts, causes and effects.

    Yu Liu;Ping Wang;Boris Gojenko;Jingjie Yu

  • Medical geology of arsenic, selenium and thallium in China

    Shehong Li;Tangfu Xiao;Baoshan Zheng

  • Naturally occurring thallium: a hidden geoenvironmental health hazard?

    Tangfu Xiao;Jayanta Guha;Dan Boyle;Cong-Qiang Liu

  • Resources and extraction of gallium: A review

    Fanghai Lu;Fanghai Lu;Tangfu Xiao;Tangfu Xiao;Jian Lin;Zengping Ning

  • Thallium contamination in arable soils and vegetables around a steel plant-A newly-found significant source of Tl pollution in South China

    Juan Liu;Xuwen Luo;Jin Wang;Tangfu Xiao

  • Geogenic cadmium pollution and potential health risks, with emphasis on black shale

    Yizhang Liu;Tangfu Xiao;Robert B. Perkins;Jianming Zhu

  • A review of global outlook on fluoride contamination in groundwater with prominence on the Pakistan current situation

    Atta Rasool;Abida Farooqi;Tangfu Xiao;Tangfu Xiao;Waqar Ali

  • Factors controlling tufa deposition in natural waters at waterfall sites

    Jingan Chen;David Dian Zhang;Shijie Wang;Tangfu Xiao

  • Response of Soil Microbial Communities to Elevated Antimony and Arsenic Contamination Indicates the Relationship between the Innate Microbiota and Contaminant Fractions

    Weimin Sun;Enzong Xiao;Enzong Xiao;Tangfu Xiao;Tangfu Xiao;Valdis Krumins

  • Microbial community analysis in rice paddy soils irrigated by acid mine drainage contaminated water

    Min Sun;Tangfu Xiao;Zengping Ning;Enzong Xiao

  • Zircon U–Pb geochronology and major, trace elemental and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic geochemistry of mafic dykes in western Shandong Province, east China: Constrains on their petrogenesis and geodynamic significance

    Shen Liu;Shen Liu;RuiZhong Hu;Shan Gao;CaiXia Feng

  • Emerging risks of toxic metal(loid)s in soil-vegetables influenced by steel-making activities and isotopic source apportionment.

    Jin Wang;Lulu Wang;Yuxuan Wang;Daniel C.W. Tsang

  • High cadmium concentration in soil in the Three Gorges region: Geogenic source and potential bioavailability

    Yizhang Liu;Tangfu Xiao;Zengping Ning;Huajun Li

  • Groundwater-related thallium transfer processes and their impacts on the ecosystem: southwest Guizhou Province, China

    Tangfu Xiao;Tangfu Xiao;Dan Boyle;Jayanta Guha;Alain Rouleau

  • Arsenic and heavy metal contaminations in the tube well water of Punjab, Pakistan and risk assessment: A case study

    Atta Rasool;Atta Rasool;Tangfu Xiao;Abida Farooqi;Muhammad Shafeeque

  • Mercury emission to atmosphere from Lanmuchang Hg-Tl mining area, Southwestern Guizhou, China

    Shaofeng Wang;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Zhongqing Wei

  • Legacy of multiple heavy metal(loid)s contamination and ecological risks in farmland soils from a historical artisanal zinc smelting area

    Yuting Zhou;Lulu Wang;Tangfu Xiao;Yongheng Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C.W. Tsang
Daniel C.W. Tsang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Diyun Chen
Diyun Chen Guangzhou University
Fangbai Li
Fangbai Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cong-Qiang Liu
Cong-Qiang Liu Tianjin University
Wajid Nasim
Wajid Nasim Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Chaosheng Zhang
Chaosheng Zhang University of Galway
Philippe C. Baveye
Philippe C. Baveye University of Paris-Saclay
Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
Chengshuai Liu
Chengshuai Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Max M. Häggblom
Max M. Häggblom Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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