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Yang Liu is a researcher affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their work spans multiple domains within environmental science and engineering, focusing particularly on aspects of pollution control, water science, and industrial engineering.

Their research covers a range of subfields including pollution, building and construction, water science and technology, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and environmental engineering. These subfields reflect a broad approach to environmental challenges and engineering solutions.

Yang Liu's main topics of work include:

  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Phosphorus and Nutrient Management

Among their recent publications are:

  • Carbon dots-fed Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 for bioelectricity enhancement, 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • Microbial co-occurrence network topological properties link with reactor parameters and reveal importance of low-abundance genera, 2022, published in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • MoS2-based membranes in water treatment and purification, 2021, published in Chemical Engineering Journal
  • The influence of salinity and mineral components on spontaneous imbibition in tight sandstone, 2020, published in Fuel
  • State-of-the-art technologies for continuous high-rate biohydrogen production, 2020, published in Bioresource Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yang Liu include:

  • Lei Zhang
  • Yingdi Zhang
  • Bing Guo
  • Najiaowa Yu
  • Huijuan Sun

Yang Liu regularly publishes in multiple venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Bioresource Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Yang Liu's publication record shows a strong focus on environmental applications, addressing various techniques for wastewater treatment, bioenergy production, and membrane technologies. Their work integrates biological and engineering aspects to tackle environmental challenges.

Best Publications

  • Electrical detection of charge-current-induced spin polarization due to spin-momentum locking in Bi2Se3

    C. H. Li;O. M. J. van ‘t Erve;J. T. Robinson;Y. Liu

  • Development of nanosilver and multi-walled carbon nanotubes thin-film nanocomposite membrane for enhanced water treatment

    Eun-Sik Kim;Geelsu Hwang;Mohamed Gamal El-Din;Yang Liu

  • Photocatalytic degradation of azo dyes by nitrogen-doped TiO2 nanocatalysts.

    Y. Liu;X. Chen;J. Li;C. Burda

  • Electrospun nanofibrous membranes for high flux microfiltration

    Ran Wang;Yang Liu;Brandon Li;Brandon Li;Benjamin S. Hsiao

  • Effects of silver nanoparticles on wastewater biofilms

    Zhiya Sheng;Yang Liu

  • Tuning Dirac states by strain in the topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3

    Y. Liu;Y. Y. Li;S. Rajput;D. Gilks

  • Influence of pyrolysis temperature on production of digested sludge biochar and its application for ammonium removal from municipal wastewater

    Yao Tang;Samrat Alam;Kurt O. Konhauser;Daniel S. Alessi

  • Carbon dots-fed Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 for bioelectricity enhancement

    Chenhui Yang;Hüsnü Aslan;Peng Zhang;Shoujun Zhu

  • Fabrication of antifouling and antibacterial polyethersulfone (PES)/cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) nanocomposite membranes

    Dan Zhang;Amin Karkooti;Lu Liu;Mohtada Sadrzadeh

  • High-flux microfiltration filters based on electrospun polyvinylalcohol nanofibrous membranes

    Yang Liu;Ran Wang;Hongyang Ma;Benjamin S. Hsiao

  • Role of biochar in the granulation of anaerobic sludge and improvement of electron transfer characteristics.

    Caiqin Wang;Yang Liu;Xinyi Gao;Hui Chen

  • Bactericidal activity of nitrogen-doped metal oxide nanocatalysts and the influence of bacterial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)

    Yang Liu;Jin Li;Xiaofeng Qiu;Clemens Burda

  • Influence of extracellular polymeric substances on Pseudomonas aeruginosa transport and deposition profiles in porous media.

    Yang Liu;Ching-Hong Yang;Jin Li

  • A map for wear mechanisms in aluminium alloys

    Y. Liu;R. Asthana;P. Rohatgi

  • Spiral Growth without Dislocations: Molecular Beam Epitaxy of the Topological Insulator Bi 2 Se 3 on Epitaxial Graphene/SiC(0001)

    Y. Liu;M. Weinert;L. Li

  • The fabrication of a highly efficient self-healing hydrogel from natural biopolymers loaded with exosomes for the synergistic promotion of severe wound healing

    Chunyao Wang;Chenyu Liang;Rui Wang;Xueliang Yao

  • Performance of anaerobic treatment of blackwater collected from different toilet flushing systems: Can we achieve both energy recovery and water conservation?

    Mengjiao Gao;Lei Zhang;Anna P. Florentino;Yang Liu

  • MoS2-based membranes in water treatment and purification

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  • Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm in the initial adhesion, growth and detachment of Escherichia coli in porous media.

    Yang Liu;Jin Li

  • Visual loop closure detection with a compact image descriptor

    Yang Liu;Hong Zhang

  • Responsiveness extracellular electron transfer (EET) enhancement of anaerobic digestion system during start-up and starvation recovery stages via magnetite addition.

    Caiqin Wang;Yang Liu;Shuai Jin;Hui Chen

  • Molecular interactions of mussel protective coating protein, mcfp-1, from Mytilus californianus.

    Qingye Lu;Dong Soo Hwang;Yang Liu;Hongbo Zeng

  • The influence of salinity and mineral components on spontaneous imbibition in tight sandstone

    Jianchao Cai;Jianchao Cai;Caoxiong Li;Kaoping Song;Shuangmei Zou

  • The impacts of ozonation on oil sands process-affected water biodegradability and biofilm formation characteristics in bioreactors.

    Geelsu Hwang;Tao Dong;Sahinoor Islam;Zhiya Sheng

  • The effects of pretreatment on nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane filtration for desalination of oil sands process-affected water

    Eun-Sik Kim;Yang Liu;Mohamed Gamal El-Din

  • Wastewater ammonia removal using an integrated fixed-film activated sludge-sequencing batch biofilm reactor (IFAS-SBR): Comparison of suspended flocs and attached biofilm

    Yanxi Shao;Yijing Shi;Abdul Mohammed;Yang Liu

  • A web of streamers: biofilm formation in a porous microfluidic device

    Amin Valiei;Aloke Kumar;Partha P. Mukherjee;Yang Liu

  • Fabrication of porous polymeric nanocomposite membranes with enhanced anti-fouling properties: Effect of casting composition

    Alla Alpatova;Eun-Sik Kim;Xiaohui Sun;Geelsu Hwang

  • A two-step flocculation process on oil sands tailings treatment using oppositely charged polymer flocculants

    Qiuyi Lu;Bin Yan;Lei Xie;Jun Huang

  • Effects of silver nanoparticles on microbial community structure in activated sludge

    Xiaohui Sun;Zhiya Sheng;Yang Liu

  • Novel tiO2 nanocatalysts for wastewater purification: tapping energy from the sun.

    Yang Liu;J. Li;X. Qiu;C. Burda

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamed Gamal El-Din
Mohamed Gamal El-Din University of Alberta
Ravin Narain
Ravin Narain University of Alberta
Nicholas J. Ashbolt
Nicholas J. Ashbolt Queensland University of Technology
Hongbo Zeng
Hongbo Zeng University of Alberta
Siqing Xia
Siqing Xia Tongji University
Thomas Thundat
Thomas Thundat University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Benjamin Chu
Benjamin Chu Stony Brook University
Benjamin S. Hsiao
Benjamin S. Hsiao Stony Brook University
Clemens Burda
Clemens Burda Case Western Reserve University
Partha P. Mukherjee
Partha P. Mukherjee Purdue University West Lafayette

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