Zhi Cao

ORCID: 0000-0001-6120-0362
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Research Areas
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
  • Concrete and Cement Materials Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Sustainable Industrial Ecology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agricultural Systems and Practices
  • Smart Materials for Construction
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Green IT and Sustainability
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Forest Biomass Utilization and Management

Nankai University
2023-2025

Chinese Academy of Sciences
2006-2025

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
2014-2025

Qingdao Agricultural University
2025

Southern Medical University
2024

Shanghai Electric (China)
2024

University of Antwerp
2021-2023

Northwestern University
2023

McCormick (United States)
2023

China University of Geosciences
2023

Abstract Cement plays a dual role in the global carbon cycle like sponge: its massive production contributes significantly to present-day anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, yet hydrated products gradually reabsorb substantial amounts of atmospheric (carbonation) future. The this sponge effect along cement (including production, use, and demolition) emissions mitigation, however, remains hitherto unexplored. Here, we quantify effects demand- supply-side mitigation measures considering...

10.1038/s41467-020-17583-w article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2020-07-29

Decarbonization strategies for the cement and concrete sector have relied heavily on supply-side technologies, including carbon capture storage (CCS), masking opportunities demand-side intervention. Here we show that cross-cutting involving both supply demand sides can achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 across entire Japanese cycle without resorting to mass deployment of CCS. Our analysis shows a series mitigation efforts side reduce CO

10.1038/s41467-022-31806-2 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2022-07-18

Modern cities and societies are built fundamentally based on cement concrete. The global production has risen sharply in the past decades due largely to urbanization construction. Here we deployed a top-down dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) model quantify historical development of in-use stocks residential, nonresidential, civil engineering sectors all world countries. We found that spreads unevenly among 184 countries, with China dominating consumption after 1990s. Nearly countries have...

10.1021/acs.est.7b03077 article EN Environmental Science & Technology 2017-08-24

Lowland rice paddy soils may accumulate significant amounts of organic matter. Our aim was to investigate the role prolonged management on nitrogen (N) status soils, and elucidate contribution bacteria fungi long-term N accumulation processes. For this purpose, we sampled a chronosequence 0–2000 years cropping with adjacent non-paddy systems in Bay Hangzhou, China. The samples were analyzed for bulk density, total, mineral microbial (Nmic), amino sugars as markers residues. results showed...

10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02500.x article EN Global Change Biology 2011-07-21

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is one of the components Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), which are good examples evolutionary adapted socio-ecosystems in human history. The Hani Rice Terraces System, located China’s southwestern Yunnan Province, a living example GIAHS. system has existed for more than thousand years, following TEK related to cultivation and natural resources management, was collected practiced continually. Over this long time period, enabled...

10.3390/su6074497 article EN Sustainability 2014-07-18

The rapid urbanization in China since the 1970s has led to an exponential growth of metal stocks (MS) use cities. A retrospect on quantity, quality, and patterns these MS is a prerequisite for projecting future demand, identifying urban mining potentials metals, informing sustainable strategies. Here, we deployed bottom-up stock accounting method estimate iron, copper, aluminum embodied 51 categories products infrastructure across 10 Chinese megacities from 1980 2016. We found that had...

10.1021/acs.est.9b00387 article EN Environmental Science & Technology 2019-03-13

Wind energy is key to addressing the global climate challenge, but its development subject potential constraints of finite primary materials. Prior studies on material demand forecasting wind power are often limited a few materials and with low technological resolution, thus hindering comprehensive understanding impact microengineering parameters resource implications energy. In this study, we developed component-by-component stock-driven prospective flow analysis model used bottom-up data...

10.1021/acs.est.9b03765 article EN publisher-specific-oa Environmental Science & Technology 2019-08-28

Summary The stock‐driven dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) model is one of the prevalent tools to investigate evolution and related metabolism building stock. There exists substantial uncertainty inherent input parameters stock MFA model, which has not been comprehensively evaluated yet. In this study, a probabilistic, established China's urban housing selected as empirical case. This probabilistic ability depict future pathway capture uncertainties in its stock, inflow, outflow. By means...

10.1111/jiec.12579 article EN Journal of Industrial Ecology 2017-04-18

Abstract China has witnessed a construction boom and thus an enormous amount of cement use in the past decades. At same time, manufacturing technology been upgraded rapidly. Here, based on national- provincial-level data, we adopt regression models, life cycle assessment, scenario analyses to present evolution environmental impacts technologies from 1996 2021. We find that novel suspension preheater rotary kilns account for approximately 99% production Climate change fossil depletion are...

10.1038/s43247-022-00579-3 article EN cc-by Communications Earth & Environment 2022-11-17

Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is a widely used end-of-life (EoL) material in pavements to increase the circularity. However, performance loss due using RAP binder layer often requires thicker layer, leading additional usage, energy consumption, and transportation effort. In this study, we developed parametric probabilistic life cycle assessment (LCA) framework robustly compare various designs incorporating recycled materials. Our built upon thermodynamic physical principles reveal complex...

10.1021/acs.est.4c11705 article EN Environmental Science & Technology 2025-01-24

Classical swine fever (CSF) is a highly contagious disease caused by classical virus (CSFV). NS5A, non-structural protein of CSFV, plays an important role in regulating viral replication and translation. The purpose this study was to investigate the effects CSFV NS5A on key proteins mitogen-activated kinase (MAPK) phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-mechanistic target rapamycin (mTOR) pathways porcine macrophages. In study, lentivirus constructed, 3D4/21 cells were infected. infected for 48 h...

10.3389/fmicb.2025.1559840 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Microbiology 2025-02-26
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