A5032359540- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Lignin and Wood Chemistry
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
- thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Covalent Organic Framework Applications
- Advanced oxidation water treatment
- Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
- Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
- Gut microbiota and health
- Multiferroics and related materials
- Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
- Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
University of Hong Kong
2016-2025
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2023-2025
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2025
Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University
2025
Chongqing Medical University
2025
China International Science and Technology Cooperation
2025
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
2025
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials
2015-2024
Fudan University
2023-2024
State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology
2023-2024
Copper–iron bimetallic oxides have shown great potential for powerful radical production by activating peroxides. In this work, CuFeO2 rhombohedral crystals (RCs) were synthesized and used as heterogeneous catalysts peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation under various conditions. Sulfadiazine, a widely veterinary sulfonamide, was target pollutant to evaluate the efficiency of combination. The results showed that all tested, RCs had greatest reactivity. Under conditions 0.1 g L–1 33.0 μM PMS,...
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Visible-light-driven CO2 reduction to valuable chemicals without sacrificial agents and cocatalysts remains challenging, especially for metal-free photocatalytic systems. Herein, a novel donor-acceptor (D-A) covalent organic framework (CT-COF) was constructed by the Schiff-base reaction of carbazole-triazine based D-A monomers possessed suitable energy band structure, strong visible-light-harvesting, abundant nitrogen sites. CT-COF as photocatalyst could reduce with gaseous H2 O CO main...
Vacancy is a very important class of phonon scattering center to reduce thermal conductivity for the development high efficient thermoelectric materials. However, conventional monovacancy may also act as an electron or hole acceptor, thereby modifying electrical transport properties and even worsening performance. This issue urges us create new types vacancies that scatter phonons effectively while not deteriorating transport. Herein, taking BiCuSeO example, we first reported successful...
Interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG) utilizing local heating technology for evaporation at the water-to-steam interface is drawing great attention because of its high efficiency solar-thermal conversion a sustainable and eco-friendly drinking water regeneration process. Here, inspired by structure penguin feathers polar bear hairs that both have macropores to trap air thermal insulation, we report bionic evaporator (BSE) with macroporous skeleton partial management macro patulous...
The application of Cu2O catalysts in CO2 photocatalytic reduction has attracted much attention due to the capacity generate high-calorific-value hydrocarbon fuels with pre-eminent selectivity. However, origin high selectivity remains unclear. In this study, (111) facet was verified as for CH4 (the simplest hydrocarbon) formation by comparing behaviors varied active facets. Results showed that Cu2O-100 produced negligible (selectivity = 0%), whereas yield on Cu2O-111 12.24 μmol·g–1·h–1 a...
Two aerobic sulfadiazine (SDZ) degrading bacterial strains, D2 and D4, affiliated with the genus Arthrobacter, were isolated from SDZ-enriched activated sludge. The degradation of SDZ by two isolates followed first-order decay kinetics. half-life time complete was 11.3 h for strain 46.4 D4. Degradation kinetic changed nongrowth to growth-linked when glucose introduced as cosubstrate, accelerated biodegradation rate observed after adaption period. Both could degrade into 12 products via 3...
Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs), an important class of micropollutants with potent adverse health effects, are generally poorly rejected by traditional thin film composite polyamide membranes and thus pose significant risks in membrane-based water reclamation. We hypothesize that membrane rejection hydrophobic EDCs can be enhanced a hydrophilic surface coating. Using polydoamine (PDA) as model coating layer, the PDA-coated NF90 experienced up to 75% reduction passage bisphenol A...
The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is a growing global problem. Activated sludge (AS) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has been proposed as hotspot for ARGs. However, few studies have conducted to uncover the temporal dynamics resistome AS WWTPs by long-term longitudinal sampling. In this study, we quantified ARGs and identified their host microbiome Hong Kong WWTP 97 monthly samples spanning 9 years. Throughout analysis, demonstrated that both abundance structures...
The application of photocatalytic sterilization technology for the water has been broadly studied in recent years. However, developing photocatalysts with high disinfection efficiency remains an urgent challenge. Tungsten trioxide coexisting oxygen vacancies and carbon coating (WO3–x/C) successfully synthesized toward photothermal inactivation Escherichia coli. Oxygen bring WO3–x/C strong absorption infrared region enhance carrier separation efficiency. As a result, higher rate is obtained...
Microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract of animals play vital roles food digestion, homeostasis and immune response regulation. Globally, there are 33,700 fish species, representing almost half all vertebrate diversity a wide range physiologies, ecologies life histories. To investigate gut microbiomes with high coverage, we performed 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing 115 samples 20 common marine species. The microbiome is remarkably simple community low microbial (a maximum 300 sequence...
Biodegradation is an important route for the removal of sulfamethazine (SMZ), one most commonly used sulfonamide antibiotics, in environment. However, little information known about kinetics, products, and pathways SMZ biodegradation owing to complexity its enzyme-based biotransformation processes. In this study, SMZ-degrading strain A01 belonging genus Paenarthrobacter was isolated from SMZ-enriched activated sludge reactors. The bacterial cells were rod-shaped with transient branches...
Biochar modification can enhance the properties associated with porosity and functional groups has been identified as an effective way to improve adsorption capacity. Modified corncob biochars pretreated by different contents of MgCl2 are obtained through slow pyrolysis; then, this work explores abilities towards heavy metals. After modification, mainly impregnate carbon surface Mg(OH)2 MgO particles. The best mass ratio magnesium (Mg)/feedback is 15% for modified biochar, 15%Mg-BC much...
Abstract Background Microbial communities in both natural and applied settings reliably carry out myriads of functions, yet how stable these taxonomically diverse assemblages can be what causes them to transition between states remains poorly understood. We studied monthly activated sludge (AS) samples collected over 9 years from a full-scale wastewater treatment plant answer complex AS evolve the long term community functions change when there is disturbance operational parameters. Results...
The accurate and comprehensive analyses of genome-resolved metagenomics largely depend on the reconstruction reference-quality (complete high-quality) genomes from diverse microbiomes. Closing gaps in draft have been approaching with inclusion Nanopore long reads; however, genome quality improvement requires extensive time-consuming high-accuracy short-read polishing.Here, we introduce NanoPhase, an open-source tool to reconstruct complex metagenomes using only reads. Using Kit 9 Q20+...