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January 2024​
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Meeting Professor Xin YANG (School of Environmental Science and Engineering) from Sun Yat-Sen University.
December 2024
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Our work on revealing the effects of chlorination on microplastics and their toxicity was featured on the HKBU interdisciplinary research website. (Link)
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Quantifying the effects of chlorine disinfection on microplastics by time-resolved inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, Science of The Total Environment, 2024, 954, 176132
December 2024
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​Welcome Dr. Zhi MEI and Dr. Yangjian ZHOU for joining our group as postdoctoral fellows!
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August 2024
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Our work on revealing hazardous chemicals formed during water treatment was featured in the HKBU interdisciplinary research website. (Link)
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Fate of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds Upon the UV/Monochloramine Process: Kinetics, Transformation Pathways and the Formation of N-nitroso-N-methyl-N-alkylamines, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024, 478, 135396
June - August 2024
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Nancy visited the laboratories of Professor Diana AGA (Department of Chemistry) and Dr. Ning DAI (Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering) at the University at Buffalo (UB) as a visiting scholar for three months this summer.
May - July 2024
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Japhet visited the laboratory of Dra. Montserrat Carrascal, the Head of the Biological and Environmental Proteomics Group, at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona - CSIC as a visiting scientist for three months this summer.
June 2024
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Our group has collaborated with Professor Sijie LIN from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University to study the synergistic effects of polystyrene nanoplastics and copper pollutants on zebrafish and human intestinal cell functions.
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Co-exposure of polystyrene and copper indices development toxicity and intestinal mitochondrial dysfunction in vivo and in vitro, Science of The Toal Environment, 2024, 930, 17268
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Featured in HKBU interdisciplinary research website. (Link)
June 2024
Judy joined the "9th International Symposium on Metallomics" in London. She shared her current study about the ICP-MS-based approach in the study of fate of CeO2 Nanoparticles in the presentation session.
April 2024
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Meeting Professor Jie HAN (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences) from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
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March 2024
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Our work on revealing the formation of hazardous radical-coupled transformation products under MnO2-mediated treatment of micropollutants in water was featured in the HKBU interdisciplinary research website (Link)
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Hybrid radical coupling during MnO2-mediated transformation of a mixture of organic UV filters: Chemistry and toxicity assessment, Science of The Total Environment, 2024, 915, 170121
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December 2023
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Meeting and having dinner with Professor Haibo ZHANG (College of Environmental and Resources Sciences at Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University), Professor Fang WANG (Institute of Soil Science at Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr. Defu HE (School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences at East China Normal University) and Dr Yue JIANG (the College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University).
September 2023
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Our work on the formation of emerging disinfection byproducts upon chlorination disinfection of water was featured in the HKBU interdisciplinary research website. (Link)
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Chlorination of bisphenols in water: Understanding the kinetics and formation mechanism of 2-butene-1,4-dial and analogues, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023, 459, 132128
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October 2023
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Our group visited Professor Sijie LIN from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University and Professor Yunhui ZHANG from the School of Public Health at Fudan University.​​​
August 2023
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Meeting Professor Jing LI and her students from the College of Natural Resources and Environment of South China Agricultural University!
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June 2023
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Meeting Professor Damià Barceló, the Honorary Adjunct Professor, from Chemistry and Physics Department of University of Almeria.
August 2018
Our work on UV filters was featured in local news and overseas.
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Joint Effects of Multiple UV Filters on Zebrafish Embryo Development, Environmental Science & Technology, 2018, 52 (16), 9460–9467
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December 2022
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Our work on microplastics was featured in local news and overseas.
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Sorption Behavior, Speciation, and Toxicity of Microplastic-Bound Chromium in Multisolute Systems, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2023, 10, 1, 27-32
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Featured in HKBU interdisciplinary research website. (Link)
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