Research themes and scope
1. Mineral surface geochemistry: thermodynamics and kinetics of mineral crystallization and dissolution; biomineralization and mineral-organic interfacial complexation; microbe-mineral interactions and related geomicrobiological effect
2. Biogeochemistry: coupled Si-C cycle in coastal wetland ecosystem and related carbon sequestration and storage; regional and global response to coupled C-Fe cycle in soil CZO; Microbe-mineral coevolution during pedogenesis
3. Environmental geochemistry of soils: low-T and microbe-mediated clay mineralogy; soil heavy metal fixation and liberatation associated with mineral-water interactions; nutrient and metal migration in rhizosphere and vegetation zones
Research activity and on-going projects
1. NNSFC key project: mineralogical and geochemical effects on microbial behavior and exo-enzyme stability (2019 -2023)
2. NNSFC key project: Silicon biogeochemical cycle and related carbon sequestration process in the wetland zone of Bohai rim (2020-2024)
3. NNSFC solicited project: Role of amorphous MgCO3 as precursor in anhydrous magnesium carbonate mineralization (2022=2023)
4. NNSFC solicited project: Soil carbon cycle mediated by active Fe-minerals and the effect on global climate change (2020-2023)
5. Ministry of Science and Technology Key R&D project (participant): Accessment and remediation of industrial sites with composite and cross contamination (2020-2023)
6. Numerous NNSFC junior projects and provincial level projects
Selected publcations
Yu, G. H.; Chi, Z. L.; Teng, H. H.; Dong, H. L.; Kappler, A.; Gillings, M. R.; Polizzotto, M. L.; Liu, C. Q.; Zhu, Y. G., Fungus-initiated catalytic reactions at hyphal-mineral interfaces drive iron redox cycling and biomineralization. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2019, 260, 192-203.
Zhu, X.; Nordstrom, D. K.; McCleskey, R. B.; Wang, R.; Lu, X.; Li, S.; Teng, H. H., On the thermodynamics and kinetics of scorodite dissolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2019, 265, 468-477.
Sun, S.; Che, T.; Li, H.; Wang, T.; Ma, C.; Liu, B.; Wu, Y.; Song, Z., Water and carbon dioxide exchange of an alpine meadow ecosystem in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau is energy-limited. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2019, 275, 283-295.
Sun, F. S.; Yu, G. H.; Polizzotto, M. L.; Ran, W.; Shen, Q. R., Toward understanding the binding of Zn in soils by two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy and synchrotron-radiation-based spectromicroscopies. Geoderma 2019, 337, 238-245.
Song, Z.; Liu, C.; Müller, K.; Yang, X.; Wu, Y.; Wang, H., Silicon regulation of soil organic carbon stabilization and its potential to mitigate climate change. Earth-Science Reviews 2018, 185, 463-475.
Chen, C.; Thompson, A., Ferrous iron oxidation under varying pO2 levels: The effect of Fe(III)/Al(III) oxide minerals and organic matter. Environmental Science & Technology 2018, 52, (2), 597-606.
Xu, H.; Zhou, M.; Fang, Y.; Teng, H. H., Effect of mica and hematite (001) surfaces on the precipitation of calcite. Minerals 2018, 8, (1), 17.
Hao, Q.; de Lafontaine, G.; Guo, D.; Gu, H.; Hu, F. S.; Han, Y.; Song, Z.; Liu, H., The critical role of local refugia in postglacial colonization of Chinese pine: joint inferences from DNA analyses, pollen records, and species distribution modeling. Ecography 2018, 41, (4), 592-606.
Li, Y.; Zhang, J.; Mostofa, K. M. G.; Wang, Y.; Yu, S.; Cai, Z.; Li, P.; Zhou, G.; Fu, C.; Mao, X., Petrogenesis of carbonatites in the Luliangshan region, North Qaidam, northern Tibet, China: Evidence for recycling of sedimentary carbonate and mantle metasomatism within a subduction zone. Lithos 2018, 322, 148-165.
Yu, G.; Xiao, J.; Hu, S.; Polizzotto, M. L.; Zhao, F.; McGrath, S. P.; Li, H.; Ran, W.; Shen, Q., Mineral availability as a key regulator of soil carbon storage. Environmental Science & Technology 2017, 51, (9), 4960-4969.
Song, Z.; McGrouther, K.; Wang, H., Occurrence, turnover and carbon sequestration potential of phytoliths in terrestrial ecosystems. Earth-Science Reviews 2016, 158, 19-30.
Li, Z.; Liu, L.; Chen, J.; Teng, H. H., Cellular dissolution at hypha- and spore-mineral interfaces revealing unrecognized mechanisms and scales of fungal weathering. Geology 2016, 44, (4), 319-322.
Wang, Y.; Su, X.; Xu, Z.; Wen, K.; Zhang, P.; Zhu, J.; He, H., Preparation of surface-functionalized porous clay heterostructures via carbonization of soft-template and their adsorption performance for toluene. Applied Surface Science 2016, 363, 113-121.
Zhang, J.; Lu, Y., Conductive Fe3O4 nanoparticles accelerate syntrophic methane production from butyrate oxidation in two different lake sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology 2016, 7, 1316.
Guan, D. X.; Williams, P. N.; Luo, J.; Zheng, J. L.; Xu, H. C.; Cai, C.; Ma, L. Q., Novel precipitated zirconia-based DGT technique for high-resolution imaging of oxyanions in waters and sediments. Environmental Science & Technology 2015, 49, (6), 3653-3661.
Xu, J.; Yan, C.; Zhang, F.; Konishi, H.; Xu, H.; Teng, H. H., Testing the cation-hydration effect on the crystallization of Ca–Mg–CO3 systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013, 110, (44), 17750-17755.
Song, Z.; Liu, H.; Li, B.; Yang, X., The production of phytolith-occluded carbon in China's forests: implications to biogeochemical carbon sequestration. Global Change Biology 2013, 19, (9), 2907-2915.
