Publications by authors named "Dingnan Lu"

Substantial evidence suggests that all types of water, such as drinking water, wastewater, surface water, and groundwater, can be potential sources of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. Thus, it is critical to thoroughly investigate all possible preconditioning methods to enhance the recovery of H.

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Prokaryotic communities play important roles in sewer sediment ecosystems, but the community composition, functional potential, and assembly mechanisms of sewer sediment prokaryotic communities are still poorly understood. Here, we studied the sediment prokaryotic communities in different urban functional areas (multifunctional, commercial, and residential areas) through 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Our results suggested that the compositions of prokaryotic communities varied significantly among functional areas.

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Developing anti-biofouling and anti-biofilm techniques is of great importance for protecting water-contact surfaces. In this study, we developed a novel double-layer system consisting of a bottom immobilized TiO nanoflower arrays (TNFs) unit and an upper superhydrophobic (SHB) coating along with the assistance of nanobubbles (NBs), which can significantly elevate the interfacial oxygen level by establishing the long-range hydrophobic force between NBs and SHB and effectively maximize the photocatalytic reaction brought by the bottom TNFs. The developed NBs-SHB/TNFs system demonstrated the highest bulk chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction efficiency at approximately 80% and achieved significant E.

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The survival pattern of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) and its regulatory factors in natural environments have been widely studied. However, there is little information about the survival of E.

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In rural China, many constructed wetlands (CWs) have been developed to treat rural wastewater sustainably. However, due to the scarce information on those rural CWs, it is difficult to analyze the biological contaminants within those systems, such as antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and pathogens. Based on the data collected from two pilot-scale, one-year-observed CWs, for the first time, this study explored the accumulation of ARGs and pathogens using the metagenomic sequencing approach and SourceTracker analysis under different hydraulic loading rates.

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Constructed wetland (CW) is an environment-friendly and low-cost technology for nutrients removal from domestic wastewater. For a well-tuned CW, hydraulic loading rate (HLR) is one of the critical factors, particularly under the challenging circumstance of more frequent heavy rainfall events brought by global warming. In this study, a comprehensive investigation was conducted to explore the influence of different HLRs on the CW's bulk substrate and root-associated microbiota aiming to yield new insight for CW management from a hybrid perspective of environmental microbiology and engineering science.

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This paper describes a voltammetric method and data analysis program developed for the detection of arsenic(III) in commercial apple juice. Arsenic(III) was detected using square wave stripping voltammetry with gold nanoparticle modified screen printed electrodes. The only sample pretreatment performed was the addition of a 100 mM phosphate buffer with a pH of 7.

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The recent outbreak of a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has posed a significant global public health threat and caused dramatic social and economic disruptions. A new research direction is attracting a significant amount of attention in the academic community of environmental sciences and engineering, in which rapid community-level monitoring could be achieved by applying the methodology of wastewater based epidemiology (WBE). Given the fact that the development of a mass balance on the total number of viral RNA copies in wastewater samples and the infected stool specimens is the heart of WBE, the result of the quantitative RNA detection in wastewater has to be highly sensitive, accurate, and reliable.

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The present work reports a newly developed square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWASV) methodology using novel gold nanostar-modified screen-printed carbon electrodes (AuNS/SPCE) and modified Britton-Robinson buffer (mBRB) for simultaneous detection of trace cadmium(II), arsenic(III), and selenium(IV). During individual and simultaneous detection, Cd, As, and Se exhibited well-separated SWASV peaks at approximately - 0.48, - 0.

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One of the challenges preventing rapid, onsite voltammetric detection of arsenic(III) is the overlapping oxidation peak of copper(II). This paper describes a novel methodology for the voltammetric detection of trace levels of arsenic(III) in the presence of high copper(II) concentrations (up to the action level of 1.3 mg L set by the US EPA for drinking water).

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have recently drawn great attention due to their ubiquitous presence in aquatic environments and potential toxicity to human health and the environment. A number of recent studies have demonstrated that "passive" removal approaches, such as adsorption, filtration, and reverse osmosis or "active" degradation technologies, such as enhanced photolysis, electrochemical oxidation, and sonochemical destruction, are all able to individually conduct remedial measures for PFAS contamination at some level. However, drawbacks, specifically high energy consumption, low cost-efficiency, and extreme operating conditions, are commonly observed from these studies which significantly suppress the future for commercialization of these innovative technologies.

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