Effects of silver nanoparticles on nitrification and associated nitrous oxide production in aquatic environments

Yanling Zheng; Lijun Hou; Min Liu; Silvia E. Newell; Guoyu Yin; Chendi Yu; Hongli Zhang; Xiaofei Li; Dengzhou Gao; Juan Gao; Rong Wang; Cheng Liu

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Effects of silver nanoparticles on nitrification and associated nitrous oxide production in aquatic environments

Yanling Zheng¹,²,*,
Lijun Hou²,*,†,
Min Liu¹,†,
Silvia E. Newell³,
Guoyu Yin¹,²,
Chendi Yu²,
Hongli Zhang²,
Xiaofei Li¹,
Dengzhou Gao¹,
Juan Gao²,
Rong Wang² and
Cheng Liu²

¹Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
²State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
³Department of Earth and the Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

↵†Corresponding author. Email: ljhou{at}sklec.ecnu.edu.cn (L.H.); mliu{at}geo.ecnu.edu.cn (M.L.)

↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Science Advances 02 Aug 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 8, e1603229
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1603229

Yanling Zheng

Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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Lijun Hou

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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For correspondence: ljhou@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn mliu@geo.ecnu.edu.cn

Min Liu

Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.

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For correspondence: ljhou@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn mliu@geo.ecnu.edu.cn

Silvia E. Newell

Department of Earth and the Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

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Guoyu Yin

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Chendi Yu

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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Hongli Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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Xiaofei Li

Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.

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Dengzhou Gao

Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.

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Juan Gao

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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Rong Wang

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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Cheng Liu

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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