2020 Report

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EBBL Director’s Message 2020

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People 2020

Member Updates

2020 Alumni

New Labs

EBBL presented on McKelvey PhD Day.

Dr. He was named a

Fellow of International

Water Association (IWA),

among 17 new fellows in

2020. He is the first IWA

Fellow at WashU.

Akshay Jain completed his PhD at Virginia Tech and joined

Virginia Department of Health as a district engineer. His

doctoral work focused on hydrogen production in

microbial electrolysis cells driven by thermoelectricity.

EBBL alumnus Dr. Syeed Md Iskander

started his own lab at North Dakota

State University after completing a

postdoctoral training at University of

Southern California.

EBBL alumnus Dr. Shiqiang Zou

finished his postdoctoral training at

Stanford University and then joined

Auburn University as an Assistant

Professor.

Dr. He co-founded a new

journal – Journal of Hazardous

Materials Letters and acted as

its Co-Editor. JHM Letters is a

sister journal of Journal of

Hazardous Materials (JHM).

Dr. He was appointed the

inaugural director of the

Center for Water Innovation

(CWI), one of research

centers in McKelvey School

of Engineering.

Xingjian Liu completed his PhD at Virginia Tech and joined

Chinese Academy of Forestry in Nanjing. His wife is a

faculty member at another university. Xingjian worked on

electrochemical treatment of leachate.

Xiao Li completed her visiting research and returned to

Sun Yat-sen University to finish her PhD. She recently

obtained a lecture position at Shandong University of

Science and Technology.

Webinar

Dr. He delivered virtual

seminars to several universities

and professional organizations.

Zixuan presented virtually on NAMES 2020.

Yanran received the R.E. Speece Fellowship from Marquette

University Water Quality Center.

Dr. Hanan Moustafa completed her visiting research and

returned to Egypt. She will continue to work on our

collaborative project supported by US-Egypt Joint Fund.

Dr. Lingen Zhang completed his postdoctoral training in

EBBL and returned to China. He worked on recovery of Li

elements from spent batteries using electrochemical

methods.

He is also the Keynote Speaker on the 1st Virtual Conference of

Canada Association on Water Quality and the Honorary Speaker of

the 3rd WaterEnergyNexus Conference.

He is an inaugural speaker for

the Distinguished Seminar in

Environmental Engineering in

the CEE department, Nanyang

Technological University.

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Publication 2020

1. Wang, Z. and He, Z.* (2020) Frontier review on metal

removal in bioelectrochemical systems: mechanisms,

performance, and perspectives. Journal of Hazardous

Materials Letters. Vol 1, Article 100002.

2. Li,T., Yang, X., Chen, Q., Song, H.,* He, Z. and Yang, Y.

(2020) Enhanced performance of microbial fuel cells

with electron mediators from

anthraquinone/polyphenols-abundant herbal plants.

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Vol 8, pp

11263–11275.

3. Ye, J., Ren, G., Kang, L., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., Zhou, S.* and

He, Z. (2020) Efficient photoelectron capture by Ni

decoration in methanosarcina barkeri-CdS biohybrids

for enhanced photocatalytic CO2-to-CH4 conversion.

iScience. Vol 23, Article 101287.

4. Zhang, L., Xu, Z. and He, Z.* (2020) Electrochemical

relithiation for direct regeneration of LiCoO2

materials from spent lithium-ion battery electrodes.

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Vol 8, pp

11596–11605.

5. Wang, Z., Lee, Y.Y., Scherr, D., Senger, R.S., Li, Y. and

He, Z.* (2020) Mitigating nutrient accumulation with

microalgal growth towards enhanced nutrient

removal and biomass production in an osmotic

photobioreactor. Water Research. Vol 182, Article

116038.

6. Garcia-Segura, S., Qu, X., Alvarez, P.J.J., Chaplin, B.P.,

Chen, W., Crittenden, J.C., Feng, Y., Gao, G., He, Z., Hou,

C.H., Hu, X., Jiang, G., Kim, J.H., Li, J., Li, Q., Ma, J., Ma, J.,

Nienhauser, A.B., Niu, J., Pan, B., Quan, X., Ronzani, F.,

Villagran, D., Waite, T.D., W. Walker, S., Wang, C.,

Wong, M.S. and Westerhoff, P.* (2020) Opportunities

for nanotechnology to enhance electrochemical

treatment of pollutants in potable water and

industrial wastewater - A perspective.

Environmental Science: Nano. Vol 7, pp 2178-2194.

7. Liu. F., Moustafa, H., El-Din Hassouna, S. and He, Z.*

(2020) Resource recovery from wastewater can be an

application niche of microbial desalination cells.

Environment International. Vol 142, Article 105855.

8. Wang, Z., He, Z.* and Young, E.B.* (2020) Towards

enhanced performance of integrated photo-

bioelectrochemical systems: Taxa and functions in

bacteria-algae communities. Current Opinion in

Chemical Biology. Vol 59, pp 130-139.

9. Liu, X. and He, Z.* (2020) Decreased formation of

disinfection by-products during electrochemical

leachate oxidation and their post-removal by electro-

adsorption. Science of the Total Environment. Vol

730, Article 139171.

10. Jain, A. and He, Z.* (2020) Improving hydrogen

production in microbial electrolysis cells through

hydraulic connection with thermoelectric generators.

Process Biochemistry. Vol 94, pp 51-57.

11. Pan, Y., Zhu, T. and He, Z.* (2020) Minimizing effects of

chloride and calcium towards enhanced nutrient

recovery from sidestream centrate in a decoupled

electrodialysis driven by solar energy. Journal of

Cleaner Production. Vol 263, Article 121419.

12. Jin, Q., Wang, Z., Feng, Y., Kim, YT, Stewart, A.C.,

O’Keefe, S.F., Neilson, A.P., He, Z.* and Huang, H.*

(2020) Grape pomace and its secondary waste

management: biochar production for a broad range of

lead (Pb) removal from water. Environmental

Research. Vol 186, Article 109442.

13. Luo, S., Walker. L., Badgley, B., He, Z. and Young, E.B.*

(2020) Effects of bacterial inoculation and nitrogen

loading on bacterial-algal consortium composition

and functions in an integrated

photobioelectrochemical system. Science of the Total

Environment. Vol 716, Article 137135.

14. Liu, T., Serrano, J., Yang, X., Cathcart, W., Wang, Z., He,

Z. and Liu. G.* (2020) Exceptional capacitive

deionization rate and capacity by block copolymer-

based porous carbon fibers. Science Advances. Vol 6,

no. 16, eaaz0906.

15. Xu, Z., Hua, W.,* Xiong, L. and He, Z. (2020) Novel

design of volume of detention tanks assisted by a

multi-source pollution overflow model towards

pollution control in urban drainage basins.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research. Vol

27, pp 12781–12791.

16. Liu, X., Novak, J.T. and He, Z.* (2020) Synergistically

coupling membrane electrochemical reactor with

Fenton process to enhance landfill leachate treatment.

Chemosphere. Vol 247, Article 125954.

17. Ma, X., Li, M., Feng, C. and He, Z.* (2020)

Electrochemical nitrate removal with simultaneous

magnesium recovery from a mimicked RO brine

assisted by in situ chloride ions. Journal of Hazardous

Materials. Vol 388, Article 122085.

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Publication 2020

18. Zhang, L., Xu, Z. and He, Z.* (2020) Selective recovery

of lead and zinc through controlling cathodic potential

in a bioelectrochemically-assisted electrodeposition

system. Journal of Hazardous Materials. Vol 386,

Article 121941.

19. Jain, A. and He, Z.* (2020) Powering microbial

electrolysis cells by electricity generation from

simulated waste heat of anaerobic digesters using

thermoelectric generators. International Journal of

Hydrogen Energy. Vol 45, pp 4065-4072.

20. Xu, B., Iskander, S. and He, Z.* (2020) Dominant

formation of unregulated disinfection by-products

during electrocoagulation treatment of landfill

leachate. Environmental Research. Vol 182, Article

109006.

21. Yang, Y., He, Z., Wu, Y., Yang, X., Cai, Y. and Song, H.*

(2020) Bioelectrochemically assisted osmotic

membrane bioreactor with reusable polyelectrolyte

draw solutes. Bioresource Technology. Vol 296,

Article 122352.

22. Ferby, M., Zou, S., and He, Z.* (2020) Reduction of

reverse solute flux induced solute buildup in the feed

solution of forward osmosis. Environmental Science:

Water Research & Technology. Vol 6, pp 423-435.

23. Li, X., Liu, G. and He, Z.* (2020) Flexible control of

biohythane composition and production by dual

cathodes in a bioelectrochemical system. Bioresource

Technology. Vol 295, Article 122270.

24. Brown, M.,* Karimova, F., Love, N., Pagilla, K., Bott, C.,

He, Z., Liner, B. and Merther, S. (2020) University-

Utility Partnerships: best practices for water

innovation and collaboration. Water Environment

Research. Vol 92, pp 314-319.

25. Iskander, S., Zeng, T., Smiley, E., Bolyard S.C., Novak,

J.T. and He, Z.* (2020) Formation of disinfection

byproducts during Fenton’s oxidation of chloride-rich

landfill leachate. Journal of Hazardous Materials. Vol

382, Article 121213.

26. Wang, Z. and He, Z.* (2020) Demystifying terms for

understanding bioelectrochemical systems towards

sustainable wastewater treatment. Current Opinion

in Electrochemistry. Vol 19, pp 14-19.

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Contact and Direction 2020

Dr. Zhen (Jason) He

Brauer Hall 1026

Danforth Campus

Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Dr.

St. Louis, MO 63130

Office phone: 314-935-7124

Email: zhenhe@wustl.edu

EBBL

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Lab webpage: https://ebbl.eece.wustl.edu