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2024

Total Publications: 33

Adesanmi B, D. Ayivi R, S McLamore E, O. Obare S (2024) Synthesis of Carbon Nanofibers by Electrospinning v1. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vzjnr4lx1/v1

Algurainy Y, Call DF (2024) Cathodic precipitation of calcium carbonate and its impact on the electrosorption of sodium in flow-through capacitive deionization. Desalination, 586https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2024.117853

Amos JD, Zhang Z, Tian Y, Lowry GV, Wiesner MR, Hendren CO (2024) Knowledge and Instance Mapping: architecture for premeditated interoperability of disparate data for materials. Scientific Data, 11(1):173. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03006-8

Baker J, Schunk N, Scholz M, Merck A, Muenich RL, Westerhoff P, Elser JJ, Duckworth OW, Gatiboni L, Islam M, Marshall A-M, Sozzani R, Mayer BK (2024) Global-to-Local Dependencies in Phosphorus Mass Flows and Markets: Pathways to Improving System Resiliency in Response to Exogenous Shocks. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00208

Boyer TH, Briese E, Crane L, Bhadha J, Call DF, McLamore ES, Rittmann B, Tuberty S, Westerhoff P, Duckworth OW (2024) Guidance on aqueous matrices for evaluating novel precipitants and adsorbents for phosphorus removal and recovery. Chemosphere, 367:143648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143648

Crane L, Merck A, Delanthamajalu S, Grieger K, Marshall A-M, Boyer TH (2024) Benchmarks for urine volume generation and phosphorus mass recovery in commercial and institutional buildings. Water Research X, 23:100227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2024.100227

Deviney AV, Bhadha JH, Crane L, Cuchiara M, Delanthamajalu S, Gatiboni L, Guzman SM, Hendren CO, Marshall A-M, Morrison E, Nelson NG, Rickabaugh J, Sozzani R, Westerhoff P, Jones JL (2024) Triple Bottom Line Scenario Sites as Boundary Objects for Integrating Diverse Disciplines in Convergent Research. Sustainability, 16(23):10429. https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310429

Ding H, Call DF (2024) Intermittent Heat Shocks Can Reduce Methanogenesis and Increase Generation of Longer-Chain Volatile Fatty Acids in Anaerobic Bioreactors. ACS ES&T Engineering, 4(7):1725–1737. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.4c00090

Elser JJ, Call DF, Deaver JA, Duckworth OW, Mayer BK, McLamore E, Rittmann B, Mahmood M, Westerhoff P (2024) The phosphorus challenge: biotechnology approaches for a sustainable phosphorus system. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 90https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2024.103197

Grieger K, Merck A, Deviney A, Marshall A (2024) What are stakeholder views and needs for achieving phosphorus sustainability? Environment Systems and Decisions, 44(1):114–125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-023-09917-y

Guzman S, Palacios-Linares D (2024) Systematic Review of Best Management Practice Implementation for Agricultural Phosphorus Management in Florida: A 30-Year Overview. Journal of Natural Resources and Agricultural Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.13031/jnrae.15912

Haverroth E, Gobble M, Bradley L, Harris-Gilliam K, Fischer A, Williams C, Long T, Sozzani R (2024) The Black American experience: Answering the global challenge of broadening participation in STEM/agriculture. The Plant Cell, koae002. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae002

Hussein FB, Cannon AH, Hutchison JM, Gorman CB, Yingling YG, Mayer BK (2024) Phosphate-binding protein-loaded iron oxide particles: adsorption performance for phosphorus removal and recovery from water. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 10(5):1219–1232. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EW00052H

Jesmin T, Fan Y, Rabbany A, VanWeelden M, Bhadha J (2024) Optimization of phosphorus and potassium use efficiency of rice (Oryza sativa L) under different flood depths within the Everglades Agricultural Area. Journal of Plant Nutrition, Ahead-of-print: 1–18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2024.2406481

Karimi K, Obenour DR (2024) Characterizing Spatiotemporal Variability in Phosphorus Export across the United States through Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c07479

Madison I, Tahir M, Van Den Broeck L, Phan L, Horn T, Sozzani R (2024) Cell-material interactions in 3D bioprinted plant cells. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.30.578043

Mahmood AU, Islam M, Gulyuk AV, Briese E, Velasco CA, Malu M, Sharma N, Spanias A, Yingling YG, Westerhoff P (2024) Multiple Data Imputation Methods Advance Risk Analysis and Treatability of Co-occurring Inorganic Chemicals in Groundwater. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c05203

Mahmood AU, Ghelardini MM, Tracy JB, Yingling YG (2024) Machine Learning and Small Data-Guided Optimization of Silica Shell Morphology on Gold Nanorods. Chemistry of Materials, 36(19):9330–9340. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c03204

Mayer BK, Hutchison JM, McLamore ES, Torres M, Venkiteshwaran K (2024) Phosphate-binding proteins and peptides: from molecular mechanisms to potential applications. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 90:103199. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2024.103199

McLamore E, Am Moreira G, Vanegas D, Casso-Hartmann L, Agbomi L, J Torres M (2024) Food grade colorimetry of anthocyanins (A Youth Summer Camp Activity) v1. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.yxmvmenqng3p/v1

Merck AW, Deaver JA, Crane L, Morrison ES, Call DF, Boyer TH, Marshall A, Grieger K (2024) Stakeholder Views of Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies in Phosphorus Recovery in the U.S. Society & Natural Resources, :1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2024.2389806

Merck AW, Grieger K, Crane L, Boyer T (2024) Researchers must address regulatory regimes to scale up adoption of urine diversion systems in the U.S. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 4(2):023001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ad59c3

Moreira G, Tang Y, Vanegas D, S McLamore E (2024) Fabrication of laser inscribed graphene (LIG) 3-electrode plug-and-play chip v1. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.dm6gpze1dlzp/v1

Moreira G, Shaw AB, Amin N, Gao W, McLamore E (2024) A dip-and-read impedimetric electrochemical sensor for orthophosphate monitoring. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4691772/v1

Nwokonkwo O, Muhich C (2024) Mechanistic Insights into the Selectivity for Arsenic over Phosphate Adsorption by Fe ³⁺ -Cross-Linked Chitosan Using DFT. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c06838

Oates C, Fajardo H, Grieger K, Obenour D, Muenich RL, Nelson NG (2024) Effective Nutrient Management of Surface Waters in the United States Requires Expanded Water Quality Monitoring in Agriculturally Intensive Areas. ACS Environmental Au, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.4c00060

Santos F, Melkani S, Oliveira-Paiva C, Bini D, Pavuluri K, Gatiboni L, Mahmud A, Torres M, McLamore E, Bhadha JH (2024) Biofertilizer use in the United States: definition, regulation, and prospects. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 108(1):511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-024-13347-4

Scavia D, Ludsin A. S, Michalak M. A, Obenour D, Han M, Johnson T. L, Wang Y-C, Zhao G, Zhou Y (2024) Water Quality–fisheries tradeoffs in a changing climate underscore the need for adaptive ecosystem-based management. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(45). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.232259512

Stroobosscher ZJ, Athelly A, Guzmán SM (2024) Assessing capacitance soil moisture sensor probes’ ability to sense nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium using volumetric ion content. Frontiers in Agronomy, 6:1346946. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2024.1346946

Tang Q, Duckworth OW, Obenour DR, Kulesza SB, Slaton NA, Whitaker AH, Nelson NG (2024) Relationships between soil test phosphorus and county‐level agricultural surplus phosphorus. Journal of Environmental Quality. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20622

Tang Y, Moreira GA, Vanegas D, Datta SPA, McLamore ES (2024) Batch-to-Batch Variation in Laser-Inscribed Graphene (LIG) Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensing. Micromachines, 15(7):874. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi15070874

Torres MJ, Moreira G, Bhadha JH, McLamore ES (2024) Arbuscular mycorrhizal Fungi as Inspiration for Sustainable Technology. Encyclopedia, 4(3):1188–1200. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4030077

Torres M, McLamore E, Moreira G (2024) Microwave synthesis of low molecular weight deacylated chitosan V.4. https://doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.x54v9d6w4g3e/v4

Yan X, Wu B, Zhang Y, Yang Z, Zhou M, Westerhoff P, Pan B (2024) Lanthanum Materials Enable Catalytic Hydrolysis of Phosphate Esters: Implications for Water Treatment and Eutrophication Control. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 11(8):878–885. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00164

2023

Total Publications: 23

Adams CP, Bonner CDJ, Pathiraja G, Obare SO (2023) Room-Temperature Synthesis of Thioether-Stabilized Ruthenium Nanocubes and Their Optical Properties. Langmuir, 39(7): 2500–2508. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02645

Ayivi RD, Adesanmi BO, McLamore ES, Wei J, Obare SO (2023) Molecularly Imprinted Plasmonic Sensors as Nano-Transducers: An Effective Approach for Environmental Monitoring Applications. Chemosensors, 11(3) https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors11030203

Ayivi RD, Obare SO, Wei J (2023) Molecularly imprinted polymers as chemosensors for organophosphate pesticide detection and environmental applications. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 167:117231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2023.117231

Bucholtz P, Steele M, Tripathi V, Graham C, Crane L, Boyer TH (2023) Solar distillation of human urine to recover non-potable water and metal phosphate mineral. Water Science and Technology, 88(2):486–501. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2023.218

Deviney A, Grieger K, Merck A, Classen J, Marshall A-M (2023) Phosphorus sustainability through coordinated stakeholder engagement: a perspective. Environment Systems and Decisions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-023-09896-0

Elser JJ, Baker JJ, Boyer TH, Grieger KD, Liu T, Muenich RL, Rittmann BE, Saha A (2023) Creating an alternative future for Earth’s phosphorus cycle in the Anthropocene via eco-prospecting, eco-mining, and eco-refining. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99762-1.00023-1

Elser JJ, Baker JS, Boyer TH, Grieger KD, Liu T, Muenich RL, Rittmann BE, Saha A (2023) Creating an alternative future for Earth’s phosphorus cycle in the Anthropocene via eco-prospecting, eco-mining, and eco-refining. Treatise on Geochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99762-1.00023-1

Hou P-Y, Ao J, Schatz K, Gulyuk AV, Yingling YG, Chirkova R (2023) Provenance-Aware Data Integration and Summarization Querying for Knowledge Graphs. Information Integration and Web Intelligence, :293–308. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48316-5_29

Hutchison JM, Hussein FB, Mayer BK (2023) Evaluating Sustainable Development Pathways for Protein- and Peptide-Based Bioadsorbents for Phosphorus Recovery from Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(43):16317–16326. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c04016

Jones MG, Nieuwsma J, Ward RV, Bordewieck KE, Refvem E (2023) Doctoral Students’ Perceptions of Imposterism and Academic Challenges in an Interdisciplinary Program: Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design, :225–249. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7227-9.ch012

Karimi K, Miller JW, Sankarasubramanian A, Obenour DR (2023) Contrasting Annual and Summer Phosphorus Export Using a Hybrid Bayesian Watershed Model. Water Resources Research, 59(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033088

Madison I, Gillan L, Peace J, Gabrieli F, Van den Broeck L, Jones JL, Sozzani R (2023) Phosphate starvation: response mechanisms and solutions. Journal of Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad326

Mallick SP, Hossain MS, Takshi A, Call DF, Mayer BK (2023) The challenge of non-reactive phosphorus: Mechanisms of treatment and improved recoverability using electrooxidation. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 11(5):110295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2023.110295

McLamore E, Duckworth O, Boyer TH, Marshall A-M, Call DF, Bhadha JH, Guzmán S (2023) Perspective: Phosphorus monitoring must be rooted in sustainability frameworks spanning material scale to human scale. Water Research X, 19:100168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2023.100168

Merck AW, Grieger KD, Deviney A, Marshall A-M (2023) Using a Phosphorus Flow Diagram as a Boundary Object to Inform Stakeholder Engagement. Sustainability, 15(15) https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511496

Nwokonkwo O, Pelletier V, Broud M, Muhich C (2023) Functionalized Ferrocene Enables Selective Electrosorption of Arsenic Oxyanions over Phosphate─A DFT Examination of the Effects of Substitutional Moieties, pH, and Oxidation State. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 127(37):7727–7738. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c03826

Pathiraja G, Bonner CDJ, Obare SO (2023) Current Progress on Nanomaterials for Direct Optical Sensing of Organophosphorus Pesticides. ACS Symposium Series, 1457:463–489. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2023-1457.ch017

Pathiraja G, Bonner CDJ, Obare SO (2023) Recent Advances of Enzyme-Free Electrochemical Sensors for Flexible Electronics in the Detection of Organophosphorus Compounds: A Review. Sensors, 23(3) https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031226

Pathiraja G, Obare S, Rathnayake H (2023) Oriented Attachment Crystal Growth Dynamics of Anisotropic One-dimensional Metal/Metal Oxide Nanostructures: Mechanism, Evidence, and Challenges. Crystal Growth and Chirality – Technologies and Applications, https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107463

Peerless JS, Gulyuk A V, Milliken NJB, Kim GD, Reid E, Lee JW, Kim D, Hendren Z, Choi YC, Yingling YG (2023) Role of Nanoscale Morphology on the Efficiency of Solvent-Based Desalination Method. ACS ES&T WATER, 3(2):400–409. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00473

Schatz K, Hou P-Y, Gulyuk AV, Yingling YG, Chirkova R (2023) BUILD-KG: Integrating Heterogeneous Data Into Analytics-Enabling Knowledge Graphs. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2965–2974. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386570

The Science And Technologies For Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center (2023) 25-in-25: A Roadmap Toward U.S. Phosphorus Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7966973

Wu GC, Baker JS, Wade CM, McCord GC, Fargione JE, Havlik P (2023) Contributions of healthier diets and agricultural productivity toward sustainability and climate goals in the United States. Sustainability Science, 18(1, SI):539–556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01232-w

2022

Total Publications: 14

Amgain NR, Fan Y, VanWeelden MT, Rabbany A, Bhadha JH (2022) From Ground to Grain: Tracing Phosphorus and Potassium in Flooded Rice Cultivar Grown on Histosols. Agriculture, 12(8) https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12081250

Anele A, Obare S, Wei J (2022) Recent Trends and Advances of Co3O4 Nanoparticles in Environmental Remediation of Bacteria in Wastewater. Nanomaterials, 12(7):1129. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12071129

Ayivi R, Adesanmi BO, McLamore E, Obare S (2022) Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles v1. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.q26g7yywkgwz/v2

Bahamon-Pinzon D, Moreira G, Obare S, Vanegas D (2022) Development of a nanocopper-decorated laser-scribed sensor for organophosphorus pesticide monitoring in aqueous samples. Microchimica Acta, 189(7) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-022-05355-w

Barnes AC, Rodriguez-Zapata F, Juarez-Nunez KA, Gates DJ, Janzen GM, Kur A, Wang L, Jensen SE, Estevez-Palmas JM, Crow TM, Kavi HS, Pil HD, Stokes RL, Knizner KT, Aguilar-Rangel MR, Demesa-Arevalo E, Skopelitis T, Perez-Limon S, Stutts WL, Thompson P, Chiu Y-C, Jackson D, Muddiman DC, Fiehn O, Runcie D, Buckler ES, Ross-Ibarra J, Hufford MB, Sawers RJH, Rellan-Alvarez R (2022) An adaptive teosinte mexicana introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 119(27). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100036119

Beck MW, Altieri A, Angelini C, Burke MC, Chen J, Chin DW, Gardiner J, Hu C, Hubbard KA, Liu Y, Lopez C, Medina M, Morrison E, Phlips EJ, Raulerson GE, Scolaro S, Sherwood ET, Tomasko D, Weisberg RH, Whalen J (2022) Initial estuarine response to inorganic nutrient inputs from a legacy mining facility adjacent to Tampa Bay, Florida. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 178:113598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113598

Crane L, Ray H, Perreault F, Boyer TH (2022) Recovery of Urea from Human Urine Using Nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis. ACS ES&T WATER, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00336

Elko N, Foster D, Kleinheinz G, Raubenheimer B, Brander S, Kinzelman J, Kritzer J, Munroe D, Storlazzi C, Sutula M, Mercer A, Coffin S, Fraioli C, Ginger L, Morrison E, Parent-Doliner G, Akan C, Canestrelli A, DiBenedetto M, Lang J, Simm J. (2022) An ASBPA White Paper: Human and ecosystem health in coastal systems. Shore & Beach, :64–91. https://doi.org/10.34237/1009018

Gao J, Huang Y, Zhi Y, Yao J, Wang F, Yang W, Han L, Lin D, He Q, Wei B, Grieger K (2022) Assessing the impacts of urbanization on stream ecosystem functioning through investigating litter decomposition and nutrient uptake in a forest and a hyper-eutrophic urban stream. Ecological Indicators, 138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108859

Holberg S, Cullen A, Lee C-Y, Caulder D, Moreira G, McLamore ES (2022) Microwave Synthesis of Lanthanum-Doped Carbon Dots v1. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.4r3l27odpg1y/v1

Kreutz GF, Bhadha JH, Sandoya GV (2022) Examining phosphorus use efficiency across different lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) accessions. Euphytica, 218(3):28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-022-02973-6

Sharma A, Guinness J, Muyskens A, Polizzotto ML, Fuentes M, Hesterberg D (2022) Spatial statistical modeling of arsenic accumulation in microsites of diverse soils. Geoderma, 411:115697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115697

Tang Y (2022) Electrochemical analysis of laser-inscribed graphene electrodes using cyclic voltammetry (ferri/ferrocyanide redox couple) v1. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.4r3l27q7jg1y/v1

Zhi Y, Paterson AR, Call DF, Jones JL, Hesterberg D, Duckworth OW, Poitras EP, Knappe DRU (2022) Mechanisms of orthophosphate removal from water by lanthanum carbonate and other lanthanum-containing materials. Science of The Total Environment, 820:153153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153153

2021

Total Publications: 6

Askar MH, Youssef MA, Vadas PA, Hesterberg DL, Amoozegar A, Chescheir GM, Skaggs RW (2021) DRAINMOD-P: A Model for Simulating Phosphorus Dynamics and Transport in Drained Agricultural Lands: I. Model Development. Transactions of the ASABE, 64(6):1835–1848. https://doi.org/10.13031/trans.14509

Ennes M, Lawson DF, Stevenson KT, Peterson MN, Jones MG (2021) It’s about time: perceived barriers to in-service teacher climate change professional development. Environmental Education Research, 27(5):762–778. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2021.1909708

Gatiboni L, Osmond DL, Hardy, David (2021) Changes in the Phosphorus Fertilizer Recommendations for Corn, Soybean, and Small Grains in North Carolina. https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/changes-in-phosphorus-fertilizer-recommendations-for-corn-soybean-and-small-grains

Kreutz G, Bhadha J, Liu G, Resende M, Wright A, Odero DC, Sandoya G (2021) Strategies for Improving Phosphorus Use Efficiency in Lettuce Grown on Histosols: HS1423, 10/2021. EDIS, 2021(5) https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-hs1423-2021

McLamore E, Vanegas D, Not Provided D, Not Provided K, Tang Y (2021) Protocol L2.3 (LIG fabrication) v1. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.byc4psyw

Nelson NG, Cuchiara ML, Hendren CO, Jones JL, Marshall A-M (2021) Hazardous Spills at Retired Fertilizer Manufacturing Plants Will Continue to Occur in the Absence of Scientific Innovation and Regulatory Enforcement. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(24):16267–16269. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c05311