Research Interest :

· Emerging contaminants monitoring

· Plastic polymers photodegradation

· Microplastics environmental behavior

· Human health assessment

Featured Funded Projects :

· Study on the Natural Degradation Behavior and Mechanism of Non-woven Plastics in the Ocean, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52091544), PI, 80K RMB, 2021-2022

· Identification and Characterization of Organotin Pollution in Northern New Jersey Estuary, Water Resources Research Act Program (2019NJ184B), PI, 2019NJ184B, $5000, 2019-2020

· Key Technologies of Deep Purification of Nitrogen and Phosphorus and Demonstration of Eutrophication Control Integration Technologies, Beijing Science and Technology Planning Project (Z191100006919003), 3000K RMB, 2019-2022

Featured Publications :

· Chen, CZ., Yu, G., Wang, B., Li, F., Liu, HJ., Lifetime Prediction of Non-woven Face Masks in Ocean and Contributions to Microplastics and Dissolved Organic Carbon, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 441: 129816.

· Chen, CZ., Chen, L., Yao, Y; Artigas, F., Huang, QH., Zhang, W., Organotin Release from Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Microplastics and Concurrent Photodegradation in Water: Impacts from Salinity, Dissolved Organic Matter and Light Exposure, Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, 55(18): 10741-10752.

· Chen, CZ., Chen, L., Li, Y., Fu, WY., Shi, XN., Duan, JJ., Zhang, W., Impacts of Microplastics on Organotins’ Photodegradation in Aquatic Environments, Environmental Pollution, 2021, 267.

· Chen, CZ., Chen, L., Li, FP; Huang, QH., Wu, LL; Zhang, W., Urgent Caution to Trace Organometal pollution: Occurrence, distribution and sources of methyltins,butyltins and phenyltins in sediments from South Hangzhou Bay, China, Environmental Pollution,2019, 246: 571-577.

· Chen, CZ., Chen, L., Huang, QH., Chen, ZY; Zhang, W., Organotin Contamination in Commercial and Wild Oysters from China: Increasing Occurrence of Triphenyltin, Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 650: 2527-2534.

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