Hong Zhang

TL;DR: The experimental results indicated that the contents of most of the heavy metals investigated, such as Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn, continuously increased in the multipond sediments throughout the past three decades, with an inflection point appeared in the 1980s, prior to which all heavy metal contents showed little or no increase with time.

TL;DR: Heavy metal pollution due to agricultural intensification in Chaohu Lake Valley should be taken into account during the formation of valley management strategies for the water environment.

TL;DR: A nearly perfect solution is put forward which on one hand gets rid of environment-unfriendly algae residue while on the other hand produces high-quality activated carbon that is in return advantageous to environment protection.

TL;DR: GQDs with high quantum yield and strong photoluminescence show good biocompatibility, thus they show good promising for cell imaging, biolabeling and other biomedical applications.

TL;DR: The results indicate that heavy metal contamination, especially Cd, should be taken into account during development of management strategies to protect the aquatic environment in the limnetic ecosystems of eastern China, especially in the two aforementioned basins.