Research Interests for Heileen Hsu-Kim

Research Interests: Environmental Engineering

Aquatic chemistry and geochemistry, trace element environmental chemistry, nanogeoscience, mercury biogeochemistry, water-particle surface processes.

Representative Publications
  1. Zhang, T.; Kim, B.; Levard, C.; Reinsch, B. C.; Lowry, G. V.; Deshusses, M. A.; Hsu-Kim, H., Methylation of mercury by bacteria exposed to dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 46 no. 13 (2012), pp. 6950–6958 [es203181m], [doi]
  2. Yang, X.; Gondikas, A. P.; Marinakos, S. M.; Auffan, M.; Liu, J.; Hsu-Kim, H.; Meyer, J. N., Mechanism of silver nanoparticle toxicity is dependent on dissolved silver and surface coating in Caenohabditis elegans, Environmental Science \& Technology, vol. 46 no. 2 (2012), pp. 1119-1127 [es202417t], [doi]
  3. Gondikas, A. P.; Morris, A.; Reinsch, B. C.; Marinakos, S. M.; Lowry, G. V.; Hsu-Kim, H., Cysteine-induced modifications of zero-valent silver nanomaterials: Implications for particle surface chemistry, aggregation, dissolution, and silver speciation, Environmental Science \& Technology, vol. 46 no. 13 (2012), pp. 7037–7045 [es3001757], [doi]
  4. Deonarine, A.; Lau, B. L. T.; Aiken, G. R.; Ryan, J. N.; Hsu-Kim, H., Effects of humic substances on precipitation and aggregation of zinc sulfide nanoparticles, Environmental Science \& Technology, vol. 45 no. 8 (2011), pp. 3217-3223 [es1029798], [doi]
  5. Aiken, G. R.; Hsu-Kim, H.; Ryan, J. N., Influence of dissolved organic matter on the environmental fate of metals, nanoparticles, and colloids, Environmental Science \& Technology, vol. 45 (2011), pp. 3196-3201 [es103992s], [doi]
  6. Zhang, T. and Hsu-Kim, H., Photolytic degradation of methylmercury enhanced by binding to natural organic ligands, Nature Geoscience, vol. 3 no. 7 (2010), pp. 473-476 [NGEO892], [doi]
  7. Ruhl, L.; Vengosh, A.; Dwyer, G. S.; Hsu-Kim, H.; Deonarine, A., Environmental impacts of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee: An 18-month survey, Environmental Science \& Technology, vol. 44 no. 24 (2010), pp. 9272-9278 [es1026739], [doi]