Research Interests for Heileen Hsu-Kim

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

Representative Publications

1. Hsu-Kim, H.; Kucharzyk, K.H.; Zhang, T.; Deshusses, M.A., Mechanisms Regulating Mercury Bioavailability for Methylating Microorganisms in the Aquatic Environment: A Critical Review, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 47 no. 6 (2013), pp. 2441-2456 [doi]
2. 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]
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.; Bartov, G.; Johnson, T.M.; Ruhl, L.; Vengosh, A.; Hsu-Kim, H., Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash spill. 2. Effect of coal ash on methylmercury in historically contaminated river sediments, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 47 no. 4 (2013), pp. 2100-2108 [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]