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Mechanisms that travel across environments and scales.

Our work spans permafrost contaminants, microbial geochemistry, mineral-interface reactions, soil carbon cycling and water-treatment processes.

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Environmental Science & Technology2024

Microbially driven iron cycling facilitates organic carbon accrual in decadal biochar-amended soil

Connecting microbial iron cycling, mineral transformation and soil-carbon accrual in a long-term field experiment.

Nature Geoscience2023

Substantial halogenated organic chemicals stored in permafrost soils on the Tibetan Plateau

Revealing a major pool of bound-residue contaminants in permafrost and its climate-sensitive risk.

Science Advances2023

Evidence for nontraditional mcr-containing archaea contributing to biological methanogenesis in geothermal springs

Experimental validation of nontraditional methanogenic archaea in geothermal springs.

Environmental Science & Technology2026

Sulfidation unlocks dual reductive pathways in uranium immobilization by iron sulfide

Showing how mineral surface states activate coupled iron- and sulfur-mediated electron transfer.

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Author-role labels refer to Zimeng Wang15 first-author papers (including co-first)40 corresponding-author papers (including shared correspondence)

012026

Chemical Geology720, 123607

Citric acid redirects abiotic Mn(II) oxidation toward poorly crystalline hexagonal birnessite-like phases under circumneutral conditions

Zhang, F.; Pan, Y.; Lan, S.; Wang, X.; Yin, H.; Wang, Z.; Tan, W.; Feng, X.

Mineral–microbial interfaces

022026

Atmospheric Research109224

Sector-specific deposition efficiency shapes long-term changes in atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China

Wang, S.; Wang, Y.; Chen, G.; Wang, Y.; Wang, Z.; Tao, C.; Zhang, H.

Contaminant behavior & processesSynthesis & modelingCross-media processes

032026

Environmental Science & Technology60(11), 8507–8516

Fe(III) mineral encrustation uncouples respiration from reproduction of the nitrate-reducing Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium Acidovorax sp. BoFeN1

Zhang, H.; Peng, C.; Pan, Z.; Chen, G.; Zhang, C.; Lu, L.; Liu, T.; Liu, J.; Wang, Z.; Kappler, A.; Dong, H.

Mineral–microbial interfaces

042026

ACS ES&T Engineering6(3), 1138–1147

Jet drop enrichment: A low-cost method for simultaneous PFAS and microplastics removal from drinking water

Ma, X.; Liu, X.; Chu, W.; Liu, M.; Jiang, X.; Lu, X.; Wang, Z.; Wang, X.

Contaminant behavior & processesWater–soil pollution & remediationCross-media processesResearch tools & methods

052026

ISME Communications6(1), ycag005

The failure and revival of closed microbial ecosystems: Evidence from the shifts in microbial and chemical diversities

Li, L.; Liu, H.; Ding, J.; Cai, Y.; Zhao, P.; Zhang, L.; Steudel, B.T.; Wang, Z.; Chen, Z.

Mineral–microbial interfaces

062026

Environmental Science & Technology60(4), 3313–3325

Corresponding author

Sulfidation unlocks dual reductive pathways in uranium immobilization by iron sulfide

Liu, E.; Pan, Z.; Wang, X.; Chen, Y.; Wang, S.; Liu, Q.; Liu, P.; Feng, B.; Wang, X.; Fang, M.; Dong, H.; Bernier-Latmani, R.; Wang, Y.; Wang, Z.

Contaminant behavior & processesMineral–microbial interfacesWater–soil pollution & remediation

072026

Environmental Science & Technology Letters13(1), 123–129

Sea surface temperature: A key regulator of global perfluoroalkyl acids transport across the sea–air interface

Liu, X.; Gao, Q.; Zhao, F.; Jiang, X.; Ma, X.; Yang, S.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, Z.; Huang, K.; Lu, X.; Wang, X.

Contaminant behavior & processesSynthesis & modelingClimate changeCross-media processes

082026

Environmental Science & Technology60(1), 1229–1240

Corresponding author

Conventional and biodegradable microplastics both impair soil phosphorus cycling and availability via microbial suppression

Zhang, C.; Zhao, Z.; Zhou, F.; Shi, C.; Zhai, X.; Sha, Z.; Chu, Q.; Liu, H.; Liu, S.; Pan, Z.; Wang, X.; Pan, X.; Fang, M.; Rillig, M.C.; Wang, Z.

Contaminant behavior & processesMineral–microbial interfacesWater–soil pollution & remediation

092025

Journal of Hazardous Materials500, 140478

Corresponding author

Acid and antibiotic stress suppresses soil microbial carbon use efficiency via fungal proliferation: Mechanistic insights from microbial community dynamics

Zhou, F.; Zhai, X.; Dai, Z.; Zhou, M.; Zhao, Z.; Liu, R.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, S.; Pan, Z.; Zhong, W.; Hua, Z.S.; Nie, M.; Rillig, M.C.; Wang, Z.

Contaminant behavior & processesMineral–microbial interfacesCarbon cycling

102026

Water Research288, 124720

Corresponding author

Copper-enhanced ferrihydrite Fenton generates dual oxidants for pollutant degradation via surface affinity differentiated pathways

Liu, Q.; Shu, Z.; Lu, X.; Liu, E.; Yan, S.; Zhu, X.; Wang, X.; Pan, Z.; Wang, Z.

Contaminant behavior & processesMineral–microbial interfacesWater–soil pollution & remediation

112025

Water Research288, 124647

Brominated organic compounds in leachate across China: Occurrence and molecular variations

Zheng, J.; Lv, J.T.; Sun, Y.; Liu, Q.Y.; Zhang, Q.R.; Wang, Z.; He, X.S.

Contaminant behavior & processesWater–soil pollution & remediation

122025

Environmental Science & Technology59(27), 13820–13831

Corresponding author

Heterogeneous photochemical generation of hydroxyl radical in mineral–organics systems: Dual roles of iron oxides

Shu, Z.; Liu, Q.; Dai, Z.; Pan, Z.; Aeppli, M.; Wang, Z.

Mineral–microbial interfacesCarbon cycling

132025

One Earth8(12), 101453

Global flux of perfluoroalkyl acids from glaciers in a warming climate

Zhou, Y.; Hu, B.; Wang, X.; Fu, J.; Cousins, I.T.; Bi, X.; Wang, L.; Chen, M.; Wang, C.; Dong, H.; Ren, S.; Wang, Z.; An, T.; Li, D.; Jones, K.C.; Muir, D.C.G.

Contaminant behavior & processesSynthesis & modelingClimate changeCross-media processes

142025

Applied and Environmental Microbiology91(8), e00386-25

Electron acceptors modulate methane oxidation and active methanotrophic communities in anoxic urban wetland sediments

Yang, R.; Peng, C.; Mo, Y.; Kleindienst, S.; Li, S.; Wang, J.; Kappler, A.; Wang, Z.; Lu, L.

Mineral–microbial interfacesCarbon cycling

152025

Environmental Science & Technology59(18), 9235–9244

Corresponding author

The analysis of polylactic acid oligomers and their fate in laboratory and agricultural soil

Yang, J.; Shi, C.; Xu, C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Song, M.; Chen, Q.; Wang, Z.; Pan, X.; Fang, M.

Contaminant behavior & processesWater–soil pollution & remediationResearch tools & methods

DOIs, formal titles, author order and Zimeng Wang's first/corresponding-author roles were checked paper by paper against the published records. Topic labels were reviewed from titles and abstracts, with one to five labels per paper.