Lai Yujian

【Professional Title】: Associate Professor
【Department】: Department of Environmental Engineering
【Office】: 913B Keji Building
【Tel】:
【Email】: yjlai@ustb.edu.cn
【Research Field】: 1. Analytical method for micro- and nano-plastics in complex environmental matrices.
2. The fate of micro- and nano-plastics and engineering nanomaterials in typical environment.

Education & Working Experience

2023.3-now, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Associate Professor.

2020.7-2022.11, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Postdoc.

2014.9-2020.7, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, Doctor.

Research projects

[1] Lai, Y. J.; Dong, L. J.; Li, Q. C.; Li, P.; Hao, Z. N.; Yu, S. J.; Liu, J. F.*, Counting Nanoplastics in Environmental Waters by Single Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy after Cloud-Point Extraction and In Situ Labeling of Gold Nanoparticles. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55, 4783-4791.

[2] Lai, Y. J.; Dong, L. J.; Sheng, X. Y.; Li, Q. C.; Li, P.; Hao, Z. N.; Yu, S. J.; Liu, J. F.*, Swelling-Induced Fragmentation and Polymer Leakage of Nanoplastics in Seawater. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, 56, 17694-17701.

[3] Lai, Y. J.; Sheng, X. Y.; Dong, L. J.; Li, P.; Li, Q. C.; Yu, S. J.; Zhou, Q. X.*; Liu, J. F.*, Digestive Elimination of Coexisting Microplastics for Determination of Particulate Black Carbon in Environmental Waters. Anal. Chem. 2021, 93, 11184-11190.

[4] Lai, Y. J.; Dong, L. J.; Zhou, H. Y.; Yan, B.; Chen, Y. S.; Cai, Y. Q.; Liu, J. F.*, Coexposed Nanoparticulate Ag Alleviates the Acute Toxicity Induced by Ionic Ag+ in vivo. Sci. Total Environ. 2020, 723, 138050.

[5] Lai, Y. J.; Dong, L. J.; Li, Q. C.; Li, P.; Liu, J. F.*, Sampling of Micro- and Nano-plastics in Environmental Matrixes. TrAC-Trends Anal. Chem. 2021, 145, 116461.

[6] Lai, Y. J.; Dong, L. J.; Sheng, X. Y.; Chao, J. B.; Yu, S. J.; Liu, J. F.*, Monitoring the Cd2+ Release from Cd-containing Quantum Dots in Simulated Body Fluids by Size Exclusion Chromatography Coupled with ICP-MS. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2022, 414, 5529-5536.

[7] Lai, Y. J.; Hao, L. T.; Dong, L. J.; Yu, S. J.; Liu, J. F.*, Coating Zirconium Oxide-Nanocomposite with Humic Acid for Recovery of Mercury and Chromium in Hazardous Waste of Chemical Oxygen Demand Test. J. Environ. Sci. 2023, 126, 40-47.

[8] Lai, Y. J.; Dong, L. J; Liu, R.; Lu, S. Y.; He, Z. L.; Shan, W. Y.; Geng, F. L.; Cai, Y. Q.; Liu, J. F.*, Synthesis of Highly-Branched Au@AgPd Core/shell Nanoflowers for in Situ SERS Monitoring of Catalytic Reactions. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2020, 31, 2437.

[9] Lai, Y. J.; Wang, X. W.; Liu, J. F.*, Occurrence of Trimethyl Phosphate and Triethyl Phosphate in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant and Human Urine. Environ. Pollut. Bioavailability. 2022, 34, 146-153.

[10] Li, P.#; Lai, Y. J.#; Li, Q. C.; Dong, L. J; Tan, Z. Q.; Yu, S. J.; Chen, Y. S.; Sharma, V. K.; Liu, J. F.*; Jiang, G. B., Total Organic Carbon as a Quantitative Index of Micro- and Nano-Plastics Pollution. Anal. Chem. 2022, 94, 740-747. (Co-first author)