Dr. Qian Sun
Email: qsun@iue.ac.cn
Telephone: 0592-6190582
Address: 1799 Jimei Road
Postcode: 361021
Research Areas
Environmental analytical chemistry
Degradation and transformation of emerging contaminants
Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants
Identification of the transformation or metabolite products
Education
Ph.D., Envrionmental Science, Xiamen University 2010
Experience
2010/08-2012/12, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, Assistant professor
2013/01-current, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, Associate professor
Publications
Papers
1) Claude Kiki, Azhar Rashid, Yuwen Wang, Yan Li, Qiaoting Zeng, Chang-Ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Dissipation of antibiotics by microalgae: Kinetics, identification of transformation products and pathways. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 387, 121985.
2) Yan Li, Han Zhang, Azhar Rashid, Anyi Hu, Kuikui Xin, Haoran Li, Bob Adyari, Yuwen Wang, Chang-Ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Bisphenol A attenuation in natural microcosm: Contribution of ecological components and identification of transformation pathways through stable isotope tracing. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 385, 121584.
3) Francois Nkinahamira, Fidele Suanon, Qiaoqiao Chi, Yeyun Li, Meiling Feng, Xiaoying Huang, Chang-Ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Occurrence, geochemical fractionation, and environmental risk assessment of major and trace elements in sewage sludge. Journal of Environmental Management, 2019, 249, 109427.
4) Muhammad Ashfaq, Yan Li, Muhammad Saif Ur Rehman, Muhammad Zubair, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Faizan Nazar, Chang-Ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Occurrence, spatial variation and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in urban wastewater, canal surface water, and their sediments: A case study of Lahore, Pakistan. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 688, 653-663.
5) Azhar Rashid, Yuwen Wang, Yan Li, Chang-ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Simultaneous analysis of multiclass contaminants of emerging concern in sediment by liquid chromatography with tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2019, 38, 1409-1422.
6) Yuwen Wang, Yan Li, Anyi Hu, Azhar Rashid, Muhammad Ashfaq, Yinhan Wang, Hongjie Wang, Houqiao Luo, Chang-Ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Monitoring, mass balance and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in seven wastewater treatment plants in Xiamen City, China. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2018, 354, 81-90.
7) Muhammad Ashfaq, Qian Sun*, Han Zhang, Yan Li, Yuwen Wang, Mingyue Li, Min Lv, Xu Liao, Chang-ping Yu*. Occurrence and fate of bisphenol A transformation products, bisphenol A monomethyl ether and bisphenol A dimethyl ether, in wastewater treatment plants and surface water. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2018, 357, 401-407.
8) Yang Wu, Lifeng Lin, Fidele Suanon, Anyi Hu, Ya-nan Sun, Zhi-Min Yu, Chang-Ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Effect of a weak magnetic field on triclosan removal using zero-valent iron under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018, 346, 24-33.
9) Yan Li, Azhar Rashid, Hongjie Wang, Anyi Hu, Lifeng Lin, Chang-ping Yu, Meng Chen, Qian Sun*. Contribution of biotic and abiotic factors in the natural attenuation of sulfamethoxazole: A path analysis approach. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 633, 1217-1226.
10) Muhammad Ashfaq, Yan Li, Yuwen Wang, Dan Qin, Muhammad Saif Ur Rehman, Azhar Rashid, Chang-ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Monitoring and mass balance analysis of endocrine disrupting compounds and their transformation products in an anaerobic-anoxic-oxic wastewater treatment system in Xiamen, China. Chemosphere, 2018, 204, 170-177.
11) Fidele Suanon, Qiaoqiao Chi, Xiaoyong Yang, Hongjie Wang, Azhar Rashid, Bahareh Asefi, Daouda Mama, Chang-Ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Diagnosis and ecotoxicological risk assessment of 49 elements in sludge from wastewater treatment plants of Chongqing and Xiamen cities, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018, 25, 29006-29016.
12) Muhammad Ashfaq, Yan Li, Yuwen Wang, Wenjie Chen, Han Wang, Xiangqiang Chen, Wei Wu, Zhenyi Huang, Chang-ping Yu, Qian Sun*. Occurrence, fate, and mass balance of different classes of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in an anaerobic-anoxic-oxic wastewater treatment plant in Xiamen, China. Water Research, 2017, 123, 655-667.
13) Fidele Suanon, Qian Sun*, Xiaoyong Yang, Qiaoqiao Chi, Sikandar I. Mulla, Daouda Mama, Chang-Ping Yu*. Assessment of the occurrence, spatiotemporal variations and geoaccumulation of fifty-two inorganic elements in sewage sludge: A sludge management revisit. Scientific Reports, 7: 5698.
14) Fidele Suanon, Qian Sun*, Mingyue Li, Xiang Cai, Youchi Zhang, Yijun Yan, Chang-ping Yu*. Application of nanoscale zero valent iron and iron powder during sludge anaerobic digestion: Impact on methane yield and pharmaceutical and personal care products degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2017, 321, 47-53.
15) Qian Sun*, Yuwen Wang, Yan Li, Muhammad Ashfaq, Lanhua Dai, Xiaoqing Xie, Chang-ping Yu. Fate and mass balance of bisphenol analogues in wastewater treatment plants in Xiamen City, China. Environmental Pollution, 2017, 225, 542-549.
16) Qian Sun*, Yan Li, Mingyue Li, Muhammad Ashfaq, Hongjie Wang, Anyihu, Chang-Ping Yu*. PPCPs in Jiulong River estuary (China): Spatiotemporal distributions, fate, and their use as chemical markers of wastewater. Chemosphere, 2016, 150, 596-604.
17) Qian Sun+, Mingyue Li+, Cong Ma, XiangQiang Chen, Xiaoqing Xie, Chang-Ping Yu* Seasonal and spatial variations of PPCP occurrence, removal and mass loading in three wastewater treatment plants located in different urbanization areas in Xiamen, China. Environmental Pollution, 2016, 208, 371-381.
18) Qian Sun+, Min Lv+, Anyi Hu, Xiaoyong Yang, Chang-ping Yu*. Seasonal variation in the occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a wastewater treatment plant in Xiamen, China. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2014, 277, 69-75
19) Min Lv+, Qian Sun+, Haili Xu, Lifeng Lin, Meng Chen, Chang-ping Yu. Occurrence and fate of triclosan and triclocarban in a subtropical river and its estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014, 88: 383-388
20) Qian Sun, Xiang Cai, Jiangwei Li, Min Zheng, Zuliang Chen, Chang-ping Yu*. Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using tea leaf extract and evaluation of their stability and antibacterial activity. Colloids and Surfaces A, 2014, 444, 226-231.
21) Qian Sun+, Yan Li+, Ting Tang, Zhihua Yuan, Chang-ping Yu*. Removal of silver nanoparticles by coagulation processes. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2013, 261, 414-420
22) Qian Sun, Min Zhang, Dongxing Yuan*, Zuliang Chen, Chenkai Gu. Determination of nine emerging pesticides at trace level in aqueous samples using fully automated on-line solid phase extraction coupled with liquid chromatography- mass spectrometry. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 2013, 93:3, 970-983
23) Qian Sun, Yan Li, Pei-Hsin Chou, Po-yi Peng, Chang-ping Yu*. Transformation of bisphenol A and alkylpheols by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria through nitration. Environmental Science & Technology, 2012, 46, 4442-4448.
24) Qian Sun, Dongxing Yuan, Zuliang Chen*, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Ravendra Naidu. Reduction of polyatomic interferences during ion-chromatographyic speciation of metal ions via their EDTA complexes along with ICP-MS detection using an octopole reaction system. Microchimica Acta, 2010, 169, 41-47.
25) Qian Sun, Zuliang Chen*, Dongxing Yuan, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Ravendra Naidu. On-line solid phase extraction coupled liquid chromatography electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for the determination of trace tributyltin and triphenyltin in water samples. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2009, 23 (23): 3795-3802.
26) Fidele Suanon, Qian Sun*, Mingyue Li, Xiang Cai, Youchi Zhang, Yijun Yan, Chang-ping Yu*. Application of nanoscale zero valent iron and iron powder during sludge anaerobic digestion: Impact on methane yield and pharmaceutical and personal care products degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2017, 321, 47-53.
27) Mingyue Li, Qian Sun*, Yan Li, Lifeng Lin, Yang Wu, Muhammad Ashfaq, Chang-ping Yu. Simultaneous analysis of 45 pharmaceuticals and personal care products in sludge by matrix solid-phase dispersion and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2016, 408, 4953-4964.
28) Min Lv, Qian Sun*, Anyi Hu, Liyuan Hou, Jiangwei Li, Xiang Cai, Chang-Ping Yu*. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a mesoscale subtropical watershed and their application as sewage marker. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2014, 280, 696-705.
29) Qian Sun*, Zuliang Chen, Dongxing Yuan, Changping Yu, Megharaj Mallavarapu, Ravendra Naidu. On-line SPE coupled with LC-APCI-MS for the determination of trace explosives in water. Chromatographia, 2011, 73:631-637.
32) Jui-Sheng Chou, Chang-Ping Yu, Dinh-Nhat Truong, Billy Susilo, Anyi Hu, Qian Sun. Predicting microbial species in a river based on physicochemical properties by bio-inspired metaheuristic optimized machine learning. Sustainability, 2019, 11, 6889.
33) Yuwen Wang, Qian Sun, Yan Li, Hongjie Wang, Kun Wu, Chang-Ping Yu*. Biotransformation of estron, 17β-estradiol and 17α-ethynylestradiol by four species of microalgae. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2019, 180, 723-732.
34) Muhammad Ashfaq, Qian Sun, Cong Ma, Azhar Rashid, Yan Li, Sikandar I. Mulla, Chang-Ping Yu*. Occurrence, seasonal variation and risk evaluation of selected endocrine disrupting compounds and their transformation products in Jiulong River and estuary, China. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019, 145, 370-376.
35) Min Lv, Ching Lo, Cheng-Chih Hsu, Yuwen Wang, Yin-Ru Chiang, Qian Sun, Yang Wu, Yan Li, Lingxin Chen, Chang-Ping Yu. Identification of enantiomeric byproducts during microalgae-mediated transformation of metoprolol by MS/MS spectrum based networking. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018, 9, 2115.
36) Xiulan Weng, Wanling Cai, Ruifang Lan, Qian Sun, Zuliang Chen. Simultaneous removal of amoxicillin, ampicillin and penicillin by clay supported Fe/Ni bimetallic nanoparticles. Environmental Pollution, 2018, 236, 562-569.
37) Sikandar I. Mulla, Anyi Hu, Qian Sun, Jiangwei Li, Fidele Suanon, Muhammad Ashfaq, Chang-ping Yu. Biodegradation of sulfamethoxazole in bacteria from three different origins. Journal of Environmental Management, 2018, 206: 93-102.
38) Anyi Hu, Feng Ju, Liyuan Hou, Jiangwei Li, Xiaoyong Yang, Hongjie Wang, Sikandar I. Mulla, Qian Sun, Helmut Burgmann, Chang-ping Yu. Strong impact of anthropogenic contamination on the co-occurrence patterns of a riverine microbial community. Environmental Microbiology, 2017, 19: 4993-5009.
39) Arouna Yessoufou, Binessi Edouard Ifon, Fidele Suanon, Biaou Dimon, Qian Sun, Comlan Achille Dedjiho, Daouda Mama, Chang-ping Yu*. Rare earth and precious elements in the urban sewage sludge and lake surface sediments under anthropogenic influence in the Republic of Benin. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017, 189: 625.
40) Yang Wu*, Qian Sun, Yu-wen Wang, Cheng-xun Deng, Chang-ping Yu. Comparative studies of aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of methylparaben and propylparaben in activated sludge. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2017, 138, 25-31.
41) Muhammad Ashfaq*, Nayyar Noor, Muhammad Saif-Ur-Rehman, Qian Sun, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Faizan Nazar, Chang-ping Yu. Determination of commonly used pharmaceuticals in hospital waste of Pakistan and evaluation of their ecological risk assessment. CLEAN, Soil, Air, Water, 2017, 45(9999), 1500392
42) Shi Xi Chen*, Xiao Zhen Yang, Ying Deng, Jing Huang, Yan Li, Qian Sun, Chang-ping Yu, Yong Zhu, Wan Shu Hong. Silver nanoparticles induce oocyte maturation in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Chemosphere, 2017, 170, 51-60.
43) Sikandar I Mulla, Qian Sun, Anyi Hu, Yuwen Wang, Muhammad Ashfaq, Syed Ali, Musstjab Akber Shah Equani, Chang-ping Yu*. Evaluation of sulfadiazine degradation in three newly isolated pure bacterial cultures. PLoS ONE, 2016, 11(10): e0165013.
44) Muhammad Ashfaq*, Khujasta Nawaz Khan, Muhammad Saif Ur Rehman, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Faizan Nazar, Qian Sun, Javed Iqbal, Sikandar I Mulla, Chang-ping Yu. Ecological risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in the receiving environment of pharmaceutical wastewater in Pakistan. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2017, 136, 31-39.
45) Sikandar I. Mulla, Anyi Hu, Yuwen Wang, Qian Sun, Shir-Ly Huang*, Han Wang, Chang-ping Yu*. Degradation of triclocarban by a triclosan-degrading Sphingomonas sp. Strain YL-JM2C. Chemosphere, 2016, 144, 292-296.
46) Cong Ma, Dan Qin, Qian Sun, Fangfang Zhang, Heqin Liu, Chang-Ping Yu*. Removal of environmental estrogens by bacterial cell immobilization technique. Chemosphere, 2016, 144, 607-614.
47) Fidele Suanon, Qian Sun, Biaou Dimon, Daouda Mama, Chang-ping Yu*. Heavy metal removal from sludge with organic chelators: Comparative study of N.N-bis(carboxymethyl) glutamic acid and citric acid. Journal of Envrionmental Management, 2016, 166, 341-347.
48) Fidele Suanon, Qian Sun, Daouda Mama, Jiangwei Li, Biaou Dimon, Chang-ping Yu*. Effect of nanoscale zero-valent iron and magnetite (Fe3O4) on the fate of metals during anaerobic digestion of sludge. Water Research, 2016, 88, 897-903.
49) Muhammd Ashfaq*, Khujasta Nawaz Khan, Sana Rasool, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammd Saif-Ur-Rehman, Muhammad Faizan Nazar, Qian Sun, Chang-ping Yu. Occurrence and ecological risk assessment f fluoroquinolone antibiotics in hospital waste of Lahore, Pakistan. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2016, 42, 16-22.
50) Sikandar I. Mulla, Han Wang, Qian Sun, Anyi Hu, Chang-ping Yu*. Characterization of triclosan metabolism in Sphingomonas sp. Strain YL-JM2C. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6: 21965.
51) Subed Chandra Dev Sharma, Qian Sun, Jiangwei Li, Yuwen Wang, Fidele Suanon, Jinyan Yang, Chang-ping Yu*. Decolorization of azo dye methyl red by suspended and co-immobilized bacterial cells with mediators anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate and Fe3O4 nanoparticles. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 2016, 112: 88-97.
52) Xiulan Weng, Qian Sun, Shen Lin, Zuliang Chen*, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Ravendra Naidu. Enhancement of catalytic degradation of amoxicillin in aqueous solution using clay supported bimetallic Fe/Ni nanoparticles. Chemosphere, 2014, 103, 80-85.
53) Xiang Cai, Ying Gao, Qian Sun, Zuliang Chen*, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Ravendra Naidu. Removal of co-contaminants Cu (II) and nitrate from aqueous solution using kaolin-Fe/Ni nanoparticles. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2014, 244, 19-26.
54) Feifeng Wang, Ying Gao, Qian Sun, Zuliang Chen, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Ravendra Naidu. Degradation of microcystin-LR using functional clay supported bimetallic Fe/Pd nanoparticles based on adsorption and reduction. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2014, 255, 55-62.
55) Han Wang, Lifeng Lin, Qian Sun, Qingqiang Lin, Xiaofan Xiong, Kailun Wu, Chang-ping Yu. Simultaneous determination of cyromazine, melamine and their biodegradation products by ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 2014, 94, 1173-1182
56) Zuliang Chen*, Qian Sun, Yunfei Xi, Gary Owens. Speciation of metal-EDTA complexes by flow injection analysis with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and ion chromatography with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Journal of Separation Science, 2008, 31, 3796-3802.
Chapter
1) Qian Sun, Min Lv, Mingyue Li, Chang-ping Yu*. Personal care products in the aquatic environment in China. Chapter 11. In S. Diaz Cruz, D. Barcelo. HEC: Personal care products in aquatic environment. Springer, 2014.
Research Interests
Environmental analytical chemistry
Degradation and transformation of emerging contaminants
Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants
Identification of the transformation or metabolite products
Wastewater treatment processes
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