Publications

2025

• Rachel A. Molé, Adriana C. Velosa,  Xitong Liu, Guangbin Li, Dimin Fan, Anthony Danko, and Gregory V. Lowry. (2025) Impacts of groundwater constituents colloidal activated (CAC) surface chemistry on adsorption of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAA) in aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF)-impacted groundwater. ES&T-Water 5 (8) 4541–4551. 10.1021/acsestwater.5c00236.
• Rodrigues, Sandra; Avellan, Astrid; Castillo-Michel, Hiram; Miranda, Matheus; Salvador, Diana; Calas, Aude; Lowry, Gregory; Rodrigues, Sónia. (2025). Zn3(PO4)2 shell affects uptake and cellular distribution of root applied ZnO NPs. ES Nano 12, 3639-3652. 10.1039/D5EN00217F
• Sarah Glass, Hosea A. Santiago-Cruz, Wei Chen, Tong Zhang, Jenn Guelfo, Bruce Rittmann, Thomas P. Senftle, Peter Vikesland, Dino Villagrán, Haotian Wang, Paul Westerhoff, Michael S. Wong, Guibin Jiang, Greg Lowry,* Pedro J.J. Alvarez. (2025) Merits, Limitations, and Innovation Priorities for Heterogeneous Catalytic Platforms to Destroy PFAS. Nature Water May 2. 10.1038/s44221-025-00433-8
• Hong, Chengyi; Huang, Xiaopeng; Lee, Tzu-An; Zhou, Yuanhao; Wielinski, Jonas; Mello, Marcus; Jadhav, Raja; Chinn, Daniel; Hatakeyama, Evan; Hoelen, Thomas; Lowry, Gregory. (2025). Thermal Decomposition of Metacinnabar (β-HgS) in Monoethylene Glycol-Water Mixtures. Energy & Fuels (in press)
• Yilin Zhang, Jinwoo Shin, Hui Sun, Michael R. Martinez, Lydia Eutsey, Jiajun Yan, Benedetto Marelli, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Jen Sheen, Robert D. Tilton, and Gregory V. Lowry. (2025) High Aspect Ratio Polymer Nanocarriers for Targeted Gene Delivery and Expression in Plant Cell Nucleus. Nanoletters 25, 2, 681–690. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c04704
• Hagay Kohay, Jonas Wielinski, Jana Reiser, Perkins Lydia A., Kurt Ristroph, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Gregory V. Lowry (2025). Nanocarrier Foliar Uptake Pathways Affect Delivery of Active Agents and Plant Physiological Response. ES Nano 12, 660-674. 10.1039/D4EN00547C

2024

• Hosea Santiago-Cruz, Zimo Lou, Jiang Xu, Ryan C Sullivan, Bailey B Bowers, Rachel Molé, Jinghao Li, Wan Zhang, Susie Dai, Gregory V. Lowry. (2024). Carbon Adsorbent Properties Affect Perfluorocarboxylic Acid (PFCA) Degradation Under Hydrated Electron Treatment. ACS EST Engg. 2024, 4, 9, 2220–2233.
• Wielinski, Jonas; Huang, Xiaopeng; Lowry, Gregory. (2024). Characterizing the stoichiometry of individual metal sulfide and phosphate colloids in soils, sediments, and industrial processes by inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Environ. Sci. Technol. 58, 27, 12113–12122.
• Joe Norby, Sean Wang, Hairong Wang, Shane Deng, Nick Jones, Akshit Mishra, Catherine Pavlov, Hannah He, Sathya Subramanian, Vivek Thangavelu, Natasha Sihota, Thomas Hoelen, Aaron M. Johnson, and Gregory V. Lowry. (2024). Path to Autonomous Soil Sampling and Analysis by Ground-based Robots. J. Env. Monitor. 360, June 2024, 121130 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121130
• Gregory V. Lowry, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Nicole Steinmetz, Astrid Avellan, Gozde S. Demirer, Kurt Ristroph, Gerald J. Wang, Christine O. Hendren, Christopher A. Alabi, Adam Caparco, Washington Da Silva, Ivonne Gonzalez, Khara Grieger, Su-Ji Jeon, Mariya V. Khodakovskaya, Hagay Kohay, Vivek Kumar, Raja Muthuramalingam, Hanna J. Poffenbarger, Swadeshmukul Santra, Robert D. Tilton, Jason C. White. (2024). Towards Realizing Nano-enabled Precision Delivery in Plants. Nature Nanotechnology 9, 1255-1269.
• Rodrigues, Sandra; Avellan, Astrid; Bland, Garret; Miranda, Matheus; Larue, Camille; Wagner , Mickaël ; Moreno-Bayona , Diana ; Castillo-Michel, Hiram; Lowry, Gregory V,; Rodrigues, Sónia. (2024). Effect of Zn-phosphate shell on uptake and systemic translocation of foliar applied ZnO nanoparticles in pepper plants. Environ. Sci. Technol. 58, 7, p. 3213. 10.1021/acs.est.3c08723.

2023

• Jiang Xu, Chaohuang Chen, Xiaohong Hu, Du Chen, Garret Bland, Jonas Wielinski, Ralf Kaegi, Daohui Lin, Gregory V. Lowry.  (2023). Particle-scale Understanding of Arsenic Interactions with Sulfidized Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron and Their Impacts on Dehalogenation Reactivity. Environ. Sci. Technol. 57, 51, 21917–21926. 10.1021/acs.est.3c08635.
• Su-Ji Jeon, Yilin Zhang, Leticia Meza, Christopher Castillo, Peiguang Hu, Benjamin Therrien, Gregory V. Lowry, Juan Pablo Giraldo. (2023). Biorecognition mediated delivery of with chemical cargoes to the plant vasculature enhances long distance translocation. Small 20, 7. 10.1002/smll.202304588.
• Kurt Ristroph, Yilin Zhang, Valeria Nava, Jonas Wielinski, Hagay Kohay, Andrew M. Kiss, Juergen Thieme, Gregory V. Lowry. (2023). Flash NanoPrecipitation as an agrochemical nanocarrier formulation platform: phloem uptake and translocation after foliar administration. J. Ag. Sci. Tech. 3, 11, 987–995. 10.1021/acsagscitech.3c00204.
• Yilin Zhang, Michael R. Martinez, Hui Sun, Mingkang Sun, Rongguan Yin, Jiajun Yan, Benedetto Marelli, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Robert D. Tilton, and Gregory V. Lowry. (2023). Polymer Nanocarrier uptake and translocation, impact of Charge, Aspect Ratio and Plant species. Environ. Sci. Technol. 57, 22, 8269–8279. 10.1021/acs.est.3c01154
• Yilin Zhang, Liye Fu, Michael R. Martinez, Hui Sun, Valeria Nava, Jiajun Yan, Kurt Ristroph, Saadyah E. Averick, Benedetto Marelli, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Robert D. Tilton, Gregory V. Lowry. (2023). Temperature Responsive Bottlebrush Polymers Deliver a Stress Regulating Agent in vivo for Prolonged Plant Heat Stress Mitigation. ACS Sus. Chem. Eng. 11, 8, 3346–3358.
• Bailey B. Bowers, Zimo Lou, Jiang Xu, Amila O. De Silva, Xinhua Xu, Gregory V. Lowry, Ryan C. Sullivan. (2023) Nontarget analysis and fluorine atom balances of transformation products from UV/sulfite degradation of perfluoroalkyl contaminants. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. 25, 472-483.
• Bland, Garret; Battifarano, Matthew; Liu, Qian; Yang, Xuezhi; Lu, Dawei; Jiang, Guibin; Lowry, Gregory. (2023). Single-particle metal fingerprint analysis and machine learning pipeline for source apportionment of metal-containing fine particles in air. ES&T Lett. 10 (11) 1023–1029.

2022

• Yilin Zhang, Liye Fu, Su-ji Jeon, Jiajun Yan, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Robert D. Tilton and Gregory V. Lowry. (2022). Star Polymers with Designed Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging and Agent Delivery Functionality Promote Plant Stress Tolerance. ACS Nano 16, 3, 4467–4478. 10.1021/acsnano.1c10828.
• Bland, Garret; Battifarano, Matthew; Pradas del Real, Ana; Sarret, Géraldine; Lowry, Gregory. (2022). Distinguishing Engineered TiO2 Nanomaterials from Natural Ti Nanomaterials in soil using spICP-TOFMS and Machine Learning. Environ. Sci. Technol. 56 (5), p. 2990.  10.1021/acs.est.1c02950
• Jiang, Xu, Garret, D. Bland, Yuan Gu, Hasti Ziaei, Xiaoyue Xiao, Amrika Deonarine, Danny Reible, Paul Bireta, Thomas P. Hoelen, Gregory V. Lowry. (2021) Impact of Sediment Particle Grain Size and Mercury Speciation on Mercury Bioavailability Potential.  Environ. Sci. Technol 55 (18) 12393. 10.1021/acs.est.1c03572.
• Zhang, Yilin; Fu, Liye; Li, Sipei; Yan, Jiajun; Sun, Mingkang; Giraldo, Juan Pablo; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Tilton, Robert; Lowry, Gregory. (2021) Star Polymer Size, Charge Content and Hydrophobicity Affect their Leaf Uptake and Translocation in Plants. Environ. Sci. Technol. 55 (15) 10758. 10.1021/acs.est.1c01065.
• Avellan, A., Yun, J., Morais, B., Rodrigues, S. M., Lowry, G. V. (2021) Critical Review: Role of nanoparticle properties on uptake, translocation, and fate of foliar applied metal-based nanoparticles. Environ. Sci. Technol. 55, 20, 13417–13431. 10.1021/acs.est.1c00178.
• Zhang, Y. Garret Bland, Jiajun Yan, Astrid Avellan, Jiang Xu, Zongyu Wang, Thomas P. Hoelen, Francisco Lopez-Linares, Evan S. Hatakeyama, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Robert D. Tilton, Gregory V. Lowry. (2021) Amphiphilic Thiol Polymer Nanogel Removes Environmentally Relevant Mercury Species from Both Produced Water and Hydrocarbons. Environ. Sci. Technol. 55, 2, 1231-1241. 10.1021/acs.est.0c05470.