Mediterranean mercury assessment 2022: an updated budget, health consequences, and research perspectives

D Cossa, J Knoery, D Bănaru… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) and especially its methylated species (MeHg) are toxic chemicals that
contaminate humans via the consumption of seafood. The most recent UNEP Global …

The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry

G Li Manni, I Fdez. Galván, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The developments of the open-source OpenMolcas chemistry software environment since
spring 2020 are described, with a focus on novel functionalities accessible in the stable …

Tailored bacteria tackling with environmental mercury: Inspired by natural mercuric detoxification operons

C Hui, B Ma, S Hu, C Wu - Environmental Pollution, 2024 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) and its inorganic and organic compounds significantly threaten the ecosystem
and human health. However, the natural and anthropogenic Hg environmental inputs …

Photochemistry of oxidized Hg (I) and Hg (II) species suggests missing mercury oxidation in the troposphere

A Saiz-Lopez, O Travnikov, JE Sonke… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Mercury (Hg), a global contaminant, is emitted mainly in its elemental form Hg0 to the
atmosphere where it is oxidized to reactive HgII compounds, which efficiently deposit to …

Improved mechanistic model of the atmospheric redox chemistry of mercury

V Shah, DJ Jacob, CP Thackray, X Wang… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present a new chemical mechanism for Hg0/HgI/HgII atmospheric cycling, including
recent laboratory and computational data, and implement it in the GEOS-Chem global …

Observations of the chemistry and concentrations of reactive Hg at locations with different ambient air chemistry

MS Gustin, SM Dunham-Cheatham, N Allen… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Hg research community needs methods to more accurately measure atmospheric Hg
concentrations and chemistry. The Reactive Mercury Active System (RMAS) uses cation …

Calculating photoabsorption cross-sections for atmospheric volatile organic compounds

A Prlj, E Marsili, L Hutton, D Hollas… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Characterizing the photochemical reactivity of transient volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
in our atmosphere begins with a proper understanding of their abilities to absorb sunlight …

Metabolic engineering of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway toward a specific and sensitive inorganic mercury biosensor

C Hui, S Hu, L Li, J Yun, Y Zhang, J Yi, N Zhang… - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The toxicity of mercury (Hg) mainly depends on its form. Whole-cell biosensors respond
selectively to toxic Hg (II), efficiently transformed by environmental microbes into …

Dissociation of mercuric oxides drives anomalous isotope fractionation during net photo-oxidation of mercury vapor in air

G Sun, X Feng, R Yin, F Wang, CJ Lin, K Li… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The atmosphere is the primary medium for long-distance transport and transformation of
elemental mercury (Hg), a potent neurotoxin. The recent discovery of mass-independent …

The fate of photoreduction of Hg (II) in aqueous solution by aged microplastic particles and their leached DOM

X Yang, C Ma, Z Li, T Wang, X Wen, Y He… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The transformation of Hg (II) and Hg (0) in aqueous systems governs the speciation and
biogeochemical cycling of Hg. However, with the increasing amount of microplastics in the …