Publications

Shojaei, Marzieh, Jennifer L. Guelfo, Morton A. Barlaz, Grisel Cogollo-Carcamo, Nelson A. Rivera, Heileen Hsu-Kim, and P Lee Ferguson. “Evaluation of Fluorochemical Leaching from Lithium-Ion Batteries Under Simulated Solid Waste Landfill Conditions.” Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 49 (December 2025): 26750–61. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c10116.

Weinhouse, Caren, Luiza Perez, Ian Ryde, Jaclyn M. Goodrich, J Jaime Miranda, Heileen Hsu-Kim, Susan K. Murphy, Joel N. Meyer, and William K. Pan. “High exposure variance enables candidate biomarker detection in a small EWAS of methylmercury-exposed Peruvian adults.” BMC Genom Data 26, no. 1 (September 29, 2025): 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-025-01352-z.

Gadhamshetty, V., C. A. Peters, J. M. Cerrato, K. L. Nelson, H. Hsu-Kim, D. A. Ladner, and L. Blaney. “Leadership in Environmental Engineering and Science: Celebrating Dr. Domenico Grasso’s Editorial Legacy and Presidential Appointment.” Environmental Engineering Science 42, no. 8 (August 1, 2025): 327–28. https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2025.0117.

González-Quiroz, Marvin, Anna Aceituno, Shuchi Anand, Alexander van Geen, Lawrence S. Engel, Emmanuel Jarquin, Clemens Ruepert, et al. “Environmental exposure assessment in the international prospective study of Chronic Kidney Disease of UnceRtain Etiology (CKDu) in Agricultural Communities (CURE) research consortium: Design and protocol development.” The Science of the Total Environment 983 (June 2025): 179642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179642.

Zimmerman, Julie Beth, Gregory Lowry, Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, Paul Westerhoff, Daniel Alessi, Pedro Alvarez, Alexandra Boehm, et al. “Apolitical Science.” Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 13 (April 2025): 6355–56. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c03696.

Miller, Joshua D., Nicholas J. Herkert, Heather M. Stapleton, and Heileen Hsu-Kim. “Silicone wristbands for assessing personal chemical exposures: impacts of movement on chemical uptake rates.” Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts 27, no. 3 (March 2025): 670–81. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4em00440j.

Jin, Zehao, Junkai Huang, James C. Hower, and Heileen Hsu-Kim. “Predictive Assessment of the Chemical Composition of Coal Ash in Reserve at U.S. Disposal Sites.” Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 10 (March 2025): 4989–5000. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c12705.

Hsu-Kim, Heileen. “Characterization of Arsenic and Selenium in Coal Fly Ash to Improve Evaluations for Disposal and Reuse Potential (Final Technical Report).” Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 12, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2172/2521012.

Huayta, Javier, Sarah Seay, Joseph Laster, Nelson A. Rivera, Abigail S. Joyce, P Lee Ferguson, Heileen Hsu-Kim, and Joel N. Meyer. “Assessment of developmental neurotoxicology-associated alterations in neuronal architecture and function using Caenorhabditis elegans.” ALTEX 42, no. 4 (January 2025): 591–609. https://doi.org/10.14573/altex.2501151.

Dai, Yifan, Zhengqing Zhou, Wen Yu, Yuefeng Ma, Kyeri Kim, Nelson Rivera, Javid Mohammed, et al. “Biomolecular condensates regulate cellular electrochemical equilibria.” Cell 187, no. 21 (October 2024): 5951-5966.e18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.08.018.

Marchese, M. J., J. R. Gerson, A. J. Berky, C. Driscoll, L. E. Fernandez, H. Hsu-Kim, K. N. Lansdale, et al. “Diet choices determine mercury exposure risks for people living in gold mining regions of Peru.” Environmental Research Health 2, no. 3 (September 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ad3d79.

Middleton, Andrew, Benjamin C. Hedin, and Heileen Hsu-Kim. “Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Acid Mine Drainage with Supported Liquid Membranes: Impacts of Feedstock Composition for Extraction Performance.” Environmental Science & Technology 58, no. 6 (February 2024): 2998–3006. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c06445.

Wadle, Austin, Natalia Neal-Walthall, Udonna Ndu, and Heileen Hsu-Kim. “Distribution and Homogenization of Multiple Mercury Species Inputs to Freshwater Wetland Mesocosms.” Environmental Science & Technology 58, no. 3 (January 2024): 1709–20. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c07169.

Hower, J. C., A. Kolker, H. Hsu-Kim, and D. L. Plata. “Rare Earth Elements in Coal Fly Ash and their Potential Recovery.” In Rare Earth Elements Sustainable Recovery Processing and Purification, 27–73, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119515005.ch2.

Lalwani, Pooja, Dillon E. King, Katherine S. Morton, Nelson A. Rivera, Javier Huayta, Heileen Hsu-Kim, and Joel N. Meyer. “Increased cytotoxicity of Pb²⁺ with co-exposures to a mitochondrial uncoupler and mitochondrial calcium uniporter inhibitor.” Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts 25, no. 11 (November 2023): 1743–51. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3em00188a.

Berky, Axel J., Caren Weinhouse, Joao Vissoci, Nelson Rivera, Ernesto J. Ortiz, Susy Navio, J Jaime Miranda, et al. “In Utero Exposure to Metals and Birth Outcomes in an Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Birth Cohort in Madre de Dios, Peru.” Environ Health Perspect 131, no. 9 (September 2023): 97008. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10557.

Middleton, A., and H. Hsu-Kim. “Separation of Rare-Earth Elements by Supported Liquid Membranes: Impacts of Soluble Iron, Aluminum, and pH in Low-Grade Feedstocks.” ACS Es and T Engineering 3, no. 8 (August 11, 2023): 1197–1204. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.3c00060.

Koenigsmark, Faye, Nelson A. Rivera, Eric M. Pierce, and Heileen Hsu-Kim. “Dissolution Potential of Elemental Mercury in the Presence of Bisulfide and Implications for Mobilization.” Environmental Science & Technology 57, no. 33 (August 2023): 12388–97. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00694.

Rivera, Nelson A., Florence T. Ling, Zehao Jin, Ajith Pattammattel, Hanfei Yan, Yong S. Chu, Catherine A. Peters, and Heileen Hsu-Kim. “Nanoscale heterogeneity of arsenic and selenium species in coal fly ash particles: analysis using enhanced spectroscopic imaging and speciation techniques.” Environmental Science. Nano 10, no. 7 (July 2023): 1768–77. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2en01056a.

Jin, Z., J. Ren, N. A. Rivera, J. C. Hower, and H. Hsu-Kim. “Functional Predictor Variables for the Leaching Potential of Arsenic and Selenium from Coal Fly Ash.” ACS Es and T Water 3, no. 4 (April 14, 2023): 1105–15. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00568.

Koenigsmark, Faye, Michelle Chiu, Nelson Rivera, Alexander Johs, Jeremy Eskelsen, Donovan Leonard, Boakai K. Robertson, et al. “Crystal lattice defects in nanocrystalline metacinnabar in contaminated streambank soils suggest a role for biogenic sulfides in the formation of mercury sulfide phases.” Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts 25, no. 3 (March 2023): 445–60. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1em00549a.

Hower, J. C., J. G. Groppo, S. D. Hopps, T. D. Morgan, H. Hsu-Kim, and R. K. Taggart. “Coal Feed-Dependent Variation in Fly Ash Chemistry in a Single Pulverized-Combustion Unit.” Minerals 12, no. 9 (September 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/min12091071.

Berky, Axel J., Emily Robie, Susy Navio Chipa, Ernesto J. Ortiz, Emma J. Palmer, Nelson A. Rivera, Ana Maria Morales Avalos, Joel N. Meyer, Heileen Hsu-Kim, and William K. Pan. “Risk of lead exposure from wild game consumption from cross-sectional studies in Madre de Dios, Peru.” Lancet Regional Health. Americas 12 (August 2022): 100266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100266.

Kose-Mutlu, Borte, Heileen Hsu-Kim, and Mark R. Wiesner. “Separation of rare earth elements from mixed-metal feedstocks by micelle enhanced ultrafiltration with sodium dodecyl sulfate.” Environmental Technology 43, no. 7 (March 2022): 1013–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593330.2020.1812732.

Kessler, M. L., J. E. Kelm, H. E. Starr, E. N. Cook, J. D. Miller, N. A. Rivera, H. Hsu-Kim, and J. L. Dempsey. “Unraveling Changes to PbS Nanocrystal Surfaces Induced by Thiols.” Chemistry of Materials 34, no. 4 (February 22, 2022): 1710–21. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03888.