Yong Sik Ok

Research interests

Publications

• Integrating Biochar, Bacteria, and Plants for Sustainable Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Organic Pollutants

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c02976

• Waste-derived biochar for water pollution control and sustainable development

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00306-8

• Multifunctional applications of biochar beyond carbon storage

  International Materials Reviews · 2021 · 10.1080/09506608.2021.1922047

• How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar

  GCB Bioenergy · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12885

• Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality

  The Innovation · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100180

• Microplastics as pollutants in agricultural soils

  Environmental Pollution · 2020 · 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114980

• Metal contamination and bioremediation of agricultural soils for food safety and sustainability

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0061-y

• Biochar Aging: Mechanisms, Physicochemical Changes, Assessment, And Implications for Field Applications

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2020 · 10.1021/acs.est.0c04033

• Nanoarchitectured Structure and Surface Biofunctionality of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles

  Advanced Materials · 2020 · 10.1002/adma.201907035

• Biochar technology in wastewater treatment: A critical review

  Chemosphere · 2020 · 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126539

• Response of microbial communities to biochar-amended soils: a critical review

  Biochar · 2019 · 10.1007/s42773-019-00009-2

• Surface functional groups of carbon-based adsorbents and their roles in the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions: A critical review

  Chemical Engineering Journal · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2019.02.119

• Production of bioplastic through food waste valorization

  Environment International · 2019 · 10.1016/j.envint.2019.03.076

• Particulate plastics as a vector for toxic trace-element uptake by aquatic and terrestrial organisms and human health risk

  Environment International · 2019 · 10.1016/j.envint.2019.104937

• Soil amendments for immobilization of potentially toxic elements in contaminated soils: A critical review

  Environment International · 2019 · 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105046

• Biochar application to low fertility soils: A review of current status, and future prospects

  Geoderma · 2018 · 10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.09.034

• Trace elements in the soil-plant interface: Phytoavailability, translocation, and phytoremediation–A review

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2017 · 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.005

• Occurrences and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in drinking water and water/sewage treatment plants: A review

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.102

• Effect of bamboo and rice straw biochars on the mobility and redistribution of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) in contaminated soil

  Journal of Environmental Management · 2016 · 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.05.068

• Engineered/designer biochar for contaminant removal/immobilization from soil and water: Potential and implication of biochar modification

  Chemosphere · 2016 · 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.01.043

• Cadmium stress in rice: toxic effects, tolerance mechanisms, and management: a critical review

  Environmental Science and Pollution Research · 2016 · 10.1007/s11356-016-6436-4

• Cadmium minimization in wheat: A critical review

  Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · 2016 · 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2016.04.001

• Review on nano zerovalent iron (nZVI): From synthesis to environmental applications

  Chemical Engineering Journal · 2015 · 10.1016/j.cej.2015.11.046

• A review of biochar as a low-cost adsorbent for aqueous heavy metal removal

  Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2015.1096880

• Competitive adsorption of heavy metals onto sesame straw biochar in aqueous solutions

  Chemosphere · 2015 · 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.05.093

• Organic and inorganic contaminants removal from water with biochar, a renewable, low cost and sustainable adsorbent – A critical review

  Bioresource Technology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2014.01.120

• Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: A review

  Chemosphere · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.10.071

• Effects of pyrolysis temperature on soybean stover- and peanut shell-derived biochar properties and TCE adsorption in water

  Bioresource Technology · 2012 · 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.05.042

Current projects

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