Honors and Awards
- National Science Foundation ACADEME fellow 2018
- North American Membrane Society Annual Conference travel award 2016
- Pennsylvania Water Environment Association Poster Award and Student Research Award 2016
- ECUST Academic Excellence Scholarship 2010
Selected Publications
Shieh, P.; Zhang, W.; Husted, K. E. L.; Kristufek, S. L.; Xiong, B.; Lundberg, D. J.; Lem, J.; Veysset, D.; Sun, Y.; Nelson, K. A.; Plata, D. L.; Johnson, J. A. (2020). Cleavable comonomers enable degradable, recyclable thermoset plastics. Nature. (Accepted).
Meza, L. C., Piotrowski, P., Farnan, J.D., Tasker, T.L., Xiong, B., Weggler, B., Murrell, K., Dorman, F. L., Heuvel, J.P.V., Burgos, W. D. (2020). Detection and removal of biologically active organic micropollutants from hospital wastewater. Science of the Total Environment 134469. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134469
Xiong, B., Purswani, P., Loss, R.D., Shields D., Zydney, A.L., Kumar, M. (2019) Mechanical degradation of polyacrylamide during hydraulic fracturing. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology.
Yang, W., Son, M., Xiong, B., Kumar, M., Bucs, S., Vrouwenvelder, J. and Logan, B.E., (2019). Effective biofouling control using periodic H2O2 cleaning with CuO modified and polypropylene spacers. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7(10), 9582–9587.
Samineni, L., Xiong, B., Chowdhury, R., Pei, A., Kuehster, L., Wang, H., Dickey, R., Soto, P.E., Massenburg, L., Nguyen, T.H. and Maranas, C., (2019). 7-log virus removal in a simple functionalized sand filter. Environmental Science & Technology. 53 (21), 12706-12714.
Xiong, B., Roman-White, S., Piechowicz, B., Miller, Z., Farina, B., Tasker, T., Burgos, W.D., Zydney, A.L., and Kumar, M. (2018). Polyacrylamide in hydraulic fracturing causes severe membrane fouling during flowback water treatment. Journal of Membrane Science 560, 125-131.
Xiong, B., Loss, R.D., Shields, D., Zydney, A.L., Kumar, M. (2018). Polyacrylamide in environment—implications for water treatment. npj Clean Water 1, (1), 17.
Schantz, A.B., Xiong, B., Dees, E., Moore, D.R., Yang, X., Kumar M. (2018). Prospects and challenges for high-pressure reverse osmosis in minimizing concentrated waste streams. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 4(7), 894-908.
Guo, C., Chang, H., Liu, B., He, Q., Xiong, B., Kumar, M., and Zydney, A.L. (2018). A combined ultrafiltration—reverse osmosis process for external reuse of Weiyuan shale gas flowback and produced water. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 4 (7), 942-955.