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Bolstering integrity in environmental data science and machine learning requires understanding socioecological inequity

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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2024年第5期18卷 171-179页

作者： Joe F.Bozeman III School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA30332USA School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA30332USA

Socioecological inequity in environmental data science—such as inequities deriving from data-driven approaches and machine learning(ML)—are current issues subject to debate and *** is growing consensus around embedding equity throughout all research and design domains—from inception to administration,while also addressing procedural,distributive,and recognitional ***,practically doing so may seem onerous or daunting to *** current perspective helps to alleviate these types of concerns by providing substantiation for the connection between environmental data science and socioecological inequity,using the Systemic Equity Framework,and provides the foundation for a paradigmatic shift toward normalizing the use of equity-centered approaches in environmental data science and ML *** the integrity of environmental data science and ML is just beginning from an equity-centered tool development and rigorous application *** this end,this perspective also provides relevant future directions and challenges by overviewing some meaningful tools and strategies—such as applying the Wells-Du Bois Protocol,employing fairness metrics,and systematically addressing irreproducibility;emerging needs and proposals—such as addressing data-proxy bias and supporting convergence research;and establishes a ten-step path ***,the work that environmental scientists and engineers do ultimately affect the well-being of us all.

关键词： Equity Bias Machine Learning Data Science Justice Systemic Equity

Highly degradable chitosan-montmorillonite (MMT) nanocomposite hydrogel for controlled fertilizer release

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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2023年第5期17卷 1-11页

作者： Zeou Dou Maria Vitoria Bini Farias Wensi Chen Dongjing He Yuhang Hu Xing Xie School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA George W.Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA

Fertilizer consumption is increasing drastically along with the rapid expansion of farming in response to the ever-growing population. However, a significant portion of the nutrients in traditional fertilizers is lost during leaching and runoff causing economic loss and environmental threats. Polymer-modified controlled-release fertilizers provide an opportunity for mitigating adverse environmental effects and increasing the profitability of crop production. Here, we present a cheap and easy-to-fabricate controlled-release fertilizer excipient based on hydrogels scaffolded by safe and biodegradable chitosan and montmorillonite (MMT) nanoclays. By introducing elastic and flexible physical crosslinking induced by 2-dimensional (2D) MMT nanoflakes into the chitosan hydrogel, highly swellable and degradable chitosan-MMT nanocomposites were fabricated. The addition of MMT into the chitosan hydrogels enhanced the total release of phosphorous (P) and potassium (K), from 22.0 % to 94.9 % and 9.6% to 31.4 %, respectively, compared to the pure chitosan gel. The chitosan-MMT nanocomposite hydrogel achieved a well-controlled overall fertilizer release in soil. A total of 55.3 % of loaded fertilizer was released over 15 d with a daily release of 2.8 %. For the traditional fertilizer podwer, 89.2 % of the fertilizer was washed out during the first irrigation under the same setup. In the meantime, the nanocomposites improved the water retention of the soil, thanks to its excellent water absorbency. Moreover, the chitosan-MMT nanocomposite hydrogels exhibited high degradation of 57 % after swelling in water for 20 d. Such highly degradable fertilizer excipient poses minimal threat to the long-term fertility of the soil. The engineered Chitosan-MMT biopolymer scaffold as a controlled-release fertilizer excipient provides a promising opportunity for advancing sustainable agriculture.

关键词： Biopolymer Hydrogel Controlled-release fertilizer Nanoclay Nanocomposite

High-density lipoprotein mimetic nanotherapeutics for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases

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Nano Research 2018年第10期11卷 5130-5143页

作者： Song Ih Ahn Hyun-Ji Park diwon Yom Taeyoung Kim YongTae Kim George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA

High-density lipoprotein （HDL） serves as a natural nanoparticle with compositional and functional heterogeneity and contributes to the maintenance of lipid metabolism and various biological functions. HDL also transports endogenous microRNAs, vitamins, hormones, and proteins through blood and interstitial fluids to various organs. These unique and diverse features of HDL have encouraged its applications for the transport of therapeutics and diagnostic reagents in the last decade. In this review, we describe the heterogeneous characteristics and biological functions of HDL and highlight HDL mimetic approaches, including apolipoprotein mimetic peptides and reconstituted HDL nanoparticles. Given the potential of HDL as a nanocarrier delivering various therapeutic agents, we discuss the current representative studies of HDL mimetic nanotherapeutics for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and analyze the current challenges and future perspective.

关键词： high-density lipoprotein nanotherapeutic cardiovascular disease neurodegenerative disease

Parallel droplet microfluidics for high throughput cell encapsulation and synthetic microgel generation

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Microsystems & Nanoengineering 2018年第1期4卷 525-533页

作者： Devon M.Headen JoséR.García Andrés J.García Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA

Cells can be microencapsulated in synthetic hydrogel microspheres(microgels)using droplet microfluidics,but microfluidic devices with a single droplet generating geometry have limited throughput,especially as microgel diameter *** we demonstrate microencapsulation of human mesenchymal stem cells(hMSCs)in small(o100μm diameter)microgels utilizing parallel droplet generators on a two-layer elastomer device,which has 600% increased throughput ***-nozzle *** of microgel diameters were compared between products of parallel ***-nozzle configurations for two square nozzle widths,35 and 100μ*** produced on parallel nozzles were equivalent to those produced on single nozzles,with substantially the same *** of hMSCs was compared for parallel nozzle devices of each *** five micrometer wide nozzle devices could be operated at twice the cell concentration of 100μm wide nozzle devices but produced more empty microgels than predicted by a Poisson *** micrometer wide nozzle devices produced microgels as predicted by a Poisson *** of microgels did not increase with the addition of cells for either nozzle *** encapsulated on 35μm wide nozzle devices had reduced viability(~70%)and a corresponding decrease in vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF)secretion compared to hMSCs cultured on tissue culture(TC)*** hMSCs using 100μm wide nozzle devices mitigated loss of viability and function,as measured by VEGF secretion.

关键词： droplets microencapsulation microgel multilayer parallel

Advances in Wireless,Batteryless,Implantable Electronics for Real‑Time,Continuous Physiological Monitoring

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Nano-Micro Letters 2024年第3期16卷 254-302页

作者： Hyeonseok Kim Bruno Rigo Gabriella Wong Yoon Jae Lee Woon‑Hong Yeo IEN Center for Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA George W.Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA Wallace H.Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Tech and Emory University School of MedicineAtlantaGA 30332USA Parker H.Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences Institute for MaterialsInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent MachinesGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA

This review summarizes recent progress in developing wireless,batteryless,fully implantable biomedical devices for real-time continuous physiological signal monitoring,focusing on advancing human health *** considerations,such as biological constraints,energy sourcing,and wireless communication,are discussed in achieving the desired performance of the devices and enhanced interface with human *** addition,we review the recent achievements in materials used for developing implantable systems,emphasizing their importance in achieving multi-functionalities,biocompatibility,and *** wireless,batteryless devices offer minimally invasive device insertion to the body,enabling portable health monitoring and advanced disease ***,we summarize the most recent practical applications of advanced implantable devices for human health care,highlighting their potential for immediate commercialization and clinical uses.

关键词： Implantable electronics Biomedical systems Batteryless devices Wireless electronics Physiological signal monitoring

Cdc42 regulates the cellular localization of Cdc42ep1 in controlling neural crest cell migration

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Journal of Molecular Cell Biology 2018年第5期10卷 376-387页

作者： Shlomi Cohen Daniel T. Kovari Wenbin Wei Rebecca Keate Jennifer E. Curtis Shuyi Nie School of Biological Sciences Georgia institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA Department of Physics Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 USA Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA

The member of Rho family of small GTPases Cdc42 plays important and conserved roles in cell polarity and motility. The Cdc42ep family proteins have been identified to bind to Cdc42, yet how they interact with Cdc42 to regulate cell migration remains to be elucidated. In this study, we focus on Cdc42epl, which is expressed predominantly in the highly migratory neural crest ceils in frog embryos. Through morpholino-mediated knockdown, we show that Cdc42epl is required for the migration of cranial neural crest cells. Loss of Cdc42epl leads to rounder cell shapes and the formation of membrane blebs, consistent with the observed disruption in actin organization and focal adhesion alignment. As a result, Cdc42ep1 is critical for neural crest cells to apply traction forces at the correct place to migrate efficiently. We further show that Cdc42ep1 is localized to two areas in neural crest celts： in membrane protrusions together with Cdc42 and in perinuciear patches where Cdc42 is absent. Cdc42 directly interacts with Cdc42epl （through the CRIB domain） and changes in Cdc42 level shift the distribution of Cdc42epl between these two subcellular locations, controlling the formation of membrane protrusions and directionality of migration as a consequence. These results suggest that Cdc42ep1 elaborates Cdc42 activity in neural crest cells to promote their efficient migration.

关键词： actin cytoskeleton neural crest Rho GTPases Cdc42 effector protein 1 cell migration

Locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT) for water disinfection

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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2020年第5期14卷 25-36页

作者： Jianfeng Zhou Ting Wang Cecilia Yu Xing Xie School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA

Water disinfection is a critical step in water and wastewater *** most widely used chlorination suffers from the formation of carcinogenic disinfection by-products(DBPs)while alternative methods(e.g.,UV,O3,and membrane filtration)are limited by microbial regrowth,no residual disinfectant,and high operation ***,a nanowire-enabled disinfection method,locally enhanced electric field treatment(LEEFT),is introduced with advantages of no chemical addition,no DBP formation,low energy consumption,and efficient microbial *** to the lightning rod effect,the electric field near the tip area of the nanowires on the electrode is significantly enhanced to inactivate microbes,even though a small external voltage(usually<5 V)is *** this review,after emphasizing the significance of water disinfection,the theory of the LEEFT is ***,the recent development of the LEEFT technology on electrode materials and device configurations are *** disinfection performance is analyzed,with respect to the operating parameters,universality against different microorganisms,electrode durability,and energy *** studies on the inactivation mechanisms during the LEEFT are also ***,the challenges and future research of LEEFT disinfection are discussed.

关键词： Water treatment Nanotechnology Pathogen inactivation Electroporation Nanowire Chemical-free

Reliability of electric vehicle charging infrastructure:A cross-lingual deep learning approach

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Communications in Transportation Research 2023年第1期3卷 81-91页

作者： Yifan Liu Azell Francis Catharina Hollauer M.Cade Lawson Omar Shaikh Ashley Cotsman Khushi Bhardwaj Aline Banboukian Mimi Li Anne Web Omar Isaac Asensio School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta30332USA Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta30332USA School of Civil&Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta30332USA H.Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta30332USA School of Computer Science Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta30332USA School of Computer Science Stanford UniversityPalo Alto94305USA School of Economics Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta30332USA Institute for Data Engineering&Science(IDEaS) Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta30332USA

Vehicle electrification has emerged as a global strategy to address climate change and emissions externalities from the transportation *** of charging infrastructure is needed to accelerate technology adoption;however,managers and policymakers have had limited evidence on the use of public charging stations due to poor data sharing and decentralized ownership across *** this article,we use machine learning based classifiers to reveal insights about consumer charging behavior in 72 detected languages including *** investigate 10 years of consumer reviews in East and Southeast Asia from 2011 to 2021 to enable infrastructure evaluation at a larger geographic scale than previously *** find evidence that charging stations at government locations result in higher failure rates with consumers compared to charging stations at private points of *** evidence contrasts with predictions in the *** European markets,where the performance is closer to *** also find that networked stations with communication protocols provide a relatively higher quality of charging services,which favors policy support for connectivity,particularly for underserved or remote areas.

关键词： Electric vehicles Consumer behavior Charging infrastructure Public policy Machine learning Natural language processing Transformer algorithms

Color-coded perfluorocarbon nanodroplets for multiplexed ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging

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Nano Research 2019年第4期12卷 741-747页

作者： Daniela Y. Santiesteban Kristina A. Hallam Steven K. Yarmoska Stanislav Y. Emelianov Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University Atlanta GA 30332 USA School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA

Laser-activated perfluorocarb on n anodroplets are an emerging class of phase-cha nge, dual-c ontrast age nts that can be utilized in ultraso und and photoacoustic imaging. Through the ability to differe ntiate subpopulations of nano droplets via laser activatio n at differe nt wavelengths of n ear-infrared light, optically-triggered color-coded perfluorocarb on nano droplets prese nt themselves as an attractive tool for multiplexed ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging. In particular, laser-activated droplets can be used to provide quantitative spatiotemporal information regarding distinct biological targets, allowing for their potential use in a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. In the work prese nted, laser-activated color-coded perfluorocarb on nan odroplets are syn thesized to selectively resp ond to laser irradiati on at corresp on ding wavele ngths. The dyn amic ultraso und and photoacoustic signals produced by laser-activated perfluorocarbon nano droplets are evaluated in situ prior to implementation in a murine model. In vivo, these particles are used to distinguish unique particle trafficking mechanisms and are show n to provide ultraso und and photoacoustic contrast for up to 72 hours within lymphatics. Overall, the con ducted studies show that laser-activated color-coded perfluorocarbo n nano droplets are a promising agent for multiplexed ultraso und and photoacoustic imaging.

关键词： multiplexed imaging perfluorocarbon nanodroplets photoacoustic imaging ultrasound imaging molecular targets