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Nano-enabled agriculture: from nanoparticles to smart nanodelivery systems

Xiaoping Xin A , Jonathan D. Judy B , Brent B. Sumerlin C and Zhenli He https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7761-2070 A D
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A University of Florida-IFAS, Indian River Research and Education Center, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA.

B University of Florida-IFAS, Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

C University of Florida, Department of Chemistry, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

D Corresponding author. Email: zhe@ufl.edu




Xiaoping Xin completed her MSc and PhD degree in Soil Science in 2017 at Southwest University. She is currently a PhD candidate at Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida. Her research interests include soil biochemistry and ecology, soil fertility, nanotoxicology and smart nanotechnology application in sustainable agriculture and environment.



Jonathan Judy is Assistant Professor of Soil and Water Chemistry in the Department of Soil and Water Sciences at the University of Florida. Prior to his current position, Dr Judy was a postdoctoral fellow at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial research Organization (CSIRO) in Adelaide, Australia. Dr Judy received his PhD in Soil Science from the University of Kentucky in 2013. Dr Judy’s research investigates the fate of contaminants (e.g. nanomaterials, metals, trace organics, microplastics, nutrients) and their effects on terrestrial biota and water quality.



Brent Sumerlin is the George Bergen Butler Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the University of Florida. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was named a Kavli Fellow (Frontiers of Science, National Academies of Sciences). He has won a number of awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, NSF CAREER Award, ACS Leadership Development Award, Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award, Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award and the Hanwha-Total IUPAC Award. He is an associate editor of ACS Macro Letters.



Zhenli He is the Research Foundation Professor of Soil Environmental Chemistry and Associate Center Director at the Department of Soil and Water Sciences/Indian River Research and Education Center, University of Florida. He has authored/co-authored three books, 32 book chapters and 267 refereed journal articles; is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America; and a subject editor for the International Journal of Soils & Sediments. His research focuses on soil biogeochemistry of nutrients and contaminants, remediation of contaminated soil and water, and management of nutrients and wastes for sustainable agriculture.

Environmental Chemistry 17(6) 413-425 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN19254
Submitted: 10 September 2019  Accepted: 17 December 2019   Published: 24 March 2020



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