Nan Wu
@nanwu1112.bsky.social
Ecological modeller/postdoc at British Antarctica Survey working on the biological pump and microplastics. PhD from QMUL geography for Microplastics and Flocs. https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/nanwu/#about
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Nan Wu
@nanwu1112.bsky.social
· Jan 7
Perfect start to the new year celebrating with @nanwu1112.bsky.social and his proud family. Congratulations on a brilliant #PhD @qmul.ac.uk winter graduation #microplastics
Six wonderful smiles 😃😄😀😁😉😜
When ordered atomic structures clashing with intrusion! This study defines what’s small is small in invaded ion size. Congrats @jingming1017.bsky.social
🚀 How small triggers big? 🚀 I’m thrilled to share Our new paper published in
@jacs.acspublications.org
explicitly measures and simulates the Tiny dopant size difference, as small as 10e-12 m leads to massive impact on ionic conductivity of doped ceria.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
@jacs.acspublications.org
explicitly measures and simulates the Tiny dopant size difference, as small as 10e-12 m leads to massive impact on ionic conductivity of doped ceria.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Probing Dopant Size Effects on Defect Clustering and Vacancy Ordering in Lanthanide-doped Ceria
Dopant size is known to influence oxygen vacancy-mediated conduction pathways and ionic conductivity in doped ceria, yet the underlying atomic-scale mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we combine neutron...
pubs.acs.org
August 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
When ordered atomic structures clashing with intrusion! This study defines what’s small is small in invaded ion size. Congrats @jingming1017.bsky.social
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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It’s a great pleasure working with @natrevcleantech.nature.com
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute this article. I am always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested. 😜😜😜
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute this article. I am always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested. 😜😜😜
In this Tools of the Trade article, PhD student Jing Ming explains how neutron total scattering can be used in fuel cell researcher
Detecting defects in solid electrolytes with neutron total scattering - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Jing Ming explains how neutron total scattering can be used to detect defects in solid electrolytes and help prevent disruptions in the diffusion of oxide ions in solid oxide fuel cells.
bit.ly
May 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s a great pleasure working with @natrevcleantech.nature.com
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute this article. I am always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested. 😜😜😜
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute this article. I am always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested. 😜😜😜
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I’m delighted to share that my short article has just been published as Tools of the Trade
@natrevcleantech.nature.com
🔗 The full article can be found here:
rdcu.be/ekrpD
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested.
@natrevcleantech.nature.com
🔗 The full article can be found here:
rdcu.be/ekrpD
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested.
Detecting defects in solid electrolytes with neutron total scattering
Nature Reviews Clean Technology - Jing Ming explains how neutron total scattering can be used to detect defects in solid electrolytes and help prevent disruptions in the diffusion of oxide ions in...
rdcu.be
May 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I’m delighted to share that my short article has just been published as Tools of the Trade
@natrevcleantech.nature.com
🔗 The full article can be found here:
rdcu.be/ekrpD
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested.
@natrevcleantech.nature.com
🔗 The full article can be found here:
rdcu.be/ekrpD
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested.
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A great day for @qmul.ac.uk Geography PhD student Grace and @bas.ac.uk researcher @nanwu1112.bsky.social presenting their research at @egu.eu #EGU25
April 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A great day for @qmul.ac.uk Geography PhD student Grace and @bas.ac.uk researcher @nanwu1112.bsky.social presenting their research at @egu.eu #EGU25
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March 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool
Visualize and download global and local sea level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.
sealevel.nasa.gov
March 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
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Lovely image from the NOAA-20 satellite yesterday showing the location of grounded A23a iceberg close to the island of South Georgia 😍
It's still crazy to me that this iceberg has been in the Southern Ocean since 1986, taking a few little pauses along its way to this current position!
@bas.ac.uk
It's still crazy to me that this iceberg has been in the Southern Ocean since 1986, taking a few little pauses along its way to this current position!
@bas.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Lovely image from the NOAA-20 satellite yesterday showing the location of grounded A23a iceberg close to the island of South Georgia 😍
It's still crazy to me that this iceberg has been in the Southern Ocean since 1986, taking a few little pauses along its way to this current position!
@bas.ac.uk
It's still crazy to me that this iceberg has been in the Southern Ocean since 1986, taking a few little pauses along its way to this current position!
@bas.ac.uk
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This new paper is available open access in 'Limnology and Oceanography'.
It was written by @qmul.ac.uk's @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @sgrieve.bsky.social and @profkatespencer.bsky.social and our Andrew Manning.
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
It was written by @qmul.ac.uk's @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @sgrieve.bsky.social and @profkatespencer.bsky.social and our Andrew Manning.
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This new paper is available open access in 'Limnology and Oceanography'.
It was written by @qmul.ac.uk's @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @sgrieve.bsky.social and @profkatespencer.bsky.social and our Andrew Manning.
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
It was written by @qmul.ac.uk's @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @sgrieve.bsky.social and @profkatespencer.bsky.social and our Andrew Manning.
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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So a fossil fuel company that bought a CO₂ removal (CDR) startup for $1.1 billion plans to use the CO₂ captured from the atmosphere to get more oil out of the ground. It's…not great at all.
Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says
Occidental wants to use climate tech to boost oil and gas production.
www.theverge.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
So a fossil fuel company that bought a CO₂ removal (CDR) startup for $1.1 billion plans to use the CO₂ captured from the atmosphere to get more oil out of the ground. It's…not great at all.
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How does buoyant #marineplastic litter get removed from the ocean surface? Only the smallest #microplastic (< 100 micron) can reach the ocean floor through aggregation with #marinesnow. Read more about this great PhD research from @nanwu1112.bsky.social. @sgrieve.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/lno....
Marine snow as vectors for microplastic transport: Multiple aggregation cycles account for the settling of buoyant microplastics to deep‐sea sediments
Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o....
doi.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
How does buoyant #marineplastic litter get removed from the ocean surface? Only the smallest #microplastic (< 100 micron) can reach the ocean floor through aggregation with #marinesnow. Read more about this great PhD research from @nanwu1112.bsky.social. @sgrieve.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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Buoyant #microplastics reach deep ocean sediments through multiple cycles of aggregation and disaggregation. Great #phd output from @nanwu1112.bsky.social #floc #marinesnow #oceanplastic @sgrieve.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
Marine snow as vectors for microplastic transport: Multiple aggregation cycles account for the settling of buoyant microplastics to deep‐sea sediments
Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o...
doi.org
February 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Buoyant #microplastics reach deep ocean sediments through multiple cycles of aggregation and disaggregation. Great #phd output from @nanwu1112.bsky.social #floc #marinesnow #oceanplastic @sgrieve.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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Sometimes you just need to get away from your screen 🏃♀️
Host Nadia Frontier is joined by early-career scientists Dr Emily Rowlands, Laura Taylor, and Kat Turner, who are working on the BIOPOLE investigation on the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
🎧 Search for ICEWORLD in your normal podcast place.
Host Nadia Frontier is joined by early-career scientists Dr Emily Rowlands, Laura Taylor, and Kat Turner, who are working on the BIOPOLE investigation on the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
🎧 Search for ICEWORLD in your normal podcast place.
February 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Sometimes you just need to get away from your screen 🏃♀️
Host Nadia Frontier is joined by early-career scientists Dr Emily Rowlands, Laura Taylor, and Kat Turner, who are working on the BIOPOLE investigation on the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
🎧 Search for ICEWORLD in your normal podcast place.
Host Nadia Frontier is joined by early-career scientists Dr Emily Rowlands, Laura Taylor, and Kat Turner, who are working on the BIOPOLE investigation on the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
🎧 Search for ICEWORLD in your normal podcast place.
If you ever wondered why buoyant microplastics have been found in the deep-sea sediment with high concentrations, our newest paper might give you some ideas.
The multiple aggregationes with marine snow takes the buoyant microplastics (can be some other particles) to deep sea sediments.
The multiple aggregationes with marine snow takes the buoyant microplastics (can be some other particles) to deep sea sediments.
Ever wondered how buoyant microplastic particles can reach deep ocean sediments?
This new paper from @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @profkatespencer.bsky.social, Andy Manning and me solves that mystery!
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
This new paper from @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @profkatespencer.bsky.social, Andy Manning and me solves that mystery!
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
Marine snow as vectors for microplastic transport: Multiple aggregation cycles account for the settling of buoyant microplastics to deep‐sea sediments
Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o...
doi.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you ever wondered why buoyant microplastics have been found in the deep-sea sediment with high concentrations, our newest paper might give you some ideas.
The multiple aggregationes with marine snow takes the buoyant microplastics (can be some other particles) to deep sea sediments.
The multiple aggregationes with marine snow takes the buoyant microplastics (can be some other particles) to deep sea sediments.
Reposted by Nan Wu
#NewStudy 📢 #Microplastics offer a platform for antimicrobial-resistant (#AMR) and pathogenic #bacteria, responsible for #diseases in both humans and animals. Full story here: pml.ac.uk/news/marine-...
Marine Plastic Pollution: A breeding ground for disease-causing bacteria
New study reveals for the first time that particle type affects colonization, enrichment and spread of both antimicrobial-resistant and pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria.
pml.ac.uk
January 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#NewStudy 📢 #Microplastics offer a platform for antimicrobial-resistant (#AMR) and pathogenic #bacteria, responsible for #diseases in both humans and animals. Full story here: pml.ac.uk/news/marine-...
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Our new paper is out: We're exploring the intersection of electrochemical OAE and concrete waste recycling - turns out they're a match made in heaven. One produces weak waste acid and the other requires weak acid to valorize demolition waste!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Negative Emission Enabled by Combining Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and Waste Concrete Upcycling
Electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a promising technology for negative carbon emissions, but the resulting dilute acid stream poses a disposal challenge. This study presents an inno...
pubs.acs.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Our new paper is out: We're exploring the intersection of electrochemical OAE and concrete waste recycling - turns out they're a match made in heaven. One produces weak waste acid and the other requires weak acid to valorize demolition waste!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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In Issue 1, we have reviews on:
- Grid enhancing technologies 🔌
- Lithium ion battery recycling ♻️
- Flash Joule heating ⚡
- Solar driven evaporation technologies 🌅
- Stakeholder heterogeneity in carbon dioxide removal 👥
www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...
- Grid enhancing technologies 🔌
- Lithium ion battery recycling ♻️
- Flash Joule heating ⚡
- Solar driven evaporation technologies 🌅
- Stakeholder heterogeneity in carbon dioxide removal 👥
www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...
January 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In Issue 1, we have reviews on:
- Grid enhancing technologies 🔌
- Lithium ion battery recycling ♻️
- Flash Joule heating ⚡
- Solar driven evaporation technologies 🌅
- Stakeholder heterogeneity in carbon dioxide removal 👥
www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...
- Grid enhancing technologies 🔌
- Lithium ion battery recycling ♻️
- Flash Joule heating ⚡
- Solar driven evaporation technologies 🌅
- Stakeholder heterogeneity in carbon dioxide removal 👥
www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...
Last chance to submit an abstract for session for #microplastics
First Post for our three EGU plastic sessions. Abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET
HS1.1.5– (Small-scale) transport processes of plastics in the aquatic environment: From laboratory experiments to advanced modeling:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
HS1.1.5– (Small-scale) transport processes of plastics in the aquatic environment: From laboratory experiments to advanced modeling:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Session HS2.3.6
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
January 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Last chance to submit an abstract for session for #microplastics
Six wonderful smiles 😃😄😀😁😉😜
Perfect start to the new year celebrating with @nanwu1112.bsky.social and his proud family. Congratulations on a brilliant #PhD @qmul.ac.uk winter graduation #microplastics
January 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Six wonderful smiles 😃😄😀😁😉😜
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This will be how I spend my Christmas! Heading South to work on polar biogeochemistry in a changing climate as part of NERC projects BIOPOLE and SiCLING, out of Rothera Research Station @bas.ac.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zqkqg61xo.amp
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zqkqg61xo.amp
Preparing for Christmas in the wilds of Antarctica
A few hundred people get ready for Christmas in the snowy continent thousands of miles from home.
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December 18, 2024 at 8:03 PM
This will be how I spend my Christmas! Heading South to work on polar biogeochemistry in a changing climate as part of NERC projects BIOPOLE and SiCLING, out of Rothera Research Station @bas.ac.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zqkqg61xo.amp
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zqkqg61xo.amp
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Not a new paper, but a new one to me. Thanks @chelseyabaker.bsky.social for drawing it to my attention (and to Sophia Johannessen and James Christian for writing it!). My eyebrows have been raised many times by #BlueCarbon claims so it's good to read a corrective ... 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Why blue carbon cannot truly offset fossil fuel emissions - Communications Earth & Environment
Blue carbon will not solve climate change. The effect is too small; existing sediment carbon stock is a liability; and there is a timescale mismatch between ancient fossil fuel emissions and uptake by...
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Not a new paper, but a new one to me. Thanks @chelseyabaker.bsky.social for drawing it to my attention (and to Sophia Johannessen and James Christian for writing it!). My eyebrows have been raised many times by #BlueCarbon claims so it's good to read a corrective ... 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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🎉 New Paper Alert! ✨
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
🎉 New Paper Alert! ✨
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds, UK with myself, @willhomoky.bsky.social @altagliabue.bsky.social @marmite-usf.bsky.social S.Ussher & A. Milne studying how natural iron fertilisation shapes phytoplankton growth and impacts our climate. Deadline 8th Jan. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/sou...
Southern Ocean carbon pump vulnerability to changing iron supply - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Using your results, you will be able to test assumptions and make predictions about iron-mediated impacts of climate change on the biological carbon pump.
yes-dtn.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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@roysocchem.bsky.social
Did a flash talk for my poster on solid state Chemistry group meeting yesterday 🤣🤣
#sscg43
Did a flash talk for my poster on solid state Chemistry group meeting yesterday 🤣🤣
#sscg43
December 17, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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