About the Authors

Fengxia Yang

Affiliations School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Daqing Mao

mao@tju.edu.cn (DQM); luoy@nankai.edu.cn (YL)

Affiliation School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Hao Zhou

Affiliation College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Yi Luo

mao@tju.edu.cn (DQM); luoy@nankai.edu.cn (YL)

Affiliation College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FXY DQM. Performed the experiments: FXY HZ. Analyzed the data: FXY YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FXY HZ YL. Wrote the paper: FXY DQM. Oversaw experimental design and data analysis: DQM YL.