About the Authors

Chang-Sheng Qu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Environmental Science, Nanjing, China

Zong-Wei Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Jin Yang

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yang Liu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jun Bi

huanglei@nju.edu.cn (LH); jbi@nju.edu.cn (JB)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Lei Huang

huanglei@nju.edu.cn (LH); jbi@nju.edu.cn (JB)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

One author (JY) is employed by a commercial company, SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. However, this study was not funded by the SGS company. SGS company is a cooperative partner in this study. The authors have cooperation agreement with SGS company. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CSQ LH JB. Performed the experiments: CSQ JY ZWM. Analyzed the data: CSQ ZWM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSQ YL. Wrote the paper: CSQ LH.