A review on the adsorption of heavy metals by clay minerals, with special focus on the past decade

MK Uddin - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Adsorption has been proved to be the best process of water treatment because of its
significant advantages. Clays and their minerals are abundant and cheap material …

The advantages of clay mineral modification methods for enhancing adsorption efficiency in wastewater treatment: a review

S Barakan, V Aghazadeh - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
This review discusses the recent trends in the research over the last 30 years to use clay
minerals in natural and modified forms for removing different toxic organic/inorganic …

Iron redox cycling in layered clay minerals and its impact on contaminant dynamics: A review

Q Fan, L Wang, Y Fu, Q Li, Y Liu, Z Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
A majority of clay minerals contain Fe, and the redox cycling of Fe (III)/Fe (II) in clay minerals
has been extensively studied as it may fuel the biogeochemical cycles of nutrients and …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of geological originated materials as a trend for adsorption in wastewater treatment

Y Vieira, MS Netto, ÉC Lima, I Anastopoulos… - Geoscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
Adsorption is a unit operation widely used for the tertiary treatment of the most diverse
effluents, whose mechanism is based on removing recalcitrant compounds from the organic …

Plutonium mobility and reactivity in a heterogeneous clay rock barrier accented by synchrotron-based microscopic chemical imaging

U Kaplan, S Amayri, J Drebert, D Grolimund… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The long-term safe disposal of radioactive waste corresponds to a challenging responsibility
of present societies. Within deep geological waste disposal concepts, host rocks correspond …

Redox and environmentally relevant aspects of actinide (IV) coordination chemistry

LS Natrajan, AN Swinburne, MB Andrews… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2014 - Elsevier
The redox chemistry of the actinide elements plays a central role in many aspects of nuclear
fission technology including the reprocessing of spent fuel, safe disposal strategies and in …

Colloid-facilitated transport of 238Pu, 233U and 137Cs through fractured chalk: laboratory experiments, modelling, and implications for nuclear waste disposal

E Tran, M Zavrin, AB Kersting, O Klein-BenDavid… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The influence of montmorillonite colloids on the mobility of 238 Pu, 233 U and 137 Cs
through a chalk fracture was investigated to assess the transport potential for radioactive …

Impact of a Biological Chelator, Lanmodulin, on Minor Actinide Aqueous Speciation and Transport in the Environment

GJP Deblonde, K Morrison, JA Mattocks… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Minor actinides are major contributors to the long-term radiotoxicity of nuclear fuels and
other radioactive wastes. In this context, understanding their interactions with natural …

Transformation of Ferrihydrite to Goethite and the Fate of Plutonium

E Balboni, KF Smith, LM Moreau, TT Li… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Understanding the interactions between plutonium and iron (oxy) hydroxide minerals is
necessary to gain a predictive understanding of plutonium environmental mobility and to …

Plutonium redox transformation in the presence of iron, organic matter, and hydroxyl radicals: Kinetics and mechanistic insights

C Pan, Y Jiao, AB Kersting… - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Plutonium (Pu) redox and complexation processes in the presence of natural organic matter
and associated iron can impact the fate and transport of Pu in the environment. We studied …