Emerging natural and tailored materials for uranium-contaminated water treatment and environmental remediation

Y **e, C Chen, X Ren, X Wang, H Wang… - Progress in materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid growth in nuclear industries such as uranium ores mining, nuclear energy
generation, spent-fuel treatment and nuclear weapon manufacture has caused a legacy of …

Removal of dye molecules from aqueous solution by carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube functional groups: critical review

M Rajabi, K Mahanpoor, O Moradi - Rsc Advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
For the removal and separation of wastewater pollutants, one widely used technique is
adsorption. Different materials have been used as adsorbents. Among several adsorbents …

Water self-diffusion in CSH: Effect of confinement and temperature studied by molecular dynamics

T Honorio, H Carasek, O Cascudo - Cement and Concrete Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the recent advances in the understanding of diffusion processes in CSH, there are
still open questions regarding the pore-size dependence of diffusion and associated …

Molecular dynamics simulations of the colloidal interaction between smectite clay nanoparticles in liquid water

X Shen, IC Bourg - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Colloidal interactions between clay nanoparticles have been studied extensively because of
their strong influence on the hydrology and mechanics of many soils and sedimentary …

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulation of the dehydration of a suspension of smectite clay nanoparticles

TR Underwood, IC Bourg - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fine-grained sediments and sedimentary rocks play important roles in a variety of modern
energy technologies from petroleum geology to geological carbon sequestration and …

Modeling uranium (VI) adsorption onto montmorillonite under varying carbonate concentrations: A surface complexation model accounting for the spillover effect on …

C Tournassat, RM Tinnacher, S Grangeon… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The prediction of U (VI) adsorption onto montmorillonite clay is confounded by the
complexities of:(1) the montmorillonite structure in terms of adsorption sites on basal and …

Stern layer structure and energetics at mica–water interfaces

IC Bourg, SS Lee, P Fenter… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The screening of surface charge by dissolved ions at solid–liquid interfaces—in the region of
interfacial fluid known as the electrical double layer (EDL)—plays a recurrent role in surface …

Adsorption at nanoconfined solid–water interfaces

AG Ilgen, K Leung, LJ Criscenti… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Reactions at solid–water interfaces play a foundational role in water treatment systems,
catalysis, and chemical separations, and in predicting chemical fate and transport in the …

Modeling the acid–base properties of montmorillonite edge surfaces

C Tournassat, JA Davis, C Chiaberge… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The surface reactivity of clay minerals remains challenging to characterize because of a
duality of adsorption surfaces and mechanisms that does not exist in the case of simple …

Molecular dynamics simulations of the adsorption of phthalate esters on smectite clay surfaces

JAR Willemsen, SCB Myneni… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The partitioning of organic contaminants between water and solid surfaces is a key process
controlling their fate and transport in natural environments. A novel methodology was …