Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Minerals and organic matter (OM) may form intricate associations via myriad interactions. In
soils, the associations of OM with mineral surfaces are mainly investigated because of their …

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate
source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and …

The concentration of prebiotic organic building blocks may have promoted the formation of
biopolymers in the environment of the early Earth. We therefore studied the adsorption of …

Serpentinization may provide a unique environment for the abiotic formation of condensed
carbonaceous matter. This could support the deep biosphere and contribute to the deep …

Electronic continuum correction (ECC) has been proven to bring significant improvement in
the modeling of interactions of ions (especially multivalent) in aqueous solutions. We …

The capacity for crystals to adsorb elements and molecules is a function of the structures of
their crystal faces and the relative proportions of those faces. More importantly, this study …

Two synthetic goethites of varying crystal size distributions were analyzed by BET,
conventional TEM, cryo-TEM, atomic resolution STEM and HRTEM, and electron …

The interactions of biomolecules such as amino acids with mineral surfaces in the near-
surface environment are an important part of the short and long-term carbon cycles. Amino …

Detailed analysis of the adsorption of oxalic acid ions, that is, oxalate and hydrogenoxalate,
on the rutile (110) surface was carried out using molecular dynamics augmented by free …