Decoding iron oxide nanoparticles from design and development to real world application in water remediation

VC Tai, HX Che, XY Kong, KC Ho, WM Ng - Journal of Industrial and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Over the past decade, incessant research efforts have been devoted to the development of
iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) for wastewater industry. Past research has witnessed the …

Silica deposition in plants: Scaffolding the mineralization

N Zexer, S Kumar, R Elbaum - Annals of Botany, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Silicon and aluminium oxides make the bulk of agricultural soils. Plants absorb
dissolved silicon as silicic acid into their bodies through their roots. The silicic acid moves …

Profiling Novel, Multifunctional Silane-Phosphonate Consolidants for the Mitigation of Gypsum Stone Deterioration via Concerted Autocondensation/Surface …

S Liakaki-Stavropoulou, A Moschona… - Crystal Growth & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Mineral gypsum (selenite) stones have been used extensively by ancient Cretans in the
Minoan Palace of Knossos (Crete, Greece), mostly for building and ornamental purposes …

Polysaccharides as Effective and Environmentally Friendly Inhibitors of Scale Deposition from Aqueous Solutions in Technological Processes

AV Fakhreeva, VV Nosov, AI Voloshin, VA Dokichev - Polymers, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
In this paper, we consider natural and modified polysaccharides for use as active
ingredients in scale deposition inhibitors to prevent the formation of scale in oil production …

Multifunctional Additives for Synergistic Scale and Corrosion Inhibition in High‐Stress Systems

M Kamaratou, S Liakaki‐Stavropoulou… - Industrial Scale …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The present chapter gives a general overview of corrosion and scaling phenomena in so‐
called “high‐stress” systems, with the focus being on geothermal and oilfield systems. A …

pH-Responsive Copolymers as Silica Scale Inhibitors

G Skordalou, KD Demadis - AMPP CORROSION, 2022‏ - onepetro.org
In the present work two synthetic co-polymers, U-PVPyPEGMA-H and Q-PVPyPEGMA-H,
with pyridine and polyethylene glycol grafts on a methacrylate backbone, were studied for …