Nanoconfinement engineering for enchanced adsorption of carbon materials, metal–organic frameworks, mesoporous silica, MXenes and porous organic polymers: a …

Z Zhou, F Yu, J Ma - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2022 - Springer
In material synthesis, nanoconfinement acts both as a physical reactor to tune the shape and
size of nanomaterials, and as a chemical microenvironment for the nucleation and growth of …

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 …

In situ synthesis of a GO/COFs composite with enhanced adsorption performance for organic pollutants in water

L Liang, J Chen, X Chen, J Wang, H Qiu - Environmental Science …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Adsorption materials play very important roles when used to effectively remove organic
pollutants from the environment. In this paper, a novel graphene oxide/COFs (GO/COFs) …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of a cost-effective metal oxide-based adsorbent from industrial waste slag for efficient CO2 separation under flue gas conditions

MA Pordsari, M Moradi, A Ghaemi - Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2024 - Elsevier
Efficient and affordable adsorbents for CO 2 capture are essential in implementing carbon
capture technology to mitigate the negative impact of greenhouse gas emissions. This study …

Hydrophobic Nanoconfinement Enhances CO2 Conversion to H2CO3

N Dasgupta, TA Ho, SB Rempe… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the formation of H2CO3 in water from CO2 is important in environmental and
industrial processes. Although numerous investigations have studied this reaction, the …

Mediated self-assembled gold nanoclusters with mesoporous silica particles to boost fluorescence for enhanced on-site monitoring of organophosphate pesticides

S Wang, Y Han, M Su, H Wang, Y Chen, B Huang… - Food Chemistry, 2025 - Elsevier
Accurate detection of organophosphate pesticides (OPs) is paramount for ensuring food
safety. Dendritic mesoporous silica sphere was employed to confine gold nanoclusters …

Nanoconfinement boosts affinity of hydrated zirconium oxides to arsenate: Surface complexation modeling study

P Shen, S Pan, X Huang, X Zhang - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanoscale hydrated zirconium oxide (HZO) holds great potential in groundwater purification
due to its ability to form inner-sphere coordination with arsenate. Despite being frequently …

Hydration states of europium (III) adsorbed on silicas with nano-sized pores

K Murota, N Aoyagi, H Mei, T Saito - Applied Geochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The confinement in small spaces influences the complicated reaction involving water
molecules under electrostatic potentials at the solid–liquid interface. It is unclear, in …

Ab initio molecular dynamics free energy study of enhanced copper (II) dimerization on mineral surfaces

K Leung, JA Greathouse - Communications Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the adsorption of isolated metal cations from water on to mineral surfaces is
critical for toxic waste retention and cleanup in the environment. Heterogeneous nucleation …

Role of mesoporous silica nanoparticles in combating mercury-induced stress in Vigna radiata (mung bean) and Bacillus coagulans (soil bacteria)

S Mitra, S Mukherjee, M Sil, S Adak, P Maitra… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
The last few decades have witnessed a dramatic progress of human civilization via
industrialization, which, in turn, is associated with a surge in pollution of the environment …