Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Critical review of advances in engineering nanomaterial adsorbents for metal removal and recovery from water: mechanism identification and engineering design

J Luo, D Yu, KD Hristovski, K Fu, Y Shen… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterial adsorbents (NAs) have shown promise to efficiently remove toxic metals from
water, yet their practical use remains challenging. Limited understanding of adsorption …

Exploring the mechanisms of selectivity for environmentally significant oxo-anion removal during water treatment: a review of common competing oxo-anions and tools …

LN Pincus, HE Rudel, PV Petrović… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Development of novel adsorbents often neglects the competitive adsorption between co-
occurring oxo-anions, overestimating realistic pollutant removal potentials, and overlooking …

Mineral–water interface reactions of actinides

H Geckeis, J Lützenkirchen, R Polly, T Rabung… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Reactions of the light actinide ions (Th to Cm) at the mineral− aqueous solution interface
have attracted much attention during recent years. Initially research was mainly driven by the …

Facet-dependent contaminant removal properties of hematite nanocrystals and their environmental implications

X Huang, X Hou, X Zhang, KM Rosso… - Environmental Science …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Hematite nanocrystals are ubiquitous in natural environments, and because of their strong
sorption properties these particles can influence the mobility and fate of toxic elements such …

Toward informed design of nanomaterials: a mechanistic analysis of structure–property–function relationships for faceted nanoscale metal oxides

HE Rudel, MKM Lane, CL Muhich, JB Zimmerman - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale metal oxides (NMOs) have found wide-scale applicability in a variety of
environmental fields, particularly catalysis, gas sensing, and sorption. Facet engineering, or …

Novel 2D nanosheets with potential applications in heavy metal purification: A review

L Fu, Z Yan, Q Zhao, H Yang - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, extensive studies have been carried out for the design of advanced
materials for water purification. Heavy metal pollution in water is a serious global …

Complexation mechanism of Pb2+ at the ferrihydrite-water interface: The role of Al-substitution

Y Liang, J **, Z Wei, M Wang, J **ong, J Hou, W Tan - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Ferrihydrite is a poorly crystalline iron (hydr) oxide and highly efficient adsorbent for heavy
metals. Al-substitution in ferrihydrite is ubiquitous in nature. However, the effect of Al …

Weak interfacial water ordering on isostructural hematite and corundum (0 0 1) surfaces

JG Catalano - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
Ordering of interfacial water at the hematite and corundum (001)–water interfaces has been
characterized using in situ high resolution specular X-ray reflectivity measurements. The …

Effect of pH, ionic strength and temperature on sorption of Pb (II) on NKF-6 zeolite studied by batch technique

X Yang, S Yang, S Yang, J Hu, X Tan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
The effect of pH, ionic strength, solid/liquid ratio, contact time and temperature on sorption of
Pb (II) to NKF-6 zeolite is investigated using batch technique under ambient conditions. The …