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 …

Knowledge gaps and research needs for modeling CO2 mineralization in the basalt-CO2-water system: A review of laboratory experiments

P Lu, J Apps, G Zhang, A Gysi, C Zhu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in basalt is being actively investigated as a scalable
climate change mitigation option. Accurate geochemical modeling prediction of the extent …

How temperature-dependent silicate weathering acts as Earth's geological thermostat

SL Brantley, A Shaughnessy, MI Lebedeva… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's climate may be stabilized over millennia by solubilization of atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) as minerals weather, but the temperature sensitivity of this thermostat is …

Mechanisms controlling albite dissolution/precipitation kinetics as a function of chemical affinity: New insights from experiments in 29Si spiked solutions at 150 and …

J Schott, GD Saldi, C Zhu, L Gong, K Chen - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the rates of dissolution of rock-forming minerals close to equilibrium
and their dependence on ΔG r, the Gibbs free energy of reaction, is essential for describing …

A comprehensive and consistent mineral dissolution rate database: Part III: Non-silicate minerals including carbonate, sulfate, phosphate, halide, and oxy-hydroxide …

EH Oelkers, M Addassi - Chemical Geology, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper describes the creation of a consistent database of the far-from-equilibrium
dissolution rates in aqueous fluids of the major non-silicate minerals including carbonates …

Direct atomic-scale insight into the precipitation formation at the lanthanum hydroxide nanoparticle/solution interface

Y Wei, P Yuan, J Zhou, J Liu, D Losic… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding precipitation formation at lanthanum hydroxide (La (OH) 3) nanoparticle–
solution interfaces plays a crucial role in catalysis, adsorption, and electrochemical energy …

Ba attachment and detachment fluxes to and from barite surfaces in 137Ba-enriched solutions with variable [Ba2+]/[SO42−] ratios near solubility equilibrium

J Kang, JN Bracco, JD Rimstidt, GH Zhu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
We measured barium attachment and detachment fluxes from and to barite crystal surfaces
in solutions with [Ba]/[SO 4] ratios from 0.06 to 52. The do** of 137 Ba in the initial …

Coupled feldspar dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation in batch systems: 6. Labradorite dissolution, calcite growth, and clay precipitation at 60° C and pH …

M Chen, L Gong, J Schott, P Lu, K Chen, H Yuan… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2025 - Elsevier
We conducted experiments on concurrent labradorite dissolution, calcite precipitation, and
clay precipitation in batch reactor systems and tracked reaction processes using multiple …

On the dissolution of a borosilicate glass with the use of isotopic tracing–Insights into the mechanism for the long-term dissolution rate

D Strachan, JJ Neeway, L Pederson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
An understanding of the mechanisms responsible for controlling the long-term corrosion rate
of nuclear waste glass is paramount if reliable glass dissolution models are to be used to …

Testing hypotheses of albite dissolution mechanisms at near-equilibrium using Si isotope tracers

C Zhu, Y Zhang, JD Rimstidt, L Gong… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Here, we demonstrate the potential advantages of using isotope tracers to test hypotheses of
reaction mechanisms near-equilibrium. Using non-traditional stable Si isotopes as tracers …