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

The demand for valuable metals such as rare earth elements and platinum group metals is
rising fast in the context of the depletion of natural resources and international conflicts …

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 …

Organic acids are prevalent in the environment and their acidity and the corresponding
dissociation constants can change under varying environmental conditions. The impact of …

Injecting supercritical CO2 (scCO2) into basalt formations for long-term storage is a
promising strategy for mitigating CO2 emissions. Mineral carbonation can result in …

Sparingly soluble sulfate minerals, particularly barite (BaSO4), present an ideal system to
understand mineral–water interfacial reactions. The model system barite has been used to …

Separating individual lanthanide (Ln) elements in aqueous mixtures is challenging. Ion-
selective capture by porous materials, such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), is a …

Understanding the role of pH and ions on the electrical double layer (EDL) at charged
mineral oxide/aqueous interfaces remains crucial in modeling environmental and industrial …

The confinement in small spaces influences the complicated reaction involving water
molecules under electrostatic potentials at the solid–liquid interface. It is unclear, in …

Aside from its prominent role in the excretory system, urea is also a known protein
denaturant. Here, we characterize urea as it behaves in confined spaces of AOT (sodium bis …