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 …

Soil chemical insights provided through vibrational spectroscopy

SJ Parikh, KW Goyne, AJ Margenot, FND Mukome… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Vibrational spectroscopy techniques provide a powerful approach to the study of
environmental materials and processes. These multifunctional analytical tools can be used …

Efficient degradation of atrazine by magnetic porous copper ferrite catalyzed peroxymonosulfate oxidation via the formation of hydroxyl and sulfate radicals

YH Guan, J Ma, YM Ren, YL Liu, JY **ao, L Lin… - Water research, 2013 - Elsevier
Magnetic porous copper ferrite (CuFe 2 O 4) showed a notable catalytic activity to
peroxymonosulfate (PMS). More than 98% of atrazine was degraded within 15 min at 1 mM …

Heterogeneous activation of peroxymonosulfate by LaFeO3 for diclofenac degradation: DFT-assisted mechanistic study and degradation pathways

YF Rao, Y Zhang, F Han, H Guo, Y Huang, R Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
A perovskite oxide, LaFeO 3 (LFO), was synthesized and evaluated as a heterogeneous
catalyst to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the oxidative degradation of diclofenac …

Size-dependent structural transformations of hematite nanoparticles. 1. Phase transition

IV Chernyshova, MF Hochella Jr… - Physical Chemistry …, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Using Fourier Transform InfraRed (FTIR) spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray
diffraction (XRD), and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), we characterize the …

Phosphate adsorption onto hematite: An in situ ATR-FTIR investigation of the effects of pH and loading level on the mode of phosphate surface complexation

EJ Elzinga, DL Sparks - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2007 - Elsevier
Phosphate adsorption on hematite was characterized as a function of pH (3.5–8.9) and
phosphate concentration (5–500 μM) by in situ ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. Under most …

Mineral surfaces, geochemical complexities, and the origins of life

RM Hazen, DA Sverjensky - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Crystalline surfaces of common rock-forming minerals are likely to have played several
important roles in life's geochemical origins. Transition metal sulfides and oxides promote a …

Carbon dioxide adsorption on oxide nanoparticle surfaces

J Baltrusaitis, J Schuttlefield, E Zeitler… - Chemical Engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, focused on environmental nanotechnology, we review some recent results for
carbon dioxide (CO2) adsorption on hydroxylated Fe2O3, γ-Al2O3, and TiO2 nanoparticle …

Surface chemistry of carbon dioxide revisited

W Taifan, JF Boily, J Baltrusaitis - Surface Science Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
This review discusses modern developments in CO 2 surface chemistry by focusing on the
work published since the original review by HJ Freund and MW Roberts two decades ago …

A surface structural model for ferrihydrite I: Sites related to primary charge, molar mass, and mass density

T Hiemstra, WH Van Riemsdijk - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009 - Elsevier
A multisite surface complexation (MUSIC) model for ferrihydrite (Fh) has been developed.
The surface structure and composition of Fh nanoparticles are described in relation to ion …