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

Electrochemical and electrocatalytic processes are of key importance for the transition to a
sustainable energy supply as well as for a wide variety of other technologically relevant …

Barite is a critical mineral that finds applications in many industries. The mineral is
commonly occurred in deposits formed in a variety of geological environments where other …

Understanding the water splitting mechanism in photocatalysis is a rewarding goal as it will
allow producing clean fuel for a sustainable life in the future. However, identifying the …

Although interfacial solution structure impacts environmental, biological, and technological
phenomena, including colloidal stability, protein assembly, heterogeneous nucleation, and …

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 …

The formation of solid barium sulfate,(BaSO4) n, known as barite when a crystalline solid in
space group Pnma, is a classic system with a range of applicability in and consequences for …

The barium isotope composition of sedimentary barite (BaSO 4, barium sulfate) is emerging
as a powerful tracer of the sources and cycling of Ba in modern and ancient marine …

Electronic continuum correction (ECC) has been proven to bring significant improvement in
the modeling of interactions of ions (especially multivalent) in aqueous solutions. We …

Our understanding of the process of mineral nucleation is starting to evolve from the solely
thermodynamical aspects in classical nucleation theory toward a mechanistic study of …