Metal oxide surfaces and their interactions with aqueous solutions and microbial organisms

GE Brown Jr, V Henrich, W Casey, D Clark… - 1999 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
During the past decade, interest in chemical reactions occurring at metal oxide-aqueous
solution interfaces has increased significantly because of their importance in a variety of …

Methods for speciation of metals in soils: a review

JJ D'amore, SR Al‐Abed, KG Scheckel… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The inability to determine metal species in soils hampers efforts to understand the mobility,
bioavailability, and fate of contaminant metals in environmental systems, to assess health …

Hybrid porous magnetic bentonite-chitosan beads for selective removal of radioactive cesium in water

K Wang, H Ma, S Pu, C Yan, M Wang, J Yu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Easy-to-obtain magnetic bentonite-chitosan hybrid beads (Bn-CTS) were prepared by
immobilizing bentonite within a porous structure of chitosan beads to achieve a hybrid …

Cesium adsorption on clay minerals: An EXAFS spectroscopic investigation

BC Bostick, MA Vairavamurthy… - Environmental …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Cesium adsorption on the clay minerals vermiculite and montmorillonite is described as a
function of surface coverage using extended X-ray adsorption fine structure spectroscopy …

Sorption of Cs+ to micaceous subsurface sediments from the Hanford site, USA

JM Zachara, SC Smith, C Liu, JP McKinley… - … et cosmochimica Acta, 2002 - Elsevier
The sorption of Cs+ was investigated over a large concentration range (10− 9− 10− 2 mol/L)
on subsurface sediments from a United States nuclear materials site (Hanford) where high …

Investigating the behaviour of Mg isotopes during the formation of clay minerals

J Wimpenny, CA Colla, QZ Yin, JR Rustad… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
We present elemental and isotopic data detailing how the Mg isotope system behaves in
natural and experimentally synthesized clay minerals. We show that the bulk Mg isotopic …

Surface charge properties of kaolinite

BK Schroth, G Sposito - Clays and Clay minerals, 1997 - cambridge.org
The surface charge components of 2 Georgia kaolinites of differing degrees of crystallinity
(KGa-1 and KGa-2) were determined using procedures based on charge balance concepts …

An EXAFS study on the effects of natural organic matter and the expandability of clay minerals on cesium adsorption and mobility

QH Fan, M Tanaka, K Tanaka, A Sakaguchi… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The relationship between cesium (Cs) adsorption on clay minerals with various
expandabilities and Cs mobility in environment was investigated using sequential extraction …

Molecular computer simulations of the swelling properties and interlayer structure of cesium montmorillonite

DE Smith - Langmuir, 1998 - ACS Publications
The crystalline swelling properties and interlayer structure of a cesium montmorillonite clay
were investigated using molecular computer simulations. Two classes of dry-clay structures …

Molecular dynamics modeling of ion adsorption to the basal surfaces of kaolinite

IF Vasconcelos, BA Bunker… - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulation is used to study the mechanisms involved in the adsorption
of various ions to the basal surfaces of kaolinite. Analysis of simulation data indicates that …