Vanadium (V) is a highly toxic multivalent, redox-sensitive element. It is widely distributed in
the environment and employed in various industrial applications. Interactions between V …

Mining generates 13 billion tonnes per year of potentially toxic wet slurry waste, called
tailings, commonly deposited in tailings storage facilities (TSF). Since 1915, 257 TSF failures …

Abundant smelting ash is discharged during pyrometallurgical vanadium (V) production.
However, its associated V speciation and resultant ecological impact have remained …

In the context of the Doce river (Southeast Brazil) Fundão dam disaster in 2015, we
monitored the changes in concentrations of metal (loid) s in water and sediment and their …

Vanadium (V) is an important metal with critical industrial and medical applications. Elevated
V contamination, however, can be a threat to the environment and human health …

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a commonly employed technique for characterizing
functional materials. In particular, X-ray absorption near edge spectra (XANES) encode local …

Billions of tons of hazardous mine waste are stored in thousands of tailings storage facilities
around the world. These impoundments represent one of the most important environmental …

The L-edge X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) is widely used in the
characterization of transition metal compounds. Here, we report the development of a …

Vanadium contamination is a growing environmental hazard worldwide. Aqueous vanadate
(H x VVO4 (3–x)–(aq)) concentrations are often controlled by surface complexation with …

Due to extensive vanadium (V) mining and processing, an increasing amount of V has
accumulated in soil, which poses a threat to public health. Consequently, we used …