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 …

Classical and nonclassical nucleation and growth mechanisms for nanoparticle formation

YS Jun, Y Zhu, Y Wang, D Ghim, X Wu… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
All solid materials are created via nucleation. In this evolutionary process, nuclei form in
solution or at interfaces, expand by monomeric growth and oriented attachment, and …

Direct and indirect electron transfer routes of chromium (VI) reduction with different crystalline ferric oxyhydroxides in the presence of pyrogenic carbon

Z Xu, Y Yu, X Xu, DCW Tsang, C Yao… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electron transfer mediated by iron minerals is considered as a critical redox step for the
dynamics of pollutants in soil. Herein, we explored the reduction process of Cr (VI) with …

Effects of ionic interferents on electrocatalytic nitrate reduction: mechanistic insight

J Fan, LK Arrazolo, J Du, H Xu, S Fang… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nitrate, a prevalent water pollutant, poses substantial public health concerns and
environmental risks. Electrochemical reduction of nitrate (eNO3RR) has emerged as an …

Coprecipitation of Fe/Cr hydroxides with organics: Roles of organic properties in composition and stability of the coprecipitates

N Deng, Z Li, X Zuo, J Chen, S Shakiba… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Iron hydroxides are important scavengers for dissolved chromium (Cr) via coprecipitation
processes; however, the influences of organic matter (OM) on Cr sequestration in Fe/Cr-OM …

Labile Fe (III) supersaturation controls nucleation and properties of product phases from Fe (II)-catalyzed ferrihydrite transformation

A Sheng, J Liu, X Li, L Luo, Y Ding, C Chen… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Fe (II)-catalyzed ferrihydrite (Fh) transformation to more crystalline iron (oxyhydr)
oxide phases is a widely occurring geochemical process which has been extensively …

Surface Functional Groups Affect Iron (Hydr) oxide Heterogeneous Nucleation: Implications for Membrane Scaling

PI Chou, D Ghim, P Gupta, S Singamaneni… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Because of its favorable thermodynamics and fast kinetics, heterogeneous solid nucleation
on membranes triggers early-stage mineral scaling. Iron (hydr) oxide, a typical membrane …

Mechanistic insight of weak magnetic field trigger transformation of amorphous Fe (III)-(oxy) hydroxide for enhanced ferrate (VI) towards selective removal of natural …

G Yang, Z Cheng, H Bao, L Zhang, H Zhang, H Jia… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
It was important to regulate the formation of Fe-hydroxyl during ferrate (Fe (VI)) oxidation and
hydrolysis which was beneficial for interfacial adsorption of natural organic matter (NOM) …

(Na, Pb)-Jarosite nucleation and growth on anglesite: Implications for inhibition of Pb releasing

M Shi, X Min, W Zhang, K Li, J Wu, Z Ai, Y Ke… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mobility and bioavailability of Pb can be significantly reduced by Pb-bearing minerals
encapsulation in jarosite-group minerals, especially in sulfate-rich environments. However …

Heterogeneous Coprecipitation of Nanocrystals with Metals on Substrates

Y Hu, S Zhang, Z Zhou, Z Cao - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The heterogeneous coprecipitation of nanocrystals with metals on substrates
plays a significant role in both natural and engineered systems. Due to the small dimensions …