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

Computer simulations at the atomistic scale play an increasing important role in
understanding the structure features, and the structure–property relationships of glass and …

Systems at the surface of the Earth are continually responding to energy inputs derived
ultimately from radiation from the Sun or from the radiogenic heat in the interior. These …

The rates of mineral dissolution contribute to processes controlling soil fertility, porosity in
aquifers and oil reservoirs, transport and sequestration of contaminants and CO 2, cycling of …

A suite of naturally-occurring carboxylic acids (acetic, oxalic, citric, benzoic, salicylic and
phthalic) and their corresponding sodium salts were adsorbed onto a set of common mineral …

SLB acknowledges many educational and entertaining conversations with Hal Helgeson
(ranging from kinetics to bent head morphologies) over the last 17 years. To investigate the …

Abstract Emerging hierarchical porous SiO 2-AlOOH (SA) composite nanosheets were
synthesized via structural reorganization of natural layer kaolin clay (KC). CuO nanoparticles …

Microporous silica was prepared by selective leaching of metakaolinite, derived from the 1: 1
layered clay mineral kaolinite (2SiO2Al2O32H2O) by firing at 600° C for 24 h. Treatment with …

High surface area silica was obtained by selectively leaching vermiculite. The influence of
acid concentration and leaching time on the porous properties of silica was studied …

Surface hydroxyl groups were detected on silica, γ-alumina, quartz, and feldspar powders
using diffuse reflectance Fourier transform infrared (IR)-spectroscopy. Spectra were …