Philipp Pedevilla, Stephen J. Cox, Ben Slater, and Angelos Michaelides
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120 (12), pp 6704–6713
Publication Date (Web): March 8, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b01155
Feldspar minerals are the most common rock formers in Earth’s crust. As such they play an important role in subjects ranging from geology to climate science. An atomistic understanding of the feldspar structure and its interaction with water is therefore ...
Inna Kurganskaya and Andreas Luttge
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120 (12), pp 6482–6492
Publication Date (Web): February 29, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b10995
Reactive properties of carbonate minerals and rocks attract a significant attention with regard to modern environmental and industrial problems, including geologic carbon sequestration, toxic waste utilization, cement clinker production, and the fate of ...
Shichang Kang, Jie Huang, Feiyue Wang, Qianggong Zhang, Yulan Zhang, Chaoliu Li, Long Wang, Pengfei Chen, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Qing Li, Mika Sillanpää, Juzhi Hou, Baiqing Xu, and Junming Guo
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016, 50 (6), pp 2859–2869
Publication Date (Web): February 14, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04172
Alpine lake sediments and glacier ice cores retrieved from high mountain regions can provide long-term records of atmospheric deposition of anthropogenic contaminants such as mercury (Hg). In this study, eight lake sediment cores and one glacier ice core ...
Lijie Zhang, Yongman Kim, Haesung Jung, Jiamin Wan, and Young-Shin Jun
Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., 2016, 3 (3), pp 92–97
Publication Date (Web): February 10, 2016 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00359
The wettability of rocks and minerals significantly affects the safety and efficiency of energy-related subsurface operations. Salinity is an important controlling factor in terms of wettability but has received limited attention. We studied the effects ...
Kexue Li, Baerbel Sinha, and Peter Hoppe
Anal. Chem., 2016, 88 (6), pp 3281–3288
Publication Date (Web): February 8, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04740
In this study, we demonstrate that Nano Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (NanoSIMS) can be used to differentiate different nitrogen-containing species commonly observed in atmospheric aerosol particles with micrometer or submicrometer spatial resolution, ...
E. Marie Muehe, Guillaume Morin, Lukas Scheer, Pierre Le Pape, Imène Esteve, Birgit Daus, and Andreas Kappler
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016, 50 (5), pp 2281–2291
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04625
The dissolution of arsenic-bearing iron(III) (oxyhydr)oxides during combined microbial iron(III) and arsenate(V) reduction is thought to be the main mechanism responsible for arsenic mobilization in reducing environments. Besides its mobilization during ...
George A. Olah, Thomas Mathew, G. K. Surya Prakash, and Golam Rasul
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (5), pp 1717–1722
Publication Date (Web): January 13, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00343
Astrophysically observed extraterrestrial molecular matter contains, besides hydrogen and water, methane and methanol as the most abundant species. Feasible pathways and chemical aspects of their formation as well as of derived hydrocarbon homologues and ...
Benoit Carrier, Matthieu Vandamme, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, Michel Bornert, Eric Ferrage, Fabien Hubert, and Henri Van Damme
Langmuir, 2016, 32 (5), pp 1370–1379
Publication Date (Web): January 11, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03431
We characterized experimentally the elastic and creep properties of thin self-standing clay films, and how their mechanical properties evolved with relative humidity and water content. The films were made of clay montmorillonite SWy-2, obtained by ...
Huaiyan Zhao, Mengqiang Zhu, Wei Li, Evert J. Elzinga, Mario Villalobos, Fan Liu, Jing Zhang, Xionghan Feng, and Donald L. Sparks
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016, 50 (4), pp 1750–1758
Publication Date (Web): January 8, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04436
Birnessite, a phyllomanganate and the most common type of Mn oxide, affects the fate and transport of numerous contaminants and nutrients in nature. Birnessite exhibits hexagonal (HexLayBir) or orthogonal (OrthLayBir) layer symmetry. The two types of ...
Maxime Lainé, Thierry Allard, Etienne Balan, François Martin, H. Jurgen Von Bardeleben, Jean-Louis Robert, and Sophie Le Caër
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120 (4), pp 2087–2095
Publication Date (Web): January 5, 2016 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11396
The reactivity under ionizing radiation of synthetic and natural talc was studied. The two samples were chosen as models of nonswelling clays. H2 production measurements evidenced that the H2 yield in synthetic talc was of the same order of magnitude as ...
Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Lala A. Akhmedova-Azizova, Rasul M. Aliev, and Gasan B. Badavov
J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2016, 61 (1), pp 234–246
Publication Date (Web): December 21, 2015 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jced.5b00507
Volumetric (density), acoustic (speed of sound), and transport (viscosity) properties of natural geothermal fluids from south Russia Geothermal Field have been measured over the temperature range from (278 to 343) K and at atmospheric pressure. The ...
Svatopluk Civiš, Milan Bouša, Arnošt Zukal, Antonín Knížek, Petr Kubelík, Petr Rojík, Jana Nováková, and Martin Ferus
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120 (1), pp 508–516
Publication Date (Web): December 9, 2015 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11306
The spontaneous isotopic exchange of oxygen atoms between dry powdered Ti16O2-containing minerals and gaseous C18O2 was studied using gas-phase high-resolution Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy (FTIR) of carbon dioxide isotopologues. The ...
Brandy M. Toner, Christopher R. German, Gregory J. Dick, and John A. Breier
Acc. Chem. Res., 2016, 49 (1), pp 128–137
Publication Date (Web): December 4, 2015 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00282
Conspectus
The reactivity and mobility of natural particles in aquatic systems have wide ranging implications for the functioning of Earth surface systems. Particles in the ocean are biologically and chemically reactive, mobile, and complex in composition. ...
Ismael K. Ortega, Neil M. Donahue, Theo Kurtén, Markku Kulmala, Cristian Focsa, and Hanna Vehkamäki
J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016, 120 (9), pp 1452–1458
Publication Date (Web): November 6, 2015 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b07427
Highly oxidized organic molecules may play a critical role in new-particle formation within Earth’s atmosphere along with sulfuric acid, which has long been considered as a key compound in this process. Here we explore the interactions of these two ...
Shibo Wang and Tetsu K. Tokunaga
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2015, 49 (22), pp 13734–13735
Publication Date (Web): October 30, 2015 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05187
Frances N. Smith, Christopher D. Taylor, Wooyong Um, and Albert A. Kruger
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2015, 49 (22), pp 13699–13707
Publication Date (Web): October 29, 2015 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03354
During the processing of low-activity radioactive waste to generate solid waste forms (e.g., glass), technetium-99 (Tc) is of concern because of its volatility. A variety of materials are under consideration to capture Tc from waste streams, including the ...
Harish Veeramani, Jane Eagling, Julia H. Jamieson-Hanes, Lingyi Kong, Carol J. Ptacek, and David W. Blowes
Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., 2015, 2 (11), pp 314–319
Publication Date (Web): October 27, 2015 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00273
Isotope ratio measurements have been used to trace environmental processes, especially in subsurface environments. In this study, we evaluated the potential to use zinc (Zn) stable isotope ratios as indicators of attenuation processes, including sorption ...
Mirko Severi, Silvia Becagli, Rita Traversi, and Roberto Udisti
Anal. Chem., 2015, 87 (22), pp 11441–11447
Publication Date (Web): October 23, 2015 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02961
Recently, the increasing interest in the understanding of global climatic changes and on natural processes related to climate yielded the development and improvement of new analytical methods for the analysis of environmental samples. The determination of ...
Marco Blöthe, Anna Wegorzewski, Cornelia Müller, Frank Simon, Thomas Kuhn, and Axel Schippers
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2015, 49 (21), pp 13080–13080
Publication Date (Web): October 19, 2015 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03927
Ru-Shan Gao, Tomasz Gierczak, Troy D. Thornberry, Andrew W. Rollins, James B. Burkholder, Hagen Telg, Christiane Voigt, Thomas Peter, and David W. Fahey
J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016, 120 (9), pp 1431–1440
Publication Date (Web): October 8, 2015 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b06357
A laboratory chilled mirror hygrometer (CMH), exposed to an airstream containing water vapor (H2O) and nitric acid (HNO3), has been used to demonstrate the existence of a persistent water–nitric acid condensate that has a saturation H2O vapor pressure ...
