Towards the chemical analysis of diatoms' silicon storage pools: A differential centrifugation-based separation approach

T Reichelt, T Bode, PF Jordan, E Brunner - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Diatoms are unicellular algae and occur ubiquitously in almost every marine and freshwater
habitat on earth. They produce intricately structured cell walls, which mainly consist of …

Intrinsic synergy in polymer-induced stabilization of silicic acid by polymeric backbones with cationic and neutral moieties: Implications for “green” scale control in …

G Skordalou, K Pachis, KD Demadis - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Silica scales and deposits are amorphous solids that plague industrial water treatment
systems that manage silica-laden waters. Among the various mitigation approaches, silica …

pH-Responsive Copolymers as Silica Scale Inhibitors

G Skordalou, KD Demadis - AMPP CORROSION, 2022 - onepetro.org
In the present work two synthetic co-polymers, U-PVPyPEGMA-H and Q-PVPyPEGMA-H,
with pyridine and polyethylene glycol grafts on a methacrylate backbone, were studied for …