There is increased interest in the terrestrial silicon cycle in the last decades as its different
compounds and species have large implications for ecosystem performance in terms of soil …

Silicon (Si) is the second‐most abundant element in the earth's crust. In the pedosphere,
however, huge spans of Si contents occur mainly caused by Si redistribution in soil profiles …

There is a variety of methodologies used in the aquatic sciences and soil sciences for
extracting different forms of Si from sediments and soils. However, a comparison of the …

Silicon (Si) speciation and availability in soils is highly important for ecosystem functioning,
because Si is a beneficial element for plant growth. Si chemistry is highly complex compared …

Many studies have highlighted the importance of the Amorphous Silica (ASi) pool to the
overall mass balance in the biogeosphere. In order to advance our knowledge of …

The silica mineral group is the second most abundant mineral group in the Earth's crust,
exceeded only by the silicate mineral group, which also has the Si–O tetrahedron as its …

A fundamental understanding of aqueous silicate chemistry is a prerequisite to unraveling
silicon's (Si) role in living systems. Owing primarily to the advent of 29 Si nuclear magnetic …

The possibility to understand natural strategies to build‐up silica SiO 2 networks relies on
the investigations of the kinetics of silica precursors polymerization in the presence of …

At present synchrotron and neutron sources are the preferred choices for the Pair
Distribution Function (PDF) analysis, but there is a need to explore PDF in a laboratory XRD …

IR and Raman spectroscopies have been utilized to study the structure and vibrational
modes of sol–gel-derived binary silicate glasses. The present study is motivated by the …