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 …

Flash drug release from nanoparticles accumulated in the targeted blood vessels facilitates the tumour treatment

IV Zelepukin, OY Griaznova, KG Shevchenko… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour microenvironment hinders nanoparticle transport deep into the tissue precluding
thorough treatment of solid tumours and metastatic nodes. We introduce an anticancer drug …

Dominance of sulfur-fueled iron oxide reduction in low-sulfate freshwater sediments

CM Hansel, CJ Lentini, Y Tang, DT Johnston… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A central tenant in microbial biogeochemistry is that microbial metabolisms follow a
predictable sequence of terminal electron acceptors based on the energetic yield for the …

Formation, stability, and solubility of metal oxide nanoparticles: Surface entropy, enthalpy, and free energy of ferrihydrite

T Hiemstra - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Ferrihydrite (Fh) is an excellent model for understanding nanoparticle behavior in general.
Moreover, Fh is one of the most important Fe (hydr) oxides in nature. Fh particles can be …

Microbial arsenic metabolism and reaction energetics

JP Amend, C Saltikov, GS Lu… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Reviews on the geochemistry, biochemistry, or microbial ecology of arsenic—and there are
many—commonly start with statements about the toxicity of this metalloid (Newman et al …

Evolution of the reactive surface area of ferrihydrite: time, pH, and temperature dependency of growth by Ostwald ripening

T Hiemstra, JC Mendez, J Li - Environmental Science: Nano, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface area is a crucial property of metal oxides for scaling ion adsorption phenomena. For
ferrihydrite (Fh), the value is uncertain. Moreover, it rapidly changes with time, pH, and …

[HTML][HTML] Process development for pilot-scale spray drying of ultrasmall iron (oxyhydr) oxide nanoparticles

MT Spicher, SP Schwaminger, D von der Haar-Leistl… - Powder Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In manufacturing iron (oxyhydr) oxide nanoparticles, drying is often necessary to increase
stability or to enable granulation and tableting. Lyophilization is a simple drying method …

Surface area of ferrihydrite consistently related to primary surface charge, ion pair formation, and specific ion adsorption

JC Mendez, T Hiemstra - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The specific surface area (SSA) of metal oxides is pivotal for scaling of surface phenomena.
For ferrihydrite (Fh), the SSA can be assessed by probing the surface with ions that …

Magnetic entropy as a proposed gating mechanism for magnetogenetic ion channels

G Duret, S Polali, ED Anderson, AM Bell… - Biophysical …, 2019 - cell.com
Magnetically sensitive ion channels would allow researchers to better study how specific
brain cells affect behavior in freely moving animals; however, recent reports of" …

[PDF][PDF] Catabolic rates, population sizes and doubling/replacement times of microorganisms in natural settings

DE LaROWE, JP Amend - American Journal of Science, 2015 - ajsonline.org
Directly assessing the impact of subsurface microbial activity on global element cycles is
complicated by the inaccessibility of most deep biospheres and the difficulty of growing …