Synthetic amorphous silica nanoparticles: toxicity, biomedical and environmental implications

JG Croissant, KS Butler, JI Zink, CJ Brinker - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Natural silica and silicates are predominantly crystalline and constitute the most abundant
components of the Earth's crust. Man-made silica is typically amorphous and manufactured …

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 …

Characterization and analysis of porosity and pore structures

LM Anovitz, DR Cole - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Porosity plays a clearly important role in geology. It controls fluid storage in aquifers, oil and
gas fields and geothermal systems, and the extent and connectivity of the pore structure …

Water structure in the electrical double layer and the contributions to the total interfacial potential at different surface charge densities

B Rehl, E Ma, S Parshotam… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electric double layer governs the processes of all charged surfaces in aqueous
solutions; however, elucidating the structure of the water molecules is challenging for even …

Determination of surface potential and electrical double-layer structure at the aqueous electrolyte-nanoparticle interface

MA Brown, Z Abbas, A Kleibert, RG Green, A Goel… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
The structure of the electrical double layer has been debated for well over a century, since it
mediates colloidal interactions, regulates surface structure, controls reactivity, sets …

In Situ and Operando X-ray Scattering Methods in Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis

OM Magnussen, J Drnec, C Qiu, I Martens… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical and electrocatalytic processes are of key importance for the transition to a
sustainable energy supply as well as for a wide variety of other technologically relevant …

Silica surface features and their role in the adsorption of biomolecules: computational modeling and experiments

A Rimola, D Costa, M Sodupe, JF Lambert… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
There are many reasons to report on silica interacting with biomolecules. The most obvious
one is that on the Earth's crust, oxygen and silicon are the most abundant atomic species …

Quantitative speciation of heavy metals in soils and sediments by synchrotron X-ray techniques

A Manceau, MA Marcus… - Reviews in mineralogy …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Human societies have, in all ages, modified the original form of metals and metalloids in
their living environment for their survival and technical development. In many cases, these …

Molecular dynamics simulations of water structure and diffusion in silica nanopores

IC Bourg, CI Steefel - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2012 - ACS Publications
We present molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of water-filled silica nanopores such as
those that occur in ordered oxide ceramics (MCM-41, SBA-15), controlled pore glasses …

Mineral–water interfacial structures revealed by synchrotron X-ray scattering

P Fenter, NC Sturchio - Progress in Surface Science, 2004 - Elsevier
Chemical reactions occurring at the mineral–water interface are controlled by an interfacial
layer, nanometers thick, whose properties may deviate from those of the respective bulk …