Graphene-based adsorbents for water remediation by removal of organic pollutants: Theoretical and experimental insights

A Gulati, R Kakkar - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Graphene-based materials have emerged as promising candidates as adsorbents for water
treatment. The high surface area, low production costs, large porosities and robustness …

Emerging trends of computational chemistry and molecular modeling in froth flotation: A Review

A Alizadeh Sahraei, D Azizi, AH Mokarizadeh… - ACS Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Froth flotation is the most versatile process in mineral beneficiation, extensively used to
concentrate a wide range of minerals. This process comprises mixtures of more or less …

[HTML][HTML] Rate and capacity of cation release from ultramafic mine tailings for carbon capture and storage

X Lu, KJ Carroll, CC Turvey, GM Dipple - Applied Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Solid wastes produced during hard-rock mining have capacity to capture and store
atmospheric CO 2 via dissolution and precipitation of Mg-bearing carbonate minerals …

Evaluating feedstocks for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering and CO2 mineralization

C Paulo, IM Power, AR Stubbs, B Wang, N Zeyen… - Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mineralogically complex feedstocks, including kimberlite, serpentinite, and wollastonite
skarns, have vast capacities to sequester carbon dioxide (CO 2) through enhanced rock …

Chemical transformation and dissociation of amino acids on metal sulfide surface: Insights from DFT into the effect of surface vacancies on alanine-sphalerite system

AA Sahraei, F Larachi - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The affinity of amino acid species toward mineral surfaces is a favorable phenomenon in
green material science applications. To this end, we performed a DFT calculation to study …

[HTML][HTML] Microwave-driven carbonation of brucite

M Campione, M Corti, D D'Alessio, G Capitani… - Journal of CO2 …, 2024 - Elsevier
The water-mediated mineral carbonation represents a promising solution for the capture and
the storage of atmospheric CO 2. Even though this reaction might be spontaneous for a …

Indigo carmine and chloride ions removal by electrocoagulation. Simultaneous production of brucite and layered double hydroxides

D Donneys-Victoria, N Marriaga-Cabrales… - Journal of Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrocoagulation technique is widely used to remove colloids from wastewaters, while
layered materials have shown great promises for the removal of anions. Here, we report the …

DFT and ab-initio molecular dynamics of pyrochlore surface dissolution in aqueous media–Effect of cleavage plane and surface atomic vacancies

AA Sahraei, F Larachi - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Pyrochlore, as a complex oxide mineral containing the critical niobium element, offers a rich
diversity of surface chemical compositions in different cleavage directions. Hence, very little …

DFT simulations of pyrite galvanic interactions with bulk, solid-solution and nanoparticle Au occurrences–Insights into gold cyanidation

D Azizi, F Larachi - Minerals Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Gold cyanidation is an important hydrometallurgical route central to which are the
gold/mineral galvanic interactions which pose perennial challenges to understanding gold …

An innovative strategy for maximizing CO2 reduction in concrete through preparing carbon sequestration precursors by accelerated carbonation

Y Zhao, K Cui, J He, Y Zheng, P Shen, CS Poon… - Cement and Concrete …, 2024 - Elsevier
Concrete possesses significant potential as a medium for CO 2 sequestration. Nevertheless,
conventional approaches like CO 2 mixing and carbonation curing have shown limited …