Investigation of surface properties of soil particles and model materials with contrasting hydrophobicity using atomic force microscopy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6500-6506

  Cheng, Shuying ^a   Bryant, Robert ^a   Doerr, Stefan H ^a   Wright, Christopher J ^a   Williams, P Rhodri ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION FORCES; AFM; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; HUMIC ACID; HYDROPHOBIC SOILS; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; INTERPRETATION OF DATA; MODEL MATERIALS; MODEL SURFACE; NANO SCALE; ORGANIC MATTER; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; POROUS SYSTEM; SINGLE PARTICLE; SMOOTH GLASS; SOIL MATERIALS; SOIL PARTICLES; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE IMAGE; WETTING BEHAVIOR;

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

HUMIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; WATER;

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HUMIC ACID; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HEIGHT; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MORPHOLOGY; SAND; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

GLASS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LECITHINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 69549088827     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900158y     Document Type: Article

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