Enhanced arsenite adsorption onto litchi-like al-doped iron oxides

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 584-591

  Li, Ronghui ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Gao, Shian ^a   Shang, Jian Ku ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; DOPANT CONCENTRATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESS; IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; IRON-ALUMINUM; MOLAR RATIO; NANOPLATES; NEUTRAL PH; PRE-OXIDATION; SURFACE HYDROXYL GROUPS;

ADSORPTION; ALUMINUM; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANOPARTICLES;

IRON OXIDES;

EID: 79751481141     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04098.x     Document Type: Article

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