High mobility of SDBS-dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes in saturated and unsaturated porous media

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 186, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 1766-1772

  Tian, Yuan ^a   Gao, Bin ^a   Ziegler, Kirk J ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Air water interface; Modeling; Porous media; SDBS; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Surface deposition

Indexed keywords

AIR WATER INTERFACES; MODELING; POROUS MEDIA; SDBS; SURFACE DEPOSITION;

AIR; BUBBLE COLUMNS; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POROUS MATERIALS; QUARTZ; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SODIUM;

PHASE INTERFACES;

DODECYLBENZENESULFONATE SODIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; WATER;

AIR-WATER INTERACTION; CARBON; DISPERSION; GRAIN SIZE; MOBILITY; MODEL TEST; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; QUARTZ; SAND; SULFONATE;

ADVECTION; AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOISTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

BENZENESULFONATES; HUMIDITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POROSITY; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79751529788     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.12.072     Document Type: Article

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