Aggregation kinetics and transport of single-walled carbon nanotubes at low surfactant concentrations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4458-4465

  Bouchard, Dermont ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^c   Powell, Tremaine ^a   Rattanaudompol, U Sa ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Services Contractor   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION KINETICS; AQUEOUS SYSTEM; COLLOIDAL STABILITY; CONCENTRATION CHANGE; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; CRITICAL COAGULATION CONCENTRATION (CCC); DISPERSING AGENT; ELECTROSTERIC REPULSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; LOW LEVEL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; STABILITY STUDY; SURFACE CHEMICALS; SURFACE COVERAGES; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; SWNT SUSPENSIONS;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; COAGULATION; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STABILITY;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CALCIUM; DIVALENT CATION; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; FRESH WATER; MONOVALENT CATION; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; SODIUM; SURFACE WATER; SURFACTANT; WATER;

AGGREGATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COAGULATION; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; FULLERENE; MOBILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; KINETICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICELLE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT;

CALCIUM; FLOCCULATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SODIUM; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84859846821     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204618v     Document Type: Article

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