Rapid and extensive debromination of decabromodiphenyl ether by smectite clay-templated subnanoscale zero-valent iron

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 8969-8975

  Yu, Kai ^a,b   Gu, Cheng ^b   Boyd, Stephen A ^b   Liu, Cun ^b   Sun, Cheng ^a   Teppen, Brian J ^b   Li, Hui ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION EXCHANGE REACTIONS; CLAY PARTICLES; CONTAMINATED SITES; COSOLVENTS; DEBROMINATION; DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHERS; MODIFICATION OF CLAY SURFACES; NANO SCALE; NEUTRAL PH; ORGANIC CATIONS; PENTABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; SMECTITE CLAYS; SMECTITES; TETRAHYDROFURANS; TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM; ZERO-VALENT IRON; ZEROVALENT IRONS;

ADSORPTION; AGGLOMERATION; ALKALINITY; DEGRADATION; ETHERS; IRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; REACTION RATES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLAY MINERALS;

CATION; DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; ETHER DERIVATIVE; IRON; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN; TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ZEROVALENT IRON;

ADSORPTION; AGGREGATION; BROMINE; CATION; CLAY; DEGRADATION; ETHER; ION EXCHANGE; IRON; PH; REACTION RATE; SMECTITE; SOLVENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; CLAY; DEBROMINATION; PH; SYNTHESIS;

BROMINE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; IRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SILICATES;

EID: 84865471422     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300516e     Document Type: Article

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