Redox properties of structural Fe in clay minerals. 1. Electrochemical quantification of electron-donating and -accepting capacities of smectites

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9360-9368

  Gorski, Christopher A ^a   Aeschbacher, Michael ^b   Soltermann, Daniela ^b,c   Voegelin, Andreas ^a,b   Baeyens, Bart ^c   Marques Fernandes, Maria ^c   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a,b   Sander, Michael ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTING CAPACITY; APPLIED POTENTIALS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; ELECTRON-DONATING; ELECTRON-TRANSFER REACTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FE CONTENT; FE REDUCTIONS; REDOX PROPERTY; REDOX STATE; REDOX-ACTIVE; SMECTITES; STRUCTURAL IRON; VITREOUS CARBON; WORKING ELECTRODE;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CLAY MINERALS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GLASSY CARBON; REDUCTION;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

IRON; IRON 57; MINERAL; ORGANIC MATTER; SILICON DIOXIDE;

BACTERIUM; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; IRON; OXIDATION; REDOX POTENTIAL; REDUCTION; SMECTITE;

ARTICLE; CLAY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; CARBON; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; IRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILICATES;

EID: 84865747843     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3020138     Document Type: Article

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