Effect of surface modification on single-walled carbon nanotube retention and transport in saturated and unsaturated porous media

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 239-240, Issue , 2012, Pages 333-339

  Tian, Yuan ^a   Gao, Bin ^a   Morales, Verónica L ^b   Wang, Yu ^a   Wu, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Environmental fate; Mobility; Model; Solubilization

Indexed keywords

AIR WATER INTERFACES; COATING METHODS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FILM STRAINING; GRAIN SURFACE; GRANULAR POROUS MEDIA; HUMIC ACID; OXIDIZATION; SAND COLUMNS; SOLUBILIZATION; STABILITY STUDY; SURFACE MODIFICATION METHODS; SURFACE-MODIFIED; SURFACTANT COATING; TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BUBBLE COLUMNS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CARRIER MOBILITY; COATINGS; MODELS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

HUMIC ACID; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ADVECTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CARBON; COATING; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HUMIC ACID; MOBILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUBILITY; SURFACTANT;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; SAND; SOLUBILIZATION; ZETA POTENTIAL;

HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NITRIC ACID; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POROSITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SULFURIC ACIDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84867737599     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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