Uranium redox transition pathways in acetate-amended sediments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4506-4511

  Bargar, John R ^a   Williams, Kenneth H ^b   Campbell, Kate M ^c   Long, Philip E ^b   Stubbs, Joanne E ^a,f   Suvorova, Elenal I ^d   Lezama Pacheco, Juan S ^a,g   Alessi, Daniel S ^d   Stylo, Malgorzata ^d   Webb, Samuel M ^a   Davis, James A ^b   Giammar, Daniel E ^e   Blue, Lisa Y ^e,h   Bernier Latmani, Rizlan ^d  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Covalent Research Technologies LLC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bioreduction; Metal reduction; Roll front; Sulfate reduction; Sulfide

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; FERROUS SULFATE; MONOMER; SULFATE; URANIUM;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NANOANALYSIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84875272238     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219198110     Document Type: Article

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