The surface reactions of U(VI) on γ-Al2O3 - In situ spectroscopic evaluation of the transition from sorption complexation to surface precipitation

Chemical Geology

Volumn 357, Issue , 2013, Pages 75-84

  Müller, Katharina ^a   Foerstendorf, Harald ^a   Brendler, Vinzenz ^a   Rossberg, André ^a   Stolze, Karoline ^a   Gröschel, Annett ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alumina; ATR FT IR spectroscopy; EXAFS spectroscopy; Time resolved; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ATR FT-IR SPECTROSCOPIES; SOLID-TO-LIQUID RATIO; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS; SPECTROSCOPIC EVALUATION; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; SURFACE PRECIPITATE; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; TIME-RESOLVED;

ALUMINA; DYES; EXPERIMENTS; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; IONIC STRENGTH; OLIGOMERS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SURFACE REACTIONS; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

SORPTION;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; COMPLEXATION; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SORPTION; THERMODYNAMICS; URANIUM;

EID: 84884125454     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.033     Document Type: Article

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