Computational redox potential predictions: Applications to inorganic and organic aqueous complexes, and complexes adsorbed to mineral surfaces

Minerals

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 345-387

  Arumugam, Krishnamoorthy ^a   Becker, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinides; Continuum solvation; Density functional theory (DFT) methods; Mineralogy; Redox potential calculations; Semiconducting minerals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920943938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2075163X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/min4020345     Document Type: Article

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