Field Deployable Chemical Redox Probe for Quantitative Characterization of Carboxymethylcellulose Modified Nano Zerovalent Iron

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 10589-10597

  Fan, Dimin ^a   Chen, Shengwen ^b   Johnson, Richard L ^a   Tratnyek, Paul G ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI SECOND POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; IRON; POROUS MATERIALS;

CARBOXY METHYLCELLULOSE; COMPLETE OXIDATION; IN-SITU GROUNDWATER REMEDIATIONS; NANO ZERO-VALENT IRONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; STABLE SUSPENSIONS; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO;

PROBES;

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; GROUND WATER; IRON NANOPARTICLE; IRON; MOLECULAR PROBE; NANOPARTICLE; WATER;

CELLULOSE; ELECTRODE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON; OXIDATION; PH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; VULNERABILITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SUSPENSION; SYNTHESIS; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; KINETICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POROSITY;

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE SODIUM; ELECTRONS; GROUNDWATER; IRON; KINETICS; MOLECULAR PROBES; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POROSITY; WATER;

EID: 84940829899     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02804     Document Type: Article

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