Stability and Transport of Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles in Groundwater and Surface Water

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 350-359

  Lanphere, Jacob D ^a   Rogers, Brandon ^a   Luth, Corey ^a   Bolster, Carl H ^b   Walker, Sharon L ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial groundwater; artificial surface water; graphene oxide nanoparticles; natural organic matter; solution chemistry; stability; Suwannee River humic acid; transport in porous media

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRAPHENE; GROUNDWATER; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PACKED BEDS; POROUS MATERIALS; POSITIVE IONS; STABILITY;

ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER; ARTIFICIAL SURFACES; GRAPHENE OXIDES; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOLUTION CHEMISTRY; SUWANNEE RIVER HUMIC ACID; TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA;

SURFACE WATERS;

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; GROUND WATER; HUMIC ACID; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; NANOPARTICLE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIC STRENGTH; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84978033424     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: 15579018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2013.0392     Document Type: Article

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