Discovery and ramifications of incidental Magnéli phase generation and release from industrial coal-burning

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Yang, Yi ^a,b,c   Chen, Bo ^b   Hower, James ^d   Schindler, Michael ^e   Winkler, Christopher ^b   Brandt, Jessica ^f   Di Giulio, Richard ^f   Ge, Jianping ^g   Liu, Min ^a   Fu, Yuhao ^h   Zhang, Lijun ^h   Chen, Yuru ^a   Priya, Shashank ^b   Hochella, Michael F ^b,i  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Center for Applied Research   (United States)

^e LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BURNING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COAL COMBUSTION; GLOBAL WARMING; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHASE TRANSITION; POLLUTION EFFECT; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BURN; CHINA; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY RESOURCE; FLY ASH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG TOXICITY; MAGNELI PHASE; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL PHASE; SOLID STATE; SYNTHESIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; LUNG; ZEBRA FISH;

CHINA; INDIA;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; COAL; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; HUMANS; LUNG; TITANIUM; TOXICITY TESTS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 85027078112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00276-2     Document Type: Article

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