Canister integrity and radionuclides retention is of prime importance for assessing the long term safety of nuclear waste stored in engineered geologic depositories. A comparative investigation of the interaction of uranyl ion with three different mineral surfaces has thus been undertaken in order to point out the influence of surface composition on the adsorption mechanism(s). Periodic DFT cal...

This work examines protein adsorption on surfaces in an attempt to provide a fundamental understanding of the molecular-level mechanism for protein interactions with biomaterials. Carboxylic acid, amine, and hydroxyl terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are used to model negatively, positively, and hydrophilic/neutrally charged surfaces, respectively. The adsorption of fibrinogen and lys...

The corrosion inhibition of zinc in 1.0 M H2SO4 solution by Cefuroxime axetil has been studied in relation to the concentration of the additive using weight loss measurement, Linear polarization resistant (LPR) and potentiodynamic polarization (PDP).The results indicate that Cefuroxime axetil inhibited corrosion reaction in the acid medium and inhibition efficiency increased with inhibitor conc...

the modified surface of typha latifolia l. root (mstl), as an alternative economical adsorbent, wasused for the removal of ni (ii) and cd(ii) ions from aqueous solutions. the effect of initial ph, initialconcentration of metal ion, and contact time was investigated in a batch system at room temperature.the kinetics data could be fitted well by pseudo-second-order model with correlation coeffici...

the study aimed to investigate the adsorption mechanism of di-n-butyl phthalate (dbp) onbrown soil and red soil in shenyang and hunan province, respectively, china. adsorption kinetics andisotherms experiments were conducted at 288, 298 and 308 k, respectively. results of kinetics showed thatadsorption of dbp exhibited a two-step process in both brown and red soil. different models were used to...

Water extractable arabinoxylan (WEAX) aerogels were prepared by extracting the solvent from the alcogels (WEAX hydrogels with an alcohol as the solvent) with carbon dioxide under supercritical conditions. WEAX aerogels were characterized using scanning electron microscopy and adsorption and desorption nitrogen isotherms. The micrographs indicate a heterogeneous porous network structure in WEAX ...

The potential between two electrolytic solutions separated by a membrane impermeable to ions was measured and the generation mechanism of potential measured was investigated. From the physiological point of view, a nonzero membrane potential or action potential cannot be observed across the impermeable membrane. However, a nonzero membrane potential including action potential-like potential was...

Adsorption mechanisms of Zn2+ and Ni2+ on hydrous manganese oxide (HMO) were investigated using XAS. Analyses reveal that both metal ions retain their primary hydration shell when sorbed to HMO, which is consistent with physical sorption. These local structures are invariant of pH (3.0-7.0) and adsorbate loading (10(-4) - 10(-2) mol (g of HMO)-1), suggesting one average type of adsorption mecha...