*Correspondence: Pattanathu K. S. M. Rahman, Technology Futures Institute, School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University, Borough Rd., Tees Valley, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA, UK e-mail: [email protected] Ochre, consequence of acid mine drainage (AMD), is iron oxides-rich soil pigments that can be found in the water drainage from historic base metal and coal mines. The anaerobic strains o...

Aggregation of zero-valent nanoparticles in groundwater is influenced by several physical phenomena. The article shortly introduces preceding works in modeling of aggregation of small particles including influence of sedimentation, velocity profile of water, heat fluctuations, and surface electric charge. A brief description of inclusion of magnetic forces into the model of aggregation follows....

Anaerobic digestion has been widely applied for waste activated sludge (WAS) treatment. However, methane production from anaerobic digestion of WAS is usually limited by the slow hydrolysis rate and/or poor biochemical methane potential of WAS. This work systematically studied the effects of three different types of zero valent iron (i.e., iron powder, clean scrap and rusty scrap) on methane pr...

Identification of unstable high-valent iron species in electron transfer reactions of ferrate(VI) (Fe(VI)O4(2-), Fe(VI)) has been an important challenge in advancing the understanding of the oxidative mechanisms of ferrates. This paper presents the first example of distinguishing various phases differing in the valence state of iron in the solid state reduction of Fe(VI) to Fe(III) oxides at 23...

Reactive interlayers consisting of zero valent iron and copper nanoparticles have been successfully incorporated into Surlyn films to fabricate moisture barrier materials with reduced water vapor permeabilities. The reactive nanoparticles dispersed in stearic acid were employed as the interlayers due to their ability to react with moisture. The water vapor transmission rates through the fabrica...

Stereochemically defined C-glycosides are prized for their biological activity. Developing a catalytic method that comprises non-precious metals to synthesize these remains challenging. Here, starting from readily accessible glycosyl chlorides, we show an Earth-abundant iron-based catalyst promotes the facile generation of radicals, which either react directly with unsaturated electrophile or c...

In this study, nanoscale zero-valent iron nanoparticles (NZVIs) were coated with silica and polydopamine using a two-step process. The coated nanoparticles were applied as adsorbents for removal of two common polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons pollutants, phenanthrene (PHE) and anthracene (ANT) from aqueous system. Adsorption kinetics followed a pseudo-second-order model. Isotherms and thermodyna...

Abs t r a : The most fiequently encountered function of cytochromes P450, the monooxygenation of substrates, is now well understood and depends on the involvement of a high-valent iron-0x0 intermediate. The corresponding reactions have been reproduced by using metalloporphyrin model systems, the most efficient catalysts being Fe(III) or Mn(III) tetraarylporphyrins bearing electronwithdrawing su...