Atsushi Kondo,† Hiroshi Noguchi,† Lucia Carlucci,‡ Davide M. Proserpio,‡ Gianfranco Ciani,‡ Hiroshi Kajiro,*,§ Tomonori Ohba,† Hirofumi Kanoh,*,† and Katsumi Kaneko† Graduate School of Science, Chiba UniVersity, Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan, Nippon Steel Corporation, Shintomi, Futtsu, Chiba 293-8511, Japan, and Dipartimento di Chimica Strutturale e Stereochimica Inorganica, UniVersità di...

Introduction: Many kinetic studies have shown that sorption of metals on natural materials results in the formation of metal precipitates. However, the influence of temperature on the kinetic formation of these metal precipitates has not been studied. The effect of temperature on reaction rates is well known and important in understanding reaction mechanisms. For most reactions, the increase in...

IRMOF-3 nano/microcrystals with controllable morphologies and sizes were successfully obtained by a simple solvothermal method. The shape evolution of IRMOF-3 crystals from cube to truncated cube, cuboctahedron, truncated octahedron and finally to octahedron was achieved by adjusting the amount of surfactant. The surfaces of the IRMOF-3 nano/microstructures are affected by the reaction temperat...

make better predictions about the mobility of contaminants, it is critical that time-dependent metal sorption To improve predictions of the toxicity and threat from Pb contamiand desorption behavior on soil be understood, as well nated soil, it is critical that time-dependent sorption and desorption behavior be understood. In this paper, the sorption and desorption as the mechanism of the sorpt...

Sol-gel modification of mesoporous alumina membranes is a very successful technique to improve gas separation performance. Due to the formed microporous top layer, the membranes show activated transport and molecular sieve-like separation factors. This paper concentrates on the mechanism of activated transport (also often referred to as micropore diffusion or molecular sieving). Based on a theo...

This study reports results of sediment bioslurry treatment and earthworm bioaccumulation for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contaminants found in sediment dredged from Milwaukee Harbor. A significant finding was that bioslurry treatment reduced PAHs on the sediment clay/silt fraction but not on the sediment coal-derived fraction and that PAH reduction in the clay/silt fraction correlated...

Graphene-based materials have emerged as new potential adsorbents for the adsorption and removal of persistent pollutants, and they could play a key role in the remediation of 1,4-dioxane. In this framework, a quantum chemistry study was carried out to rationalize the sorption properties of oxidized graphene (GO) and Si-doped graphene (SiG) nanosheets for use in 1,4-dioxane removal, taking into...

First-principles density functional and quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light-element doped fullerenes reveal significantly enhanced molecular H2 binding for substitutional B and Be. A nonclassical three-center binding mechanism between the dopant and H2 is identified, which is maximized when the empty p(z) orbital of the dopant is highly localized. The calculated binding energies of 0.2-0....

"Breathing" metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of soft porous crystals (SPCs) with potential for high working capacity for gas storage applications. However, most breathing MOFs have low stability and/or low surface area. Here we report a water-stable, high surface area, breathing MOF of ftw topology, NU-1105. While Zr6-oxo clusters as nodes introduce water stability in NU-11...

Veterinary antibiotics such as oxytetracycline (OTC) increasingly are found in the environment and often come into direct contact with soils via the release of animal wastes. Oxytetracycline is known to sorb strongly to soils by interaction with soil organic matter, clay minerals, and metal oxides. However, current knowledge of the influence of soil properties on OTC sorption is limited, as is ...