volatile organic compounds (vocs) are in categories of mankind and environmentally harmful materials. some of vocs are also carcinogenic and mutagen. because of expanded application of these compounds as various domestic and industrial usages, prevention of environmental contamination of these compounds is a substantial issue.  in this study, the effect of zero-valent iron nanoparticles applica...

The microbiological impact of zero-valent iron used in the remediation of groundwater was investigated by exposing a trichloroethylene-degrading anaerobic microbial community to two types of iron nanoparticles. Changes in total bacterial and archaeal population numbers were analyzed using qPCR and were compared to results from a blank and negative control to assess for microbial toxicity. Addit...

The reaction of zero-valent iron or ferrous iron with oxygen produces reactive oxidants capable of oxidizing organic compounds. However, the oxidant yield in the absence of ligands is too low for practical applications. The addition of oxalate, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) to oxygen-containing solutions of nanoparticulate zero-valent iron (nZVI) signifi...

We present a second order smooth filling of an n-valent Catmull-Clark spline ring with n biseptic patches. While an underdetermined biseptic solution to this problem has appeared previously, we make several advances in this paper. Most notably, we cast the problem as a constrained minimization and introduce a novel quadratic energy functional whose absolute minimum of zero is achieved for bicub...

Submitted for the MAR12 Meeting of The American Physical Society Designing super-selectivity in multivalent nano-particle binding1 FRANCISCO MARTINEZ-VERACOECHEA, DAAN FRENKEL, University of Cambridge — A key challenge in nano-science is to design ligand-coated nanoparticles that can bind selectively to surfaces that display the cognate receptors above a threshold (surface) concentration. Nano-...

Catalytic effects of cupric ion (Cu2+) and zero-valent copper (Cu0) on ozonation in aqueous solution were discussed this research using 1,4-dioxane as a radical probe. Ozonation with Cu0 enhance...