• 文献标题:   Effect of root exudates on the stability and transport of graphene oxide in saturated porous media
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI XH, GAO B, XU HX, SUN YY, SHI XQ, WU JC
  • 作者关键词:   graphene oxide, root exudate, stability, transport, porous media
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   0304-3894 EI 1873-3336
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  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125362 EA FEB 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Root exudates are a major source of dissolved organic matters that strongly affect the stability and transport behaviors of nanomaterials in porous media. This study investigated the effect of citric acid (CA) and oxalic acid (OA), two common low molecular weight root exudates, on the stability and transport of graphene oxide (GO) in saturated sand columns under different combinations of pH (4.5, 7.0), ionic strength (IS: 10, 50 mM), and organic acid concentrations (10, 25 mM). Both OA and CA accelerated GO aggregation, especially under high IS and acid concentration conditions. With the presence of OA/CA (? 10 mM), the transport of GO was higher at pH of 7.0 than 4.5, and the GO mobility decreased with increasing IS and OA/CA concentrations, whereas, enhanced GO transport was observed at a low concentration of OA/CA (0.1 mM), indicating that the influence of organic acid was concentration-dependent. All the results suggest that perturbations of surface potential of GO and sand, as well as the chemical structure of organic acids under different solution chemistry conditions are crucial in controlling GO stability and transport behaviors. Mathematical models based on the advection-dispersion equation with one-site kinetics simulated the experimental breakthrough curves of GO very well.