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Characterization and remediation of soils contaminated with uranium.
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The objective of this paper is to develop a better understanding of the techniques for the remediation of soils polluted with radionuclides (uranium in particular), considering the chemical forms of uranium, including depleted uranium (DU) in soil and other environmental media, their characteristics and concentrations.About:
This article is published in Journal of Hazardous Materials.The article was published on 2009-04-30. It has received 480 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Uranium & Environmental remediation.read more
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Supercritical fluid extraction: Recent advances and applications
TL;DR: It is remarkable the strong impact of SFE to extract high value compounds from food and natural products but also its increasing importance in areas such as heavy metals recovery, enantiomeric resolution or drug delivery systems.
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Use of surfactants for the remediation of contaminated soils: a review.
TL;DR: This review article summarizes the findings of recent literatures regarding remediation of contaminated soils/sites using surfactants as an enhancing agent and reveals the good prospect of applying surfactant-based technologies to soil remediation.
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An overview of preparation and applications of stabilized zero-valent iron nanoparticles for soil and groundwater remediation.
TL;DR: This work provides an update on the latest development of stabilized nZVI for various environmental cleanup uses, and overviews the evolution and environmental applications of stabilization, as well as revealing some critical knowledge gaps and research needs.
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Design of Antibacterial Surfaces and Interfaces: Polyelectrolyte Multilayers as a Multifunctional Platform
TL;DR: The dominant strategies for antimicrobial material surface design, including the advantaged and disadvantaged strategies, are reviewed.
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Bioaugmentation as a strategy for cleaning up of soils contaminated with aromatic compounds
TL;DR: Several strategies are being developed to make augmentation a successful technology particularly in soils without degrading indigenous microorganisms, which involve the use of genetically engineered microorganisms and gene bioaugmentation.
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Soil Chemical Analysis
TL;DR: Soil chemical analysis, Soil Chemical Analysis (SCA), this paper, is a technique for soil chemical analysis that is used in the field of Soil Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
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Environmental Chemistry of Soils
TL;DR: In this article, an introduction to modern soil chemistry describes chemical processes in soils in terms of established principles of inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry, providing an understanding of the structure of the solid mineral and organic materials from which soils are formed.
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Biosorption of Heavy Metals
Bohumil Volesky,Z. R. Holan +1 more
TL;DR: The state of the art in the field of biosorption is reviewed, with many references to recent reviews and key individual contributions, and the composition of marine algae polysaccharide structures, which seem instrumental in metal uptake and binding are discussed.
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A review of the biochemistry of heavy metal biosorption by brown algae
TL;DR: The emphasis is on outlining the biochemical properties of the brown algae that set them apart from other algal biosorbents, including alginate and fucoidan, which are chiefly responsible for heavy metal chelation.