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Open AccessBiodegradation of materials: building bridges between scientific disciplines
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Open AccessA comparative study of the dissolution mechanisms of amorphous and crystalline feldspars at acidic pH conditions
The dissolution of amorphous and crystalline oligoclase, a Na-feldspar with traces of Ca and K, was investigated at 90 °C and acidic pH of 1.5 and 3 to unravel the impact of long- and short-range orders on sil...
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Open AccessEstimating the activation energy of bond hydrolysis by time-resolved weighing of dissolving crystals
Bond-breaking activation energy EB is nowadays a key parameter for understanding and modeling crystal dissolution processes. However, a methodology to estimate EB based on classical dissolution experiments still ...
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Open AccessCarbon dioxide sequestration through silicate degradation and carbon mineralisation: promises and uncertainties
Turning carbon dioxide (CO2) into rocks: controlling this process, which naturally operates at the Earth’s surface over geological timescales, is likely to represent a major technological challenge of this centur...