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Per Persson. Foto.

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Comparison of isoelectric points of single-crystal and polycrystalline α-Al2O3 and α-Fe2O3 surfaces

Författare

  • Yingge Wang
  • Per Persson
  • F. Marc Michel
  • Gorden E. Brown

Summary, in English

The surface charging behavior as a function of pH and isoelectric points (IEPs) of single-crystal α-Al2O3 (0001) and (1102) and α-Fe2O3 (0001) was determined by streaming potential measurements using an electrokinetic analyzer. The IEPs of α-Al2O3 (0001) and (11-02)$(1\overline1 02)$ and α-Fe2O3 (0001) were found to be 4.5, 5.1, and 6.5, respectively. These IEP values for oriented single crystals of α-Al2O3 are in good agreement with literature values, whereas the new IEP value for α-Fe2O3 (0001) is significantly lower than four reported values (IEP = 8-8.5) for single-crystal α-Fe2O3 (0001) (Eggleston and Jordan 1998; Zarzycki et al. 2011; Chatman et al. 2013; Lützenkirchen et al. 2013) and significantly higher than one (IEP = 4) recently measured by Lützenkirchen et al. (2015) on a fresh α-Fe2O3 (0001) surface. Most of the single-crystal IEP values measured recently are lower than IEP values reported for polycrystalline α-Al2O3 and α-Fe2O3, which are generally in the pH range of 8 to 10. Calculations of the IEP values based on estimated Ka values of α-Fe2O3 and α-Al2O3 surfaces in contact with water as a function of defect type and concentration suggest that highly reactive surface defect sites (primarily singly coordinated aquo groups) on the Fe-and Al-oxide powders are possibly a major source of the surface charge differences between polycrystalline samples and their oriented single-crystal counterparts studied here. The results of this study provide a better understanding of the surface charging behavior of Fe and Al-oxides, which is essential for predicting complex processes such as metal-ion sorption occurring at mineral/water interfaces.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • MEMEG

Publiceringsår

2016-10-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2248-2259

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

American Mineralogist

Volym

101

Issue

10

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Mineralogical Society of America

Ämne

  • Geochemistry

Nyckelord

  • defects
  • Fe-and Al-oxides
  • Isoelectric point (IEP)
  • pH point of zero charge (pH)
  • polycrystalline
  • single crystal
  • surface

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0003-004X