Session: The Structure and Reactivity of Nanoparticles in the Environment


GEOC		Wednesday, 13 September 2006

8:50 AM-11:55 AM Moscone Center -- Room 262, Oral
The Structure and Reactivity of Nanoparticles in the Environment

Organizers:	John R. Bargar Benjamin Gilbert
8:50 AM		Introductory Remarks
9:00 AM	101	Structural controls on reactivity on model nanoparticles James Rustad
9:30 AM	102	Coordination environment of aqueous-phase Al Michael B. Hay, Orkid Coskuner, Emily A. A. Jarvis, Anne M. Chaka, Satish C. B. Myneni
9:50 AM	103	Oxygen-exchange reactions in nanometer-size hexaniobate clusters Jay R. Black, May Nyman, William H. Casey
10:10 AM	104	Energetics and mechanism of water exchange at aqueous Al-bearing ions and nanoparticles Jianwei Wang, James Rustad
10:30 AM		Intermission
10:45 AM	105	Evaluating the effect and fate of impurities during pyritization of nanocrystalline FeS F. Marc Michel, Daniel R. Strongin, John B. Parise, Martin A Schoonen
11:05 AM	106	Simulation of the pre-nucleation stage of ZnS formation from aqueous solution Said Hamad-Gomez, C. R. A. Catlow
11:25 AM	107	Structure and reactivity of FeS Mariette Wolthers, David Rickard, Laurent Charlet

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