reduction of crystalline iron(iii) oxyhydroxides using hydroquinone influence of phase and particle size减少晶体铁(iii)氢氧化物使用对苯二酚阶段和颗粒大小的影响.pdfVIP

GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2005 Reduction of crystalline iron„III… oxyhydroxides using hydroquinone: Influence of phase and particle size Amy J. Anschutz and R. Lee Penna Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Received 7 January 2005; accepted 25 July 2005; published 9 September 2005 Iron oxides and oxyhydroxides are common and important materials in the environment, and they strongly impact the biogeochemical cycle of iron and other species at the Earth’s surface. These materials commonly occur as nanoparticles in the 3–10 nm size range. This paper presents quantitative results demonstrating that iron oxide reactivity is particle size dependent. The rate and extent of the reductive dissolution of iron oxyhydroxide nanoparticles by hydroquinone in batch experiments were measured as a function of particle identity, particle loading, and hydroquinone concentration. Rates were normalized to surface areas determined by both transmission electron microscopy and Braunauer-Emmett-Teller surface. Results show that surface-area-normalized rates of reductive dissolution are fastest by as much as 100 times in experiments using six-line ferrihydrite versus goethite. Furthermore, the surface-area-normalized rates for 4 nm ferrihydrite nanoparticles are up to 20 times faster than the rates for 6 nm ferrihydrite nanoparticles, and the surface-area-normalized rates for 5 64 nm goethite nanoparticles are up to two times faster than the rates for 22 367 nm goethite nanoparticles. © 2005 American Institute of Physics. DO