New Paper: Metal ions vs. the Reactivity and Corrosion Electrochemistry of Fe/FeS Nanoparticles
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This paper combines several themes in our recent work, including effects of aging and sulfide, and characterization of iron powders using electrochemical methods. It is our first to present structure-actvity relationships focused on material properties. It is also our first paper that involves bimetallic iron.
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Kim, E.-J., J.-H. Kim, Y.-S. Chang, D. Turcio-Ortega, and P. G. Tratnyek. 2014. Effects of metal ions on the reactivity and corrosionelectrochemistry of Fe/FeS nanoparticles. Environ. Sci. Technol. ASAP. [10.1021/es405622d]
Nano-zerovalent iron (nZVI) formed under sulfidic conditions results in a biphasic material (Fe/FeS) that reduces trichloroethene (TCE) more rapidly than nZVI associated only with ironoxides (Fe/FeO). Exposing Fe/FeS to dissolved metals (Pd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Co2+, and Mn2+) results in their sequestration by coprecipitation as dopants into FeS and FeO and/or byelectroless precipitation as zerovalent metals that are hydrogenation catalysts. Using TCE reduction rates to probe the effect of metal amendments on the reactivity of Fe/FeS, it wasfound that Mn2+ and Cu2+ decreased TCE reduction rates, while Pd2+, Co2+, and Ni2+ increased them. Electrochemical characterization of metal-amended Fe/FeS showed that agingcaused passivation by growth of FeO and FeS phases and poisoning of catalytic metal deposits by sulfide. Correlation of rate constants for TCE reduction (kobs) with electrochemicalparameters (corrosion potentials and currents, Tafel slopes, and polarization resistance) and descriptors of hydrogen activation by metals (exchange current density for hydrogenreduction and enthalpy of solution into metals) showed the controlling process changed with aging. For fresh Fe/FeS, kobs was best described by the exchange current density foractivation of hydrogen, whereas kobs for aged Fe/FeS correlated with electrochemical descriptors of electron transfer.