Redox Properties of Structural Fe in Clay Minerals: 4. Reinterpreting Redox Curves by Accounting for Electron Transfer and Structural Rearrangement Kinetics
- Award ID(s):
- 1749207
- PAR ID:
- 10645773
- Publisher / Repository:
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 44
- ISSN:
- 0013-936X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 19702 to 19713
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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