Steady-state DGT fluxes of nanoparticulate metal complexesA
Herman P. van LeeuwenLaboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, Dreijenplein 6, 6703 HB Wageningen, the Netherlands. Email: herman.vanleeuwen@wur.nl
Environmental Chemistry 8(5) 525-528 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN11022
Submitted: 1 March 2011 Accepted: 22 July 2011 Published: 4 October 2011
Environmental context. Diffusive gel layer techniques can measure fluxes of chemical species in aqueous environmental media. Nanoparticulate metal complexes are small enough to penetrate gels, but their diffusive response is much slower than that of the free metal ions. Hence, time-resolved analysis of the diffusive flux of the complex sample is proposed as a chemical speciation tool for the nanodomain.
Abstract. For a fully labile complex system, the diffusive gradients in thin film (DGT) metal flux approaches the fairly simple limit defined by the joint diffusion of the free metal ion and the complex species in the gel layer. Natural soft nanoparticulate complexes, such as those with humics and fulvics, generally enter the DGT gel phase and some of them may even be adsorbed by the gel matrix. The time characteristics of the DGT response are affected by a lower rate of diffusion, as well as by possible accumulation of nanoparticulate species in the gel layer. Several cases are discussed in some detail on the basis of numerical analysis of the diffusion process. If the difference between the diffusion coefficients of the free metal ion and the nanoparticulate complex is sufficiently large, the time-resolved DGT flux allows for distinction between these two types of species.
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