Analysis of models of adsorption of metal ions at oxide/water interfaces

Abstract

The uptake of hydrolysable metal ions at solid/aqueous solution interfaces may be represented by a variety of models. These models define uptake as due to:

Studies of adsorption of the relatively simple metal aquohydroxo complexes do not distinguish unambiguously between the importance of each of the mechanisms. However, in the future it should be possible to exploit some of the differences in algebraic expression of the models to further improve our understanding of the uptake of hydrolysable metal ions.