An article on metal ion sorption geopolymer has been accepted by ES&T Water. Yıldırım, A. C., Toda, K., Saito, T., “Determination of the sorption mechanisms of sodium-alkalinized metakaolin-based geopolymers”, Appl. Clay Sci. 251, 107303 (2024).
An article on the origin and ion-binding properties of dissolved organic matters in deep groundwater has been accepted by ES&T Water. Saito, T., Nishi, S., Amano, Y., Beppu, H., Miyakawa, K., “Origin of dissolved organic matters in deep groundwater of marine deposits and its implication for metal binding”, ES&T Water, in press (2023).
An article on the aggregation structures of humic substances studied by small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering has been accepted by Environ. Sci. Technol. of ACS. Saito, T., Motokawa, R., Ohkubo, T., Miura, D., Kumada, T., “Heterogeneous Aggregation of Humic Acids Studied by Small-Angle Neutron and X‐ray Scattering”, Environ. Sci. Technol., in press (2023). Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. in press (2023).
An article by K. Murota has been accepted in the Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. journal. The title is “Adsorption of cesium and strontium on mesoporous silicas”. Murota, K., Takahashi, Y., H., Saito, T., “Adsorption of cesium and strontium on mesoporous silicas“がPhys. Chem. Chem. Phys.”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. in press (2023).
The introductory session for the entrance examination for the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management will be held on the following date and time. There is a time for lab introduction. Please free free to join it. The following is the introduction slide of our laboratory.
Mr. Yildirim got a poster prize in the AESJ 2023 spring conference. Congratulation!
Four students completed their thesis and graduated. Congratulation! Kento Murota (Ph.D. course) Takuro Tanaka (Master course) Ibuki Hayashi (Udergraduate) Hayato Sato (Udergraduate)
An article by K. Murota has been accepted in the Applied Geochemistry journal. The title is “Hydration states of europium(III) adsorbed on silicas with nano-sized pores”. Murota, K., Aoyagi, N., Mei, H., Saito, T., “Hydration states of europium(III) adsorbed on silicas with nano-sized pores”, Appl. Geochem. 152, 105620 (2023).
Yildirim (“Can”) presented his research on geopolymer in the FDR2022 conference. Radionuclide immobilization behavior of Sodium Activated Metakaolin Based GeopolymerAnil Can Yildirim (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
The article by our Ph.D. student, Mr. Murota, “Pore size effects on surface charges and interfacial electrostatics of mesoporous silicas”, has been selected as a 2022 HOT article of the Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. journal.