How Natural Materials Remove Heavy Metals from Water: Mechanistic Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Fabio Pietrucci; Mauro Boero; Wanda Andreoni

doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.13238066.v1

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How Natural Materials Remove Heavy Metals from Water: Mechanistic Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

16 November 2020, Version 1

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Heavy metals are captured by hemicellulose from water: modeling and simulations. Classical and ab initio molecular dynamics aided by metadynamics. Relevant to the understanding of removal of heavy metals from water sources with natural materials, e.g. spent coffee grains.

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environmental chemistry

water chemistry

Heavy Metals Removal

Metadynamics Simulations

polymer chemistry

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