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Research project

Transport of toxic metals in clay mineral barriers: Influences of mobile sorbent nanoparticles

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
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Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor John Marshall

Professor
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Professor Martin Palmer

Professor of Geochemistry
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geochemistry

We use advanced facilities to perform the precise and accurate analysis of the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth materials.

Research outputs

A review of the fate of engineered nanomaterials in municipal solid waste streams
Florian Part, Nicole Berge, Pawel Baran, Anne Stringfellow, Wenjie Sun, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Denise Mitrano, Liang Li, Pierre Hennebert, Peter Quicker, Stephanie Bolyard & Marion Huber-Humer, 2018, Waste Management
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2018.02.012
Type: article
Catchment source contributions to the sediment-bound organic matter degrading salmonid spawning gravels in a lowland river, southern England
A.L. Collins, L.J. Williams, Y.S. Zhang, M. Marius, J.A.J. Dungait, D.J. Smallman, E.R. Dixon, A. Stringfellow, D.A. Sear, J.I. Jones & P.S. Naden, 2013, Science of the Total Environment, 456-457, 181-195
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.093
Type: article