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ReviewCommunications earth & environment2024

Abiotic and biotic-controlled nanomaterial formation pathways within the Earth's nanomaterial cycle.

Michael Schindler, Jie Xu, Michael F Hochella

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Review in Communications earth & environment, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. In situ observations of gold deposition in a dense liquid layer at the pyrite-water interface.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael SchindlerDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T2N2 Canada.
Jie XuSchool of Molecular Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA.
Michael F HochellaDepartment of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8008-7235

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanomaterials have unique properties and play critical roles in the budget, cycling, and chemical processing of elements on Earth. An understanding of the cycling of nanomaterials can be greatly improved if the pathways of their formation are clearly recognized and understood. Here, we show that nanomaterial formation pathways mediated by aqueous fluids can be grouped into four major categories, abiotic and biotic processes coupled and decoupled from weathering processes. These can be subdivided in 18 subcategories relevant to the critical zone, and environments such as ocean hydrothermal vents and the upper mantle. Similarly, pathways in the gas phase such as volcanic fumaroles, wildfires and particle formation in the stratosphere and troposphere can be grouped into two major groups and five subcategories. In the most fundamental sense, both aqueous-fluid and gaseous pathways provide an understanding of the formation of all minerals which are inherently based on nanoscale precursors and reactions.

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PMID39493581
PMCPMC11530374

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