Our inability to effectively predict the adsorption of aqueous solutes to crystalline and amorphous surfaces has continued to inhibit our understanding of and impact on the quality of the world’s fresh water, the distribution of plant nutrients and contaminants in soils, and the integrity of underground waste repositories. In the past decade, computational and analytical approaches have been implemented to investigate the details of interfacial water structure and solute adsorption at the angstrom- to nano-scale. This symposium invites papers that discuss new approaches to explore adsorption processes at the solid-water interface including microscopic, spectroscopic, and reflectivity analysis, and both atomistic and molecular modeling. Presentations that investigate the adsorption of new and emerging contaminants of concern or tie small-scale studies of the solid-water interface to macroscopic observations and predictive models are strongly encouraged.

Symposium Organizers: Louise J. Criscenti, Geochemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, Phone: 505-284-4357, ljcrisc@sandia.gov. Heather Allen, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry, 100 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus 43210, Phone: 614-292-4707, allen@chemistry.ohio-state.edu. Lynn E. Katz, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, ECJ 8.6, Austin, TX 78712, Phone: 512-471-4244, Fax: 512-471-5870, lynnkatz@mail.utexas.edu.