Center Affiliation and Expertise: Associate Member, Nanotoxicology
Inorganic mineral species influence most of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur in the natural world. However, soluble inorganic nanoclusters (0.5 – 10 nm) may be the driving force for many of these processes as they exist in nearly every naturally occurring aqueous system and are among the most reactive components in the environment. Research in the Forbes group focuses on obtaining a molecular level understanding these clusters by synthesizing and characterizing environmentally relevant model compounds.
Publications:
- Basile, M., Unruh, D. K., Gojdas, K., Flores, E., Streicher, L., and Forbes, T.Z. (2015) Chemical controls on uranyl citrate speciation and the self-assembly of nanoscale macrocycles and sandwich complexes in aqueous solutions. Chemical Communications, 51, 5306-5309.
- Unruh, D. K., de Groot, J., Fairley, M., Libo, A., Miller, S and T. Z. Forbes (2015) Interplay of condensation and chelation in binary and ternary Th(IV) complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 54, 1395-1404.
- Alessi, D.S., Symanowski, J.E.S, Forbes, T.Z., Quicksall, A. N., Sigmon, G.E., Burns, P.C., Fein, J. B. (2013) Mineralogic Controls on Aqueous Neptunium(V) Concentrations in Silicate Systems. Journal of Nuclear Materials 433, 233-239.
- Forbes, T.Z., Burns, P.C., Soderholm, L, Skanthakumar, S. (2007) Synthesis, structure determination, and magnetic susceptibility of Np2O5. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, 2760-2761
- Basile, M., Unruh, D. K., Gojdas, K., Flores, E., Streicher, L., and Forbes, T.Z. (2015) Chemical controls on uranyl citrate speciation and the self-assembly of nanoscale macrocycles and sandwich complexes in aqueous solutions. Chemical Communications, 51, 5306-5309.
- Unruh, D. K., Gojdas, K, Flores, E., Libo, A., and Forbes, T.Z. (2013) Synthesis and structural characterization of hydrolysis products within the uranyl iminodiacetate and malate systems. Inorganic Chemistry 52, 10191-10198.
- Basile, M, Unruh, D.K., Flores, E., Johns, A. and Forbes, T.Z. (2015) Structural characterization of environmentally relevant ternary uranyl citrate complexes present in aqueous solutions and solid state materials. Dalton Transactions, 44, 2597-2605.
- Nelson, A. W., Eitrheim, E.S., Knight, A. W., May, D., Merhoff, M. A., Shannon, R., Litman, R., Burnett, W. C., Forbes, T.Z. and Schultz, M. K. (2015) Understand the radioactive ingrowth and decay of naturally occurring radioactive materials in the environment: an analysis of produced fluids from the Marcellus shale. Environmental Health Perspectives 123, 689-696.
- Knight, A.W., Nelson, A. W., Eitrheim, E. S., Forbes, T.Z. and Schultz, M. K. (2015) A chromatographic separation of neptunium and protactinium using 1-octanol impregnated onto a solid phase support. Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange DOI 10.1007/s10967-015-4124-3.
- Jayasinghe, A, Unruh, D.K., Kral, A., and Forbes, T.Z. (2015) Structural features in metal organic nanotube crystals that influence stability and solvent uptake. Crystal Growth and Design, 15, 4062-4070.
- Sahu, S. K., Unruh, D.K., Forbes, T.Z. and Navrotsky, A. (2014) Energetics of formation and hydration of a porous metal organic nanotube. Chemistry of Materials 26, 5105-5112.
- de Groot, J., Gojdas, K., Unruh, D.K., and Forbes, T.Z. (2014) Use of charge-assisted hydrogen bonding for the supramolecular assembly of hybrid uranyl materials. Crystal Growth and Design 14, 1357-1365.
- Unruh, D. K., Gojdas, K., Libo, A., and Forbes, T.Z. (2013) Development of metal-organic nanotubes exhibiting reversible exchange of confined ‘ice channels’. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135, 7398-7401.