Developing a Molecular Picture of Soil Organic Matter–Mineral Interactions by Quantifying Organo–Mineral Binding

Newcomb, Christina J.; Qafoku, Nikolla P.; Grate, Jay W.; Bailey, Vanessa L.; De Yoreo, James J.

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00407-9

Title: Developing a Molecular Picture of Soil Organic Matter–Mineral Interactions by Quantifying Organo–Mineral Binding

Journal Article · Wed Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00407-9· OSTI ID:1406734

Newcomb, Christina J. ^[1]; Qafoku, Nikolla P. ^[1]; Grate, Jay W. ^[1]; Bailey, Vanessa L. ^[1]; De Yoreo, James J. ^[2]

Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Long residence times of soil organic matter have been attributed to reactive mineral surface sites that sorb organic species and cause inaccessibility due to isolation and chemical stabilization at the organic-mineral interface. Instrumentation for probing this interface is limited. As a result, much of the micron- and molecular-scale knowledge about organic-mineral interactions remains largely qualitative. We report the use of force spectroscopy to directly measure the binding between organic ligands with known chemical functionalities to soil minerals in aqueous environments. By systematically studying the role of organic functional group chemistry with model minerals, we demonstrate that the chemistry of both the organic ligand and mineral contribute to values of binding free energy and that changes in pH and ionic strength produce significant differences in binding energies. These direct measurements of molecular binding provide mechanistic insights into organo-mineral interactions, which could potentially inform land-carbon models that explicitly include mineral-bound C pools.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1406734

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1398203

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-121086; PNNL-SA-124131; 49124

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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