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Toxic effects of coal combustion waste

Metals and trace elements leached from surfaceimpounded CCW have caused dramatic and costly impacts to aquatic life for decades.Effects range from acute mortality to chronic, debilitating toxicity as shown here in this 1980photograph of fish from Belews Lake, NC, afflicted by selenium poisoning (v-shaped spines).Selenium […]


Investigation of stable structures of known and new ion conducting crystals

A solid electrolyte known as LiPON, was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is currently used in microbatteries. At Wake Forest University, we have been studying computer models of related crystals which are composed of mobile Li ions in a framework composed of phosphorus, oxygen, […]


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