Black Carbon (Biochar) In Water/Soil Environments: Molecular Structure, Sorption, Stability, and Potential Risk

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Black carbon decomposition and incorporation into soil microbial biomass estimated by 14C labeling

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Manipulation of Persistent Free Radicals in Biochar To Activate Persulfate for Contaminant Degradation

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An Overview of Biomass Pyrolysis

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Key Role of Persistent Free Radicals in Hydrogen Peroxide Activation by Biochar: Implications to Organic Contaminant Degradation

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Review of the pyrolysis platform for coproducing bio‐oil and biochar

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Immobilization of Heavy Metal Ions (Cu ^II , Cd ^II , Ni ^II , and Pb ^II ) by Broiler Litter-Derived Biochars in Water and Soil

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Biochar Application to Soil

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Short term soil priming effects and the mineralisation of biochar following its incorporation to soils of different pH

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Quantifying the Total and Bioavailable Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Dioxins in Biochars

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Biochar Carbon Stability in a Clayey Soil As a Function of Feedstock and Pyrolysis Temperature

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Biochar as an Electron Shuttle between Bacteria and Fe(III) Minerals

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Characteristics and mechanisms of hexavalent chromium removal by biochar from sugar beet tailing

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Interactive priming of black carbon and glucose mineralisation

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Biochar soil amendment on alleviation of drought and salt stress in plants: a critical review

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Simultaneous immobilization of lead and atrazine in contaminated soils using dairy-manure biochar

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Global Charcoal Mobilization from Soils via Dissolution and Riverine Transport to the Oceans

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Life in the ‘charosphere’ – Does biochar in agricultural soil provide a significant habitat for microorganisms?

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Metal Interactions at the Biochar-Water Interface: Energetics and Structure-Sorption Relationships Elucidated by Flow Adsorption Microcalorimetry

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Detecting Free Radicals in Biochars and Determining Their Ability to Inhibit the Germination and Growth of Corn, Wheat and Rice Seedlings

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Temperature Sensitivity of Black Carbon Decomposition and Oxidation

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The Interfacial Behavior between Biochar and Soil Minerals and Its Effect on Biochar Stability

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Transport of Biochar Particles in Saturated Granular Media: Effects of Pyrolysis Temperature and Particle Size

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Adsorption of Hydroxyl- and Amino-Substituted Aromatics to Carbon Nanotubes

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Microbial utilisation of biochar-derived carbon

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Indispensable role of biochar-inherent mineral constituents in its environmental applications: A review

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Risk analysis of pyrolyzed biochar made from paper mill effluent treatment plant sludge for bioavailability and eco-toxicity of heavy metals

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Mechanism of hydroxyl radical generation from biochar suspensions: Implications to diethyl phthalate degradation

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Efficiency and mechanisms of Cd removal from aqueous solution by biochar derived from water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes)

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Wood-Derived Black Carbon (Biochar) as a Microbial Electron Donor and Acceptor

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Physical Disintegration of Biochar: An Overlooked Process

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