Sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) to inorganic surfaces in aqueous solutions [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Yuan Qian

Sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) to inorganic surfaces in aqueous solutions Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften – Dr. rer. nat. – der Falkutät für Chemie der Universität Duisburg-Essen vorgelegt von Yuan Qian aus Jiangsu, V. R. China 2010 Tag der Disputation: 27.01.2011 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Torsten C. Schmidt 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Christian Mayer Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Bettina Siebers Acknowledgements I am heartily thankful to my supervisor Prof. Torsten C. Schmidt for the continuous support, guidance, and encouragement throughout the work. Special thanks to Dr. Holger Krohn for the major support on the construct of scanning electrochemical microscopy and the knowledgeable discussions on the method development. Thanks also to Dr. Erping Bi for the help of column packing and Mrs. Claudia Schenk for the BET surface area determination. I am deeply grateful to Prof. Dr. Christian Mayer, Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Goss and Dr. Satoshi Endo for the helpful suggestions and valuable discussions. I would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Prof. Dr. Karl Molt and Dr. Maik Jochmann for their valuable comments, Lijun Zhang, Fayaz Kondagula and Alexandra Jarocki for their helpful discussions, Tjorben Posch, Rani Bakkour, and Laura Jung for their lab work assistance.