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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Colloid Interface Sci. 2013 Mar 13;400:97–103. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2013.02.036

Table 5.

Calculated Gibbs free energy for the binding of chromium(III) to the metal oxide nanomaterials under light(*) and dark (**) conditions.

Material ΔG* (kJ/mol) ΔG**(kJ/mol)

Fe3O4 (323) −17.16 −10.19
Fe3O4 (298) −15.62 −9.72
Fe3O4 (277) −14.79 −8.63
MnFe2O4 (323) −12.18 −11.25
MnFe2O4 (298) −11.86 −10.489
MnFe2O4 (277) −11.40 −9.55