Damián Ezequiel Benito

• Degree in Chemistry
• PhD Student at Centro de Tecnología de Recursos Minerales y Cerámica

Emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals and personal care products, have been detected in surface and groundwaters. The adsorption of paracetamol and ibuprofen, two widespread drugs, has been studied in aqueous medium, using a ceramic-derived carbon (CeDC) and a commercial activated carbon (CoAC). CeDC yielded a BET surface area of 895 m 2 g...

A SiO2-C composite (SC) was prepared via sol-gel method using industrial raw materials: commercial partially hydrolysed tetraethyl orthosilicate as an ethoxylated silica precursor (ESP) and phenolic-formaldehyde resin as a carbon precursor. The synthesized composite, constituted by a silica network cross-linked with a carbon network, resulted in a...

A monolithic porous composite was synthesized by sol–gel process, containing the maximum and significant amount of bentonite that allows its use as a filter bed in aqueous effluents treatment. This process is able to apply on an industrial scale. The bentonite used was an efficient adsorbent for various contaminant molecules in aqueous media when i...

A fine-grained argillaceous reactive dolostone was identified in Argentina. In alkaline conditions, a clear dedolomitization reaction occurred, accompanied by a deleterious expansive process. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the correlation between the rock prism expansion and the reaction progress. Rock expansion (in high and low porosi...

In drug design experimental characterization of acidic groups in candidate molecules is one of the more important steps prior to the in-vivo studies. Potentiometry combined with Yasuda-Shedlovsky extrapolation is one of the more important strategy to study drug candidates with low solubility in water, although, it requires a large number of sequenc...

El agregado fino reciclado (AFR) presenta en su composición mortero adherido a las partículas del agregado natural. Este mortero es el responsable de la menor densidad y mayor absorción respecto de un agregado fino natural. Por lo tanto, el contenido de mortero resulta la propiedad del AFR más significativa que definirá en gran medida su influencia...

This study examines the possibility of using a biobased product isolated from urban solid wastes as a material for environmental technological applications. To this end, Fe3O4 nanoparticles (NPs) coated with different amounts of soluble biobased products (SBO) were synthesized as a low-cost nanoadsorbent for the removal of pollutants in wastewater....