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A critical review of the interactions of organic carbon components with soil minerals: Insight from bibliometric analysis of the environmental behaviors of heavy metal(loid)s

  • Soils, Sec 3 • Remediation and Management of Contaminated or Degraded Lands • Review Article
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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to summarize the research progresses in the effects of the interactions between active soil organic carbon (SOC) components and minerals on the sorption, immobilization, remobilization, transport, and bioavailability of heavy metals (HMs) in the environment.

Materials and methods

This paper presents a discussion based on a bibliometric analysis of the interactions between SOC components and minerals and their influence on the fate of HMs. An in-depth and comprehensive analysis of publication characteristics of 3351 articles using VOSviewer, Histcite, and Bibliometrix was conducted.

Results and discussion

The analyses revealed that the number of articles in this field varied in four stages and China dominated research in this field. The Chinese Academy of Sciences was the center with the most productive cooperation network and registered the largest number of publications. The analysis of the co-occurrence of keywords showed that the coexistence of SOC components would increase or decrease the adsorption and immobilization of HMs on minerals, and this was influenced by environmental parameters such as pH, redox potential, and solution ionic strength. Anionic HMs have become a research hotspot in recent years, and their environmental behaviors, especially redox reactions at the mineral micro solid-phase interfaces, were significantly influenced by the coexistence of active SOC components. The ternary interaction mechanisms between SOC components, minerals, and HMs were complex and presented no clear reasons why some SOC components would inhibit HM adsorption. Based on the bibliometric analysis and mechanistic insights, we make the following recommendations: Research on the molecular interaction mechanisms at the micro/nanoscale interfaces between SOC components, especially microorganisms and biochar, and minerals with HMs needs to be expanded; the redox transformation of anionic HMs at the organo-mineral interfaces is important for their remediation; the establishment of an accurate model is critical to predict and control the environmental risks of HMs, thus expanding research in this field at the micro/nanoscale could speed up the development of new remediation technologies. There is, therefore, a need to develop more advanced in situ methods for characterizing micro/nanoscale interfaces of ternary systems and the environmental behaviors of HMs at the interfaces.

Conclusions

The environmental behaviors of HMs were affected by the mineral-SOC/soil organic matter (SOM) interaction and environmental conditions. The biochar/microbial-mineral interaction should be of more concern and exploring mineral-SOC/SOM-HM ternary interaction mechanisms by high-resolution characterization technology is necessary.

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Guo, L., Nkoh Nkoh, J. & Xu, Rk. A critical review of the interactions of organic carbon components with soil minerals: Insight from bibliometric analysis of the environmental behaviors of heavy metal(loid)s. J Soils Sediments 23, 2396–2416 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-023-03502-1

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