1. The Environmental Behavior of Indium, an Element Critical to Emerging Energy Technologies Sarah Sacco ‘16 Advisor: Sarah Jane White Myneni Lab Group, Geosciences

2. Why should we study indium? Increase in usage Little is known about effects USGS data (Kelly and Matos, 2008a) Edivisoria.biz, wisefoodstorage.com

3. What are we studying? Ferrihydrite Sorption Fe-OH + In +3 (Fe-OIn) +2 + H + Ferrihydrite O O O-O- O-O- O O H H In +2 Benjamin and Leckie, 1980 Mineral Creek, CO PC: Briant Kimball

4. Experimental Setup Titrations Analysis of samples on ICPMS

5. Findings

10. Future Plans More variations Synchrotron work Coprecipitation?

11. Acknowledgments I would like to thank Sarah Jane White, Satish Myneni, Matt, and Becky. I would also like to thank PEI for funding this research.