Dear Rebecca,<br /><br />I have the following questions to ask you and need to check with you. Can you please answer to my questions? In case, I also attached a word file including your comments and my answers, etc..<br /><br />Look forward to receiving your response soon.<br /><br />thank you.<br /><br />
<p>Q&amp;A</p>
<p>1. &nbsp;<strong>Comment 6</strong>: Please review &ndash; there seems to be a word missing here.</p>
<p>&nbsp;<strong>Answer</strong>: The sentence should be as follows. So in this sentence do you see anything that needs to be edited? Is the following sentence ok?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;Iron oxide NPs may no longer be the original forms, which could affect the removal kinetics of contaminants adsorbed to the NPs.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&nbsp;2. <strong>Comment 8</strong>: To what does &ldquo;its&rdquo; refer? Presence of contaminants? Contaminants?</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>Answer</strong>: its refer to contaminants. Then can I write it as follows? Is the following sentence ok?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;The fate of MNPs could be influenced by particle size as with the presence of contaminants and the contaminant concentrations.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&nbsp;3. <strong>Comment 9</strong>: Please clarify. Meaning is not clear. What is attractive to what and for what?</p>
<p>&nbsp;<strong>Answer</strong>: What I meant is that coating exhibits attractive to manufacture nanoproducts for making stabilization. So I revised the sentence as follows. Is the following sentence ok?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo; Coating with siloxane has not been explored sufficiently compared to other coating materials, though it exhibits attractive to manufacture nanoproducts for making stabilization even in small quantity due to versatile characteristics (possibilities of various hydrophilic molecules attached to hydrophobic siloxane segment) [61-62].</p>
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<li><strong>Comment 13</strong>: Don&rsquo;t refer to &ldquo;the study&rdquo; unless you&rsquo;ve mentioned it in the text (not just when you&rsquo;ve given a footnote).</li>
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<p>&nbsp;<strong>Answer</strong>: I meant the study, the reference [96]. In this case, can I use &ldquo;the results&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;the study&rdquo;, Can I write it as follows? Any suggestion?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;The results showed deposition can be reduced up to 36% in the presence of surfactants by affecting secondary minimum deposition.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>5. Comment 15: </strong>Is there a word missing here? &ldquo;&hellip;saturated and unsaturated [conditions or media] as long as&hellip;&rdquo; for example?</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>Answer</strong>: a word was missing, it should be media. So is the following sentence fine?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;Although GO was found to be highly mobile in both saturated and unsaturated media as long as ionic strength&hellip;&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>6. Comment 16</strong>: To what does &ldquo;it&rdquo; refer? Suggest clarification.</p>
<p>&nbsp;<strong>Answer</strong>: it refers to &ldquo;hindered transport&rdquo;, so can I write it as follows? Is the sentence ok?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;&hellip;.increasing ionic strength hindered the transport of GO in porous media, suggesting that not only the hindered transport is due to reduced energy barriers, but also that moisture affects the deposition and transport behavior of GO.</p>
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<p>7. Comment 17: What does &ldquo;it&rdquo; refer to?</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>Answer</strong>: it refers to modeling. So can I write it as follows? Is the sentence ok?<br />&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Thus modeling is ideal to mimic the interfacial reactions on colloidal surfaces with polymeric surfactants and dispersants, for comprehensive understanding.&rdquo;</p>
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