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I18 Microfocus Spectroscopy
Status: Operational
Beamsize: 2 µm x 2.5 µm
Energy: 2.05 - 20.5 keV
Energy: 2.05 - 20.5 keV
42 items found for 2019 [total: 543]
Regional distributions of iron, copper and zinc and their relationships with glia in a normal aging mouse model Frontiers In Aging Neuroscience, 11 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00351
A multi-proxy investigation of mantle oxygen fugacity along the Reykjanes Ridge Earth And Planetary Science Letters, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115973
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Mantle plumes are oxidised Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 527 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115798
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Calcification microstructure reflects breast tissue microenvironment Journal Of Mammary Gland Biology And Neoplasia, 95 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s10911-019-09441-3
Single crystal Ge core fiber produced via pressure assisted melt filling and CO2 laser crystallization Ieee Photonics Technology Letters, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2019.2957702
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Iterative energy self-calibration of Fe XANES spectra Journal Of Synchrotron Radiation, 27 Nov 2019 DOI: 10.1107/S1600577519014267
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Emerging approaches to investigate the influence of transition metals in the proteinopathies Cells, 8 Oct 2019 DOI: 10.3390/cells8101231
Root induced soil deformation influences Fe, S and P: rhizosphere chemistry investigated using synchrotron XRF and XAS New Phytologist, Oct 2019 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16242
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals Mineralogical Magazine, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2019.50
Baltic Fucus vesiculosus as potential bio-sorbent for Zn removal: Mechanism insight Chemosphere, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124652
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Metaschoepite dissolution in sediment column systems – implications for uranium speciation and transport Environmental Science & Technology, Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02292
Crystal chemistry of accessory minerals as a probe of magmatic oxygen fugacity: an experimental study Jul 2019
Thesis I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Impact of autophagy and aging on iron load and ferritin in drosophila brain Frontiers In Cell And Developmental Biology, 7 Jul 2019 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00142
Synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence elemental mapping in healthy versus malignant prostate tissues provides new insights into the glucose-stimulated zinc trafficking in the prostate as discovered by MRI Inorganic Chemistry, Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01132
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Role of natural organic matter in binding uranium and incorporating radiocarbon in soils and sediments Jul 2019
Thesis I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Proteoglycan degradation mimics static compression by altering the natural gradients in fibrillar organisation in cartilage Acta Biomaterialia, Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.07.055
After the flood: Investigating vanadium geochemistry following a mine tailings dam failure Jul 2019
Science Highlight I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Provenance of uranium particulate contained within Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 ejecta material Nature Communications, 10 June 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10937-z
Improving our understanding of metal implant failures: Multiscale chemical imaging of exogenous metals in ex-vivo biological tissues Acta Biomaterialia, June 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.05.071
Photonic micro-structures produced by selective etching of laser-crystallized amorphous silicon Optical Materials Express, 9 May 2019 DOI: 10.1364/OME.9.002573
Investigating effect of clay composition on safety function performance in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) May 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES)
Nanofocused synchrotron X-ray absorption studies of the intracellular redox state of an organometallic complex in cancer cells Chemical Communications, 109 May 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01675A
Pheomelanin pigment remnants mapped in fossils of an extinct mammal Nature Communications, 10 May 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10087-2
Synchrotron techniques allow geologists to study the surface of Mars May 2019
Science Highlight B22-Multimode InfraRed imaging And Microspectroscopy I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Developing strategies to study exogenous biomaterial particles and ions within biological tissues Apr 2019
Thesis I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
The solubility of goethite with structurally incorporated nickel and cobalt: Implication for laterites Chemical Geology, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.021
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Frictional melt homogenisation during fault slip: Geochemical, textural and rheological fingerprints Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.04.010
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Uranium particulate analysis Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17191-9_8
Book Chapter I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Synchrotron XRF imaging of Alzheimer’s disease basal ganglia reveals linear dependence of high-field magnetic resonance microscopy on tissue iron concentration Journal Of Neuroscience Methods, Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.03.002
Origin and fate of Vanadium in the Hazeltine Creek Catchment following the 2014 Mount Polley mine tailings spill, British Columbia, Canada Environmental Science & Technology, Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06391
Iron from a geochemical viewpoint. Understanding toxicity/pathogenicity mechanisms in iron-bearing minerals with a special attention to mineral fibers Free Radical Biology And Medicine, 133 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.07.023
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
X-ray fluorescence sheds light on the growth patterns of extinct hyaena Mar 2019
Science Highlight I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Neptunium(V) and uranium(VI) reactions at the magnetite (111) surface Geosciences, 9 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.3390/geosciences9020081
Compositional and temperature effects on sulfur speciation and solubility in silicate melts Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 507 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.006
Pulmonary toxicity of inhaled nano-sized cerium oxide aerosols in Sprague–Dawley rats Nanotoxicology, 8 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2018.1554751
Experimental and simulation results of the adsorption of Mo and V onto ferrihydrite Scientific Reports, 9 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37875-y
Laser crystallized low-loss polycrystalline silicon waveguides Optics Express, 27 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.004462
Radiation damage effects in chlorite investigated using microfocus synchrotron techniques Acs Earth And Space Chemistry, Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00205
Unravelling the spatial dependency of the complex solid-state chemistry of Pb in a paint micro-sample from Rembrandt's Homer using XRD-CT Chemical Communications, 17 Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09705D
Advances in bone preservation: Identifying possible collagen preservation using sulfur speciation mapping Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.030
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
- Azhaar Ashraf, Christos Michaelides, Thomas A. Walker, Antigoni Ekonomou, Maria Suessmilch, Achvini Sriskanthanathan, Semhar Abraha, Adam Parkes, Harold G. Parkes, Kalotina Geraki, Po-Wah So, "Regional distributions of iron, copper and zinc and their relationships with glia in a normal aging mouse model", Frontiers In Aging Neuroscience, 11 (2019), DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00351
- Davide Novella, John Maclennan, Oliver Shorttle, Julie Prytulak, Bramley J. Murton, "A multi-proxy investigation of mantle oxygen fugacity along the Reykjanes Ridge", Earth And Planetary Science Letters (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115973
- Yves Moussallam, Marc-Antoine Longpré, Catherine Mccammon, Alejandra Gomez-Ulla, Estelle F. Rose-Koga, Bruno Scaillet, Nial Peters, Emanuela Gennaro, Raphael Paris, Clive Oppenheimer, "Mantle plumes are oxidised", Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 527 (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115798
- Sarah Gosling, Robert Scott, Charlene Greenwood, Pascaline Bouzy, Jayakrupakar Nallala, Iain D. Lyburn, Nicholas Stone, Keith Rogers, "Calcification microstructure reflects breast tissue microenvironment", Journal Of Mammary Gland Biology And Neoplasia, 95 (2019), DOI: 10.1007/s10911-019-09441-3
- Guangrui Li, Markus A. Schmidt, Noel Healy, Hao Chen, Siyu Fan, "Single crystal Ge core fiber produced via pressure assisted melt filling and CO2 laser crystallization", Ieee Photonics Technology Letters (2019), DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2019.2957702
- Michael W. M. Jones, Guilherme Mallmann, Jeremy L. Wykes, Joseph Knafelc, Scott E. Bryan, Daryl L. Howard, "Iterative energy self-calibration of Fe XANES spectra", Journal Of Synchrotron Radiation, 27 (2019), DOI: 10.1107/S1600577519014267
- Frederik Lermyte, James Everett, Jake Brooks, Francesca Bellingeri, Kharmen Billimoria, Peter J. Sadler, Peter B. O'Connor, Neil Telling, Joanna F. Collingwood, "Emerging approaches to investigate the influence of transition metals in the proteinopathies", Cells, 8 (2019), DOI: 10.3390/cells8101231
- Arjen Van Veelen, Nicolai Koebernick, Callum S. Scotson, Daniel Mckay‐fletcher, Thomas Huthwelker, Camelia N. Borca, J. Fred W. Mosselmans, Tiina Roose, "Root induced soil deformation influences Fe, S and P: rhizosphere chemistry investigated using synchrotron XRF and XAS", New Phytologist (2019), DOI: 10.1111/nph.16242
- A. M. Borst, A. A. Finch, H. Friis, N. J. Horsburgh, P. N. Gamaletsos, J. Goettlicher, R. Steininger, K. Geraki, "Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals", Mineralogical Magazine (2019), DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2019.50
- Loredana Brinza, Kalotina Geraki, Corneliu Cojocaru, Susan Løvstad Holdt, Mariana Neamtu, "Baltic Fucus vesiculosus as potential bio-sorbent for Zn removal: Mechanism insight", Chemosphere (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124652
- William R. Bower, Katherine Morris, Francis R. Livens, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Connaugh M. Fallon, Adam J. Fuller, Louise S. Natrajan, Christopher Boothman, Jonathan R. Lloyd, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Daniel Grolimund, Dario Ferreira Sanchez, Tom Jilbert, Julia E. Parker, Thomas S. Neill, Gareth T. W. Law, "Metaschoepite dissolution in sediment column systems – implications for uranium speciation and transport", Environmental Science & Technology (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02292
- [Thesis] Thomas Stokes, "Crystal chemistry of accessory minerals as a probe of magmatic oxygen fugacity: an experimental study" (2019)
- Anne-Claire Jacomin, Kalotina Geraki, Jake Brooks, Vindy Tjendana-Tjhin, Joanna F. Collingwood, Ioannis Nezis, "Impact of autophagy and aging on iron load and ferritin in drosophila brain", Frontiers In Cell And Developmental Biology, 7 (2019), DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00142
- Veronica Clavijo Jordan, Alia Al-Ebraheem, Kalotina Geraki, Eric Dao, Andre F. Martins, Sara Chirayil, Michael Farquharson, A. Dean Sherry, "Synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence elemental mapping in healthy versus malignant prostate tissues provides new insights into the glucose-stimulated zinc trafficking in the prostate as discovered by MRI", Inorganic Chemistry (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01132
- [Thesis] Michael Robert Muir, "Role of natural organic matter in binding uranium and incorporating radiocarbon in soils and sediments" (2019)
- Sheetal R. Inamdar, Ettore Barbieri, Nicholas J. Terrill, Martin M. Knight, Himadri S. Gupta, "Proteoglycan degradation mimics static compression by altering the natural gradients in fibrillar organisation in cartilage", Acta Biomaterialia (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.07.055
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "After the flood: Investigating vanadium geochemistry following a mine tailings dam failure" (2019)
- Peter G. Martin, Marion Louvel, Silvia Cipiccia, Christopher P. Jones, Darren J. Batey, Keith R. Hallam, Ian A. X. Yang, Yukihiko Satou, Christoph Rau, J. Fred W. Mosselmans, David Richards, Thomas B. Scott, "Provenance of uranium particulate contained within Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 ejecta material", Nature Communications, 10, 2801 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10937-z
- Alexander P. Morrell, Hayley Floyd, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Liam M. Grover, Hiram Castillo-Michel, Edward Davis, Julia E. Parker, Richard Martin, Owen Addison, "Improving our understanding of metal implant failures: Multiscale chemical imaging of exogenous metals in ex-vivo biological tissues", Acta Biomaterialia (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.05.071
- G. Martinez-Jimenez, Y. Franz, A. F. J. Runge, M. Ceschia, N. Healy, S. Z. Oo, A. Tarazona, H. M. H. Chong, A. C. Peacock, S. Mailis, "Photonic micro-structures produced by selective etching of laser-crystallized amorphous silicon", Optical Materials Express, 9 (2019), DOI: 10.1364/OME.9.002573
- [Thesis] Adam Peter Sims, "Investigating effect of clay composition on safety function performance in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)" (2019)
- Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Diego Gianolio, Isolda Romero-Canelon, Remi Tucoulou, Peter J. Sadler, "Nanofocused synchrotron X-ray absorption studies of the intracellular redox state of an organometallic complex in cancer cells", Chemical Communications, 109 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9CC01675A
- Phillip L. Manning, Nicholas P. Edwards, Uwe Bergmann, Jennifer Anne, William Sellers, Arjen Van Veelen, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Victoria M. Egerton, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Konstantin Ignatyev, Bart E. Van Dongen, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito, Fabien Knoll, Roy A. Wogelius, "Pheomelanin pigment remnants mapped in fossils of an extinct mammal", Nature Communications, 10 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10087-2
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Synchrotron techniques allow geologists to study the surface of Mars" (2019)
- [Book Chapter] Peter George Martin, "Spectroscopy and isotopic analysis of ejecta material" (2019), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17191-9_10
- [Thesis] Alexander Paul Morrell, "Developing strategies to study exogenous biomaterial particles and ions within biological tissues" (2019)
- Ifeoma Mary Ugwu, David M. Sherman, "The solubility of goethite with structurally incorporated nickel and cobalt: Implication for laterites", Chemical Geology (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.021
- Paul A. Wallace, Sarah Henton De Angelis, Adrian J. Hornby, Jackie E. Kendrick, Stephen Clesham, Felix W. Von Aulock, Amy Hughes, James E. P. Utley, Takehiro Hirose, Donald B. Dingwell, Yan Lavallee, "Frictional melt homogenisation during fault slip: Geochemical, textural and rheological fingerprints", Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.04.010
- [Book Chapter] Peter George Martin, "Structural and compositional analysis of ejecta material" (2019), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17191-9_9
- [Book Chapter] Peter George Martin, "Uranium particulate analysis" (2019), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17191-9_8
- Mary E. Finnegan, Naomi P. Visanji, Isolda Romero-Canelon, Emily House, Surya Rajan, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Lili-Naz Hazrati, Jon Dobson, Joanna F. Collingwood, "Synchrotron XRF imaging of Alzheimer’s disease basal ganglia reveals linear dependence of high-field magnetic resonance microscopy on tissue iron concentration", Journal Of Neuroscience Methods (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.03.002
- Karen A. Hudson-Edwards, Patrick Byrne, Graham Bird, Paul A. Brewer, Ian T. Burke, Heather E. Jamieson, Mark G. Macklin, Richard D. Williams, "Origin and fate of Vanadium in the Hazeltine Creek Catchment following the 2014 Mount Polley mine tailings spill, British Columbia, Canada", Environmental Science & Technology (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06391
- Alessandro F. Gualtieri, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Maura Tomatis, Francesco Turci, "Iron from a geochemical viewpoint. Understanding toxicity/pathogenicity mechanisms in iron-bearing minerals with a special attention to mineral fibers", Free Radical Biology And Medicine, 133, 21 - 37 (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.07.023
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "X-ray fluorescence sheds light on the growth patterns of extinct hyaena" (2019)
- Pieter Bots, Arjen Van Veelen, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Christopher Muryn, Roy A. Wogelius, Katherine Morris, "Neptunium(V) and uranium(VI) reactions at the magnetite (111) surface", Geosciences, 9, 81 (2019), DOI: 10.3390/geosciences9020081
- William M. Nash, Duane J. Smythe, Bernard J. Wood, "Compositional and temperature effects on sulfur speciation and solubility in silicate melts", Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 507, 187 - 198 (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.006
- Chang Guo, Sarah Robertson, Ralf J. M. Weber, Alison Buckley, James Warren, Alan Hodgson, Joshua Z. Rappoport, Konstantin Ignatyev, Kirsty Meldrum, Isabella Römer, Sameirah Macchiarulo, James Kevin Chipman, Tim Marczylo, Martin O. Leonard, Timothy W. Gant, Mark R. Viant, Rachel Smith, "Pulmonary toxicity of inhaled nano-sized cerium oxide aerosols in Sprague–Dawley rats", Nanotoxicology, 8, 1 - 18 (2019), DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2018.1554751
- Loredana Brinza, Hong Phuc Vu, Mariana Neamtu, Liane G. Benning, "Experimental and simulation results of the adsorption of Mo and V onto ferrihydrite", Scientific Reports, 9 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37875-y
- Yohann Franz, Antoine F. J. Runge, Swe Z. Oo, Gregorio Jimenez-Martinez, Noel Healy, Ali Khokhar, Antulio Tarazona, Harold M. H. Chong, Sakellaris Mailis, Anna C. Peacock, "Laser crystallized low-loss polycrystalline silicon waveguides", Optics Express, 27 (2019), DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.004462
- William Bower, Carolyn I. Pearce, Andrew D. Smith, Simon M. Pimblott, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Richard A. D. Pattrick, "Radiation damage effects in chlorite investigated using microfocus synchrotron techniques", Acs Earth And Space Chemistry (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00205
- Stephen W. T. Price, Annelies Van Loon, Katrien Keune, Aaron Parsons, Claire Murray, Andrew M. Beale, J. Fred W. Mosselmans, "Unravelling the spatial dependency of the complex solid-state chemistry of Pb in a paint micro-sample from Rembrandt's Homer using XRD-CT", Chemical Communications, 17 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09705D
- Jennifer Anne, Nicholas Edwards, Fabio Brigidi, Pierre Gueriau, Virginia L. Harvey, K. Geraki, Mike Buckley, Roy A. Wogelius, "Advances in bone preservation: Identifying possible collagen preservation using sulfur speciation mapping", Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.030
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