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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
30 items found for 2020 [total: 543]
Developing a system for in vivo imaging of maize roots containing iodinated contrast media in soil using synchrotron XCT and XRF Plant And Soil, 4 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11104-020-04784-x
Structural and compositional characteristics of Fukushima release particulate material from Units 1 and 3 elucidates release mechanisms, accident chronology and future decommissioning strategy Scientific Reports, 10 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79169-2
Engineering multifunctional metal/protein hybrid nanomaterials as tools for therapeutic intervention and high-sensitivity detection Chemical Science, 277 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.1039/D0SC05215A
Adsorption of rare earth elements in regolith-hosted clay deposits Nature Communications, 11 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17801-5
Geochemical investigations of noble metal-bearing ores: Synchrotron-based micro-analyses and microcosm bioleaching studies Chemosphere, Dec 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129388
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Particulate plutonium released from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns Science Of The Total Environment, 743 Nov 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140539
Distinct chemical and mineralogical composition of Icelandic dust compared to northern African and Asian dust Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 20 Nov 2020 DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-13521-2020
Spectroscopic, Raman, EMPA, Micro-XRF and micro-XANES analyses of sulphur concentration and oxidation state of natural apatite crystals Crystals, 10 Nov 2020 DOI: 10.3390/cryst10111032
Effect of redox on Fe–Mg–Mn exchange between olivine and melt and an oxybarometer for basalts Contributions To Mineralogy And Petrology, 175 Oct 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s00410-020-01736-7
Insights into the composition of ancient Egyptian red and black inks on papyri achieved by synchrotron-based microanalyses Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 54 Oct 2020 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2004534117
Iron calcium carbonate instability: structural modification of siderite corrosion films Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, Oct 2020 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c14513
The structural and compositional basis for the transparency and physical properties of the Skogsbergia lerneri carapace Sept 2020
Thesis I02-Macromolecular Crystallography I13-1-Coherence I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Impact of neospora caninum infection on the bioenergetics and transcriptome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells Pathogens, 9 Aug 2020 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9090710
An advanced analytical assessment of rare earth element concentration, distribution, speciation, crystallography and solid-state chemistry in fly ash Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Aug 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2020.105950
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Unlocking the fertiliser potential of waste-derived biochar Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Jul 2020 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c04336
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Synchrotron micro-XRD and XRD-CT reveal newly formed lead-sulfur compounds in Old Master paintings Journal Of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Jul 2020 DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00169D
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Volatiles in the Moon: A sulfur and chlorine perspective Jul 2020
Thesis I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
X-ray fluorescence study of Ca, Fe and Zn distribution in human RPE/Bruch’s membrane/choroid with and without early AMD June 2020
Conference Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
Real-time multi-length scale chemical tomography of fixed bed reactors during the oxidative coupling of methane reaction Journal Of Catalysis, 386 June 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.03.027
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
The quintet completed: The partitioning of sulfur between nominally volatile-free minerals and silicate melts American Mineralogist, 105 May 2020 DOI: 10.2138/am-2020-7188
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
A single-crystal diamond X-ray pixel detector with embedded graphitic electrodes Journal Of Synchrotron Radiation, 27 May 2020 DOI: 10.1107/S160057752000140X
Accumulation of ambient phosphate into the periplasm of marine bacteria is proton motive force dependent Nature Communications, 11 May 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16428-w
Identification of distinct pathological signatures induced by patient-derived α-synuclein structures in nonhuman primates Science Advances, 6 May 2020 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz9165
Terrestrial alteration mineral assemblages in the NWA 10416 olivine phyric shergottite Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Apr 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.026
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Organic complexation of U(VI) in reducing soils at a natural analogue site: Implications for uranium transport Chemosphere, Apr 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126859
Establishing the earthworm as a model to study natural processes of neuronal regeneration: new insights from histological, transcriptomic and biophysical studies Mar 2020
Thesis I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Synchrotron radiation and catalytic science Synchrotron Radiation News, 33 Feb 2020 DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2020.1701368
Combining photocatalysis and optical fibre technology towards improved microreactor design for hydrogen generation with metallic nanoparticles Acs Photonics, Feb 2020 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01577
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Laser-driven phase segregation and tailoring of compositionally graded microstructures in Si-Ge nanoscale thin films Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, Feb 2020 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22135
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
- Callum P. Scotson, Arjen Van Veelen, Katherine A. Williams, Nicolai Koebernick, Dan Mckay Fletcher, Tiina Roose, "Developing a system for in vivo imaging of maize roots containing iodinated contrast media in soil using synchrotron XCT and XRF", Plant And Soil, 4 (2020), DOI: 10.1007/s11104-020-04784-x
- Peter Martin, Christopher P. Jones, Stuart Bartlett, Konstantin Ignatyev, Dave Megson-Smith, Yukihiko Sato, Silvia Cipiccia, Darren J. Batey, Christoph Rau, Keisuke Sueki, Tatsuya Ishii, Junya Igarashi, Kazuhiko Ninomiya, Atsushi Shinohara, Alison Rust, Thomas B. Scott, "Structural and compositional characteristics of Fukushima release particulate material from Units 1 and 3 elucidates release mechanisms, accident chronology and future decommissioning strategy", Scientific Reports, 10 (2020), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79169-2
- Antonio Aires, David Maestro, Jorge Ruiz Del Rio, Ana R. Palanca, Elena Lopez-Martinez, Irantzu Llarena, Kalotina Geraki, Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Ana Villar, Aitziber L. Cortajarena, "Engineering multifunctional metal/protein hybrid nanomaterials as tools for therapeutic intervention and high-sensitivity detection", Chemical Science, 277 (2020), DOI: 10.1039/D0SC05215A
- Anouk M. Borst, Martin P. Smith, Adrian Finch, Guillaume Estrade, Cristina Villanova-De-Benavent, Peter Nason, Eva Marquis, Nicola J. Horsburgh, Kathryn M. Goodenough, Cheng Xu, Jindřich Kynický, Kalotina Geraki, "Adsorption of rare earth elements in regolith-hosted clay deposits", Nature Communications, 11 (2020), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17801-5
- Loredana Brinza, Imad Ahmed, Carmen - Madalina Cismasiu, Ioan Ardelean, Iuliana Gabriela Breaban, Florica Doroftei, Konstantin Ignatyev, Cristina Moisescu, Mariana Neamtu, "Geochemical investigations of noble metal-bearing ores: Synchrotron-based micro-analyses and microcosm bioleaching studies", Chemosphere (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129388
- Eitaro Kurihara, Masato Takehara, Mizuki Suetake, Ryohei Ikehara, Tatsuki Komiya, Kazuya Morooka, Ryu Takami, Shinya Yamasaki, Toshihiko Ohnuki, Kenji Horie, Mami Takehara, Gareth T. W. Law, William Bower, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Peter Warnicke, Bernd Grambow, Rodney C. Ewing, Satoshi Utsunomiya, "Particulate plutonium released from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns", Science Of The Total Environment, 743 (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140539
- Clarissa Baldo, Paola Formenti, Sophie Nowak, Servanne Chevaillier, Mathieu Cazaunau, Edouard Pangui, Claudia Di Biagio, Jean-Francois Doussin, Konstantin Ignatyev, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Olafur Arnalds, A. Robert Mackenzie, Zongbo Shi, "Distinct chemical and mineralogical composition of Icelandic dust compared to northern African and Asian dust", Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 20, 13521 - 13539 (2020), DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-13521-2020
- Bo Xu, Guanyu Kou, Barbara Etschmann, Daiyue Liu, Joel Brugger, "Spectroscopic, Raman, EMPA, Micro-XRF and micro-XANES analyses of sulphur concentration and oxidation state of natural apatite crystals", Crystals, 10 (2020), DOI: 10.3390/cryst10111032
- Jon Blundy, Elena Melekhova, Luca Ziberna, Madeleine C. S. Humphreys, Valerio Cerantola, Richard A. Brooker, Catherine A. Mccammon, Michel Pichavant, Peter Ulmer, "Effect of redox on Fe–Mg–Mn exchange between olivine and melt and an oxybarometer for basalts", Contributions To Mineralogy And Petrology, 175 (2020), DOI: 10.1007/s00410-020-01736-7
- Thomas Christiansen, Marine Cotte, Wout De Nolf, Elouan Mouro, Juan Reyes-Herrera, Steven De Meyer, Frederik Vanmeert, Nati Salvado, Victor Gonzalez, Poul Erik Lindelof, Kell Mortensen, Kim Ryholt, Koen Janssens, Sine Larsen, "Insights into the composition of ancient Egyptian red and black inks on papyri achieved by synchrotron-based microanalyses", Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 54 (2020), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2004534117
- Adriana Matamoros-Veloza, Richard Barker, Silvia Vargas, Anne Neville, "Iron calcium carbonate instability: structural modification of siderite corrosion films", Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces (2020), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c14513
- [Thesis] Benjamin Rumney, "The structural and compositional basis for the transparency and physical properties of the Skogsbergia lerneri carapace" (2020)
- Hany M. Elsheikha, Mamdowh Alkurashi, Suzy Palfreman, Marcos Castellanos, Kenny Kong, Evita Ning, Nashwa A. Elsaied, Kalotina Geraki, William Macnaughtan, "Impact of neospora caninum infection on the bioenergetics and transcriptome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells", Pathogens, 9 (2020), DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9090710
- Ilemona C. Okeme, Peter G. Martin, Christopher Jones, Richard A. Crane, Theophilus I. Ojonimi, Konstantin Ignatyev, Thomas B. Scott, "An advanced analytical assessment of rare earth element concentration, distribution, speciation, crystallography and solid-state chemistry in fly ash", Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2020.105950
- Wolfram Buss, Anna Bogush, Konstantin Ignatyev, Ondrej Masek, "Unlocking the fertiliser potential of waste-derived biochar", Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2020), DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c04336
- Victor Gonzalez, Annelies Van Loon, Stephen Price, Petria Noble, Katrien Keune, "Synchrotron micro-XRD and XRD-CT reveal newly formed lead-sulfur compounds in Old Master paintings", Journal Of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (2020), DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00169D
- [Thesis] Samantha Jane Faircloth, "Volatiles in the Moon: A sulfur and chlorine perspective" (2020)
- [Conference Paper] Marta Ugarte, Kalotina Geraki, Glen Jeffery, Paul Bishop, "X-ray fluorescence study of Ca, Fe and Zn distribution in human RPE/Bruch’s membrane/choroid with and without early AMD" (2020)
- Antonios Vamvakeros, Dorota Matras, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Di Michiel, Stephen W. T. Price, Pierre Senecal, Miren Agote Aran, Vesna Middelkoop, Gavin B. G. Stenning, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Ilyas Z. Ismagilov, Andrew M. Beale, "Real-time multi-length scale chemical tomography of fixed bed reactors during the oxidative coupling of methane reaction", Journal Of Catalysis, 386, 39 - 52 (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.03.027
- Sara Callegaro, Kalotina Geraki, Andrea Marzoli, Angelo De Min, Victoria Maneta, Don R. Baker, "The quintet completed: The partitioning of sulfur between nominally volatile-free minerals and silicate melts", American Mineralogist, 105, 697 - 707 (2020), DOI: 10.2138/am-2020-7188
- C. Bloomer, M. E. Newton, G. Rehm, P. S. Salter, "A single-crystal diamond X-ray pixel detector with embedded graphitic electrodes", Journal Of Synchrotron Radiation, 27 (2020), DOI: 10.1107/S160057752000140X
- Nina A. Kamennaya, Kalotina Geraki, David J. Scanlan, Mikhail Zubkov, "Accumulation of ambient phosphate into the periplasm of marine bacteria is proton motive force dependent", Nature Communications, 11 (2020), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16428-w
- M. Bourdenx, A. Nioche, S. Dovero, M.-L. Arotcarena, S. Camus, G. Porras, M.-L. Thiolat, N. P. Rougier, A. Prigent, P. Aubert, S. Bohic, C. Sandt, F. Laferrière, E. Doudnikoff, N. Kruse, B. Mollenhauer, S. Novello, M. Morari, T. Leste-Lasserre, I. Trigo Damas, M. Goillandeau, C. Perier, C. Estrada, N. Garcia-Carrillo, A. Recasens, N. N. Vaikath, O. M. A. El-Agnaf, M. T. Herrero, P. Derkinderen, M. Vila, J. A. Obeso, B. Dehay, E. Bezard, "Identification of distinct pathological signatures induced by patient-derived α-synuclein structures in nonhuman primates", Science Advances, 6 (2020), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz9165
- J. D. Piercy, J. C. Bridges, L. J. Hicks, J. L. Macarthur, R. C. Greenwood, I. A. Franchi, "Terrestrial alteration mineral assemblages in the NWA 10416 olivine phyric shergottite", Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.026
- Adam J. Fuller, Peter Leary, Neil D. Gray, Helena S. Davies, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Filipa Cox, Clare H. Robinson, Jon K. Pittman, Clare M. Mccann, Michael Muir, Margaret C. Graham, Satoshi Utsunomiya, William R. Bower, Katherine Morris, Samuel Shaw, Pieter Bots, Francis R. Livens, Gareth T. W. Law, "Organic complexation of U(VI) in reducing soils at a natural analogue site: Implications for uranium transport", Chemosphere (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126859
- Frederik Lermyte, Wen-Ying Zhang, Jake Brooks, Steven Huband, Joanna F. Collingwood, Martin R. Lees, Margaret P. Rayman, Peter J. Sadler, "Metallic iron in cornflakes", Food & Function, 373 (2020), DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02370D
- [Thesis] Andreas Katsiamides, "Establishing the earthworm as a model to study natural processes of neuronal regeneration: new insights from histological, transcriptomic and biophysical studies" (2020)
- Christopher Hardacre, Andrew M. Beale, Emma K. Gibson, Josephine B. M. Goodall, Alex Goguet, Simon A. Kondrat, Grazia Malta, Cristina Stere, Peter P. Wells, Graham J. Hutchings, C. Richard A. Catlow, "Synchrotron radiation and catalytic science", Synchrotron Radiation News, 33, 10 - 14 (2020), DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2020.1701368
- Matthew E. Potter, Daniel J. Stewart, Alice E. Oakley, Richard P. Boardman, Tom Bradley, Pier J. A. Sazio, Robert Raja, "Combining photocatalysis and optical fibre technology towards improved microreactor design for hydrogen generation with metallic nanoparticles", Acs Photonics (2020), DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01577
- Ozan Aktas, Swe Z. Oo, Stuart Macfarquhar, Vinita Mittal, Harold M. H. Chong, Anna C. Peacock, "Laser-driven phase segregation and tailoring of compositionally graded microstructures in Si-Ge nanoscale thin films", Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces (2020), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22135
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