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Principal Beamline Scientist:
Konstantin Ignatyev
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Prof. Sofia Diaz-Moreno
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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
23 items found for 2023 [total: 543]
Mechanism of the direct reduction of chromite process as a clean ferrochrome technology Acs Engineering Au, 882 Dec 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.3c00057
CO2-undersaturated melt inclusions from the South West Indian Ridge record surprisingly uniform redox conditions Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24 Dec 2023 DOI: 10.1029/2023GC011235
Arsenic and artistry: uncovering secrets in Pietro Lorenzetti's paintings Nov 2023
Science Highlight I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
The oxidation state of titanium in silicate melts Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 1 Nov 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.11.014
Green alternatives to zinc dialkyldithiophosphates: vanadium oxide-based additives Acs Applied Engineering Materials, 10 Oct 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acsaenm.3c00425
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 B18-Core EXAFS I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas Science Advances, 9 Oct 2023 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg8284
Sulfur and chlorine in nakhlite clinopyroxenes: Source region concentrations and magmatic evolution Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 461 Aug 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.08.007
A comparative study of ultrasmall calcium carbonate nanoparticles for targeting and imaging atherosclerotic plaque Acs Nano, 30 Jul 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c03523
Ultrafast electronic, infrared, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of Cu(i) phosphine diimine complexes Faraday Discussions, 1 Jul 2023 DOI: 10.1039/D3FD00027C
Multi-resolution correlative ultrastructural and chemical analysis of carious enamel by scanning microscopy and tomographic imaging Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10 Jul 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c08031
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF I08-1-Soft X-ray Ptychography I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging I14-Hard X-ray Nanoprobe I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
A pixelated CVD diamond synchrotron radiation monitor with graphitic electrodes June 2023
Thesis I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Distinguishing prostate cancer grades using X-ray and spectroscopic analysis of calcifications June 2023
Poster I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Microcalcification crystallography as a potential marker of DCIS recurrence Scientific Reports, 13 June 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33547-8
Serpentinization offers clues to the early history of Mars June 2023
Science Highlight I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Intermediates during the nucleation of platinum nanoparticles by a reaction with ethylene glycol: operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies with a microfluidic cell The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, 38 May 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c08749
Addressing uncertainties in correlative imaging of exogenous particles with the tissue microanatomy with synchronous imaging strategies Metallomics, May 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfad030
Deep anoxic aquifers could act as sinks for uranium through microbial-assisted mineral trapping Communications Earth & Environment, 4 Apr 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00767-9
Degradation of fourteenth-century mordant gilding layers: synchrotron-based microfocus XRF, XRD, and XANES analyses of two paintings by Pietro Lorenzetti Studies In Conservation, 89 Apr 2023 DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2023.2201094
Journal Paper I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Selenium uptake from livestock pasture extremely enriched in selenium, molybdenum and uranium: a field and X-ray absorption study Soil Systems, 7 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems7010024
Correlated multi-technique characterisation of sulfur-bearing serpentine in carbonaceous chondrites Feb 2023 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6355
Conference Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF I14-Hard X-ray Nanoprobe I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
Observational constraints on the process and products of Martian serpentinization Science Advances, 9 Feb 2023 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add8472
Revealing the structure and function of natural and bioinspired biocomposites using synchrotron X-ray tomography techniques Feb 2023
Thesis I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
Biomolecular and elemental micro-analysis of the skeletal muscle in the quest of new tissue markers of neuromuscular diseases Feb 2023
Thesis B22-Multimode InfraRed imaging And Microspectroscopy I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
- Dogan Paktunc, Jason P. Coumans, David Carter, Nail Zagrtdenov, Dominique Duguay, "Mechanism of the direct reduction of chromite process as a clean ferrochrome technology", Acs Engineering Au, 882 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.3c00057
- Yves Moussallam, Guillaume Georgeais, Estelle F. Rose-Koga, Kenneth T. Koga, Margaret E. Hartley, Bruno Scaillet, Clive Oppenheimer, Nial Peters, "CO2-undersaturated melt inclusions from the South West Indian Ridge record surprisingly uniform redox conditions", Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24 (2023), DOI: 10.1029/2023GC011235
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Arsenic and artistry: uncovering secrets in Pietro Lorenzetti's paintings" (2023)
- Andrew J. Berry, Patricia M. Doyle, Paul F. Schofield, Laura A. Miller, Charles Le Losq, Antony D. Burnham, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, "The oxidation state of titanium in silicate melts", Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 1 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.11.014
- Andrew J. Straiton, Thokozile A. Kathyola, Callum Sweeney, James D. Parish, Elizabeth A. Willneff, Sven L. M. Schroeder, Ardian Morina, Anne Neville, Joshua Smith, Andrew L. Johnson, "Green alternatives to zinc dialkyldithiophosphates: vanadium oxide-based additives", Acs Applied Engineering Materials, 10 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acsaenm.3c00425
- Sara Callegaro, Don R. Baker, Paul R. Renne, Leone Melluso, Kalotina Geraki, Martin J. Whitehouse, Angelo De Min, Andrea Marzoli, "Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas", Science Advances, 9 (2023), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg8284
- Don R. Baker, Sara Callegaro, Andrea Marzoli, Angelo De Min, Kalotina Geraki, Martin J. Whitehouse, Agata M. Krzesinska, Anna Maria Fioretti, "Sulfur and chlorine in nakhlite clinopyroxenes: Source region concentrations and magmatic evolution", Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 461 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.08.007
- Lydia Martínez-Parra, Marina Piñol-Cancer, Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Ana B. Miguel-Coello, Desirè Di Silvio, Ana M. Gomez, Clara Uriel, Sandra Plaza-García, Marta Gallego, Raquel Pazos, Hugo Groult, Marc Jeannin, Kalotina Geraki, Laura Fernández-Méndez, Ainhize Urkola-Arsuaga, María Jesús Sánchez-Guisado, Juliana Carrillo-Romero, Wolfgang J. Parak, Maurizio Prato, Fernando Herranz, Jesus Ruiz-Cabello, Susana Carregal-Romero, "A comparative study of ultrasmall calcium carbonate nanoparticles for targeting and imaging atherosclerotic plaque", Acs Nano, 30 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c03523
- Martin V. Appleby, Rory A. Cowin, Iona Ivalo, Samantha L. Peralta-Arriaga, Craig C. Robertson, Stuart Bartlett, Ann Fitzpatrick, Andrew Dent, Gabriel Karras, Sofia Diaz-Moreno, Dimitri Chekulaev, Julia A. Weinstein, "Ultrafast electronic, infrared, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of Cu(i) phosphine diimine complexes", Faraday Discussions, 1 (2023), DOI: 10.1039/D3FD00027C
- Cyril Besnard, Ali Marie, Sisini Sasidharan, Petr Buček, Jessica M. Walker, Julia E. Parker, Matthew C. Spink, Robert A. Harper, Shashidhara Marathe, Kaz Wanelik, Thomas E. J. Moxham, Enrico Salvati, Konstantin Ignatyev, Michal M. Klosowski, Richard M. Shelton, Gabriel Landini, Alexander M. Korsunsky, "Multi-resolution correlative ultrastructural and chemical analysis of carious enamel by scanning microscopy and tomographic imaging", Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c08031
- [Thesis] Chris Bloomer, "A pixelated CVD diamond synchrotron radiation monitor with graphitic electrodes" (2023)
- [Poster] Sarah Gosling, Emily Arnold, Tina Geraki, Mark Kitchen, Iain Lyburn, Keith Rogers, Tim Snow, Nicholas Stone, Charlene Greenwood, "Distinguishing prostate cancer grades using X-ray and spectroscopic analysis of calcifications" (2023)
- Sarah B. Gosling, Emily L. Arnold, Samantha K. Davies, Hannah Cross, Ihssane Bouybayoune, Doriana Calabrese, Jayakrupakar Nallala, Sarah E. Pinder, Liping Fu, Esther H. Lips, Lorraine King, Jeffrey Marks, Allison Hall, Lars J. Grimm, Thomas Lynch, Donna Pinto, Hilary Stobart, E. Shelley Hwang, Jelle Wesseling, Kalotina Geraki, Nicholas Stone, Iain D. Lyburn, Charlene Greenwood, Keith D. Rogers, Alastair Thompson, Serena Nik-Zainal, Elinor J. Sawyer, Helen Davies, Andrew Futreal, Nicholas Navin, Jos Jonkers, Jacco Van Rheenen, Fariba Behbod, Marjanka Schmidt, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Daniel Rea, Proteeti Bhattacharjee, Deborah Collyar, Ellen Verschuur, Marja Van Oirsouw, "Microcalcification crystallography as a potential marker of DCIS recurrence", Scientific Reports, 13 (2023), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33547-8
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Serpentinization offers clues to the early history of Mars" (2023)
- Sylvia Britto, Christopher M. A. Parlett, Stuart Bartlett, Joshua D. Elliott, Konstantin Ignatyev, Sven L. M. Schroeder, "Intermediates during the nucleation of platinum nanoparticles by a reaction with ethylene glycol: operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies with a microfluidic cell", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, 38 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c08749
- Alexander P. Morrell, Richard A. Martin, Helen M Roberts, Hiram Castillo-Michel, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Kalotina Geraki, Adrian T. Warfield, Paul Lingor, Wasif Qayyum, Daniel Graf, Maria Febbraio, Owen Addison, "Addressing uncertainties in correlative imaging of exogenous particles with the tissue microanatomy with synchronous imaging strategies", Metallomics (2023), DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfad030
- Ivan N. Pidchenko, John N. Christensen, Martin Kutzschbach, Konstantin Ignatyev, Ignasi Puigdomenech, Eva-Lena Tullborg, Nick M. W. Roberts, E. Troy Rasbury, Paul Northrup, Ryan Tappero, Kristina O. Kvashnina, Thorsten Schäfer, Yohey Suzuki, Henrik Drake, "Deep anoxic aquifers could act as sinks for uranium through microbial-assisted mineral trapping", Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (2023), DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00767-9
- Helen Howard, Jens Najorka, Paul F. Schofield, Kalotina Geraki, "Degradation of fourteenth-century mordant gilding layers: synchrotron-based microfocus XRF, XRD, and XANES analyses of two paintings by Pietro Lorenzetti", Studies In Conservation, 89, 1 - 16 (2023), DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2023.2201094
- Shauna L. Mcloughlin, Richard A. D. Pattrick, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Joe Kelleher, Bart E. Van Dongen, "Selenium uptake from livestock pasture extremely enriched in selenium, molybdenum and uranium: a field and X-ray absorption study", Soil Systems, 7 (2023), DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems7010024
- [Conference Paper] Niamh Topping, John C. Bridges, Leon J. Hicks, Takaaki Noguchi, "Correlated multi-technique characterisation of sulfur-bearing serpentine in carbonaceous chondrites" (2023), DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6355
- Benjamin M. Tutolo, Nicholas J. Tosca, "Observational constraints on the process and products of Martian serpentinization", Science Advances, 9 (2023), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add8472
- [Thesis] Nathanael Ho Wai Leung, "Revealing the structure and function of natural and bioinspired biocomposites using synchrotron X-ray tomography techniques" (2023)
- [Thesis] Paula Kasprzyk, "Biomolecular and elemental micro-analysis of the skeletal muscle in the quest of new tissue markers of neuromuscular diseases" (2023)
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