Tan Luong just published his first big paper for his Ph.D thesis! The project started during his Master’s, then snowballed into his Ph.D. Here’s the story (PAPER HERE) of what happens when you expose rhodochrosite (MnCO3) to moist air
Molecular Geochemistry at Umeå University
connecting atoms with mountains
Tan Luong just published his first big paper for his Ph.D thesis! The project started during his Master’s, then snowballed into his Ph.D. Here’s the story (PAPER HERE) of what happens when you expose rhodochrosite (MnCO3) to moist air
These are from collaborations with:
1. Jonatan Klaminder (Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University)
2. Solomon Tesfalidet (Chemistry, Umeå University)
3. Khalil Hanna (École National Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, France)
A collaboration with Wei Cheng (Wuhan) and Rémi Marsac (Rennes), and Khalil Hanna (Rennes)!
You can find the paper here
Cheng W, Marsac R., Hanna K., Boily JF. 2021. Competitive Carboxylate-Silicate Binding at Iron Oxyhydroxide Surfaces. Langmuir https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02261
Our collaboration with Allan Bertram’s group at UBC continues with another paper on the ice nucleation capability of feldspar!
Yun J., Kumar A, Removski N., Shchukarev A., Link N., Boily J.-F., Bertram A.K. 2021. Effects of Inorganic Acids and Organic Solutes on the Ice Nucleating Ability and Surface Properties of Potassium-Rich Feldspar. ACS Earth Space Chem. (in press).
Using microelectrodes, we revealed a gateway for ion transport in bubbles pinned on hematite and on gold!
You can read our paper “A gateway for ion transport on gas bubbles pinned onto solids” here.
You can read the story behind the paper here.
Harizi V, Nha TPT, Berisha A, Boily JF. 2021. A gateway for ion transport on gas bubbles pinned onto solids. Commun. Chem. 4, 43.
This is the first paper from Merve Yesilbas‘ VR- and NASA-supported work with Janice Bishop at the SETI institute.
Bishop JL, Yeşilbaş M, Hinman NW, Burton ZMF, Englert PAJ, Toner JD, McEwen AS, Gulick VC, Gibson EK, Koeberl C. 2021. Martian subsurface cryosalt expansion and collapse as trigger for landslides. Sci. Adv. 7, eabe4459.
You can find the paper here and press releases on CNN and SETI
Using soil analogues, the group showed how cryosalts can trigger landslides on Mars. This suggests the martian environment is still dynamic and active today, which is important for future human exploration on Mars. A portion of the experimental work was done in JF Boily’s laboratory.
A paper in collaboration with Khalil Hanna (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes) and Eugene Ilton (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)!
Cheng W, Lindholm J, Holmboe M., Luong NT, Shchukarev A, Ilton ES, Hanna K., Boily J.-F. ‡ 2021. Nanoscale hydration in layered manganese oxides. Langmuir. (in press)