Molecular Geochemistry at Umeå University
connecting atoms with mountains
A multi-institution collaboration involving University of Wyoming, Argonne National Laboratory, Canadian Light Source, Stony Brook University and Huazhong Agricultural University.
“Phosphate Sorption Speciation and Precipitation Mechanisms on
Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxide” will soon be coming out in the Open Access Journal Soil Systems
Authors: Xiaoming Wang, Brian L. Phillips, Jean-François Boily, Yongfeng Hu, Zhen Hu, Peng Yang, Xionghan Feng, Wenqian Xu, Mengqiang Zhu *
A paper (link here) by Wei Cheng & Khalil Hanna (École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Rennes, France) and J.-F. Boily. We show that low loadings of organic matter on minerals make surfaces more hydrophobic while high loading make surfaces more
hydrophilic. This work is one of the several to be published from Wei’s 6-month visit in Umeå in March-September 2018.
A recent collaborative venture by the Boily group in the study of pine root respiration with the Näsholm group at SLU. The paper “Improved in vivo measurement of alternative oxidase respiration in Field‐Collected pine roots” is now available in Physiologia Plantarum
Congratulations Merve Yesilbas for a 3 MSEK Postdoctoral Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council! Merve will be using these funds to pursue her research career with Dr. Janice Bishop of the SETI institute in San Francisco to work on the mineralogy of planet Mars.
The Boily group thanks the Kempe foundation for a 2-year extension to our Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry work, with group member Dmitry Shevela, on carbon isotopic signatures in minerals.
By M. Yesilbas, M. 
The fifth paper of Merve Yesilbas‘ 2018 Ph.D. thesis online here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8EN01156G
A paper by Marie Lucas, Merve Yesilbas, Andrey Shchukarev and Jean-François Boily
PECA collaboration with JF Boily and Thomas Wågberg (Physics, Umeå University),
with lead author Alagappan Annamalai. Paper here
Merve Yesilbas defended her Ph.D. thesis on April 13 th.
from left to right: Staffan Sjöberg, Jan Pettersson (Gothenburg University), JF Boily, Merve Yesilbas, Grégory Lefèvre (CNRS-Paris)
