Merve nailed her Ph.D. Thesis “Thin Water and Films on Minerals: A Molecular Level Study” on March 23rd.

She will defend her thesis on April 13th at Umeå University (info here).

Opponent: Grégory Lefèvre (Chime ParisTech)

Evaluation Committee: Stina Jansson (Chemistry, UmU), Jan Pettersson (University of Gothenburg), Alexandr Talyzin (Physics, UmU)

Wei is a visiting Ph.D student from Khalil Hanna‘s group (Rennes).
During her 6-month stay, she will be studying water vapour binding on
organically-coated minerals with JF Boily.

 

A collaboration with Changxun Xu and Mats Åström of Linnaeus University with JF Boily and Andrey Shchukarev

You can find the article here

Authored by Merve Yesilbas, Cheng Choo (Nikki) Lee, and Jean-François Boily

We thank the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) for a great collaboration!

You can find the link here.

A collaboration between JF Boily and Glenn Waychunas (LBNL). Paper is here!

A  collaboration with JF Boily and M Zhu (U of Wyoming),  X. Feng (Huazhong Agricultural University), Y. Hu (Canadian Light Source), G. Waychunas (LBNL), J. Kubicki (University of Texas) and X. Wang (U of Wyoming).

Find the paper here

Authored by Merve Yesilbas, Michael Holmboe and JF Boily. We identified vibration spectral signatures of clays with 0, 1 and 2 hydration layers.
You can find the paper here

 

We thank the Kempe Foundation for supporting a new venture in the world of isotope geochemistry in the Boily laboratory. More details are to come in 2018.

New paper by M. Lucas (former postdoc) and J.-F. Boily on the local (micron-scale) electrochemical response of inorganic ions at hematite surfaces. Link to article  here!

Paper (Link) by JF Boily in  collaboration with the group of Khalil Hanna at “École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes” (France).