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connecting atoms with mountains

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Author: Jean-Francois Boily

Congratulations Merve Yesilbas!

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)

Posted on March 26, 2018August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

Welcome Wei Cheng!

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.

Posted on March 14, 2018August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

Article out on Ce fixation on manganite and vernadite in Chemical Geology

 

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

You can find the article here

Posted on February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

Ice and cryosalt paper now accepted in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

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.

Posted on February 13, 2018August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

New Paper on Si precipitation on Fe oxides in ES&T!

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

Posted on January 6, 2018August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

New paper on Si binding on ferrihydrite in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

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

Posted on December 30, 2017December 30, 2017 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

New paper out in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry on Clay hydration

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

 

Posted on December 13, 2017August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

Kempe funding received for new IRMS work in Boily laboratory

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.

Posted on November 21, 2017August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

Paper on Local Impedance Electrochemical Spectroscopy accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C

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!

Posted on November 21, 2017August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

A second article on drug co-binding on minerals published in ES&T this year!

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

 

Posted on September 18, 2017August 30, 2018 by Jean-Francois BoilyPosted in NewsLeave a comment

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Open Positions

  • Undergraduate student projects are available throughout the year. Contact one of the group leaders directly to discuss potential projects.
  • Currently there are no funded Postdoc and PhD positions available.

Events/Talks

  • 31/3/2018 The XPS facility at UMU currently has a few time slots available at a discount until end of March 2018. Contact andrey.shchuckarev@umu.sefor more information.
  • 30/11/2017 Asst. Prof. Michael Holmboe will be giving a talk at the HPC2N Open House with Kebnekaise Celebration at Umeå University.
  • 24-27/9/2017 Asst. Prof. Michael Holmboe will be giving a talk on atomistic simulations of hydrated clays at the Conference on Clays in Natural and Engineered barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement in Davos.
  • 13-18/8/2017 Asst. Prof. Michael Holmboe will be giving a workshop on GROMACS at the 2017 Goldschmidt conference in Paris. Read more
  • 13/6/2017 Prof. Jean-François Boily will be giving at talk on the 13th of June at the Oorgandagarna conference

The Molecular geochemistry Laboratory

The Molecular Geochemistry Laboratory is a multidisciplinary group looking at connecting the very small -- atoms -- with the very large -- rocks and minerals.

The group is housed in the Department of Chemistry at Umeå University, and is led by six PIs: Erik Björn, Jean-François Boily, Michael Holmboe, C. A. Ohlin, Andrey Shchukarev, and Staffan Sjöberg.

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The Molecular Geochemistry Laboratory is found on the sixth floor of the Chemical Institution, Linnaeus väg 10, Umeå University, Umeå.

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