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 | 2025-present WISE–Kempe postdoc 2020-2025 Ph.D. Environmental Geochemistry. University of Alberta 2015-2020 B.Sc. Double Major. Environmental Science (Geology) & Geoscience. University of Calgary (Canada) |
Recent News
- August 2025: Attended the WISE kickoff meeting in Norrköping
- August 2025: Attended the WISE summer school in Höör and MAXIV
- July 2025: Talk at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Prague
- May 2024: Maria joins the Boily group in 2025! Funded by the WISE-Kempe initiative.
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Research
Mg-bearing mine wastes have a great potential of passively capturing atmospheric CO2 at low energetic costs, yet the reactions can be poisoned by impermeable Mg-carbonate nanocoatings. Harmless organic complexation agents can, however, help circumvent this potentially important bottleneck. Using MgO nanotubes as a proxy for Mg-bearing mine wastes, this experimental (vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, electron microscopy) project will resolve molecular- to meso-scale processes involving the organic ligand-assisted growth of Mg-carbonate materials during the Direct Air Capture of CO2.
Luong N.T., Veyret N., Boily J.-F. ‡ 2023 CO2 mineralization by MgO nanocubes in nanometric water films. ACS Mat. Interface Chem. 15, 45055-45063. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c10590
Luong N.T., Boily J.-F. ‡ 2023 MgO Water film-driven brucite nanosheet growth and stacking. Langmuir. 31, 11090-11098.https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01411
Luong N.T., Holmboe M., Boily J.-F. ‡ 2023 MgO nanocube hydroxylation by nanometric waterfilms. Nanoscale. 15, 10286-10294. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/nr/d2nr07140a
Projects
Funded by WISE–Kempe project ” Enhanced Direct Air Capture of CO2 by Mg-minerals using organic additives”, awarded to Jean-François Boily
Publications
Contact & Delivery Address
Maria Arizaleta
Department of Chemistry
Linnaeusv. 6
Umeå University
SE-901 87 Umeå
Sweden