Metals and metalloids play important roles in plant function and metabolism. Likewise,
plants subsequently introduce vital dietary nutrition to people and animals. Understanding …

Technical progress in the fields of X-ray sources, optics and detectors is constantly
enhancing the pace of data acquisition in XRF imaging. This enlarges the size of the …

Understanding biochemical mechanisms and changes associated with disease conditions
and, therefore, development of improved clinical treatments, is relying increasingly on …

Few techniques are available for analysis of the heavy halogens (Br and I) and
characterisation of mineral standards for inter-laboratory comparison is desirable. This study …

Background and Aims X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM) is a powerful technique to
elucidate the distribution of elements within plants. However, accumulated radiation …

Свыше 70% земной коры затронуто в той или иной степени процессами
метаморфизма (Grauch, 1989). Метаморфические процессы отражаются прежде всего …

Microanalysis can provide rapid, quantitative characterization of mineral systems that
complements the field-and core-scale observations traditionally made in ore deposits. We …

Titanium substrate was coated with mixed metal oxides of SnO2, RuO2 and IrO2. These
coatings were prepared by thermal decomposition of the metal chlorides and alkoxides and …

The 40year history of nuclear microscopy has seen sustained progress in the development
of technology needed to improve PIXE analysis and trace element imaging performance …

Samples of fluids and melts trapped and preserved as inclusions in growing minerals or
healed fractures provide unique windows on a range of geological processes from mantle …