Mineralogical control on methylotrophic methanogenesis and implications for cryptic methane cycling in marine surface sediment

An article by Xiao et Al, published by Nature Communications in May 2022, found “that methylamines, the major substrates for cryptic methane production in marine surface sediment, are strongly adsorbed by marine sediment clays, and that this adsorption significantly reduces their concentrations in the dissolved pool”. Their article concludes: “our study provides direct evidence that the adsorption of [Organic Carbon methylamines] by minerals (clay) limits the availability of [Organic Carbon methylamines] to microbes (M. methylutens) and results in a slow-down and reduction of remineralisation of Organic Carbon (methane production)”

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Case studies

On the reproducibility of electron-beam lithographic fabrication of photonic nanostructures

On the reproducibility of electron-beam lithographic fabrication of photonic nanostructures

Nature Scientific Reports has published an article by Sahoo et Al on the usage of photonic nanostructures for novel ...

Nanoscintillator Coating: A Key Parameter That Strongly Impacts Internalization, Biocompatibility, and Therapeutic Efficacy in Pancreatic Cancer Models

Nanoscintillator Coating: A Key Parameter That Strongly Impacts Internalization, Biocompatibility, and Therapeutic Efficacy in Pancreatic Cancer Models

Small Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH has released an article by Fulbert et Al about the study of nanoscintillat...

Native cryo-correlative light and synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging of proteins and essential metals in developing neurons

Native cryo-correlative light and synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging of proteins and essential metals in developing neurons

ChemRxiv has published an article by Ortega et Al about the study of cellular functions of essential metals. The abs...

Observing High-Cycle Fatigue Damage in Freestanding Gold Thin Films with Bulge Testing and Intermittent TEM Imaging

Observing High-Cycle Fatigue Damage in Freestanding Gold Thin Films with Bulge Testing and Intermittent TEM Imaging

Advanced Engineering Materials has published an article by Krapf et Al about their research of a "new experimental w...

Highly confined incident-angle-robust surface phonon polariton bound states in the continuum metasurfaces

Highly confined incident-angle-robust surface phonon polariton bound states in the continuum metasurfaces

arXiv has published a paper by Nan et Al about research of photonic technologies. The experimental results introduce...

In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of LaFeO3 and LaFeO3/LaNiO3 Thin Films in the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of LaFeO3 and LaFeO3/LaNiO3 Thin Films in the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C has published an article by Che et Al about their study of the "electrocatalytic...

Characterization of MIRCOM, IRSN’s new ion microbeam dedicated to targeted irradiation of living biological samples

Characterization of MIRCOM, IRSN’s new ion microbeam dedicated to targeted irradiation of living biological samples

HAL Open Science has published a paper by Vianna-Legros et Al, about the "development and commissioning of the IRSN'...

Thermally Driven Field Emission from Zinc Oxide Wires on a Nanomembrane Used as a Detector for Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

Thermally Driven Field Emission from Zinc Oxide Wires on a Nanomembrane Used as a Detector for Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

ACS Omega have published an article by Haugg et Al discussing the ability to use low-dimensional nanostructures to a...

The path from root input to mineral-associated soil carbon is shaped by habitat-specific microbial traits and soil moisture

The path from root input to mineral-associated soil carbon is shaped by habitat-specific microbial traits and soil moisture

Soil Biology and Biochemistry have published an article by Sokol et Al about the study of soil microorganisms helpin...