To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Reference  Physical Sciences  Chemistry

Iron Oxides From Nature to Applications

Out of Print
By: Damien Faivre(Editor), Richard B Frankel(Foreword By)
598 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Iron Oxides
Click to have a closer look
  • Iron Oxides ISBN: 9783527338825 Hardback Jun 2015 Out of Print #232854
About this book Contents Biography Related titles

About this book

Compiling all the information available on the topic, this ready reference covers all important aspects of iron oxides. Following a preliminary overview chapter discussing iron oxide minerals along with their unique structures and properties, the text goes on to deal with the formation and transformation of iron oxides, covering geological, synthetic, and biological formation, as well as various physicochemical aspects. Subsequent chapters are devoted to characterization techniques, with a special focus on X-ray-based methods, magnetic measurements, and electron microscopy alongside such traditional methods as IR/Raman and Mossbauer spectroscopy. The final section mainly concerns exciting new applications of magnetic iron oxides, for example in medicine as microswimmers or as water filtration systems, while more conventional uses as pigments or in biology for magnetoreception illustrate the full potential. A must-read for anyone working in the field.

Contents

Introduction

PART I: Formation, Transformation
- Geological Occurrences and Relevance of Iron Oxides
- Reductive dissolution and reactivity of Ferric (hydr)oxides - new insights and implications for environmental redox processes
- Formation and transformation of iron-bearing minerals by iron(II)-oxidizing and iron(III)-reducing bacteria
- Controlled biomineralization of magnetite in bacteria
- Ferritins iron mineralization and storage: from structure to function
- Iron oxides in the human brain
- The chiton radula: a model system for versatile use of iron oxides.
- Mineralization of goethite in limpet radular teeth
- Synthetic Formation of Iron Oxides
- Oriented attachment and non-classical formation in iron oxides
- Thermodynamics of Iron Oxides and Oxyhydroxides in Different Environments

PART II: Characterization Techniques
- Introduction to standard spectroscopic methods: XRD, IR/Raman and Mössbauer
- TEM and associated techniques
- Magnetic measurements and characterization
- Total X-ray Scattering and Small Angle X-ray Scattering for Determining the Structures, Sizes, Shapes, and Aggregation Extents of Iron (Hydr)oxide Nanoparticles
- X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectroscopy in Fe oxides and oxyhydroxides

PART III: Applications
- Medical Applications of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
- Iron nano-particles for water treatment. Is the future free or fixed?
- Actuation of iron oxide based nanostructures by external magnetic fields
- Iron Oxide-Based Pigments and their Use in History
- Magnetoreception and Magnetotaxis

Customer Reviews

Biography

Currently a private lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany, Damien Faivre studied physical chemistry at the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France, spending a year as an exchange student at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He continued with his doctoral thesis in geochemistry at the Institute for Earth Physics in Paris, France and, while still a PhD student, worked at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. In 2005, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, as Marie Curie Fellow of the EU to study the properties of magnetosomes and their formation mechanisms, and two years later moved to the Department of Biomaterials at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, as group leader to combine his interests in bio- and biomimetic formation and the assembly of magnetic iron oxides, for which he was awarded a grant from the ERC in 2010.

Out of Print
By: Damien Faivre(Editor), Richard B Frankel(Foreword By)
598 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides