DOI: 10.1039/d6ra04440a ISSN: 2046-2069

Seeing redox at the microscale: 2D HERFD-XRF imaging of uranium oxidation states on thin sections of bacterial cells

Stephan Hilpmann, Elena F. Bazarkina, Lucia Amidani, René Hübner, Kristina O. Kvashnina, Andrea Cherkouk

The reduction of U(

vi
) to U(
v
) and U(
iv
) by bacteria can be followed by using HERFD-XRF and XANES measurements on thin sections, in combination with STEM-EDXS.

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