Iron Oxides

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.

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