From the perspective of a chemist, biology confers a rich variety of roles on a number of
metal ions. It is widely agreed that a large fraction of the genomic output of living things …

Element specificity is one of the key factors underlying the widespread use and acceptance
of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) as a research tool in the environmental and geo …

All eukaryotes require iron. Replication, detoxification, and a cancer-protective form of
regulated cell death termed ferroptosis, all depend on iron metabolism. Ferrous iron …

Background Rice is the primary source of food for billions of people in develo** countries,
yet the commonly consumed polished grain contains insufficient levels of the key …

Both gold-rich sulphides and ultra-high grade native gold oreshoots are common but poorly
understood phenomenon in orogenic-type mineral systems, partly because fluids in these …

The X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM) beamline is an in-vacuum undulator-based X-ray
fluorescence (XRF) microprobe beamline at the 3 GeV Australian Synchrotron. The …

A hard x‐ray micro‐nanoprobe has commenced operation at the Australian Synchrotron
providing versatile x‐ray fluorescence microscopy across an incident energy range from 4 to …

Motivated by the challenge of capturing complex hierarchical chemical detail in natural
material from a wide range of applications, the Maia detector array and integrated realtime …

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 …

Contents Summary 432 I. Introduction 433 II. Preparation of plant samples for X‐ray micro‐
analysis 433 III. X‐ray elemental map** techniques 438 IV. X‐ray data analysis 442 V …