Refereed Journal Publications

References marked in bold are featured on the journal's cover page

2011 

1. J. Miot, K. Maclellan, K. Benzerara, N. Boisset, Preservation of protein globules and peptidoglycan in the mineralized cell wall of nitrate-reducing, iron(II)-oxidizing bacteria: a cryo-electron microscopy study, Geobiology (2011) accepted.
2. C.-L. Sun, C.-T. Chang, H.-H. Lee, J. Zhou, J. Wang, T.-K. Sham, W.-F. Pong, Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of a Core-Shell MWCNT/GONR Heterostructure for the Electrochemical Detection of Ascorbic Acid, Dopamine, and Uric Acid, ACS Nano (2011) accepted.
3. S.L. Christensen, B.M. Haines, U.D. Lanke, M.F. Paige, S.G. Urquhart. SEEM and Partial Yield NEXAFS Spectromicroscopy with an Energy-Filtered X-PEEM, IBM J. Research 55 (2011) 5:1-5:6.
4. M. Hegde, S.S. Farvid, I.D. Hosein, P.V. Radovanovic, Tuning manganese dopant spin interactions in single GaN nanowires at room temperature, ACS Nano 8 (2011) 6365-6373.
5. J.R. Lawrence, J.J. Dynes, D.R. Korber, G.D.W. Swerhone, G.G. Leppard, Monitoring the fate of copper nanoparticles in river biofilms using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM), Chemical Geology (2011) accepted.
6. J. Yang, T. Regier, J.J. Dynes, J. Wang, J. Shi, D. Peak, Y. Chen, J.S. Tse, Soft X-ray induced photoreduction of organic Cu(II) compounds probed by XANES spectroscopy: phenomena and mechanism, Analytical Chemistry (2011) accepted.
7. K. Benzarara, N. Menguya, M. Obst, J. Stolarskic, M. Mazurd, T. Tyliszczak, G.E. Brown Jr., A. Meibom, Study of the crystallographic architecture of corals at the nanoscale by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, Ultramicroscopy 111 (2011) 1268-1275.
8. Z. Wei, J. Wang, S. Wiebe, D. Chapman, A Median-Gaussian filtering framework for moire pattern noise removal from X-ray microscopy image, Micron (2011) accepted.
9. Y. Liang, Y. Li, H. Wang, J. Zhou, J. Wang, T. Regier, H. Dai, Co3O4 nanocrystals on graphene: a synergistic high performance bi-functional catalyst for oxygen reduction and evolution, Nature Materials 10 (2011) 780-786.
10. M. Obst, P. Grathwohl, A. Kappler, O. Eibl, N. Peranio, T. Gocht, Quantitative high-resolution mapping of phenanthrene sorption to black-carbon particles, Environmental Science and Technology 45 (2011) 7314-7322.
11. S. Bernard, B. Horsfield, H.-M. Schulz, R. Wirth, A. Schreiber and N. Sherwood, Geochemical evolution of organic-rich shales with increasing maturity: A STXM and TEM study of the Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian, northern Germany), Marine and Petroleum Geology (2011), DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.05.010.
12. B.J. Schultz, C.J. Partridge, V. Lee, C. Jaye, P.S. Lysaght, C. Smith, J. Barnett, D.A. Fischer, D. Prendergast, S. Banerjee, Imaging local electronic corrugations and doped regions in graphene, Nature Commun. (2011) in press.
13. J. Zhong, T. Xie, J. Deng, X. Sun, X. Pan, X. Bao, Z. Wu, Direct observation and spectroscopy of nanoscaled carboxylated carbonaceous fragments coated on carbon nanotubes, Chem. Commun. 47 (2011) 8373-8375.
14. J.G. Zhou, J. Wang, C.L. Sun, J.M. Maley, R. Sammynaiken, T.K. Sham, W.F. Pong, Nano-scale chemical imaging of a single sheet of reduced graphene oxide, J. Mater. Chem. 21 (2011) 14622-14630.
15. E. Strelcov, A. Davydov, U. Lanke, C. Watts, and A. Kolmakov, In situ monitoring of the growth, intermediate phase transformations and templating of single crystal VO2 nanowires and nanoplatelets, ACS Nano 5 (2011) 3373-3384.
16. C.J. Patridge, T.-L. Wu, G. Sambandamurthy, and S. Banerjee, Colossal above-room-temperature metal-insulator switching of a Wadsley-type tunnel bronze, Chem. Commun. 47 (2011) 4484-4486.
17. J. Zhou, J. Wang, H. Fang, T.-K. Sham, Investigating structural variation and water adsorption of SnO2 coated carbon nanotube by nanoscale chemical imaging, J. Mater. Chem. 21 (2011) 5944-5949. 
18. Y. Tang, Y.S. Li, C.Z. Zhang, J. Wang, Q. Yang and A. Hirose, Synthesis of cobalt/diamond-like carbon thin films by biased target ion beam deposition, Diamond and Related Materials 20 (2011) 538-541.
19. A.P. Hitchcock, K.P. Lam, S. Kalirai, Y. Mozharivskvj, V. Svitlyk, K. Harding and J. Wang, Nanoscale magnetism studied with soft X-ray spectromicroscopy, Physics in Canada 67 (2011) 7-10. 
20. N. Wu, X. He, A. Wysocki, U. Lanke, T. Komesu, K.D. Belashchenko, C. Binek and P.A. Dowben, Imaging and control of surface magnetization domains in a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 087202-(1-4).
21. M.M. van Schooneveld, J. Hilhorst, A.V. Petukhov, T. Tyliszczak, J. Wang, B.M. Weckhuysen, F.M.F. de Groot, E. de Smit, Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy as a novel tool to probe photonic and colloidal crystals, Small 7 (2011) 804-811.
22. A.F.G. Leontowich and A.P. Hitchcock, Zone plate focused soft X-ray lithography, Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, 103 (2011) 1-11.
23. J. Wang, J. Zhou, H. Fang, T.K. Sham, C. Karunakaran, Y. Lu, G. Cooper and A.P. Hitchcock, Effect of humidity on individual SnO2 coated carbon nanotubes studied by in situ STXM, J. Electron Spectrosc. Rel. Phenom. 184 (2011) 296-300.
24. J.W. Li, E. Matias, N. Chen, C.-Y. Kim, J. Wang, J. Gorin, F. He, P. Thorpe, Y. Lu, W.F. Chen, P. Grochulski, X.B. Chen, W.J. Zhang. Investigations of mechanical vibrations for beamlines at the Canadian Light Source, J. Synchrotron Rad. 18 (2011) 109-116.

2010 

A.P. Chandra, A.R. Gerson. The mechanisms of pyrite oxidation and leaching: A fundamental perspective, Surf. Sci. Rep. 65 (2010) 293-315.
P. Chevallier, S. Holvoet, S. Turgeon, P. Horny, J.J. Pireaux and D. Mantovani. Annealing and ultraviolet treatment of plasma fluorocarbon films for enhanced cohesion and stability, J. Applied Polymer Science 118 (2010) 3176-3186.
B.O. Leung, J.L. Brash and A.P. Hitchcock. Characterization of biomaterials by soft X-ray spectromicroscopy, Materials 3 (2010) 3911-3938 (invited review).
L. Tortora, H.-S. Park, S.-W. Kang, V. Savaryn, S.H. Hong, K. Kaznatcheev, D. Finotello, S. Sprunt, S. Kumar and O.D. Lavrentovich. Self-assembly, condensation, and order in aqueous lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals crowded with additives, Soft Matter 6 (2010) 4157-4167.
A. Felten, X. Gillon, M. Gulas, J.-J. Pireaux, X. Ke, G. Van Tendeloo, C. Bittencourt, A.L.D. Kilcoyne, E. Najafi and A.P. Hitchcock. Measuring defect density of individual carbon nanotubes using polarization dependent X-ray microscopy, ACS Nano 4 (2010) 4431-4436.
D. Papineau, B.T. DeGregorio, G.D. Cody, M.D. Fries, S.J. Mojzsis, A. Steele, R.M. Stroud and M.L. Fogel. Ancient graphite in the Eoarchen quartz-pyroxene rock from Akilia in southern West Greenland I: Petrographic and spectroscopic characterization, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74 (2010) 5862-5883.
E. Najafi, J. Wang, A.P. Hitchcock, J. Guan, S. Denommee and B. Simard. Characterization of single walled carbon nanotubes by scanning transmission X-ray spectromicroscopy: purification, order and dodecyl functionalization, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 (2010) 9020-9029.
J. Zhou, J. Wang, H. Liu, M.N. Banis, X. Sun and T.K. Sham. Imaging nitrogen in individual carbon nanotubes, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1 (2010) 1709-1713.
J. Zhou, J. Wang, H. Fang, C. Wu, J.N. Cutler and T.K. Sham. Nanoscale chemical imaging and spectroscopy of individual RuO2 coated carbon nanotubes, Chem. Commun. 46 (2010) 2778-2780.
F. Lewis, S. Turgeon, P. Chevallier, J.-J. Pireaux, M. Tatoulian and D. Mantovani, On the growth of fluorocarbon thin films deposited on plasma-etched 316L stainless steel, Plasma Process. Polym. 7 (2010) 309-317.
T.R. Neu, B. Manz, F. Volke, J.J. Dynes, A.P. Hitchcock and J.R. Lawrence. Advanced imaging techniques for assessment of structure, composition and function in biofilm systems, FEMS Microbiology Ecology 72 (2010) 1-21.
K.P. Lam, A.P. Hitchcock, M. Obst, J.R. Lawrence, G.D.W. Swerhone, G.G. Leppard, T. Tyliszczak, C. Karunakaran, J. Wang, K. Kaznatcheev, D. Bazylinski and U. Lins, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism of individual magnetosomes by Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy, Chemical Geology 270 (2010) 110-116.

2009 

1. E. Otero, N. Kosugi, and S.G. Urquhart, Strong double excitation and open-shell features in the near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy of ferrocene and ferrocenium compounds, The Journal of Chemical Physics 131(2009) 114313:1-8.
2. K.L.I. Norlund, G. Southam, T. Tyliszczak, Y. Hu, C. Karunakaran, M. Obst, A.P. Hitchcock and L.A. Warren, A novel syntrophic microbial sulphur metabolising consortia: new evidence for microbial global carbon cycling, Environmental Science and Technology 43 (2009) 8781–8786.
3. S. Hanhan, A.M. Smith,  M. Obst and A.P. Hitchcock, Optimization of analysis of Ca 2p soft X-ray spectromicroscopy, J. Electron Spectrosc. Rel. Phenom. 173 (2009) 44-49.
4. M. Obst, J.J. Dynes, J.R. Lawrence, G.D.W. Swerhone, C. Karunakaran, K.V. Kaznatcheev, D. Bertwistle, K. Benzerara, T. Tyliszczak and A.P. Hitchcock, Precipitation of amorphous CaCO₃ (aragonite-like) by cyanobacteria: a STXM study of the influence of EPS on the nucleation process, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73 (2009) 4180-4198.
5. J. M. MacLeod, J. A. Lipton-Duffin, S.G. Urquhart and F. Rosei, Shape Transition in Very Large Germanium Islands on Si(111), Applied Physics Letters 94 (2009) 103109 – 1-3. 
6. M. Weigand, M., B.Van Waeyenberge, A. Vansteenkiste, M. Curcic, V.Sackmann, H. Stoll, T. Tyliszczak, K. Kaznatcheev, D. Bertwistle, G. Woltersdorf, C.H. Back, and Schütz, Vortex core switching by coherent excitation with single in-plane magnetic field pulses.  Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009), 077201 – (1-4).
7. E.de Smit, I. Swart, J.F. Creemer, C. Karunakaran, D. Bertwistle, H.W. Zandbergen, F.M.F. de Groot and B.M. Weckhuysen, Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of the Reduction Behavior of a Single Catalyst Particle, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48 (2009) 3632-3636.
8. J. Miot,, K. Benzerara, G. Morin, A. Kappler, S. Bernard, M. Obst, C. Férard, F. Skouri-Panet, J.-M. Guigner, N. Posth, M. Galvez, G.E. Brown Jr and F. Guyot, Iron biomineralization by anaerobic neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73 (2009) 696–711.
9. J. Miot,, K. Benzerara, G. Morin, A. Kappler, S. Bernard, M. Obst, C. Férard, F. Skouri-Panet, J.-M. Guigner, N. Posth, M. Galvez, G.E. Brown Jr and F. Guyot, Extracellular Iron Biomineralization by Photoautotrophic Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria, e Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73 (2009) 5586-5591.

2008 

1. R.C. Hunter, A.P. Hitchcock, J.J. Dynes, M. Obst and T.J. Beveridge, Mapping the speciation of iron minerals in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy, Environmental Science and Technology 42  (2008) 8766–8772.
2. E. Najafi, D. Hernández Cruz, M. Obst, A.P. Hitchcock, B. Douhard, J.-J. Pireaux and A. Felten,  Polarization dependence of the C 1s X-ray absorption spectra  of individual multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Small 4 (2008) 2279-2285.
3. M.T. Greiner, M. Festin and P. Kruse, Investigation of Corrosion-Inhibiting Aniline Oligomer Thin Films on Iron Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C 112 (2008) 18991- 19004.
4. P. Hale, S. Turgeon, P. Horny, F. Lewis, N. Brack, G.Van Riessen, P. Pigram and D. Mantovan, X-ray Photoelectron Emission Microscopy and Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Ultrathin Fluoropolymer Coatings for Stent Applications, Langmuir 24  (2008) 7897–7905. [CaPeRS X-PEEM on the SGM]
5. S. Christensen, U.D. Lanke, B. Haines, S.E. Qaqish, M.F. Paige, S.G. Urquhart, Structural and Compositional Mapping of a Phase-Separated Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayer by X-ray Photoelectron Emission Microscopy, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena  162 (2008) 107-114.
6. S.G. Urquhart, Uday D. Lanke and J. Fu,  Characterization of Molecular Orientation in Organic Nanomaterials by X-ray Linear Dichroism Microscopy, International Journal of Nanotechnology  5 (2008) 1138-1170.
7. A.P. Hitchcock, J.J. Dynes, G.A. Johansson, J. Wang and G. Botton, Comparison of NEXAFS microscopy and TEM-EELS for studies of soft matter, Micron 39 (2008) 311-319.

 2007

1. K.V. Kaznatcheev, P. Dudin, A.P. Hitchcock and O.D. Lavrentovich, An x-ray microscopy study of chromonic liquid crystal texture, Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 061703:1-14.

2. K.V. Kaznatcheev, C. Karunakaran, U.D. Lanke, S.G. Urquhart, M. Obst, A.P. Hitchcock, Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy Beamline at the CLS:  Commissioning Results, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 582 (2007) 96-99.

Book Chapters

2011

1. A.P. Hitchcock, Soft X-ray imaging and spectromicroscopy, in: G. Van Tendeloo, D. Van Dyck and S.J. Pennycook (Eds.), Volume I (Methods), Handbook of Nanoscopy, Wiley (2011) (in press).
2. J.R. Lawrence and A.P. Hitchcock, Synchrotron-based X-ray and FTIR absorption spectromicroscopies of organic contaminants in the environment, Chapter 14 in: Biophysico-Chemical Processes of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Environmental Systems, (2011) 341-368 (IUPAC Books Series, John Wiley & Sons).

2010

1. J. Lehmann and D. Solomon, Organic carbon chemistry in soils observed by synchrotron-based spectroscopy, in: B. Singh and M. Grafe (Eds.), Developments in soil science, 34 (2010) 289-312.

Theses

2011

1. Ebrahim Najafi (McMaster University, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Ph.D. thesis, May 2011), X-ray and Electron Spectromicroscopy of Carbon Nanotube Systems 

2010

1. Jeffrey Li (McMaster University, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Ph.D. thesis, December 2010), Synthesis, Characterization and Modification of Microcapsules
2. Katie Harding (McMaster University, Physics, B.Sc. thesis, April 2010), Synthesis and characterization of CoCr₂Se₄ magnetic semiconductors
3. Karen Lam (McMaster University, Chemistry, M.Sc. thesis, March 2010), X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Individual Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria by Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy 

2009

1. David D. Wells (State University of New York, Buffalo, Chemistry, Ph.D. thesis, Dec 2009), Advanced Instrumental Techniques: (1) Analysis of Spatial Chemical Phase Segregation in Biodegradable Polymers by STXM and TOF-SIMS (2) Novel Effects of Cluster vs. Monatomic Primary Ion Bombardment of Polymers in TOF-SIMS
2. Stephen Christensen (University of Saskatchewan, Chemistry, M.Sc. thesis, Dec 2009), Photoemission Electron Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy of Phase-Separated Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayer Thin Films
3. Anne Marie Smith, (McMaster University, B.Sc. thesis, April 2009), Interpretation of Ca 2p, C 1s and O 1s spectra of Calcium Carbonates

2008

1. Edwige Otero  (University of Saskatchewan, Chemistry, Ph.D. thesis, March 2008), Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Organic and Organometallic Molecules and Polymers 
2. A. Mclean (University of Saskatchewan B.Sc. thesis, April 2008), Correlation of X-PEEM and Optical Microscopy of Duplex Stainless Steel Alloys
3. Rahim Oraji, (University of Saskatchewan, M.Sc thesis, Nov 2008), The effect of plasma treatment on flax fibres

2007

1. Stephanie Hanhan (McMaster University, B.Sc. thesis, April 2007),  Calcium chemistry in the microbial world
2. Stephen Christensen (University of Saskatchewan B.Sc. thesis, April 2007), X-PEEM microscopy of Langmuir Blodgett Monolayers