SCHEMA
SCHEMA is about:
  • understanding the physico-chemical processes regulating the behaviour of chemical components in environmental and biological compartments
  • understanding and helping you to understand how our environment works
  • providing a forum for scientific discussion
  • promoting chemistry and environmental chemistry in Luxembourg
  • discussing about pseudo-science
  • ....and much more
The quotation of the week

  "When judging research, we were taught to ask three questions (...): 'do I understand it, do I believe it, do I care?' though not always in that order."
(F. Godlee, BMJ 2010;341:c4662)

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SCHEMA and science popularisation

 "Chimie, son et lumière", Science Festival, Luxembourg (12-15 November 2009)
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Past activities

NOM acronyms

  I am compiling all acronyms (and their meanings) used in the domain of natural organic matter studies. A first list has just been published in ENVIRON CHEM LETTERS and is available in this webpage. I invite all workers in the field to help me to complete it. Thanks in advance.
Interested in NOM binding?

Follow the blog "Binding NOM", where new publications on trace metal - NOM binding will be spotted and referenced. It belongs to a test on online collaboration. See a description in a communication presented at the IHSS 14.
SCHEMA publications: science "made in Luxembourg"

A. Porquet and M. Filella (2007) Structural evidence of the similarity of Sb(OH)3 and As(OH)3with glycerol: Implications for their uptake. CHEM. RES. TOXICOL., 20, 1269-1276; 10.1021/tx700110m
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A. Porquet and M. Filella (2008) Conformational study of the 1,2,3-propanetriol (glycerol) in the channel of the aquaglyceroporin GlpF. THEOCHEM, 850, 21-31;  10.1016/j.theochem.2007.10.021
M. Filella (2008) NOM site binding heterogeneity in natural waters: discrete approaches. JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS, 143, 42-51; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2008.04.018.
 
F. Quentel and M. Filella (2008) Quantification of refractory organic substances in freshwaters: further insight into the response of the voltammetric method. ANAL. BIOANAL. CHEM., 392, 1225-1230; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2008.04.018.
 
M. Filella, V. Chanudet, S. Philippo and F. Quentel (2009) Particle size and mineralogical composition of inorganic colloids in draining waters of the adit of an abandoned mine, Goesdorf, Luxembourg. ORG. GEOCHEM., 24, 52-61; doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.11.010.
 
M Filella (2009) Freshwaters: which NOM matters? ENVIRON. CHEM. LETTERS, 7, 21-35; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10311-008-0158-x.
 
M. Filella, P.A. Williams and N. Belzile (2009) Antimony in the environment: knowns and unknowns. ENVIRON. CHEM., 6, 95-105; doi:10.1071/EN09007. Accessory publication.

 M. Filella, S. Philippo, N. Belzile, Y.-W. Chen and F. Quentel (2009) Natural attenuation processes applying to antimony: a study in the abandoned antimony mine in Goesdorf, Luxembourg. SCI. TOTAL ENVIRON. 407, 6205-6216; doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.027.
  frog in the adit tree in Goesdorf minerals Goesdorf