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

  "L'excellence, dans la plupart des sociétés, est l'art de jouer avec la règle du jeu, en faisant de ce jeu avec le règle du jeu un hommage suprême au jeu. Le transgresseur contrôlé s'oppose tout à fait à l'héretique."*
(Pierre Bourdieu, La fabrique des débats publiques. Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2012)
(*) Excellence, in most societies, is the art of playing with the rules of the game, making this game with the rules of the game a tribute to the game. The controlled transgressor is entirely opposed to the heretic.
Previous 2012
Previous 2011
Previous 2010
Previous 2009
SCHEMA and science popularisation

 "Chimie: la science en XXS", Science Festival 2011, Luxembourg (10-13 November 2011)
 Chimie_XXS

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
cucucuc
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