Instrumentation and current capabilities of soft X-ray (50–2000 eV) spectromicroscopy are
outlined with examples from recently published and some new work. Four common …

Direct evidence of complex prebiotic chemistry from a water-rich world in the outer solar
system is provided by the 4.5-billion-year-old halite crystals hosted in the Zag and …

We present a new compact instrument designed for scanning transmission X-ray
microscopy. It has piezo-driven linear stages, making it small and light. Optical components …

The Zag meteorite which is a thermally-metamorphosed H ordinary chondrite contains a
primitive xenolithic clast that was accreted to the parent asteroid after metamorphism. The …

We herein investigated the mechanisms underlying the contact leaching process in pyrite
bioleaching by Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy …

Some xenolithic clasts in meteorites may have originated from unique primitive Solar System
bodies. These clasts would provide novel insights into the early evolution of the Solar …

We found the spatial inhomogeneity of chain orientation on the submicron scale in
polyethylene (PE) under strain by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM). Our …

In this study, we performed a year-long in situ incubation experiment on a common ferrous
sulfide (Fe-S) mineral, pyrite, at the oxidative deep seafloor in the hydrothermal vent field in …

Although cesium adsorbs onto the interlayer of clay minerals, coexisting natural organic
matter (NOM) can inhibit this adsorption because of their blocking effect. A large amount of …

In the present study, we applied a scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM)
technique to investigate the spatial distribution of biomolecules at the microbe–mineral …