Rechargeable battery technologies have ignited major breakthroughs in contemporary
society, including but not limited to revolutions in transportation, electronics, and grid energy …

Understanding the distribution of elements within plant tissues is important across a range of
fields in plant science. In this review, we examine synchrotron-based x-ray fluorescence …

Semiconductor-based biointerfaces are typically established either on the surface of the
plasma membrane or within the cytoplasm. In Gram-negative bacteria, the periplasmic …

X-ray-based analytics are routinely applied in many fields, including physics, chemistry,
materials science, and engineering. The full potential of such techniques in the life sciences …

Within the framework of the ESRF Phase I Upgrade Programme, a new state-of-the-art
synchrotron beamline ID16B has been recently developed for hard X-ray nano-analysis. The …

Fertilization of a mammalian egg initiates a series of 'zinc sparks' that are necessary to
induce the egg-to-embryo transition. Despite the importance of these zinc-efflux events little …

Metal elements represent some of the most fundamental chemical building blocks of life and
are required to sustain the growth, development, and sustenance of all living organisms and …

Phase retrieval is a long-standing problem in imaging when only the intensity of the
wavefield can be recorded. Coherent diffraction imaging is a lensless technique that uses …

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 mapping techniques 438 IV. X‐ray data analysis 442 V …