Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Oxidation induced strain and defects in magnetite crystals

  • Ke Yuan,
  • Sang Soo Lee,
  • Wonsuk Cha,
  • Andrew Ulvestad,
  • Hyunjung Kim,
  • Bektur Abdilla,
  • Neil C. Sturchio,
  • Paul Fenter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08470-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Oxidation of magnetite has broad implications in geochemistry and environmental science, but its reaction mechanisms are not fully understood yet. Here the authors use Bragg coherent diffractive imaging to show oxidative dissolution of magnetite inducing a rich array of strain and defect structures.