Dr. Dario Ferreira Sanchez

Senior scientist
Dario Ferreira Sanchez
Telephone
+41 56 310 52 41
Orc-ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2825-2886
Paul Scherrer Institute PSI
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland
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I am working at PSI since 2015 where I've been working on synchrotron Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging in Space and Time investigations on a great variety of complex hierarchical, and heterogeneous materials.

Before that, I have started as a postdoctoral fellow in 2013 at CEA/LETI department, in France, with Pierre Bleuet and Patrice Gergaud. The main project consisted on the development of the micro-Laue diffraction tomography analysis technique, and the application of it in the study of Through Silicon vias (TSVs) and Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs). Experimental development at the BM32 beamline, ESRF.

My PhD work (2009-2012) at the Physics Institute of UFRGS (Brazil) was focused on the microstructural, morphological and compositional characterization of nanostructured systems through the combination of several complementary techniques, which includes Medium Energy Ion Scattering (MEIS), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-Rays Scattering (GISAXS) and Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS). 

I have obtained my master degree (2007-2009) at the Department of Physics of UFPR (Brazil), which was focused on the investigation of the structural and optical properties of chalcogenide glasses. Combined analysis of X-ray diffraction (XRD), EXAFS, Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) method, and Raman spectroscopy was applied.

Brief History

At the microXAS beamline, Dario Ferreira Sanchez's been responsible for the multimodal tomographic approach. That involves data analysis development, user support and collaboration, and in-line data reduction during and after the experiments as well.  The focus is on development to provide unique capabilities for Imaging Chemistry in Space and Time in an unlimited range of reactive systems at relevant spatial and temporal length scales. Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging allows a broad range of scientific communities to gain unrivaled insights into the chemical complexity of hierarchical, heterogeneous materials, including corresponding chemical reaction pathways and kinetics (reactivity).

My main scientific interest and motivation is related to some problems in modern chemistry, mainly on complex heterogeneous materials linked to energy (production and storage) and catalysis; problems which, for obtaining a deeper comprehension, require having to resolve chemistry in various time and spatial scales. With this motivation in mind, over the past years I've been happily dedicating my attention and great efforts in developing synchrotron chemical imaging tools, including some novel approaches, for imaging chemistry in space and time.

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  • Garrivier N, Van Petegem S, Pouchon M, Strobl M, Tosoratti E, Cretton A, et al.
    Multimodal synchrotron characterization of the formation and spatial distribution of retained austenite in PBF-LB/M-manufactured ferritic–martensitic steel
    Additive Manufacturing. 2026; 115: 105055 (16 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2025.105055
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  • Gonçalves Anchieta C, Lelotte B, Ramasamy HV, Forster A, Coskun A, El Kazzi M, et al.
    Unveiling physical and chemical changes in all‐solid‐state battery: an operando synchrotron chemical imaging study
    Small Methods. 2026; 10(3): e01793 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202501793
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  • Lemelle L, Karpov D, Simionovici A, Maldanis L, Fontecilla-Camps JC, Diaz A, et al.
    Quantifying trace metals in gunflint microfossils by 3D correlative X-ray nanoimaging
    Analytical Chemistry. 2026; 98(14): 10562-10571. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5c07712
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  • Sanchez DF, Selau FF, Byrnes I, Adinolfi F, Kamrul VH, Grimm A, et al.
    Multielement quantification in X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy imaging with standards produced by ion implantation
    Spectrochimica Acta B: Atomic Spectroscopy. 2026; 243: 107569 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2026.107569
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  • Sharma K, Silva Barreto I, Dejea H, Rodriguez Fernandez I, Ferreira Sanchez D, Eliasson P, et al.
    Three‐dimensional characterization of the collagen–hydroxyapatite interaction during heterotopic ossification in healing rat Achilles tendons
    Small Science. 2026; 6(6): e202500644 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202500644
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  • Burri C, Hua N, Ferreira Sanchez D, Hu W, Bell HG, Venturini R, et al.
    Imaging of electrically controlled van der Waals layer stacking in 1T-TaS2
    Nature Communications. 2025; 16: 10296 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65212-1
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  • Dimitrijević M, Žižić M, Jelača S, Maksimović-Ivanić D, Sanchez DF, Grolimund D, et al.
    Interaction studies of biliverdin-Cu complex formation using XANES, XRF, and DFT analyses and its effect on cytotoxicity in glioblastoma cell line (U251)
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 2025; 770: 110466 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2025.110466
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  • Ofierska WL, Sossi PA, Liebske C, Sanchez DF, Grolimund D, Schmidt MW
    Calibration of the relationship between oxygen fugacity and the oxidation state of iron in anorthitic plagioclase
    Chemical Geology. 2025; 686: 122814 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122814
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  • Qi P, Sanli UT, Zhao S, Rodgers G, Schulz G, Veeraraj MRD, et al.
    Monolithic X-ray achromat
    Optics Express. 2025; 33(12): 26578-26589. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.557328
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  • Trovato G, De Napoli M, Gollwitzer C, Finizio S, Krumrey M, La Via F, et al.
    SiC free-standing membrane for X-ray intensity monitoring in synchrotron radiation beamlines
    Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2025; 32(1): 118-124. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577524010646
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  • Trovato G, De Napoli M, Gollwitzer C, Finizio S, Krumrey M, La Via F, et al.
    SiC membranes for real-time X-ray beam monitoring in synchrotron beamlines
    Journal of Instrumentation. 2025; 20(12): C12005 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/12/C12005
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  • Wunderlich S, Hampel S, Ferreira Sanchez D, Schirmer T, Fittschen UEA
    A microfocus study on basic-oxygen-furnace slag thin sections to understand the principles of vanadium incorporation
    Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2025; 32(4): 986-993. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577525003868
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  • Albert CC, Mundra S, Ferreira Sanchez D, Furcas FE, Rajyaguru AD, Isgor OB, et al.
    Microscale chemical imaging to characterize and quantify corrosion processes at the metal-electrolyte interface
    npj Materials Degradation. 2024; 8(1): 116 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-024-00534-x
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  • Demoulin CF, Sforna MC, Lara YJ, Cornet Y, Somogyi A, Medjoubi K, et al.
    Polysphaeroides filiformis, a proterozoic cyanobacterial microfossil and implications for cyanobacteria evolution
    iScience. 2024; 27(2): 108865 (19 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108865
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  • Gonçalves Anchieta C, Francisco BAB, Júlio JPO, Trtik P, Bonnin A, Doubek G, et al.
    LiOH decomposition by NiO/ZrO2 in Li‐Air battery: chemical imaging with operando synchrotron diffraction and correlative neutron/X‐Ray computed‐tomography analysis
    Small Methods. 2024; 8(10): 2301749 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301749
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  • Gubała D, Slastanova A, Matthews L, Islas L, Wąsik P, Cacho-Nerin F, et al.
    Effects of erucamide on fiber “softness”: linking single-fiber crystal structure and mechanical properties
    ACS Nano. 2024; 18: 5940-5950. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c00114
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  • Hua W, Chen J, Ferreira Sanchez D, Schwarz B, Yang Y, Senyshyn A, et al.
    Probing particle-carbon/binder degradation behavior in fatigued layered cathode materials through machine learning aided diffraction tomography
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2024; 63(30): e202403189 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202403189
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  • Rex A, Almeida De Campos L, Gottschalk T, Ferreira Sanchez D, Trinke P, Czioska S, et al.
    Elemental distribution in catalyst‐coated membranes of proton exchange membrane water electrolysers tracked by synchrotron X‐ray fluorescence
    Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research. 2024; 5(9): 2400048 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/aesr.202400048
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  • Thomas C, Filella M, Ionescu D, Sorieul S, Pollier CGL, Oehlert AM, et al.
    Combined genomic and imaging techniques show intense arsenic enrichment caused by detoxification in a microbial mat of the dead sea shore
    Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2024; 25(3): e2023GC011239 (21 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011239
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  • Byrnes I, Rossbach LM, Jaroszewicz J, Grolimund D, Ferreira Sanchez D, Gomez-Gonzalez MA, et al.
    Synchrotron XRF and histological analyses identify damage to digestive tract of uranium NP-exposed Daphnia magna
    Environmental Science and Technology. 2023; 57(2): 1071-1079. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07174
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  • Byrnes I, Rossbach LM, Brede DA, Grolimund D, Ferreira Sanchez D, Nuyts G, et al.
    Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence imaging elucidates uranium toxicokinetics in Daphnia magna
    ACS Nano. 2023; 17(6): 5296-5305. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c06111
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  • Celikbilek O, Sassone G, Prioux M, Ferreira Sanchez D, Benayad A, Hubert M, et al.
    Long-term tests and advanced post-test characterizations of the oxygen electrode in solid oxide electrolysis cells
    In: Eighteenth international symposium on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC-XVIII). Vol. 111. ECS transactions. Bristol: IOP Publishing; 2023:211-222. https://doi.org/10.1149/11106.0211ecst
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  • Chen M, Simonelli M, Van Petegem S, Tse YY, Chang CST, Makowska MG, et al.
    A quantitative study of thermal cycling along the build direction of Ti-6Al-4V produced by laser powder bed fusion
    Materials and Design. 2023; 225: 111458 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.111458
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  • Colldeweih AW, Makowska MG, Tabai O, Sanchez DF, Bertsch J
    Zirconium hydride phase mapping in Zircaloy-2 cladding after delayed hydride cracking
    Materialia. 2023; 27: 101689 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2023.101689
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  • D'Anna N, Ferreira Sanchez D, Matmon G, Bragg J, Constantinou PC, Stock TJZ, et al.
    Non-destructive X-Ray imaging of patterned Delta-Layer devices in silicon
    Advanced Electronic Materials. 2023; 9(5): 202201212 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202201212
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  • Dejea H, Raina DB, Silva Barreto I, Sharma K, Liu Y, Ferreira Sanchez D, et al.
    Multi-scale characterization of the spatio-temporal interplay between elemental composition, mineral deposition and remodelling in bone fracture healing
    Acta Biomaterialia. 2023; 167: 135-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2023.06.031
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  • Fallon CM, Bower WR, Powell BA, Livens FR, Lyon IC, McNulty AE, et al.
    Vadose-zone alteration of metaschoepite and ceramic UO2 in Savannah River Site field lysimeters
    Science of the Total Environment. 2023; 862: 160862 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160862
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  • Foucher AC, Rosen DJ, Yang S, Ferreira Sanchez D, Sadykov I, Grolimund D, et al.
    Stable and efficient Ir nanoshells for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions
    Chemistry of Materials. 2023; 35(11): 4572-4580. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00970
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  • Foucher AC, Yang S, Rosen DJ, Huang R, Pyo JB, Kwon O, et al.
    Synthesis and characterization of stable Cu-Pt nanoparticles under reductive and oxidative conditions
    Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023; 145(9): 5410-5421. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c13666
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  • Gao S, Li Z, Van Petegem S, Ge J, Goel S, Vas JV, et al.
    Additive manufacturing of alloys with programmable microstructure and properties
    Nature Communications. 2023; 14(1): 6752 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42326-y
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  • Han S-C, Ferreira Sanchez D, Grolimund D, Uhm S-H, Choi D-Y, Jeong H-C, et al.
    Role of silicon on formation and growth of intermetallic phases during rapid Fe-Zn alloying reaction
    Materials Today Advances. 2023; 18: 100368 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2023.100368
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  • Ignaczak J, Zeng L, Ferreira Sanchez D, Makowska M, Górnicka K, Lankauf K, et al.
    Fe-modified Mn2CuO4 spinel oxides: coatings based on abundant elements for solid oxide cell interconnects
    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2023; 48(92): 36076-36093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.06.041
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  • Laurencin J, Hubert M, Monaco F, Léon A, Ferreira Sanchez D
    Synchrotron x-ray radiation for solid oxide cell material characterization
    In: Develos-Bagarinao K, ed. Nanoengineered materials for solid oxide cells. Bristol: IOP Publishing; 2023:10 (33 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-4064-9ch10
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  • Yefsah L, Laurencin J, Hubert M, Ferreira Sanchez D, Charlot F, Couturier K, et al.
    Electrochemical performance and stability of PrO1.833 as an oxygen electrode for solid oxide electrolysis cells
    Solid State Ionics. 2023; 399: 116316 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssi.2023.116316
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  • Becker-Kerber B, Elmola AA, Zhuravlev A, Gaucher C, Simões MG, Prado GMEM, et al.
    Clay templates in Ediacaran vendotaeniaceans: implications for the taphonomy of carbonaceous fossils
    Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2022; 134(5-6): 1334-1346. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36033.1
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  • Callefo F, Ricardi-Branco F, Alves Forancelli Pacheco ML, Ribeiro Cardoso A, Noffke N, de Carvalho Teixeira V, et al.
    Evidence for metabolic diversity in Meso-Neoproterozoic stromatolites (Vazante Group, Brazil)
    Frontiers in Earth Science. 2022; 10: 804194 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.804194
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  • Chen M, Van Petegem S, Zou Z, Simonelli M, Tse YY, Chang CST, et al.
    Microstructural engineering of a dual-phase Ti-Al-V-Fe alloy via in situ alloying during laser powder bed fusion
    Additive Manufacturing. 2022; 59: 103173 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103173
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  • Escudero V, Sánchez DF, Abreu I, Sopeña-Torres S, Makarovsky-Saavedra N, Bernal M, et al.
    Arabidopsis thaliana Zn2+-efflux ATPases HMA2 and HMA4 are required for resistance to the necrotrophic fungus Plectosphaerella cucumerina BMM
    Journal of Experimental Botany. 2022; 73(1): 339-350. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab400
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  • Glerum JA, Hocine S, Chang CST, Kenel C, Van Petegem S, Casati N, et al.
    Operando X-ray diffraction study of thermal and phase evolution during laser powder bed fusion of Al-Sc-Zr elemental powder blends
    Additive Manufacturing. 2022; 55: 102806 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.102806
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  • Krstulović M, Rosa AD, Ferreira Sanchez D, Libon L, Albers C, Merkulova M, et al.
    Effect of temperature on the densification of silicate melts to lower Earth's mantle conditions
    Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 2022; 323: 106823 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106823
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  • Sforna MC, Loron CC, Demoulin CF, François C, Cornet Y, Lara YJ, et al.
    Intracellular bound chlorophyll residues identify 1 Gyr-old fossils as eukaryotic algae
    Nature Communications. 2022; 13(1): 146 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27810-7
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  • Becher J, Ferreira Sanchez D, Doronkin DE, Zengel D, Motta Meira D, Pascarelli S, et al.
    Chemical gradients in automotive Cu-SSZ-13 catalysts for NOx removal revealed by operando X-ray spectrotomography
    Nature Catalysis. 2021; 4: 46-53. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-00552-3
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  • Becher J, Weber S, Ferreira Sanchez D, Doronkin DE, Garrevoet J, Falkenberg G, et al.
    Sample environment for operando hard X-ray tomography - an enabling technology for multimodal characterization in heterogeneous catalysis
    Catalysts. 2021; 11(4): 459 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11040459
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  • Becker-Kerber B, Horodyski RS, Del Mouro L, Sedorko D, Lehn I, Sanchez DF, et al.
    Devonian agglutinated polychaete tubes: all in all it's just another grain in the wall
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2021; 288(1955): 20211143 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1143
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  • Ferreira Sanchez D, Ihli J, Zhang D, Rohrbach T, Zimmerman P, Lee J, et al.
    Spatio‐chemical heterogeneity of defect‐engineered metal‐organic framework crystals revealed by full‐field tomographic X‐ray absorption spectroscopy
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2021; 60(18): 10032-10039. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202013422
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  • Gambino M, Nieuwelink AE, Reints F, Veselý M, Filez M, Ferreira Sanchez D, et al.
    Mimicking industrial aging in fluid catalytic cracking: a correlative microscopy approach to unravel inter-particle heterogeneities
    Journal of Catalysis. 2021; 404: 634-646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2021.10.012
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  • Gao Z, Odstrcil M, Böcklein S, Palagin D, Holler M, Ferreira Sanchez D, et al.
    Sparse X-ray hyperspectral tomography for nanoscopic compositional analysis of VPO catalysts
    In: OSA imaging and applied optics congress 2021 (3D, COSI, DH, ISA, pcAOP). Washington: OSA; 2021:CTu2H.6 (2 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1364/COSI.2021.CTu2H.6
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  • Gao Z, Odstrcil M, Böcklein S, Palagin D, Holler M, Ferreira Sanchez D, et al.
    Sparse ab initio x-ray transmission spectrotomography for nanoscopic compositional analysis of functional materials
    Science Advances. 2021; 7(24): eabf6971 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf6971
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  • Geng G, Barbotin S, Shakoorioskooie M, Shi Z, Leemann A, Sanchez DF, et al.
    An in-situ 3D micro-XRD investigation of water uptake by alkali-silica-reaction (ASR) product
    Cement and Concrete Research. 2021; 141: 106331 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2020.106331
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  • Hassenkam T, Tsai EHR, Sørensen HO, Dalby KN, Mackenzie DMA, Holler M, et al.
    Direct evidence for eoarchean iron metabolism?
    Geobiology. 2021; 19(3): 218-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12432
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