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2025

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award

Overview

Alain Manceau is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Geochemistry and Petrology; Nutrition and Dietetics; Ecology; and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity, Radioactive element chemistry and processing, Selenium in Biological Systems, Marine animal studies overview, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Alain Manceau has contributed extensively to scientific literature, publishing numerous papers in various reputable journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Science Advances.

Recent publications by Alain Manceau include:

  • In Vivo Formation of HgSe Nanoparticles and Hg-Tetraselenolate Complex from Methylmercury in Seabirds-Implications for the Hg-Se Antagonism (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Demethylation of Methylmercury in Bird, Fish, and Earthworm (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Chemical Forms of Mercury in Blue Marlin Billfish: Implications for Human Exposure (2021, Environmental Science & Technology Letters)
  • Mercury Isotope Fractionation by Internal Demethylation and Biomineralization Reactions in Seabirds: Implications for Environmental Mercury Science (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)

Alain Manceau has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field. Key co-authors include Pieter Glatzel, Stephan N. Steinmann, Paco Bustamante, Brett A. Poulin, and Alexandre Simionovici, each appearing in multiple publications with significant co-authorship counts.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative Speciation of Heavy Metals in Soils and Sediments by Synchrotron X-ray Techniques

    Alain Manceau;Alain Manceau;Matthew A. Marcus;Nobumichi Tamura

  • Speciation and solubility of heavy metals in contaminated soil using X-ray microfluorescence, EXAFS spectroscopy, chemical extraction, and thermodynamic modeling

    Tatiana A. Kirpichtchikova;Alain Manceau;Lorenzo Spadini;Frédéric Panfili

  • Direct Determination of Lead Speciation in Contaminated Soils by EXAFS Spectroscopy

    Alain Manceau;Marie-Claire Boisset;Géraldine Sarret;Jean-Louis Hazemann

  • The mechanism of anion adsorption on iron oxides: Evidence for the bonding of arsenate tetrahedra on free Fe(O, OH)6 edges

    Alain Manceau

  • Structure of synthetic monoclinic Na-rich birnessite and hexagonal birnessite; I, Results from X-ray diffraction and selected-area electron diffraction

    Victor A. Drits;Ewen Silvester;Anatoli I. Gorshkov;Alain Manceau

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopic study of the sorption of Cr(III) at the oxide-water interface: II. Adsorption, coprecipitation, and surface precipitation on hydrous ferric oxide

    Laurent Charlet;Alain A Manceau

  • Arsenic(III) oxidation by birnessite and precipitation of manganese(II) arsenate.

    Christophe Tournassat;Laurent Charlet;Dirk Bosbach;Alain Manceau

  • Forms of zinc accumulated in the hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri.

    Géraldine Sarret;Pierre Saumitou-Laprade;Valérie Bert;Olivier Proux

  • QUANTITATIVE ZN SPECIATION IN SMELTER-CONTAMINATED SOILS BY EXAFS SPECTROSCOPY

    Alain Manceau;Bruno Lanson;Michel L. Schlegel;Jean Claude Harge

  • Structural model for the biogenic Mn oxide produced by Pseudomonas putida

    Mario Villalobos;Mario Villalobos;Bruno Lanson;Alain Manceau;Brandy Toner

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopic study of the sorption of Cr(III) at the oxide-water interface

    Alain Manceau;Laurent Charlet

  • Determination of Mn valence states in mixed-valent manganates by XANES spectroscopy

    Alain Manceau;Matthew A. Marcus;Sylvain Grangeon

  • Sorption and speciation of heavy metals on hydrous Fe and Mn oxides. From microscopic to macroscopic

    A. Manceau;L. Charlet;M.C. Boisset;B. Didier

  • Structure of synthetic monoclinic Na-rich birnessite and hexagonal birnessite: II. Results from chemical studies and EXAFS spectroscopy

    Ewen Silvester;Alain Manceau;Victor A. Drits

  • Chemical and structural control of the partitioning of Co, Ce, and Pb in marine ferromanganese oxides

    Yoshio Takahashi;Alain Manceau;Nicolas Geoffroy;Matthew A. Marcus

  • Crystal chemistry of trace elements in natural and synthetic goethite

    A Manceau;M.L Schlegel;M Musso;V.A Sole

  • Structure of Mn and Fe oxides and oxyhydroxides: A topological approach by EXAFS

    A. Manceau;J. M. Combes

  • Beamline 10.3.2 at ALS: a hard X-ray microprobe for environmental and materials sciences.

    Matthew A. Marcus;Alastair A. MacDowell;Richard Celestre;Alain Manceau

  • The Mechanism of Selenate Adsorption on Goethite and Hydrous Ferric Oxide

    Alain Manceau;Laurent Charlet

  • Structure of heavy metal sorbed birnessite. Part III: Results from powder and polarized extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy

    Alain Manceau;Bruno Lanson;Victor A. Drits

  • Structural mechanism of Co (super 2+) oxidation by the phyllomanganate buserite

    Alain Manceau;Victor A. Drits;Ewen Silvester;Celine Bartoli

  • Structural chemistry of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni in manganese hydrous oxides; Part I, information from XANES spectroscopy

    Alain Manceau;Anatolii I. Gorshkov;Victor A. Drits

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew A. Marcus
Matthew A. Marcus Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bruno Lanson
Bruno Lanson Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Géraldine Sarret
Géraldine Sarret Grenoble Alpes University
Pieter Glatzel
Pieter Glatzel European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Kathryn L. Nagy
Kathryn L. Nagy University of Illinois at Chicago
Laurent Charlet
Laurent Charlet Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Louis Hazemann
Jean-Louis Hazemann Grenoble Alpes University
Georges Calas
Georges Calas Sorbonne University
Daniel Chateigner
Daniel Chateigner Université de Caen Normandie
Nobumichi Tamura
Nobumichi Tamura Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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