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Damien Daval is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has contributed to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences through a body of research spanning more than 30 publications. Their main areas of study focus on Environmental Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Ecology.

Their research explores a diverse set of topics, including CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Building materials and conservation, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Philippe Ackerer, François Guyot, Arthur Adams, Lukas P. Baumgartner, and Sylvain Bernard.

Damien Daval has published in notable venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, npj Materials Degradation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, and Goldschmidt2021 abstracts.

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Integrative analysis of the mineralogical and chemical composition of modern microbialites from ten Mexican lakes: What do we learn about their formation?" (2021), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Examination of crystal dissolution in 3D: A way to reconcile dissolution rates in the laboratory?" (2020), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Direct measurement of fungal contribution to silicate weathering rates in soil" (2021), Geology
  • "A comparative study of the dissolution mechanisms of amorphous and crystalline feldspars at acidic pH conditions" (2022), npj Materials Degradation
  • "Theoretical Considerations on the Characteristic Timescales of Hydrogen Generation by Serpentinization Reactions on Enceladus" (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

Best Publications

  • Carbonation of Ca-bearing silicates, the case of wollastonite: Experimental investigations and kinetic modeling

    Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Isabelle Martinez;Jérôme Corvisier;Nathaniel Findling

  • Influence of amorphous silica layer formation on the dissolution rate of olivine at 90 °C and elevated pCO2

    Damien Daval;Olivier Sissmann;Nicolas Menguy;Giuseppe D. Saldi

  • Unifying natural and laboratory chemical weathering with interfacial dissolution–reprecipitation: A study based on the nanometer-scale chemistry of fluid–silicate interfaces

    Roland Hellmann;Richard Wirth;Damien Daval;Jean-Paul Barnes

  • Mechanism of wollastonite carbonation deduced from micro- to nanometer length scale observations

    Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Isabelle Martinez;Jean Michel Guigner;Roland Hellmann

  • Lizardite serpentine dissolution kinetics as a function of pH and temperature, including effects of elevated pCO2

    Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Roland Hellmann;Isabelle Martinez;Sophie Gangloff

  • Linking nm-scale measurements of the anisotropy of silicate surface reactivity to macroscopic dissolution rate laws: New insights based on diopside

    Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Roland Hellmann;Giuseppe D. Saldi;Richard Wirth

  • The role of Fe and redox conditions in olivine carbonation rates: An experimental study of the rate limiting reactions at 90 and 150 °C in open and closed systems

    Giuseppe D. Saldi;Damien Daval;Gilles Morvan;Kevin G. Knauss

  • Early entombment within silica minimizes the molecular degradation of microorganisms during advanced diagenesis

    Julien Alleon;Sylvain Bernard;Corentin Le Guillou;Corentin Le Guillou;Damien Daval

  • Geothermal implications for fracture-filling hydrothermal precipitation

    L. Griffiths;M.J. Heap;F. Wang;D. Daval

  • Enhanced olivine carbonation within a basalt as compared to single-phase experiments: reevaluating the potential of CO2 mineral sequestration.

    Olivier Sissmann;Olivier Sissmann;Fabrice Brunet;Isabelle Martinez;François Guyot

  • Pore-Scale Geochemical Reactivity Associated with CO2 Storage: New Frontiers at the Fluid-Solid Interface.

    Catherine Noiriel;Damien Daval

  • The deleterious effect of secondary phases on olivine carbonation yield: Insight from time-resolved aqueous-fluid sampling and FIB-TEM characterization

    Olivier Sissmann;Damien Daval;Fabrice Brunet;François Guyot

  • Dissolution kinetics of diopside as a function of solution saturation state: Macroscopic measurements and implications for modeling of geological storage of CO2

    Damien Daval;Roland Hellmann;Jérôme Corvisier;Delphine Tisserand

  • pH-dependent control of feldspar dissolution rate by altered surface layers

    Bastien Wild;Damien Daval;François Guyot;Kevin G. Knauss

  • CO2 geological storage: The environmental mineralogy perspective

    François Guyot;Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Sébastien Dupraz;Isabelle Martinez

  • Integrative analysis of the mineralogical and chemical composition of modern microbialites from ten Mexican lakes: What do we learn about their formation?

    Nina Zeyen;Karim Benzerara;Olivier Beyssac;Damien Daval

  • Burial-induced oxygen-isotope re-equilibration of fossil foraminifera explains ocean paleotemperature paradoxes

    S. Bernard;D. Daval;P. Ackerer;S. Pont

  • Carbon dioxide sequestration through silicate degradation and carbon mineralisation: promises and uncertainties

    Damien Daval

  • The dependence of albite feldspar dissolution kinetics on fluid saturation state at acid and basic pH: Progress towards a universal relation

    Roland Hellmann;Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Delphine Tisserand

  • Does crystallographic anisotropy prevent the conventional treatment of aqueous mineral reactivity? A case study based on K-feldspar dissolution kinetics

    Marion Pollet-Villard;Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Philippe Ackerer;Giuseppe D. Saldi

  • Organic molecular heterogeneities can withstand diagenesis

    Julien Alleon;Julien Alleon;Sylvain Bernard;Corentin Le Guillou;Damien Daval

  • Growth of Nanosized Calcite through Gas−Solid Carbonation of Nanosized Portlandite under Anisobaric Conditions

    G. Montes-Hernandez;D. Daval;R. Chiriac;F. Renard

Frequent Co-Authors

François Guyot
François Guyot French National Museum of Natural History
Anders Meibom
Anders Meibom École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Bertrand Fritz
Bertrand Fritz University of Strasbourg
Gwenaël Imfeld
Gwenaël Imfeld University of Strasbourg
François Renard
François Renard University of Oslo
Bruno Goffé
Bruno Goffé Aix-Marseille University
Lukas P. Baumgartner
Lukas P. Baumgartner University of Lausanne
Richard Wirth
Richard Wirth Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Torsten Vennemann
Torsten Vennemann University of Lausanne

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