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Etienne Balan

Etienne Balan

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Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
6100
World Ranking
4559
National Ranking
336

Overview

Etienne Balan is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Materials Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Geophysics, Biomaterials, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their work focuses on themes such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Clay minerals and soil interactions, Mineralogy and Gemology Studies, Planetary Science and Exploration, Nuclear materials and radiation effects, and Glass properties and applications.

Key recent publications include:

  • Structure and theoretical infrared spectra of OH defects in quartz, 2020, European Journal of Mineralogy
  • Tropical Weathering History Recorded in the Silicon Isotopes of Lateritic Weathering Profiles, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Structural, textural, and chemical controls on the OH stretching vibrations in serpentine-group minerals, 2021, European Journal of Mineralogy
  • Theoretical infrared spectra of OH defects in corundum (α-Al₂O₃), 2020, European Journal of Mineralogy
  • Kaolinite dating from Acrisol and Ferralsol: A new key to understanding the landscape evolution in NW Amazonia (Brazil), 2020, Geoderma

Etienne Balan frequently publishes in the European Journal of Mineralogy, with twelve publications to their name there. Other notable venues include Icarus, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Their collaboration network features frequent co-authors such as Thierry Allard, Maxime Guillaumet, Michael C. Jollands, Emmanuel Fritsch, and Sabine Petit.

Best Publications

  • First-principles modeling of the infrared spectrum of kaolinite

    Etienne Balan;A. Marco Saitta;Francesco Mauri;Georges Calas

  • Incomplete retention of radiation damage in zircon from Sri Lanka

    Lutz Nasdala;Peter W. Reiners;John I. Garver;Allen K. Kennedy

  • Equilibrium isotopic fractionation in the kaolinite, quartz, water system: Prediction from first-principles density-functional theory

    Merlin Méheut;Michele Lazzeri;Etienne Balan;Francesco Mauri

  • Iron isotope fractionation between pyrite (FeS2), hematite (Fe2O3) and siderite (FeCO3): A first-principles density functional theory study

    Marc Blanchard;Franck Poitrasson;Merlin Méheut;Michele Lazzeri

  • Metamictization and chemical durability of detrital zircon

    Etienne Balan;Daniel R. Neuville;Patrick Trocellier;Emmanuel Fritsch

  • First-principles study of the OH-stretching modes of gibbsite

    Etienne Balan;Etienne Balan;Michele Lazzeri;Guillaume Morin;Francesco Mauri

  • Structural control over equilibrium silicon and oxygen isotopic fractionation: A first-principles density-functional theory study

    Merlin Méheut;Michele Lazzeri;Etienne Balan;Francesco Mauri

  • 57 Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy of tektites

    S. Rossano;E. Balan;G. Morin;J.-P. Bauer

  • First-principles study of OH-stretching modes in kaolinite, dickite, and nacrite

    Etienne Balan;Etienne Balan;Michele Lazzeri;A. Marco Saitta;Thierry Allard

  • New Insights in the Ontogeny and Taphonomy of the Devonian Acanthodian Triazeugacanthus affinis From the Miguasha Fossil-Lagerstätte, Eastern Canada

    Marion Chevrinais;Etienne Balan;Richard Cloutier

  • Structural Fe3+ in Natural Kaolinites: New Insights from Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra Fitting at X and Q-Band Frequencies

    Etienne Balan;Thierry Allard;Bruno Boizot;Guillaume Morin

  • Equilibrium zinc isotope fractionation in Zn-bearing minerals from first-principles calculations

    Manoj Ducher;Marc Blanchard;Etienne Balan

  • First-principles calculation of the infrared spectrum of hematite

    Marc Blanchard;Michele Lazzeri;Francesco Mauri;Etienne Balan

  • Transformation of haematite and Al‐poor goethite to Al‐rich goethite and associated yellowing in a ferralitic clay soil profile of the middle Amazon Basin (Manaus, Brazil)

    E. Fritsch;E. Fritsch;G. Morin;A. Bedidi;D. Bonnin

  • A carbonate-fluoride defect model for carbonate-rich fluorapatite

    Haohao Yi;Etienne Balan;Christel Gervais;Loïc Segalen

  • Equilibrium Fractionation of Non-traditional Isotopes: a Molecular Modeling Perspective

    Marc Blanchard;Etienne Balan;Edwin A. Schauble

  • Theoretical infrared spectrum of OH-defects in forsterite

    Etienne Balan;Jannick Ingrin;Simon Delattre;István János Kovács

  • The oxidation state of vanadium in titanomagnetite from layered basic intrusions

    Etienne Balan;Etienne Balan;Johan P.R. De Villiers;Sigrid Griet Eeckhout;Pieter Glatzel

  • The effect of radiation damage on local structure in the crystalline fraction of ZrSiO4: Investigating the 29Si NMR response to pressure in zircon and reidite

    Ian Farnan;Etienne Balan;Chris J. Pickard;Francesco Mauri

  • Surface modes in the infrared spectrum of hydrous minerals: the OH stretching modes of bayerite

    Etienne Balan;Etienne Balan;Marc Blanchard;Marc Blanchard;Jean-François Hochepied;Michele Lazzeri

  • Line-broadening effects in the powder infrared spectrum of apatite

    Etienne Balan;Simon Delattre;Damien Roche;Loïc Segalen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Lazzeri
Michele Lazzeri Sorbonne University
Georges Calas
Georges Calas Sorbonne University
Francesco Mauri
Francesco Mauri Sapienza University of Rome
Guillaume Morin
Guillaume Morin Sorbonne University
Thierry Allard
Thierry Allard Sorbonne University
Emmanuel Fritsch
Emmanuel Fritsch University of Nantes
Christel Gervais
Christel Gervais Sorbonne University
Olivier Beyssac
Olivier Beyssac Sorbonne University
Jérôme Gaillardet
Jérôme Gaillardet Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Ekhard K. H. Salje
Ekhard K. H. Salje University of Cambridge

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