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Francis R. Livens is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields that include Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials Science, with significant contributions particularly in Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. Their work further extends into Radiation, Mechanical Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change as notable subfields.

The scientist's core research topics focus on radioactive element chemistry and processing, nuclear materials and properties, and extraction and separation processes. Other areas of research include nuclear physics and applications, radioactive contamination and transfer, graphite and nuclear technology related to radiation studies, as well as radiopharmaceutical chemistry and applications.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include Katherine Morris, S.L. Heath, Ioannis Tsitsimpelis, Andrew West, and C. James Taylor.

Francis R. Livens has published in several venues, with repeated contributions to Environmental Science Processes & Impacts and Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. Additional publications appear in Hydrometallurgy, Chemosphere, and Energy.

Notable recent papers by Francis R. Livens include:

  • Organic complexation of U(VI) in reducing soils at a natural analogue site: Implications for uranium transport, 2020, Chemosphere
  • A review of technetium and zirconium extraction into tributyl phosphate in the PUREX process, 2022, Hydrometallurgy
  • Assessment of the disposability of radioactive waste inventories for a range of nuclear fuel cycles: Inventory and evolution over time, 2021, Energy
  • Neptunium and Uranium Interactions with Environmentally and Industrially Relevant Iron Minerals, 2022, Minerals
  • Selection of radionuclide(s) for targeted alpha therapy based on their nuclear decay properties, 2024, Nuclear Medicine Communications

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of arsenic uptake from aqueous solution by interaction with goethite, lepidocrocite, mackinawite, and pyrite: An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study

    Morag L. Farquhar;John M. Charnock;Francis R. Livens;David J. Vaughan

  • Fungal siderophores: structures, functions and applications

    Joanna C. Renshaw;Geoff D. Robson;Anthony P.J. Trinci;Marilyn G. Wiebe

  • Uranium Uptake from Aqueous Solution by Interaction with Goethite, Lepidocrocite, Muscovite, and Mackinawite: An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study

    Lesley N. Moyes;Richard H. Parkman;John M. Charnock;David J. Vaughan

  • Chemical reactions of metals with humic material

    Francis R. Livens

  • Bioreduction of uranium : environmental implications of a pentavalent intermediate

    Joanna C. Renshaw;Laura J C Butchins;Francis R. Livens;Iain May

  • The influence of soil properties on the environmental mobility of caesium in Cumbria

    F.R. Livens;P.J. Loveland

  • An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of the coprecipitation of Tc and Re with mackinawite (FeS)

    M.J Wharton;B Atkins;J.M Charnockab;F.R Livens

  • A study of the interaction of strontium ions in aqueous solution with the surfaces of calcite and kaolinite

    R.H Parkman;R.H Parkman;J.M Charnock;J.M Charnock;J.M Charnock;F.R Livens;D.J Vaughan

  • Formation of Nanoscale Elemental Silver Particles via Enzymatic Reduction by Geobacter sulfurreducens

    Nicholas Law;Saadia Ansari;Francis R. Livens;Joanna C. Renshaw

  • Particle size and radionuclide levels in some west Cumbrian soils

    F.R. Livens;M.S. Baxter

  • Reduction of Actinides and Fission Products by Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria

    J. R. Lloyd;J. Chesnes;S. Glasauer;D. J. Bunker

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of reactions of technetium, uranium and neptunium with mackinawite.

    Francis R. Livens;Mark J. Jones;Amanda J. Hynes;John M. Charnock

  • Incorporation of uranium into hematite during crystallization from ferrihydrite

    Timothy A. Marshall;Katherine Morris;Gareth T. W. Law;Francis R. Livens

  • X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Tricarbonatodioxouranate(V), [UO(2)(CO(3))(3)](5)(-), in Aqueous Solution.

    T. I. Docrat;J. F. W. Mosselmans;J. M. Charnock;M. W. Whiteley

  • Chemical associations of artificial radionuclides in Cumbrian soils

    F.R. Livens;M.S. Baxter

  • Reactions of copper and cadmium ions in aqueous solution with goethite, lepidocrocite, mackinawite, and pyrite

    R. H. Parkman;J. M. Charnock;N. D. Bryan;F. R. Livens

  • Total caesium-fixing potentials of acid organic soils

    Adine B. Hird;David L. Rimmer;Francis R. Livens

  • Reduction of uranium(VI) phosphate during growth of the thermophilic bacterium Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens.

    T. V. Khijniak;A. I. Slobodkin;V. Coker;J. C. Renshaw

  • Adsorption of radium and barium on goethite and ferrihydrite: A kinetic and surface complexation modelling study

    M Sajih;N D Bryan;N D Bryan;F R Livens;D J Vaughan

  • Sulfide Species as a Sink for Mercury in Lake Sediments

    Steven Wolfenden;John M. Charnock;John Hilton;Francis R. Livens

  • Effects of Progressive Anoxia on the Solubility of Technetium in Sediments

    Ian T. Burke;Christopher Boothman;Jonathon R. Lloyd;Robert J. G. Mortimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan R. Lloyd
Jonathan R. Lloyd University of Manchester
David J. Vaughan
David J. Vaughan University of Manchester
John M. Charnock
John M. Charnock University of Manchester
Ian T. Burke
Ian T. Burke University of Leeds
David Collison
David Collison University of Manchester
Malcolm N. Jones
Malcolm N. Jones University of Manchester
Richard A. D. Pattrick
Richard A. D. Pattrick University of Manchester
L. Keith Fifield
L. Keith Fifield Australian National University
Carolyn I. Pearce
Carolyn I. Pearce Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Melissa A. Denecke
Melissa A. Denecke University of Manchester

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