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Mihály Pósfai is affiliated with the University of Pannonia in Hungary and has an extensive research portfolio in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Biomaterials, Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Paleontology, and Geophysics.

The focus of Mihály Pósfai's research includes topics such as Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Iron Oxide Chemistry and Applications, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects.

Recent papers authored by or involving Pósfai include:

  • "Evidence for Large Amounts of Brown Carbonaceous Tarballs in the Himalayan Atmosphere" (2020) published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "Size-resolved, quantitative evaluation of the magnetic mineralogy of airborne brake-wear particulate emissions" (2021) published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Transformation of amorphous calcium carbonate in the presence of magnesium, phosphate, and mineral surfaces" (2023) published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Clay minerals affect calcium (magnesium) carbonate precipitation and aging" (2021) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "The role of clay surfaces in the heterogeneous nucleation of calcite: Molecular dynamics simulations of cluster formation and attachment" (2020) published in Chemical Geology

They frequently publish in venues such as Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, American Mineralogist, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Environmental Pollution, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Frequent collaborators include Péter Pekker, Zsombor Molnár, István Dódony, Marina Dziuba, and Dirk Schüler, with multiple coauthored publications, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research fields.

Best Publications

  • Individual aerosol particles from biomass burning in southern Africa: 2, Compositions and aging of inorganic particles

    Jia Li;Mihály Pósfai;Peter V. Hobbs;Peter R. Buseck

  • Airborne minerals and related aerosol particles: effects on climate and the environment.

    Peter R. Buseck;Mihály Pósfai;Mihály Pósfai

  • Magnetic Microstructure of Magnetotactic Bacteria by Electron Holography

    Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski;Martha R. McCartney;Richard B. Frankel;Dennis A. Bazylinski

  • Individual aerosol particles from biomass burning in southern Africa: 1. Compositions and size distributions of carbonaceous particles

    Mihály Pósfai;Renáta Simonics;Jia Li;Peter V. Hobbs

  • Influence of sea-salt on aerosol radiative properties in the Southern Ocean marine boundary layer

    D. M. Murphy;J. R. Anderson;P. K. Quinn;L. M. McInnes

  • Atmospheric tar balls: Particles from biomass and biofuel burning

    Mihály Pósfai;András Gelencsér;Renáta Simonics;Krisztina Arató

  • Magnetite from magnetotactic bacteria; size distributions and twinning

    Bertrand Devouard;Mihaly Posfai;Xin Hua;Dennis A. Bazylinski

  • Effect of ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (Ferumoxtran-10) on human monocyte-macrophages in vitro.

    Karin Müller;Jeremy N. Skepper;Mihaly Posfai;Rikin Trivedi

  • The Red Mud Accident in Ajka (Hungary): Characterization and Potential Health Effects of Fugitive Dust

    András Gelencsér;Nóra Kováts;Beatrix Turóczi;Ágnes Rostási

  • Iron sulfides from magnetotactic bacteria; structure, composition, and phase transitions

    Mihaly Posfai;Peter R. Buseck;Dennis A. Bazylinski;Richard B. Frankel

  • Reaction Sequence of Iron Sulfide Minerals in Bacteria and Their Use as Biomarkers

    Mihály Pósfai;Peter R. Buseck;Dennis A. Bazylinski;Richard B. Frankel

  • Nature and climate effects of individual tropospheric aerosol particles

    Mihály Pósfai;Peter R. Buseck

  • Biosynthesis of magnetic nanostructures in a foreign organism by transfer of bacterial magnetosome gene clusters.

    Isabel Kolinko;Anna Lohße;Sarah Borg;Oliver Raschdorf

  • Soot and sulfate aerosol particles in the remote marine troposphere

    Mihály Pósfai;Mihály Pósfai;James R. Anderson;Peter R. Buseck;Herman Sievering

  • A Cultured Greigite-Producing Magnetotactic Bacterium in a Novel Group of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

    Christopher T. Lefèvre;Christopher T. Lefèvre;Christopher T. Lefèvre;Nicholas Menguy;Fernanda Abreu;Ulysses Lins

  • Three dimensional tomographic imaging and characterization of iron compounds within Alzheimer's plaque core material

    Joanna F. Collingwood;Ryan K. K. Chong;Takeshi Kasama;Lionel Cervera-Gontard

  • Magnetite morphology and life on Mars.

    Peter R. Buseck;Rafael E. Dunin-Borkowski;Bertrand Devouard;Richard B. Frankel

  • The cation diffusion facilitator proteins MamB and MamM of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense have distinct and complex functions, and are involved in magnetite biomineralization and magnetosome membrane assembly

    René Uebe;Katja Junge;Verena Henn;Gabriele Poxleitner

  • Individual Aerosol Particles from Biomass Burning in Southern Africa

    Mihaly Posfai;Renata Simonics;Jia Li;Peter V. Hobbs

  • Microbiology and atmospheric processes: biological, physical and chemical characterization of aerosol particles

    D. G. Georgakopoulos;V. Despres;J. Frohlich-Nowoisky;R. Psenner

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R. Buseck
Peter R. Buseck Arizona State University
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski Forschungszentrum Jülich
Richard B. Frankel
Richard B. Frankel California Polytechnic State University
András Gelencsér
András Gelencsér University of Pannonia
Dennis A. Bazylinski
Dennis A. Bazylinski University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dirk Schüler
Dirk Schüler University of Bayreuth
András Hoffer
András Hoffer University of Pannonia
Peter V. Hobbs
Peter V. Hobbs University of Washington
Ann M. Hirt
Ann M. Hirt ETH Zurich
Martha R. McCartney
Martha R. McCartney Arizona State University

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