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Pieter Glatzel is a researcher affiliated with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France. Their primary research focuses on materials science and physics, with a significant volume of publications in both fields. The subfields in which they contribute include materials chemistry, radiation, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and inorganic chemistry.

The scientist's body of work spans several main topics, particularly in X-ray spectroscopy and fluorescence analysis, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, catalytic processes in materials science, mercury impact and mitigation studies, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, and nuclear physics applications.

Frequent coauthors of Pieter Glatzel include Alain Manceau, Viktoriia A. Saveleva, Kavita Kumar, Frédéric Maillard, and Sami Vasala, reflecting collaborative efforts in various interdisciplinary projects throughout their career.

They commonly publish in venues such as Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, and Journal of Materials Chemistry A. These journals illustrate the breadth of their engagement with the scientific community.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Pieter Glatzel include:

  • The five-analyzer point-to-point scanning crystal spectrometer at ESRF ID26, 2020, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
  • In Vivo Formation of HgSe Nanoparticles and Hg-Tetraselenolate Complex from Methylmercury in Seabirds-Implications for the Hg-Se Antagonism, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Identification of Dy3+/Dy2+ as Electron Trap in Persistent Phosphors, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Chemical Sensitivity of Kβ and Kα X-ray Emission from a Systematic Investigation of Iron Compounds, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Demethylation of Methylmercury in Bird, Fish, and Earthworm, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • The Structure of the First Coordination Shell in Liquid Water

    Ph. Wernet;D. Nordlund;U. Bergmann;M. Cavalleri

  • High resolution 1s core hole X-ray spectroscopy in 3d transition metal complexes—electronic and structural information

    Pieter Glatzel;Uwe Bergmann

  • X-ray damage to the Mn4Ca complex in single crystals of photosystem II: A case study for metalloprotein crystallography

    Junko Yano;Jana Kern;Klaus−Dieter Irrgang;Matthew J. Latimer

  • Simultaneous Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction of Photosystem II at Room Temperature

    Jan Kern;Jan Kern;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Rosalie Tran;Johan Hattne

  • A combined in situ time-resolved UV–Vis, Raman and high-energy resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy study on the deactivation behavior of Pt and Pt-Sn propane dehydrogenation catalysts under industrial reaction conditions

    Ana Iglesias-Juez;Andrew M. Beale;Karin Maaijen;Tsu Chien Weng

  • The 1s x-ray absorption pre-edge structures in transition metal oxides

    Frank de Groot;Gyoergy Vanko;Pieter Glatzel

  • Absence of Mn-Centered Oxidation in the S2 → S3 Transition: Implications for the Mechanism of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation

    Johannes Messinger;John H. Robblee;Uwe Bergmann;Carmen Fernandez

  • Biotic and abiotic products of Mn(II) oxidation by spores of the marine bacillus sp. strain SG-1

    John R. Bargar;Bradley M. Tebo;Uwe Bergmann;Samuel M. Webb

  • Chemical State of Complex Uranium Oxides

    K. O. Kvashnina;Sergei M. Butorin;P. Martin;P. Glatzel

  • X-ray emission spectroscopy.

    Uwe Bergmann;Pieter Glatzel

  • Activation of oxygen on gold/alumina catalysts: in situ high-energy-resolution fluorescence and time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy.

    Jeroen A. van Bokhoven;Catherine Louis;Jeffrey T. Miller;Moniek Tromp

  • Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation using femtosecond X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy

    Jan Kern;Rosalie Tran;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Sergey Koroidov

  • High-resolution Mn EXAFS of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II: structural implications for the Mn4Ca cluster.

    Junko Yano;Yulia Pushkar;Pieter Glatzel;Azul Lewis

  • The Nuclearity of the Active Site for Methane to Methanol Conversion in Cu-Mordenite: A Quantitative Assessment

    Dimitrios Pappas;Andrea Martini;Michael Martin Dyballa;Michael Martin Dyballa;Karoline Kvande

  • Nanoflow electrospinning serial femtosecond crystallography

    Raymond G Sierra;Hartawan Laksmono;Jan Kern;Rosalie Tran

  • In Situ X-ray Absorption of Co/Mn/TiO2 Catalysts for Fischer−Tropsch Synthesis

    Fernando Morales;Frank M. F. de Groot;Pieter Glatzel;Evgueni Kleimenov

  • The Electronic Structure of Mn in Oxides, Coordination Complexes, and the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Studied by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

    Pieter Glatzel;Uwe Bergmann;Junko Yano;Hendrik Visser

  • Programmed iron oxide nanoparticles disintegration in anaerobic digesters boosts biogas production.

    Eudald Casals;Raquel Barrena;Ana García;Edgar González

  • Identification of CO adsorption sites in supported Pt catalysts using high-energy-resolution fluorescence detection X-ray spectroscopy.

    Olga V. Safonova;Moniek Tromp;Jeroen A. van Bokhoven;Frank M. F. de Groot

  • Absence of Ce3+ Sites in Chemically Active Colloidal Ceria Nanoparticles

    Jean-Daniel Cafun;Kristina O. Kvashnina;Eudald Casals;Victor F. Puntes

Frequent Co-Authors

Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stephen P. Cramer
Stephen P. Cramer Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Vittal K. Yachandra
Vittal K. Yachandra Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Junko Yano
Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alain Manceau
Alain Manceau École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Olga V. Safonova
Olga V. Safonova Paul Scherrer Institute
Frank M. F. de Groot
Frank M. F. de Groot Utrecht University
Carlo Lamberti
Carlo Lamberti University of Turin

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