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Richard B. Frankel is affiliated with California Polytechnic State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a specific focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. The main topics of their work include Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies.

The scientist has contributed to the academic community with publications in the venue Geo-Bio Interfaces. Among their recent work is the paper titled Influence of crystal shape and orientation on the magnetic microstructure of bullet-shaped magnetosomes synthesized by magnetotactic bacteria, published in 2024 within Geo-Bio Interfaces.

Richard B. Frankel collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • András Kovács
  • Mihály Pósfai
  • Benjamin Zingsem
  • Zi-An Li
  • Péter Pekker

Best Publications

  • Magnetite in Freshwater Magnetotactic Bacteria

    Richard B. Frankel;Richard P. Blakemore;Ralph S. Wolfe

  • Biomineralization of Ferrimagnetic Greigite (Fe3S4) and Iron Pyrite (FeS2) in a Magnetotactic Bacterium

    Stephen Mann;Nicholas H. C. Sparks;Richard B. Frankel;Dennis A. Bazylinski;Dennis A. Bazylinski

  • Rock magnetic criteria for the detection of biogenic magnetite

    Bruce M. Moskowitz;Richard B. Frankel;Dennis A. Bazylinski

  • Magnetic Microstructure of Magnetotactic Bacteria by Electron Holography

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

  • Biologically Induced Mineralization by Bacteria

    Richard B. Frankel;Dennis A. Bazylinski

  • Bacterial magnetosomes: microbiology, biomineralization and biotechnological applications.

    Dirk Schüler;R.B. Frankel

  • Carrier-concentration-induced ferromagnetism in PbSnMnTe.

    T. Story;R. R. Galazka;Richard B. Frankel;P. A. Wolff

  • Structure, Morphology, and Crystal Growth of Bacterial Magnetite

    Stephen Mann;Richard B. Frankel;Richard P. Blakemore

  • Assembly and characterization of an accurate model for the diiron center in hemerythrin

    William H. Armstrong;Alan Spool;Georgia C. Papaefthymiou;Richard B. Frankel

  • Controlled Biomineralization of Magnetite (Fe(inf3)O(inf4)) and Greigite (Fe(inf3)S(inf4)) in a Magnetotactic Bacterium.

    Dennis A. Bazylinski;Richard B. Frankel;Brigid R. Heywood;Stephen Mann

  • Anaerobic magnetite production by a marine, magnetotactic bacterium

    Dennis A. Bazylinski;Richard B. Frankel;Richard B. Frankel;Holger W. Jannasch

  • Magnetite from magnetotactic bacteria; size distributions and twinning

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

  • Electron microscopic studies of magnetosomes in magnetotactic bacteria.

    Dennis A. Bazylinski;Anthony J. Garratt-Reed;Richard B. Frankel

  • Magnetic guidance of organisms.

    Richard B. Frankel

  • Axial ligation modes in iron(III) Porphyrins. Models for the oxidized reaction states of cytochrome P-450 enzymes and the molecular structure of iron(III) protoporphyrin IX dimethyl ester p-nitrobenzenethiolate.

    S. C. Tang;S. C. Tang;S. Koch;S. Koch;G. C. Papaefthymiou;G. C. Papaefthymiou;S. Foner;S. Foner

  • 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

  • Fe3O4 precipitation in magnetotactic bacteria

    Richard B. Frankel;Georgia C. Papaefthymiou;Richard P. Blakemore;Wendy O'Brien

  • Navigational Compass in Magnetic Bacteria

    Richard B. Frankel;R. P. Blakemore

  • Synthesis and characterization of (.mu.-hydroxo)bis(.mu.-acetato)diiron(II) and (.mu.-oxo)bis(.mu.-acetato)diiron(III) 1,4,7-trimethyl-1,4,7-triazacyclononane complexes as models for binuclear iron centers in biology; properties of the mixed valence diiron(II,III) species

    Judith Ann R. Hartman;R. Lynn Rardin;Phalguni Chaudhuri;Klaus Pohl

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis A. Bazylinski
Dennis A. Bazylinski University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Georgia C. Papaefthymiou
Georgia C. Papaefthymiou Villanova University
Richard H. Holm
Richard H. Holm Harvard University
Mihály Pósfai
Mihály Pósfai University of Pannonia
Stephen Mann
Stephen Mann University of Bristol
Peter R. Buseck
Peter R. Buseck Arizona State University
Martha R. McCartney
Martha R. McCartney Arizona State University
Arthur J Freeman
Arthur J Freeman Northwestern University
Trevor Douglas
Trevor Douglas Indiana University

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