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*   Work Information

*   Contact Information

*   Current Projects

*   Biographical Information

*   Picture Gallery

 

Work Information

Job Title

Post doctoral associate at the Environmental Research Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.

Research interests

My current area of research is aqueous metal speciation near charged mineral and bacterial surfaces. I am interested in the molecular mechanisms that govern contaminant uptake by environmental adsorbents, both from a fundamental and a remediation perspective. I am also studying metal transformations caused by the respiration of bacteria, including direct enzymatic redox processes and indirect processes occuring through reduced iron minerals. The experimental techniques that I employ include synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy, X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), acid/base titration, atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES).

 

The projects I am involved with can be described as Condensed Matter Physics and Physical-Chemistry problems related to Molecular Environmental Science. 

 

More details on these projects, my professional qualification, publications, and awards can be found in my Résumé (web format).  A typeset version for letter paper can be downloaded in pdf format.

 

The publications in the Résumé are available upon request.

Workgroup

I am currently a member of the Molecular Environmental Science group led by Dr. Ken Kemner, at the Environmental Research Division of Argonne National Laboratory. This appointment will continue through June-August 2006.

 

Most of our synchrotron experiments are performed at the MRCAT beamline, sector 10-ID at the Advanced Photon Source.

 

I actively collaborate with the XAFS Group led by Prof. Bruce Bunker at the Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, which is where I got my Ph.D. degree from.

 

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Contact Information

 

Address:           Argonne National Laboratory

9700 S. Cass Ave.

Bldg. 203, E-157

Argonne, IL 60439

U.S.A.

 

Phone:             1 (630) 252-8242

Fax:                 1 (630) 252-9793

Email:              mboyanov@nd.edu

WWW:             http://www.nd.edu/~mboyanov/

 

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Current Projects

*   Reduction of aqueous U(VI) by carbonate, sulphate, and chloride green rusts (mixed valence Fe-hydroxides)

*   Adsorption and surface precipitation of Fe(II) on carboxyl-modified microspheres.  Reduction of U(VI) by adsorbed Fe(II).

*   Formation of Cr3+ polymers in chromium acetate solutions (poster 1Mb)

*   Adsorption of Cadmium to B. subtilis Bacterial Cell Walls — a pH-Dependent XAFS Spectroscopy Study (poster 1Mb)

*   Mechanism of aqueous Pb adsorption to fatty acid Langmuir monolayers (poster 1Mb)

*   Complexation of metals (Cu, Mn, Pb, Cd, Cr) in aqueous solutions

 

For a small abstract on some of these projects, please visit the XAFS Group research interests and publications page.

 

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Biographical Information

Available in my Résumé (web format), or pdf format.

 

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Picture Gallery

*   Our wedding (21 September, 2002)

*   Various pictures at Daniela’s website

*   Friends at Notre Dame and Chicago

*   Friends in Bulgaria 1  2  3

*   Brother and parents 1  2  3  4

*   Our 2003 Picture Calendar  1  2  3  (350 Kb each)

*   Participants in the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, Argonne National Laboratory, Aug 16-27, 1999

 

 

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Last revised: Date 01-18-2005