• Accumulation of germanium (Ge) in plant tissues of grasses is not solely driven by its incorporation in phytoliths 

      Kaiser, Sabine; Wagner, Stephan; Moschner, Christin; Funke, Claudia; Wiche, Oliver (Biogeochemistry, 2020-02-20)
      Ge/Si ratios of plant phytoliths have been widely used to trace biogeochemical cycling of Si. However, until recently, information on how much of the Ge and Si transferred from soil to plants is actually stored in phytoliths ...
    • X-ray diffraction using focused-ion-beam-prepared single crystals 

      Weigel, Tina; Funke, Claudia; Zschornak, Matthias; Behm, Thomas; Stöcker, Hartmut; Leisegang, Tilmann; Meyer, Dirk C. (Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2020)
      High-quality single-crystal X-ray diffraction measurements are a prerequisite for obtaining precise and reliable structure data and electron densities. The single crystal should therefore fulfill several conditions, of ...