Ni stable isotope cosmochemistry

From the list of my publications, I highlight a series of manuscripts on high temperature Ni stable isotope cosmochemistry, from the analytical development of a Ni isotope ratio measurement protocol to the use of Ni, Fe isotope signatures in bulk meteorites, separates and via in situ LA-MC-ICP-MS as a proxy of planetesimal evolution in the early Solar System. This research is among the first to apply Ni stable isotope proxy in high temperature cosmochemistry, and addresses core formation process of planetesimals in the early Solar System.

S.M. Chernonozhkin, S. Goderis, L. Lobo, Ph. Claeys and F. Vanhaecke. Development of an isolation procedure and MC-ICP-MS measurement protocol for the study of stable isotope ratio variations of nickel // J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2015, 30, 1518-1530

S.M. Chernonozhkin, S. Goderis, M. Costas-Rodríguez, Ph. Claeys and F. Vanhaecke. Effect of parent body evolution on equilibrium and kinetic isotope fractionation: a combined Ni and Fe isotope study of iron and stony-iron meteorites // Geochimica et Cosmochemica Acta., 2016, Vol. 186, 168-188.

S.M. Chernonozhkin, M. Weyrauch, S. Goderis, S.J. McKibbin, I. Horn, L. Hecht, S. Weyer, Ph. Claeys and F. Vanhaecke. Thermal equilibration of iron meteorite and pallasite parent bodies recorded at the mineral scale by Fe and Ni isotope systematics // Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017, Vol. 217, 95-111.