Academic History

2000- Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH-Zürich

1996-1999 Ph.D.Inorganic Chemistry, Umeå University (Sweden)
1994-1997 M.Sc. Earth & Planetary Sciences, McGill University (Canada)
1991-1994 B.Sc.Earth & Planetary Sciences, McGill University (Canada)

Research at ETH

Spectrophotometric investigations of aqueous species in hydrothermal conditions

ab initio/DFT, AIM and ELF calculations of superacids, oxyanions and metal (hydr)oxides

Surface Complexation Modelling at the metal (hydr)oxide/water interface

Publications

Boily, J.-F. (2003)  Intramolecular bonding and acidity of some  main-group oxyacids (H_zXO₄, X=Cl, S, P, Si and Br, Se, As, Ge) from topological analyses of the electron density J. Phys. Chem. A. 107, 4276-4285.

Boily, J.-F. (2002) Intramolecular bonding and charge distributions in XO₄ (X=Si, P, S, Cl and Ge, As, Se, Br) oxyanions from topological analyses of the electron density. J. Phys. Chem. A. 106, 4717-4724.

Lützenkirchen J., Boily J.-F., Sjöberg S. (2002) Current application and future requirements for surface complexation models.  Research Trends: Current topics in Colloid and Interface Science. 5, 157-190.

Lützenkirchen J., Boily J.-F., Lövgren L., and Sjöberg S. (2002) Limitations of the potentiometric titration technique in determining the proton active site density of goethite surfaces. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 66, 3389-3396.

Boily J.-F. (2002) Mechanistic models for adsorption reactions at iron (hydr)oxide surfaces. In: Encyclopedia of Surface & Colloid Science (Ed. A. Hubbard). Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 3223-3238.

Boily J.-F., Lützenkirchen J., Balmès O., Beattie J. and Sjöberg S. (2001) Modeling proton binding at the goethite (a-FeOOH)/water interface. Coll. Surf. A.179, 11-27. 

Boily J.-F., Persson P., and Sjöberg S. (2000) Benzenecarboxylate surface complexation at the goethite (a-FeOOH)/water interface: III. The influence of particle surface area and the significance of modeling parameters. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 227, 132-140.

Boily J.-F., Persson P., and Sjöberg S. (2000) Benzenecarboxylate surface complexation at the goethite (a-FeOOH)/water interface: II. Linking IR spectroscopic observations to mechanistic surface complexation models.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 3453-3470.

Boily J.-F., Nilsson N., Persson P., and Sjöberg S. (2000) Benzenecarboxylate surface complexation at the goethite (a-FeOOH)/water interface: I. A mechanistic description of pyromellitate surface complexes from the combined evidence of  infrared spectroscopy, potentiometry, adsorption data, and surface complexation modeling. Langmuir 16, 5719-5729.

Boily J.-F. and Fein J.B. (2000) Proton binding to humic acids and sorption of Pb(II) and humic acid to the corundum surface.  Chem. Geol. 168, 239-253.

Fein JB, Boily J.-F., Güçlü K, and Kaulbach E. (1999) Experimental study of humic acid adsorption onto bacteria and Al-oxide mineral surfaces. Chem. Geol. 162, 33-45.

Boily J.-F. and Fein J.B. (1998) Adsorption of Pb(II) and benzenecarboxylates onto corundum. Chem. Geol. 148, 157-175.

Boily J.-F. and Fein J.B. (1996) Experimental study of cadmium-citrate co-adsorption onto a-Al₂O₃.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 2929-2938.

Mohamed A.M.O., Boily J.-F., Hossein M., Hassani F.P. (1995) Ettringite formation in lime-remediated mine tailings. 1. Thermodynamic modeling. CIM Bull.  88, 69-75.