(last updated November 2001)

DEVOUARD, B. (1995) - Structure et croissance cristalline du chrysotile et des serpentines polygonales. Doctorate thesis, University of Aix-Marseille III, France.

This work has been distinguished by the 1995 R.-J. Haüy Award of the French Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography.

DEVOUARD, B. (1990) - Use of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy for the separation of natural from synthetic rubies, on the basis of trace elements chemistry. Unpublished DEA (ÅMS) thesis . Gemological Institute of America and Université de Nancy I, France.

AUZENDE, A.-L., LEMAIRE, C., DANIEL, I., REYNARD, B., DEVOUARD, B., and GUYOT, F.- High-pressure behavior of serpentine minerals: A Raman Spectroscopic study. Submitted toPhysics and Chemistry of Minerals.

CANTAGREL, J.-M., VINCENT, P., SELO, M., and STORZER, D. - Landslide-generated pseudotachylitic breccia from the Monts-Dore volcano, Massif Central (France): A 40Ar-39Ar and fission track approach. Submitted to tectonophysics

AUZENDE, A.-L., DEVOUARD, B., GUILLOT, S., DANIEL, I., BARONNET, A., and LARDEAUX, J.-M. - Serpentinites from Central Cuba: Petrology, Raman spectroscopy, and HRTEM study. Submitted to European Journal of Mineralogy

GARVIE, L.A.J., DEVOUARD, B., CAMARA, F., GROY, T.L., and BUSECK, P.R. - The crystal structure of tuppersuatsiaite, a trioctahedral isomorphous palygoskite. Submitted to Amer. Miner.

BUSECK, P.R., DUNIN-BORKOWSKI, R.E., DEVOUARD, B., FRANKEL, R., McCARTNEY, M.R., MIDGLEY, P.A., POSFAI, M., and WEYLAND, M. (2001) - Magnetite Morphology and Life on Mars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 98(24), 13490-13495.

LEGROS, F., CANTAGREL, J.-M., and DEVOUARD, B. (2000) - Pseudotachylyte (frictionite) at the base of the Arequipa volcanic landslide deposit (Peru): Implications for emplacement mechanisms. Journal of Geology, 108(5) 601-611.

McMILLAN, P.F., HUBERT, H., CHIZMESHYA, A., PETUSKEY, W.T., GARVIE, L.A.J., and DEVOUARD, B. (1999) - Nucleation and growth of icosahedral boron suboxide clusters at high pressure. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 147, 281-290.

LAURETTA, D.S., DEVOUARD, B., and BUSECK, P.R. (1999) - The cosmochemical behavior of mercury. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 171, 35-47.

GARVIE, L.A.J, DEVOUARD, B., GROY, T.L., CAMARA, F., and BUSECK, P.R. (1999) - Crystal structure of kanemite, NaHSi2O5.3H2O, from the Aris phonolite, Namibia. Am. Miner. 84(7-8), 1170-1175.

DEVOUARD, B., PÓSFAI, M., HUA, X., BAZYLINSKI, D.A., FRANKEL, R.B., and BUSECK, P.R. (1998) - Magnetite from magnetotactic bacteria: Size distributions and twinning. Am. Miner. 83(11-12;2), 1387-1398.

MUHLMEISTER, S., FRITSCH, E., SHIGLEY, J.E., DEVOUARD, B. and LAURS, B.M. (1998) - Separating natural and synthetic rubies on the basis of trace element chemistry. Gems & Gemology, 34(3), 80-101.

This paper has been distinguished by the 1998 E. Gubelin Award of the Gemological Institute of America.

HUBERT, H. , GARVIE, L.A.J., DEVOUARD, B., BUSECK, P.R., PETUSKEY, W.T., and MCMILLAN, P.F. (1998) - High-pressure, high-temperature synthesis and characterization of boron suboxide (B6O). Chem.of Materials, 10(6), 1530-1537.

HUBERT, H. , DEVOUARD, B., GARVIE, L.A.J., O'KEEFFE, M., BUSECK, P.R., PETUSKEY, W.T., and MCMILLAN, P.F. (1998) - Icosahedral Packing of B12 Icosahedra in Boron Suboxide (B6O). Nature, 391, 376-378.

DEVOUARD, B., BARONNET, A., VAN TENDELOO, G., and AMELINCKX, S. (1997) - First evidence of synthetic polygonal serpentines. Eur. J. Mineral., 9, 539-546.

AMELINCKX, S., DEVOUARD, B., and BARONNET, A. (1996) - Geometrical aspects of the diffraction space of serpentine rolled microstructures: Their study by means of electron diffraction and microscopy. Acta Cryst., A52, 850-878.

BARONNET, A. and DEVOUARD, B. (1996) - Topology and crystal growth of natural chrysotile and polygonal serpentine. J. Crystal Growth., 166, 952-960.

DEVOUARD, B. and BARONNET, A. (1995) - Axial diffraction of curved lattices: geometrical and numerical modelling. Application to chrysotile. Eur. J. Mineral., 7, 835-846.

BARONNET, A., MELLINI, M. and DEVOUARD, B. (1994) - Sectors in polygonal serpentine. A model based on dislocations. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 21, 5, 330-343.

BUSECK, P.R., DUNIN-BORKOWSKI, R.E., DEVOUARD, B., FRANKEL, R., McCARTNEY, M.R., MIDGLEY, P.A., POSFAI, M., and WEYLAND, M. (2001) - Is magnetite from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 truly identical to that from bacteria? A TEM reexamination of the evidence. 64th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Roma, september 2001. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36(9) suppl., A33-34.

LEROUX, H., CORDIER, P., GUYOT, F., and DEVOUARD, B. (2001) - Early stage of maskelynite formation: A transmission electron microscope study. 64th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Roma, september 2001. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36(9) suppl., A112.

BARONNET, A., BELLUSO, E., DEVOUARD, B., GRAUBY, O., and AUZENDE, A.-L. (2001) - Transformations and overgrowths in serpentinite microstructures: An HRTEM survey. EUG XI, Strasbourg, France, April 2001

AUZENDE, A.-L., LEMAIRE, C., DANIEL, I., REYNARD, B., GUYOT, F., and DEVOUARD, B. (2001) - High-pressure behaviour of serpentine minerals : An in situ Raman spectroscopic study of lizardite, chrysotile, antigorite, and polygonal serpentine. EUG XI, Strasbourg, France, April 2001

GUILLOT, S., AUZENDE, A.-L., SCHWARTZ, S., DANIEL, I., DEVOUARD, B., HATTORI, K., ALLEMAND, P., and LARDEAUX, J.-M. (2001) - Antigorite: A key mineral for subduction zones. EGS XXVI meeting, Nice, France, March 2001

AUZENDE, A.-L., DEVOUARD, B.,, GUILLOT, S., and DANIEL,I. (2000) - Serpentinites from Central Cuba: A petrologic, Raman spectroscopy and HRTEM study. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, Dec. 2000

DEVOUARD, B. and BARONNET, A. (2000) - Microstructures of Polygonal Serpentines from HRTEM Imaging, Electron Diffraction, and Simulation Data. 19th European Crystallographic Meeting, Nancy, France, Aug. 2000

DEVOUARD, B., PÓSFAI, M., BAZYLINSKI, D.A., FRANKEL R. B., HUA, X., and BUSECK, P. R. (2000) - Crystal size and shape distributions of magnetites from magnetotactic bacteria. Biogenic Iron Mineralization Meeting, Tihany, Hungary, Mai 2000. Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, XL1, Suppl. B, 19-20. Univ. Szeged, Hungaria.

BARONNET, A., GRAUBY, O, and DEVOUARD, B. (1999) - Electron optical observations of crystal growth and reactivity of natural and synthetic 1:1 layer silicates. Euroclay Conference, Krakow, Poland, Sept. 1999.

DEVOUARD, B. and BUSECK, P.R. (1998) - Microstructure of fibrous micas from the Shunga region, Russia. IMA '98 General Meeting, Toronto, Aug. 1998.

GRAUBY, O., BARONNET, A., and DEVOUARD, B. (1998) - Serpentine microstructure: systematics synthesized from a MgO-SiO2- H2O (MSH) gel. IMA '98 General Meeting, Toronto, Aug. 1998.

DEVOUARD, B., LAURETTA, D.S., and BUSECK, P. R. (1998) - Chemical history of P and Hg in the early solar system: Nebular vs. parent body processing. Paul Pellas Symposium, Paris, July 1998. Bull. Soc. Fr. Minér. Cristallogr., 10(3):72-73.

GRAUBY, O., BARONNET, A., and DEVOUARD, B., SOUMACKER, K., DEMIRJIAN, L. (1997) - The chrysotile-polygonal serpentine-lizardite suite synthesized from a 3MgO-2SiO2-excess H2O gel. EMPG VII, Orléans, 1998. Terra Nova suppl., 10(1):24.

BUSECK, P.R., DEVOUARD, B., MAJHI, P., POSFAI, M., BAZYLINSKI, D.A., and FRANKEL, R.B. (1997) - Bacterial magnetite and Fe sulfides. GSA annual meeting, Salt Lake City, October 1997. Abstracts with Program, Geological Society of America, 29(6), 129.

McMillan, P., Grzechnik, A., Chizmeshya, A., Hubert, H., Garvie, L., Devouard, B., Buseck, P., Petuskey, W., and Wolf, G. (1997) - Pressure-tuning crystal morphologies and dielectric domains. Invited talk, Materials Research Society, fall 1997 meeting, Boston.

DEVOUARD, B. and BUSECK, P.R. (1997) - P-rich Fe, Ni sulfides in CM2 chondrites: condensation or alteration products? Meteoritics & Planet. Sci., Vol. 32 Suppl., A34-35. 60th Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Hawai, July 1997.

BUSECK, P.R., DEVOUARD, B., and HUA, X. (1997) - Comparison of the mineralogy of fine-grained rims and adjacent matrix in CM2 chondrites. Meteoritics & Planet. Sci., Vol. 32 Suppl., A24-25. 60th Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Hawai, July 1997.

MAJHI, P., DEVOUARD, B., PÓSFAI, M., HUA, X., BAZYLINSKI, D.A., FRANKEL, R.B., and BUSECK, P.R. (1997) - Structural features of magnetite from magnetotactic bacteria. Meteoritics & Planet. Sci., Vol. 32 Suppl., A83-84.60th Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Hawai, July 1997.

Devouard, B. and Baronnet, A. (1994) - Synthetic chrysotile fibers : from cylindrically to conically wrapped structures. Implications for the growth mechanisms of chrysotile. IMA XVI General Meeting, Pisa, Sept. 1994.

Baronnet, A. and Devouard, B. (1994) - Microstructures of chrysotile and polygonal serpentine from HRTEM and simulation data. Invited paper, IMA XVI General Meeting, Pisa, Sept. 1994.

Devouard, B. and BARONNET, A. (1993) - Five-fold symmetry in chrysotile. Terra abstracts; 5,1; Invited paper, EUG VII, Strasbourg, Apr. 1993.

BARONNET, A. and DEVOUARD, B. (1992) - New HRTEM data and computer modeling on the microstructures of polygonized serpentine. GSA abstracts; 24,7; GSA annual meeting, Cincinnati, Oct. 1992.

Muhlmeister, S. and Devouard, B. (1992). Determining the natural or synthetic origin of rubies using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF). International Gemological Symposium 1991 Proc., pp.139-140.

DEVOUARD, B. (2001) -Phyllosilicates et altération aqueuse en présence de Fe métal dans les météorites. Ecole thématique CNRS "Chlorites", Seix, Ariège, Septembre 2001 (invited lecture)

AUZENDE, A.-L., DEVOUARD, B., GUILLOT, S., DANIEL, I., BARONNET, A. et LARDEAUX, J.-M. (2000) - Pétrologie et microstructures des serpentinites HP-BT de Cuba Central. Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Paris (La Vilette), Avril 2000.

DEVOUARD, B. (1999) - Contrôle de la croissance de minéraux magnétiques par les bactéries magnétotactiques. Congrès Général de la Société Française de Physique, 5-9 juillet 1999, Clermont-Fd. (invited lecture).

DEVOUARD, B., BARONNET, A. et GRAUBY, O. (1999) - Structure et croissance cristalline des serpentines enroulées : analogies et différences avec les nanotubes de carbone. 1er Colloque du GDR "nanotubes", 13-15 janvier 1999, ONERA (Chatillon), France.

BUSECK, P.R., DEVOUARD, B., HUA, X., PÓSFAI, M., BAZYLINSKI, D.A., and FRANKEL, R.B.(1997) - Biogenic iron oxydes and sulfides and the controversy over life on Mars. XVI Encontro da sociedade Brasileira de microscopia eletrónica, 1-5 sept. 1997, Caxambu, Brazil (invited lecture).

BARONNET, A., DEVOUARD, B., BELLUSO, E., and FERRARIS, G. (1996) - Microstructures and crystal growth mechanisms of chrysotile and polygonal serpentine. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Kiel, September 1996. (invited lecture).

Devouard, B., Muhlmeister, S. and Fritsch, E. (1994) - Rubis naturels, rubis synthétiques : apports de l'analyse chimique des éléments en trace par fluorescence X. Journées de la SFMC, Lille, Juil. 1994.

Devouard, B. and BARONNET, A. (1993) - Le chrysotile dans tous ses états. Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie; 5,2; Journées de la SFMC, Marseille, Juil. 1993.

BARONNET, A., MELLINI, M. and Devouard, B. (1992) - Un modèle cristallographique de la serpentine polygonale. Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie; 4,2; Journées de la SFMC, Orléans, Sept. 1992.

BARONNET, A., MELLINI, M. and Devouard, B. (1992) - Polygonisation d'un réseau cylindrique: le chrysotile-asbeste. Colloque annuel du Groupe Français de Croissance Cristalline; Lyon, Mars 1992.