# Boulet R., Fritsch E., Filizola H.F., de Araujo Filho J.C., Leprun J.C., Baretto F., Balan E., Tessier D. Iron bands, fragipan and duripan in the north eastern plateaux of Brazil - Structure, mineralogy and genesis.Canadian Journal of Soil Science 1998 v 78 n 3 p 519 abstract

# Jollands M, Blanchard M., Balan E. (2020) Structure and infrared spectra of OH-defects in quartz. European Journal of Mineralogy, in press
# Balan E., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M., Ingrin J. (2017) Theoretical Raman spectrum and anharmonicity of tetrahedral OH defects in hydrous forsterite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 201-212.
# Blanchard M., Ingrin J., Balan E., Kovacs I., Withers A.C. (2017) Effect of iron and trivalent cations on OH-defects in olivine. American Mineralogist, 102, 302-311.
# Laporte S., Finocchi F., Paulatto L., Blanchard M., Balan E., Guyot F., Saitta A.M. (2015) Strong electric fields at a prototypical oxide/water interface probed by ab initio molecular dynamics: MgO(001). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(31):20382-90. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP02097B
# Ingrin J., Kovacs I., Deloule E., Balan E., Blanchard M., Kohn S.C., Hermann J. (2014) Identification of hydrogen defects linked to boron substitution in synthetic forsterite and natural olivine. American Mineralogist (Letter), 99, 2138-2141.
# Crepisson, C., Blanchard, M., Bureau, H., Sanloup, C., Withers, A.C., Khodja, H., Surble., Raepsaet, C., Beneut, K., Leroy, C., Giura, P., Balan, E. (2014) Clumped fluoride-hydroxyl defects in forsterite: Implications for the upper-mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 390, 287-295.
# Crepisson C., Bureau H., Blanchard M., Ingrin J., Balan E. (2014) Theoretical infrared spectrum of partially protonated cationic vacancies in forsterite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 26, 203-210.
# Balan E., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M., Ingrin J. (2014) Contribution of interstitial OH groups to the incorporation of water in forsterite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals,41, 105-114.
# Blanchard M., Roberge M., Balan E., Fiquet G., Bureau H. (2013) Infrared signatures of OH-defects in wadsleyite: a first-principles study. American Mineralogist, 98, 2132-2143
# Balan E., Yi H., Blanchard M. (2013) First-principles study of OH-defects in zircon. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 40, 547-554.
#Ingrin J., Liu J., Depecker C., Kohn S.C., Balan E., Grant K.J. (2013) Low-temperature evolution of OH bands in synthetic forsterite, implication for the nature of H-defects at high pressure Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 40, 499-510.
# Balan E., Blanchard M., Yi H., Ingrin J.(2013) Theoretical study of OH-defects in pure enstatite Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 40, 41-50. abstract
# Welch M.D., Montgomery W., Balan E., Lerch P. (2012) Insights into the high-pressure behavior of kaolinite from infrared spectroscopy and quantum-mechanical calculations. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 143-151. abstract
# Delattre S., Balan E., Lazzeri M., Blanchard M., Guillaumet M., Beyssac O., Haussuhl E., Winkler B., Salje E.K.H., Calas G. (2012) Experimental and theoretical study of the vibrational properties of diaspore (a-AlOOH). Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 93-102 . abstract
# Balan E., Ingrin J., Delattre S., Kovacs I., Blanchard M. (2011) Theoretical infrared spectrum of OH-defects in forsterite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 23, 285-292. abstract
# Balan E., Delattre S., Guillaumet M., Salje E.K.H. (2010) Low-temperature infrared spectroscopic study of OH stretching modes in kaolinite and dickite. American Mineralogist, 95, 1257-1266. abstract
# Blanchard M., Balan E., Wright K. (2009) Incorporation of water in iron-free ringwoodite: a first-principles study. American Mineralogist, 94, 83-89. abstract
# Balan E., Refson K., Blanchard M., Delattre S., Lazzeri M., Ingrin J., Mauri F., Wright K., Winkler B. (2008) Theoretical infrared absorption coefficient of OH groups in minerals. American Mineralogist, 93, 950-953. abstract
# Balan E., Blanchard M., Hochepied J.-F., Lazzeri M. (2008) Surface modes in the infrared spectrum of hydrous minerals: the OH stretching modes of bayerite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 35, 279-285. abstract 
# Balan E., Lazzeri M., Delattre S., Meheut M., Refson K., Winkler B. (2007) Anharmonicity of inner-OH stretching modes in hydrous phyllosilicates: Assessment from first-principles frozen-phonon calculations Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34, 621-625. abstract 
# Reynard B., Hilairet N., Balan E., Lazzeri M. (2007) Elasticity of serpentines and extensive serpentinization in subduction zones. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34, No. 13, L13307. abstract 
# G. Ferlat, L. Cormier, F. Mauri, E. Balan, T. Charpentier, E. Anglada and G. Calas Ab-initio calculations on borate systems. European Journal of Glass Science and Technology B, 2006, 4, 441-444. 
# Balan E., Lazzeri M., Morin G., Mauri F. First-principles study of the OH stretching modes of gibbsite. American Mineralogist, 2006, 91, 115-119. abstract
# E. Balan, M. Lazzeri, A.M. Saitta, T. Allard, Y. Fuchs, F. Mauri. First-principles study of OH stretching modes in kaolinite, dickite and nacrite. American Mineralogist, 2005, 90, 50-60. abstract  
# E. Balan, F. Mauri, C. Lemaire, C. Brouder, F. Guyot, A. M. Saitta, B. Devouard. Multiple ionic plasmon resonances in naturally-occurring multiwall nanotubes: infrared spectra of chrysotile asbestos. Physical Review Letters, 2002, 89, 177401.  abstract 
# E. Balan, A. M. Saitta, F. Mauri, C. Lemaire, F. Guyot. First-principles calculation of the infrared spectrum of lizardite. American Mineralogist, 2002, 87, 1286-1290. abstract
# E. Balan, A. M. Saitta, F. Mauri, G. Calas. First-principles modeling of the infrared spectrum of kaolinite. American Mineralogist, 2001, 86, 1321-1330. abstract

# Balan E., Creon L., Sanloup C., Aleon J., Blanchard M., Paulatto L., Bureau H. (2019) First-principles modeling of chlorine isotope fractionation between chloride-bearing molecules and minerals. Chemical Geology, 525, 424-434.
# Saldi G.D., Noireaux J., Louvat P., Faure L., Balan E., Schott J., Gaillardet J. (2018) Boron isotopic fractionation during adsorption by calcite - Implication for the seawater pH proxy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 240, 255-273
# Ducher M., Blanchard M., Pietrucci F., Balan E. (2018) Equilibrium isotopic fractionation of aqueous Zn from first-principles calculations. Chemical Geology, 483, 342-350
# Balan E., Noireaux J., Mavromatis V., Saldi G., Montouillout V., Blanchard M., Pietrrucci F., Gervais C., Rustad J.R., Schott J., Gaillardet J. (2018) Theoretical isotopic fractionation between structural boron in carbonates and aqueous boric acid and borate ion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 222, 117-129
# Aufort J., Segalen L., Gervais C., Paulatto L., Blanchard M., Balan E. (2017) Site-specific equilibrium isotopic fractionation of oxygen, carbon and calcium in apatite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 219, 57-73.
# Ducher M., Blanchard M., Balan E. (2016) Equilibrium zinc isotope fractionation in Zn-bearing minerals from first-principles calculations. Chemical Geology, 443, 87-96.
# Pinilla C., Blanchard M., Balan E., Vuilleumier R., Mauri F. (2015) Equilibrium magnesium isotope fractionation between Mg2+(aq) and carbonate minerals: insights from path integral molecular dynamics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 163, 126-139.
# Blanchard M., Dauphas N., Hu M.Y., Roskoz M., Alp E.E., Golden D.C., Sio S.K., Tissot F.L.H., Zhao J., Gao L., Morris R.V., Fornace M., Floris A., Lazzeri M., Balan E. (2015) Reduced partition function ratios of iron and oxygen in goethite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 151, 19-33.
# Balan E., Blanchard M., Pinilla C., Lazzeri M. (2014) First-principles modeling of sulfate incorporation and 34S/32S isotopic fractionation in different calcium carbonates. Chemical Geology, 374-375, 84-91.
# Pinilla C., Blanchard M., Balan E., Ferlat G., Vuilleumier R., Mauri F. (2014) Equilibrium isotope fractionation of H and O isotopes from path integral molecular dynamics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 135, 203-216.
# Blanchard M., Poitrasson F., Meheut M., Lazzeri M., Mauri F., Balan E. (2012) Comment on "New data on equilibrium iron isotope fractionation among sulfides: Constraints on mechanisms of sulfide formation in hydrothermal and igneous systems" by V.B. Polyakov and D.M. Soultanov. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 87, 356-359.
# Javoy M., Balan E., Meheut M., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M. (2012) First-principles investigation of equilibrium isotopic fractionation of O- and Si-isotopes between refractory solids and gases in the solar nebula. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 319/320,118-127. abstract 
# Blanchard M., Morin G., Lazzeri M., Balan E. (2010) First-principles study of the structural and isotopic properties of Al and OH-bearing hematite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 3948-3962. abstract 
# Meheut M., Lazzeri M., Balan E., Mauri F. (2010) First-principles calculation of H/D isotopic fractionation between hydrous minerals and water. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 3874-3882. abstract 
# Blanchard M., Poitrasson F., Meheut M., Lazzeri M., Mauri F. Balan E. (2009) Iron isotope fractionation between pyrite (FeS2), hematite (Fe2O3) and siderite (FeCO3): A first-principles density functional theory study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73,6565-6578. abstract 
# Balan E., Cartigny P., Blanchard M, Cabaret D., Lazzeri M., Mauri F. (2009) Theoretical investigation of the anomalous equilibrium fractionation of multiple sulfur isotopes during adsorption. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 88-93. abstract 
# Meheut M., Lazzeri M., Balan E., Mauri F. (2009) Structural control over equilibrium silicon and oxygen isotopic fractionation: A first-principles density-functional theory study; Chemical Geology, 258, 28-37. abstract 
# Meheut M., Lazzeri M., Balan E., Mauri F. (2007) Equilibrium isotopic fractionation between kaolinite, quartz and water: prediction from first-principles density-functional theory. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71, 3170-3181. abstract

# Crepisson C., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M., Balan E., Sanloup C. (2018) New constraints on Xe incorporation mechanisms in olivine from first-principles calculations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 222, 146-155
# Ducher M., Pietrucci F., Balan E., Ferlat G., Paulatto L., Blanchard M. (2017) Van der Waals contribution to the relative stability of aqueous Zn(2+) coordination states. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 13, 3340-3347.
# Blanchard M., Balan E., Giura P., Beneutt K., Yi H., Morin G., Pinilla C., Lazzeri M., Floris A. (2014) Infrared spectroscopic properties of goethite: anharmonic broadening, long-range electrostatic effects and Al substitution. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 41, 289-302.
# Blanchard M., Morin G., Lazzeri M., Balan E., Dabo I. (2012) First-principles simulation of arsenate adsorption on the (1-12) surface of hematite. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 86, 182-195
# Bordage A., Balan E., de Villiers J.P.R., Cromarty R., Juhin A., Carvallo C., Calas G., Sunder Raju P.V., Glatzel P. (2011) V oxidation state in Fe-Ti oxides by high-energy resolution fluorescence detected X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 38, 449-458. abstract
# Bordage A., Brouder C., Balan E., Cabaret D., Juhin A., Arrio M.-A., Sainctavit Ph., Calas G., Glatzel P. (2010) Electronic structure and local environment of substitutional V3+ in grossular garnet Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 : K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and first-principles modeling. American Mineralogist, 95, 1161-1171. abstract
# Juhin A., Brouder Ch., Arrio M-A., Cabaret D., Sainctavit Ph., Balan E., Bordage A., Seitsonen A.P., Calas G., Eeckhout S. G., and Glatzel P. (2008) X-ray Natural Linear Dichroism in cubic compounds : the case of substitutional Cr3+ in spinel, Physical Review B, 78 195103 abstract
# Blanchard M., Lazzeri M., Mauri F., Balan E. (2008) First-principles calculation of the infrared spectrum of hematite. American Mineralogist, 93, 1019-1027 abstract
# De Villiers J.P.R., Balan E., Calas G., Bessinger D., Eeckhout S., Glatzel P. (2008) The determination of Ti2O3 in titania slags: a comparison of different methods of analysis. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy, 117, 166-170.
# E. Balan, J.P.R. de Villiers, S.G. Eeckhout, P. Glatzel, M. Toplis, E. Fritsch, T. Allard, L. Galoisy, G. Calas The oxidation state of vanadium in titanomagnetite from layered basic intrusions. American Mineralogist, 2006, 91, 953-956. abstract
# E. Balan, T. Allard, G. Morin , G. Calas. Incorporation of Cr3+ in dickite: a spectroscopic study. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 2002, 4, 273-279. abstract
# G. Morin, T. Allard, E. Balan, Ph. Ildefonse, G. Calas. Native Cd+ in sedimentary fluorapatite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2002, 14, 1087-1094. abstract
# A. Djemai, E. Balan, G. Morin, G. Hernandez, J.-C. Labbe, J.-P. Muller. Behavior of Paramagnetic Iron during the Thermal Transformations of Kaolinite Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2001, 84, 1017-1024. abstract 
# Balan E. , Allard T., Boizot B., Morin G., Muller J.-P. Quantitative measurement of paramagnetic Fe3+ in kaolinite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 2000, 48, 4, 439-445 abstract 
# Balan E. , Allard T., Boizot B., Morin G., Muller J.-P. Structural Fe3+ in natural kaolinites: New insights from electron paramagnetic resonance spectra fitting at X and Q-band frequencies. Clays and Clay Minerals, 1999, 47, 605-616 abstract 
# S. Rossano, E. Balan, G. Morin, J.-Ph. Bauer, G. Calas, Ch. Brouder 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy of tektites Physics and chemistry of minerals 1999, 26, 530-538 abstract

# Viennet J.C., Bernard S., Jacquemot P., Le Guillou C., Balan E., Delbes L., Jaber M. (2020) Influence of the atmosphere composition on the degradation of organic compounds during fossilization processes. Applied Clay Science, accepted
# Viennet J.C., Bernard S., Jacquemot P., Le Guillou C., Balan E., Delbes L., Daval D., Rigaud B., Georgelin T., Jaber M. (2019) Searching for organic biosignatures on Mars: experimental perspectives. Geochemical Perspective Letters, 12, 28-33.
# Aufort J., Gommery D., Gervais C., Segalen L., Labourdette N., Coelho-Diogo C., Balan E. (2019) Assessing bone transformation in late Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene deposits of Kenya and South Africa. Archaeometry,61, 1129-1143.
# Aufort J., Gervais C., Segalen L., Labourdette N., Coelho-Diogo C., Baptiste B., Beyssac O., Amiot R., Lécuyer C., Balan E. (2019) Atomic scale transformation of bone in controlled aqueous alteration experiments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; 526, 80-95.
# Balan E., Aufort J., Saldi G.D., Brouder Ch., Lazzeri M. (2018) Line-broadening and anharmonic effects in the attenuated total reflectance infrared spectra of calcite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 73-81.
#Aufort J., Lebon M., Gallet X., Segalen L., Gervais C., Brouder C., Balan E. (2018) Macroscopic electrostatic effects in the ATR-FTIR spectra of modern and archaeological bones. American Mineralogist (Letter), 103, 326-329
# Radtke G., Taverna D., Lazzeri M., Balan E. (2017) First-principles vibrational electron energy loss spectroscopy of beta-guanine. Physical Review Letters 119, 027402.
# Balan E., Aufort J., Pouille S., Dabos M., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M., Rollion-Bard C., Blamart D. (2017) Infrared spectroscopic study of sulfate-bearing calcite from deep-sea bamboo coral. European Journal of Mineralogy (accepted)
# Balan E., Pietrucci F., Gervais C., Blanchard M., Schott J., Gaillardet J. (2016) First-principles study of boron speciation in calcite and aragonite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 193, 119-131 .
# Aufort J., Segalen L., Gervais C., Brouder C., Balan E. (2016) Modeling the attenuated total reflectance infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectrum of apatite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 43, 615-626.
# Chevrinais M., Balan E., Cloutier R. (2016) New insights in the ontogeny and taphonomy of the Devonian acanthodian Triazeugacanthus affinis from the Miguasha Fossil-Lagerstatte, eastern Canada. Minerals, 6(1), 1; doi:10.3390/min6010001
# Bernard S., Benzerara K., Beyssac O., Balan E., Brown G.E. Jr. (2015) Evolution of the macromolecular structure of sporopollenin during thermal degradation. Heliyon, 1, e00034
# Zeyen N., Benzerara K., Li J., Groleau A., Balan E., Robert J.-L., Esteve I., Tavera R., Moreira D., Lopez-Garcia P. (2015) Formation of low-T hydrated silicates in modern microbialites from Mexico and implications for microbial fossilization. Frontiers in Earth Science, 3:64. doi: 10.3389/feart.2015.00064
# Yi H., Balan E., Gervais C., Segalen L., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M. (2014) Theoretical study of the local charge compensation and spectroscopic properties ofcarbonate defects in apatite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 41, 347-359.
# Yi H., Balan E., Gervais C., Segalen L., Roche D., Fayon F., Person A., Morin G., Babonneau F. (2014) Probing atomic scale transformation of fossil enamel using FTIR and NMR spectroscopy: A case study from the Tugen Hills (Rift Gregory, Kenya). Acta Biomaterialia, 10, 3952-3958.
# Yi H., Balan E., Gervais C., Segalen L., Fayon F., Roche D., Person A., Morin G., Guillaumet M., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M., Babonneau F. (2013) A carbonate-fluoride defect model for carbonate-rich fluorapatite. American Mineralogist, 98, 1066-1069.
# Balan E., Delattre S., Roche D., Segalen L., Morin G., Guillaumet M., Blanchard M., Lazzeri M., Brouder C., Salje E.K.H. (2011) Line-broadening effects in the powder infrared spectrum of apatite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 38, 111-122 abstract
# Roche D., Segalen L., Balan E., Delattre S. (2010) Preservation assessment of Miocene-Pliocene tooth enamel from Tugen Hills (Kenyan Rift Valley) through FTIR, chemical and stable-isotope analyses. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 1690-1699 abstract