News & Announcements

In the first week of June the isotope lab attended the ISI:Isotopes conference in Switzerland. After hosting the Isotopes conference in Raitenhaslach 2019 it was great to contribute to the follow-up event with exciting new developments in isotope science and analytics – and a wonderful sunset over… [weiterlesen]

"Exploring Mechanisms of Biotic Chlorinated Alkane Reduction: Evidence of Nucleophilic Substitution (SN2) with Vitamin B12" B. Heckel, M. Elsner. Environmental Science & Technology (2021) Abstract Chlorinated alkanes are notorious groundwater contaminants. Their natural reductive dechlorination… [weiterlesen]

"Towards improved bioremediation strategies: Response of BAM-degradation activity to concentration and flow changes in an inoculated bench-scale sediment tank." F. Sun, A. Mellage, Z. Wang, R. Bakkour, Ch. Griebler, M. Thullner, O. Cirpka, M. Elsner Environmental Science & Technology (2022) … [weiterlesen]

"Linking Increased Isotope Fractionation at Low Concentrations to Enzyme Activity Regulation: 4-Cl Phenol Degradation by Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6." K. Kundu, A. Melsbach, B. Heckel, S. Schneidemann, D. Kanaparthi, S. Marozava, J. Merl-Pham, M. Elsner Environmental Science & Technology… [weiterlesen]

"Fully automated chemiluminescence microarray analysis platform for rapid and multiplexed SARS-CoV-2 serodiagnostics."  J. Klüpfel, S. Paßreiter, N. Weidlein, M. Knopp, M. Ungerer, U. Protzer, P. Knolle, O. Hayden, M. Elsner, M. Seidel. Analytical Chemistry (2022) Abstract Lateral-flow… [weiterlesen]

"FFF-Raman Coupling for Particle Analysis" M. Huber, F. Caputo, J. Parot, V. Sogne, F. Meier, & N.P. Ivleva, FFF2021 Symposium Abstract With the rising awareness of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in the environment, also the interest in different approaches for the detection of these particles… [weiterlesen]

"Insights from isotope fractionation on limitations of micropollutant biodegradation—evaluating mass-transfer limitation and biodegradation in a bench-scale aquifer" Abstract Anthropogenic organic micropollutants threaten groundwater quality worldwide. Identifying the bottlenecks of biodegradation… [weiterlesen]

"Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives" Ivleva, Natalia P., CHEMICAL REVIEWS (2021) Abstract Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific… [weiterlesen]

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"Application of Raman Microscopy For a Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Test and the Investigation of Dormant Mycobacteria" Abstract Raman spectroscopy is a promising tool for the analysis of bacteria. It provides high molecular information at microscopic resolution. In this work a protocol to… [weiterlesen]