TY - JOUR A1 - Bannick, Claus Gerhard A1 - Bierl, R. A1 - Braun, Ulrike A1 - Brand, K. A1 - Dümichen, Erik A1 - Jekel, M. A1 - Klein, S. A1 - Knepper, T.P. A1 - König, F. A1 - Miklos, D. A1 - Rechenberg, B. A1 - Steffens, I. T1 - Mikroplastik in der aquatischen Umwelt - Ein Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion in Deutschland JF - Vom Wasser N2 - Plastics are important materials in households and industry and therefore a crucial part of our everyday life. Since the beginning of the 1970s the occurrence of plastic particles in coastal waters has been explicitly described. Meanwhile, besides the marine environment, microplastics were also detected in other environmental media, biota and water management facilities. This work gives an overview of the occurrence and first known effects of microplastics in the environment. Furthermore, current scientific proceedings are considered and pending issues are discussed. In this regard it is of central importance to develop an environmentally comprehensive, harmonized scientific proceeding for miroplastics, which enables an evaluation of relevant material flows in adaption to necessary assessment concepts. N2 - Kunststoffe sind wichtige Werkstoffe und heutzutage aus Haushalt und Wirtschaft nicht mehr wegzudenken. Seit Anfang der 1970er-Jahre wird das Vorkommen von Kunststoffpartikeln in Küstengewässern beschrieben. Inzwischen ist Mikroplastik nicht nur im marinen Bereich, sondern auch in weiteren Umweltkompartimenten, Biota und technischen Einrichtungen der Wasserwirtschaft nachgewiesen worden, in dieser Arbeit wird ein Überblick über das Vorkommen von Mikroplastik in der aquatischen Umwelt und ersten bekannten Auswirkungen gegeben. Darüber hinaus werden die aktuellen Untersuchungsverfahren von Probenahme, Probenaufbereitung und Analytik betrachtet und offene fragen diskutiert. Zentral erscheint in diesem Zusammenhang die Entwicklung einer harmonisierten medienübergreifenden Untersuchungsmethodik, die eine Auswertung relevanter Stoffströme ermöglicht und auf notwendige Bewertungskonzepte abgestimmt ist. KW - Water management KW - Plastics KW - Microplastics KW - Environment KW - Analysis KW - Mikroplastik KW - Kunststoff KW - Wasserwirtschaft KW - Analytik KW - Umwelt PY - 2015 SN - 0083-6915 VL - 113 IS - 1 SP - 7 EP - 14 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-33105 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - König, R. A1 - Scholz, G. A1 - Veiczi, M. A1 - Jäger, Christian A1 - Troyanov, S.I. A1 - Kemnitz, E. T1 - New crystalline aluminium alkoxide oxide fluorides: evidence of the mechanism of the fluorolytic sol-gel reaction JF - Dalton transactions N2 - This study reports three new crystalline aluminum isopropoxide oxide fluorides with molar ratios of Al:F equal to 1:1 and 1:1.25. These are the first three representatives isolated without the incorporation of external donor molecules. Compound 1 Al4F4(µ4-O)(µ-O'Pr)5[H(O'Pr)2] contains a tetranuclear unit consisting of two different five fold coordinated AlFO4-units, with F exclusively in the terminal position. Compound 2, Al4F4(µ4-O)(µ-O'Pr)5[H(O'Pr)2]·Al5F5(µ5-O)(µ-O'Pr)8, contains both a tetranuclear unit (as in 1) and a pentanuclear Al-unit. Al-atoms in the latter are five- and six fold coordinated. Compound 3, Al16F20(µ4-O)4(µ-O'Pr)20·2('PrOH), exhibits a slightly higher fluorination degree and contains an oligomeric chain of four F-linked tetranuclear Al-units. In addition to X-ray structure analysis, compound 1 was characterized by different solid state MAS NMR techniques, including 27Al triple quantum MAS NMR and 1H, 1H→13C CP, 19F and 27Al MAS NMR. On the basis of the collected data, a reliable decomposition of 27Al single pulse MAS NMR spectra and an unambiguous assignment of the resonances to the respective structural AlFO4-units are given. The new crystalline aluminum isopropoxide oxide fluorides are direct evidence of the fluorolytic sol–gel mechanism previously discussed. KW - Aluminium fluorine KW - MAS NMR KW - Qudrupolar nuclei KW - Crystalline aluminium isopropoxide fluoride PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c1dt10514k SN - 1477-9226 SN - 1477-9234 SN - 1364-5447 VL - 40 IS - 34 SP - 8701 EP - 8710 PB - RSC CY - Cambridge AN - OPUS4-26245 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fröhlich, J. A1 - Koustiane, C. A1 - Kämpfer, P. A1 - Rosselló-Mora, R. A1 - Valens, M. A1 - Berchtold, M. A1 - Kuhnigk, T. A1 - Hertel, Horst A1 - Maheshwari, D.K. A1 - König, H. T1 - Occurrence of rhizobia in the gut of the higher termite Nasutitermes nigriceps JF - Systematic and applied microbiology N2 - Wood-eating termites feed on a diet highly deficient in nitrogen. They must complement their diet with the aid of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Nitrogen fixation in the gut has been demonstrated, but information about nitrogen-fixing bacteria in pure culture is scarce. From the higher termite Nasutitermes nigriceps the symbiotic bacterial strain M3A was isolated, which thrives in the hindgut contents. The Gram-negative strain exhibited similarities to the species of the genus Ensifer (including Sinorhizobium) on the basis of morphological and physiological/biochemical features. The 16S rRNA gene analysis showed the highest sequence similarity of the isolate M3A to Ensifer adhaerens (>99%; ATCC 33499). The DNA–DNA hybridization revealed a similarity of 66% with E. adhaerens (NCIMB12342T). In contrast to the type strain the isolate M3A possesses the capacity to nodulate plant roots. This is the first report on the detailed identification of a rhizobia-related strain from the intestinal tract of animals. Strain M3A has been deposited with two culture collections (DSM10169; ATCC BAA-396). KW - Rhizobia KW - Ensifer KW - Termites KW - Intestinal flora KW - Nitrogen fixation PY - 2007 SN - 0723-2020 VL - 30 IS - 1 SP - 68 EP - 74 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-14541 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gartiser, S. A1 - Heisterkamp, I. A1 - Schoknecht, Ute A1 - Burkhardt, M. A1 - Ratte, M. A1 - Ilvonen, O. A1 - Brauer, F. A1 - Brückmann, J. A1 - Dabrunz, A. A1 - Egeler, P. A1 - Eisl, A.-M. A1 - Feiler, U. A1 - Fritz, I. A1 - König, S. A1 - Lebertz, H. A1 - Pandard, P. A1 - Pötschke, G. A1 - Scheerbaum, D. A1 - Schreiber, F. A1 - Soldán, P. A1 - Weiß, R. A1 - Weltens, R. T1 - Results from a round robin test for the ecotoxicological evaluation of construction products using two leaching tests and an aquatic test battery JF - Chemosphere N2 - A European round robin test according to ISO 5725-2 was conceptually prepared, realised, and evaluated. The aim was to determine the inter-laboratory variability of the overall process for the ecotoxicological characterization of construction products in eluates and bioassays. To this end, two construction products BAM-G1 (granulate) and HSR-2 (roof sealing sheet), both made of EPDM polymers (rubber), were selected. The granular construction product was eluted in a one stage batch test, the planar product in the Dynamic Surface Leaching test (DSLT). A total of 17 laboratories from 5 countries participated in the round robin test: Germany (12), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Czech Republic (1) and France (1). A test battery of four standardised ecotoxicity tests with algae, daphnia, luminescent bacteria and zebrafish eggs was used. As toxicity measures, EC50 and LID values were calculated. All tests, except the fish egg test, were basically able to demonstrate toxic effects and the level of toxicity. The reproducibility of test results depended on the test specimens and the test organisms. Generally, the variability of the EC50 or LID values increased with the overall level of toxicity. For the very toxic BAM-G1 eluate a relative high variability of CV ¼ 73%e110% was observed for EC50 in all biotests, while for the less toxic HSR-2 eluate the reproducibility of EC50 varied with sensitivity: it was very good (CV ¼ 9.3%) for the daphnia test with the lowest sensitivity, followed by the algae test (CV ¼ 36.4%). The luminescent bacteria test, being the most sensitive bioassay for HSR-2 Eluate, showed the highest variability (CV ¼ 74.8%). When considering the complex overall process the reproducibility of bioassays with eluates from construction products was acceptable. KW - Round robin test KW - Construction products KW - Leaching tests KW - Eluates KW - Ecotoxicity tests PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.01.146 SN - 0045-6535 SN - 1879-1298 VL - 175 SP - 138 EP - 146 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-39174 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - König, R. A1 - Scholz, G. A1 - Scheurell, K. A1 - Heidemann, D. A1 - Buchem, I. A1 - Unger, Wolfgang A1 - Kemnitz, E. T1 - Spectroscopic characterization of crystalline AIF3 phases JF - Journal of fluorine chemistry N2 - A comprehensive spectroscopic characterization of all known crystalline AlF3 phases (α-, β-, η-, κ-, θ-AlF3) is presented for the first time in this study. Beside their X-ray diffraction powder patterns, which were already published in the literature, 27Al and 19F MAS NMR, FT IR and XPS spectroscopic techniques were applied for all phases in a consistent manner. For all phases prepared the utilization of 27Al satellite transition (SATRAS) NMR allowed to determine the quadrupolar parameters of the aluminium sites including their distributions. In addition, η-AlF3 was isolated with high phase purity and characterized following a new preparation path different from those known so far in the literature. KW - Crystalline aluminium fluorides KW - Solid state NMR KW - FT IR KW - XPS PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2009.10.015 SN - 0022-1139 SN - 1873-3328 VL - 131 IS - 1 SP - 91 EP - 97 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-20991 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -