TY - JOUR
A1 - Linberg, Kevin
A1 - Szymoniak, Paulina
A1 - Schönhals, Andreas
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
A1 - Michalchuk, Adam
T1 - The Origin of Delayed Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals Under Mechanochemical Conditions
N2 - We show that mechanochemically driven polymorphic transformations can require extremely long induction periods, which can be tuned from hours to days by changing ball milling energy. The robust design and interpretation of ball milling experiments must account for this unexpected kinetics that arises from energetic phenomena unique to the solid state. Detailed thermal analysis, combined with DFT simulations, indicates that these marked induction periods are associated with processes of mechanical activation. Correspondingly, we show that the pre‐activation of reagents can also lead to marked changes in the length of induction periods. Our findings demonstrate a new dimension for exerting control over polymorphic transformations in organic crystals. We expect mechanical activation to have a much broader implication across organic solid‐state mechanochemistry.
KW - General Chemistry
KW - Catalysis
KW - Organic Chemistry
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-589219
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202302150
SN - 0947-6539
SP - e202302150
PB - Wiley
AN - OPUS4-58921
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - CONF
A1 - Visileanu, Emilia
A1 - Catalin Grosu, Marian
A1 - Tiberiu Miclea, Paul
A1 - Altmann, Korinna
A1 - Brossell, Dirk
T1 - Methods for the collection and characterization of airborne particles in the textile industry
N2 - Airborne particulate matter is one of the main air pollutants. Their impact on mortality, and the occurrence of pulmonary and cardiovascular complications, have been the subject of numerous studies. Airborne particles are complex mixtures of organic and inorganic substances from different sources of particle emissions. Particulate Matter (PM) particles are classified according to their aerodynamic diameter expressed in µm and can vary from coarse (PM 10) to fine (less than PM 2.5). These diameter considerations are fundamental because they condition the penetration of particles into the bronchopulmonary system and the body. In recent years, there has been an interest in so-called “ultra-fine” particles, with a diameter of 0.1 µm (or 100 nm), or PM 0.1. They are nanoparticles and their impact on human health is not yet clear.With more than 1.5 million employees, textiles and clothing is a diverse sector that plays an important role in the European manufacturing industry, producing a turnover of €162 billion.An important component of the solid particles that generate air pollution in the textile industry is microplastics (MP) and nano plastics (NP), which also include microfibers (<5mm) and nanofibers (<100 nm), respectively. The particles released into the air during fiber and yarn processing range from 1 µg/m3 to 50 µg/m3.The paper presents the results of the determination of indoor and outdoor air concentration levels in textile companies, to identify the areas with the highest concentration level, by using an online recording system such as the Laser Aerosol Spectrometer MINI LAS model 11-E. The total concentration level TSP (µg/m3), the fractions PM 10(µg/m3), PM 2.5(µg/m3), PM1(µg/m3), as well as the total number of particles TC (1/l), were shown. It was noted that TSP is approximately at the same level both indoors and outdoors, but the fractions of PM10, PM2.5, and PM1 have much higher values indoors than outdoors with possible consequences on workers' health.The next step was the collection of fibers, namely micro and nano plastic particles from the vicinity of the workplaces of polyester, polyamide, and polypropylene fibers processing units in the textile industry in Romania, to obtain a sufficient quantity for laboratory analysis to determine the size and shape of the particles as well as their chemical composition. Two types of pumps were used, differentiated by their operating parameters: TECORA SKYPOST with airflow of 38 l/min and GILAIRPLUS with airflow 2l/min. Filters made of different materials with different diameters and pore sizes were used, namely: quartz filters (ø 47 mm, and ø 37 mm) on a TECORA SKYPOST type pump, polycarbonate nucleopore coated with a gold membrane (ø 25 mm) and silica filter (ø 9 mm) on GILAIRPLUS type pump.Using descriptive statistics, the calculation of correlation coefficients highlighted a strong correlation between the variables: "Collected mass/ Air concentration" and "Collected mass/ Air volume" for all diameters of the filters.The highest collected particle volume, determined by weighing the filters before and after collection, was obtained with the quartz filters (ø 47 mm) at an airflow of 38 l/min. The particles collected (polyester, polyamide, polypropylene) in the first stage were analyzed by SEM and thermogravimetric and it was found that the quartz filters absorbed the particles inside, with very few remaining on the surface. Thus no known methods can be used to perform analysis for particles collected on quartz filters. The number of particles on the filters was insufficient for analysis either because of the collection parameters used or because of the loss of particles during transport. As a result, in the next step, the use of 9 mm Si filters using the GILAIRPLUS pump at an airflow rate of 2l/min was chosen.To improve the transport conditions and avoid the loss of the particles and keep them on the surface of the filters, two methods were applied:- after weighing the filters were reintroduced into the collection pump holder;- a filtration system for airborne micro-nano plastics was designed and manufactured to selectively collect and transport PM10 and PM1 particles collected on SI filters.In both cases, SEM, Raman mapping, and GS-MS microscopy were used for analysis.Several times more PM10 than PM1 (74.5µg compared to 12.5 µg) was found. In all cases, both particles and fibers showed the same Raman fingerprint.The GS-MS analyses showed some contamination of the workspaces with particles other than the processed fibers. The presence of non-notifiable substances was also observed.The most viable filters are Si filters with a pore size of 10 microns to 1 micron and the use of the selected collection and transport filter system. In the following a filter system will be applied for collection on Au membrane-coated polycarbonate filters.
T2 - 5th International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications (IHSED 2023)
KW - Microplastics
KW - Textiles
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-624442
DO - https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004132
VL - 112
SP - 212
EP - 223
PB - AHFE International
AN - OPUS4-62444
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tscheuschner, Georg
A1 - Ponader, Marco
A1 - Raab, Christopher
A1 - Weider, Prisca S.
A1 - Hartfiel, Reni
A1 - Kaufmann, Jan Ole
A1 - Völzke, Jule L.
A1 - Bosc-Bierne, Gaby
A1 - Prinz, Carsten
A1 - Schwaar, T.
A1 - Andrle, Paul
A1 - Bäßler, Henriette
A1 - Nguyen, Khoa
A1 - Zhu, Y.
A1 - Mey, A. S. J. S.
A1 - Mostafa, A.
A1 - Bald, I.
A1 - Weller, Michael G.
T1 - Efficient Purification of Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus by a Novel Peptide Aptamer
N2 - The cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV) is a plant virus explored as a nanotechnological platform. The robust self-assembly mechanism of its capsid protein allows for drug encapsulation and targeted delivery. Additionally, the capsid nanoparticle can be used as a programmable platform to display different molecular moieties. In view of future applications, efficient production and purification of plant viruses are key steps. In established protocols, the need for ultracentrifugation is a significant limitation due to cost, difficult scalability, and safety issues. In addition, the purity of the final virus isolate often remains unclear. Here, an advanced protocol for the purification of the CCMV from infected plant tissue was developed, focusing on efficiency, economy, and final purity. The protocol involves precipitation with PEG 8000, followed by affinity extraction using a novel peptide aptamer. The efficiency of the protocol was validated using size exclusion chromatography, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, reversed-phase HPLC, and sandwich immunoassay. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the final eluate of the affinity column is of exceptional purity (98.4%) determined by HPLC and detection at 220 nm. The scale-up of our proposed method seems to be straightforward, which opens the way to the large-scale production of such nanomaterials. This highly improved protocol may facilitate the use and implementation of plant viruses as nanotechnological platforms for in vitro and in vivo applications.
N2 - Das Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus (CCMV) ist ein Pflanzenvirus, das als nanotechnologische Plattform erforscht wird. Der robuste Selbstorganisationsmechanismus seines Kapsidproteins ermöglicht die Verkapselung und gezielte Abgabe von Medikamenten. Darüber hinaus kann das Kapsid-Nanopartikel als programmierbare Plattform für die Präsentation verschiedener molekularer Komponenten verwendet werden. Im Hinblick auf künftige Anwendungen ist eine effiziente Produktion und Reinigung von Pflanzenviren von entscheidender Bedeutung. In etablierten Protokollen stellt die notwendige Ultrazentrifugation aufgrund von Kosten, schwieriger Skalierbarkeit und Sicherheitsaspekten eine erhebliche Einschränkung dar. Darüber hinaus bleibt die Reinheit des endgültigen Virusisolats oft unklar. Hier wurde ein fortschrittliches Protokoll für die Reinigung von CCMV aus infiziertem Pflanzengewebe entwickelt, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Effizienz, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Reinheit lag. Das Protokoll beinhaltet eine Fällung mit Polyethylenglycol (PEG 8000), gefolgt von einer Affinitätsextraktion mit einem neuartigen Peptid-Aptamer. Die Effizienz des Protokolls wurde mithilfe von Größenausschluss-Chromatographie (SEC), MALDI-TOF-Massenspektrometrie, Umkehrphasen-HPLC und Sandwich-Immunoassay validiert. Darüber hinaus wurde nachgewiesen, dass das endgültige Eluat der Affinitätssäule eine außergewöhnliche Reinheit (98,4 %) aufweist, die durch HPLC und Detektion bei 220 nm bestimmt wurde. Die Skalierung der von uns vorgeschlagenen Methode scheint einfach zu sein, was den Weg für eine größer angelegte Produktion solcher Nanomaterialien ebnet. Dieses stark verbesserte Protokoll könnte die Verwendung und Umsetzung von Pflanzenviren als nanotechnologische Plattformen für In-vitro- und In-vivo-Anwendungen erleichtern.
KW - Affinity chromatography
KW - Nanoparticles
KW - Nanoscience
KW - Carrier protein
KW - Encapsulation
KW - Combinatorial peptide library
KW - Peptide binder
KW - Vigna unguiculata
KW - Augenbohne
KW - Schlangenbohne
KW - Pflanzenvirus
KW - Plant virus
KW - Upscaling
KW - Commercialization
KW - Reference material
KW - Nanocarrier
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-572645
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/v15030697
VL - 15
IS - 3
SP - 1
EP - 24
PB - MDPI
CY - Basel, Schweiz
AN - OPUS4-57264
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Beslic, D.
A1 - Tscheuschner, Georg
A1 - Renard, B. Y.
A1 - Weller, Michael G.
A1 - Muth, Thilo
T1 - Comprehensive evaluation of peptide de novo sequencing tools for monoclonal antibody assembly
N2 - Monoclonal antibodies are biotechnologically produced proteins with various applications in research, therapeutics and diagnostics. Their ability to recognize and bind to specific molecule structures makes them essential research tools and therapeutic agents. Sequence information of antibodies is helpful for understanding antibody–antigen interactions and ensuring their affinity and specificity. De novo protein sequencing based on mass spectrometry is a valuable method to obtain the amino acid sequence of peptides and proteins without a priori knowledge. In this study, we evaluated six recently developed de novo peptide sequencing algorithms (Novor, pNovo 3, DeepNovo, SMSNet, PointNovo and Casanovo), which were not specifically designed for antibody data. We validated their ability to identify and assemble antibody sequences on three multi-enzymatic data sets. The deep learning-based tools Casanovo and PointNovo showed an increased peptide recall across different enzymes and data sets compared with spectrum-graph-based approaches. We evaluated different error types of de novo peptide sequencing tools and their performance for different numbers of missing cleavage sites, noisy spectra and peptides of various lengths. We achieved a sequence coverage of 97.69–99.53% on the light chains of three different antibody data sets using the de Bruijn assembler ALPS and the predictions from Casanovo. However, low sequence coverage and accuracy on the heavy chains demonstrate that complete de novo protein sequencing remains a challenging issue in proteomics that requires improved de novo error correction, alternative digestion strategies and hybrid approaches such as homology search to achieve high accuracy on long protein sequences.
KW - De novo peptide sequencing
KW - Bioinformatics
KW - Benchmarking study
KW - Monoclonal antibody
KW - Mass spectrometry
KW - Sequence coverage
KW - Light chains
KW - Heavy chains
KW - IgG
KW - Immunoglobulins
KW - Error correction
KW - Sequencing algorithm
KW - Preprocessing
KW - Missing fragmentation sites
KW - Deep learning-based tools
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-570363
DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbac542
VL - 24
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - Oxford University Press
AN - OPUS4-57036
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fröhlich-Nowoisky, J.
A1 - Bothen, N.
A1 - Backes, A. T.
A1 - Weller, Michael G.
A1 - Pöschl, U.
T1 - Oligomerization and tyrosine nitration enhance the allergenic potential of the birch and grass pollen allergens Bet v 1 and Phl p 5
N2 - Protein modifications such as oligomerization and tyrosine nitration alter the immune response to allergens and may contribute to the increasing prevalence of allergic diseases. In this mini-review, we summarize and discuss relevant findings for the major birch and grass pollen allergens Bet v 1 and Phl p 5 modified with tetranitromethane (laboratory studies), peroxynitrite (physiological processes), and ozone and nitrogen dioxide environmental conditions). We focus on tyrosine nitration and the formation of protein dimers and higher oligomers via dityrosine cross-linking and the immunological effects studied.
N2 - Proteinmodifikationen wie Oligomerisierung und Tyrosinnitrierung verändern die Immunantwort auf Allergene und tragen möglicherweise zur zunehmenden Prävalenz allergischer Erkrankungen bei. In diesem Mini-Review fassen wir relevante Befunde zu den wichtigsten Birken- und Gräserpollenallergenen Bet v 1 und Phl p 5 zusammen, die mit Tetranitromethan (Laborstudien), Peroxynitrit (physiologische Prozesse) und Ozon und Stickstoffdioxid (Umweltbedingungen). Wir konzentrieren uns auf die Tyrosin-Nitrierung und die Bildung von Proteindimeren und höheren Oligomeren durch Dityrosin-Vernetzung und deren immunologischen Auswirkungen.
KW - Allergy
KW - Nitration
KW - Protein oligomers
KW - Air pollution
KW - Ozone
KW - Nitrogen oxides
KW - Tyrosine
KW - Nitrotyrosine
KW - Dityrosine
KW - Dityrosine crosslinking
KW - Protein degradation
KW - Neoepitopes
KW - Neoallergen
KW - IgE
KW - Immunoglobulin E
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-591453
DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/falgy.2023.1303943
VL - 4
SP - 1
EP - 8
PB - Frontiers Media
CY - Switzerland
AN - OPUS4-59145
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Reinmuth-Selzle, K.
A1 - Bellinghausen, I.
A1 - Leifke, A. L.
A1 - Backes, A. T.
A1 - Bothen, N.
A1 - Ziegler, K.
A1 - Weller, Michael G.
A1 - Saloga, J.
A1 - Schuppan, D.
A1 - Lucas, K.
A1 - Pöschl, U.
A1 - Fröhlich-Nowoisky, J.
T1 - Chemical modification by peroxynitrite enhances TLR4 activation of the grass pollen allergen Phl p 5
N2 - The chemical modification of aeroallergens by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) may contribute to the growing prevalence of respiratory allergies in industrialized countries. Post-translational modifications can alter the immunological properties of proteins, but the underlying mechanisms and effects are not well understood. In this study, we investigate the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) activation of the major birch and grass pollen allergens Bet v 1 and Phl p 5, and how the physiological oxidant peroxynitrite (ONOO–) changes the TLR4 activation through protein nitration and the formation of protein dimers and higher oligomers. Of the two allergens, Bet v 1 exhibited no TLR4 activation, but we found TLR4 activation of Phl p 5, which increased after modification with ONOO– and may play a role in the sensitization against this grass pollen allergen. We attribute the TLR4 activation mainly to the two-domain structure of Phl p 5 which may promote TLR4 dimerization and activation. The enhanced TLR4 signaling of the modified allergen indicates that the ONOO–-induced modifications affect relevant protein-receptor interactions. This may lead to increased sensitization to the grass pollen allergen and thus contribute to the increasing prevalence of allergies in the Anthropocene, the present era of globally pervasive anthropogenic influence on the environment.
KW - Bet v 1
KW - Birch pollen allergen
KW - Phl p 5
KW - Grass pollen
KW - Phleum pratense
KW - Betula pendula
KW - Nitration
KW - Nitrotyrosine
KW - Protein nitration
KW - Toll-like receptor 4
KW - Allergy
KW - Enhancement
KW - Oligomerization
KW - Dimerization
KW - TLR4 activation
KW - Air pollution
KW - Nitrogen oxides
KW - Inflammation
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-570298
DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/falgy.2023.1066392
VL - 4
SP - 1
EP - 7
PB - Frontiers Media SA
CY - Lausanne, Switzerland
AN - OPUS4-57029
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tchipilov, Teodor
A1 - Meyer, Klas
A1 - Weller, Michael G.
T1 - Quantitative 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) of aromatic amino acids for protein quantification
N2 - Hydrolysis of protein samples into amino acids facilitates the use of NMR spectroscopy for protein and peptide quantification. Different conditions have been tested for quantifying aromatic amino acids and proteins. The pH-dependent signal shifts in the aromatic region of amino acid samples were examined. A pH of 12 was found to minimize signal overlap of the four aromatic amino acids. Several aromatic compounds, such as terephthalic acid, sulfoisophthalic acid, and benzene tricarboxylic acid, were applied as internal standards. The quantification of amino acids from an amino acid standard was performed. Using the first two suggested internal standards, recovery was ~97% for histidine, phenylalanine, and tyrosine at a concentration of approximately 1 mM in solution. Acidic hydrolysis of a certified reference material (CRM) of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and subsequent quantification of Phe and Tyr yielded recoveries of 98% ± 2% and 88% ± 4%, respectively, at a protein concentration of 16 g/L or 250 µM.
KW - Amino acid analysis
KW - Aromatic amino acid analysis
KW - AAA
KW - AAAA
KW - Protein hydrolysis
KW - Hydrochloric acid
KW - Metrology
KW - Traceability
KW - NIST
KW - Reference materials
KW - Internal standard
KW - Calibration
KW - Compound-independent calibration
KW - Histidine
KW - Tyrosine
KW - Tryptophan
KW - Phenylalanine
KW - Terephthalic acid
KW - Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid
KW - Bovine serum albumin (BSA)
KW - Quantitative protein analysis
KW - Phenylketonuria
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-570943
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/mps6010011
VL - 6
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 13
PB - MDPI
CY - Basel, Schweiz
AN - OPUS4-57094
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Karafiludis, Stephanos
A1 - Scoppola, E.
A1 - Wolf, S.E.
A1 - Kochovski, Z.
A1 - Matzdorff, D.
A1 - Van Driessche, A. E. S.
A1 - Hövelmann, J.
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
A1 - Stawski, Tomasz M.
T1 - Evidence for liquid-liquid phase separation during the early stages of Mg-struvite formation
N2 - The precipitation of struvite, a magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate (MgNH₄PO₄ · 6H₂O) mineral, from wastewater is a promising method for recovering phosphorous. While this process is commonly used in engineered environments, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms responsible for the formation of struvite crystals remains limited. Specifically, indirect evidence suggests the involvement of an amorphous precursor and the occurrence of multi-step processes in struvite formation, which would indicate non-classical paths of nucleation and crystallization. In this study, we use synchrotron-based in situ x-ray scattering complemented by cryogenic transmission electron microscopy to obtain new insights from the earliest stages of struvite formation. The holistic scattering data captured the structure of an entire assembly in a time-resolved manner. The structural features comprise the aqueous medium, the growing struvite crystals, and any potential heterogeneities or complex entities. By analysing the scattering data, we found that the onset of crystallization causes a perturbation in the structure of the surrounding aqueous medium. This perturbation is characterized by the occurrence and evolution of Ornstein-Zernike fluctuations on a scale of about 1 nm, suggesting a non-classical nature of the system. We interpret this phenomenon as a liquid-liquid phase separation, which gives rise to the formation of the amorphous precursor phase preceding actual crystal growth of struvite. Our microscopy results confirm that the formation of Mg-struvite includes a short-lived amorphous phase, lasting >10 s.
KW - Physical and theoretical chemistry
KW - Non-classical crystallization
KW - Struvite
KW - Liquid-liquid-phase-separation
KW - Nucleation
KW - Crystallization
KW - In-situ scattering
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-584766
DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0166278
SN - 1089-7690
VL - 159
IS - 13
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - AIP Publishing
CY - Woodbury, NY
AN - OPUS4-58476
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Edzards, Joshua
A1 - Saßnick, Holger-Dietrich
A1 - de Oliveira Guilherme Buzanich, Ana
A1 - Valencia, Ana M.
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
A1 - Beyer, Sebastian
A1 - Cocchi, Caterina
T1 - Effects of Ligand Substituents on the Character of Zn-Coordination in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks
N2 - Due to their favorable properties and high porosity, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) have recently received much limelight for key technologies such as energy storage, optoelectronics, sensorics, and catalysis. Despite widespread interest in these materials, fundamental questions regarding the zinc coordination environment remain poorly understood. By focusing on zinc(II)2-methylimidazolate (ZIF-8) and its tetrahedrally coordinated analogues with Br-, Cl-, and H-substitution in the 2-ring position, we aim to clarify how variations in the local environment of Zn impact the charge distribution and the electronic properties of these materials. Our results from densityfunctional theory confirm the presence of a Zn coordinative bond with a large polarization that is quantitatively affected by different substituents on the organic ligand. Moreover, our findings suggest that the variations in the Zn coordination induced by the functionalization have a negligible effect on the electronic structure of the considered compounds. On the other hand, halogen terminations of the ligands lead to distinct electronic contributions in the vicinity of the frontier region which ultimately reduce the band gap size by a few hundred millielectron volts. Experimental results obtained from X-ray absorption spectroscopy (Zn K-edge) confirm the trends predicted by theory and, together with them, contribute to a better understanding of the structure−property relationships that are needed to tailor ZIFs for target applications.
KW - Surfaces
KW - Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
KW - General Energy
KW - Electronic
KW - Coatings and Films
KW - Optical and Magnetic Materials
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-589117
DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c06054
SN - 1932-7447
VL - 127
IS - 43
SP - 21456
EP - 21464
PB - American Chemical Society (ACS)
AN - OPUS4-58911
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Villajos Collado, José Antonio
A1 - Bienert, M.
A1 - Gugin, Nikita
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
A1 - Maiwald, Michael
T1 - A database to select affordable MOFs for volumetric hydrogen cryoadsorption considering the cost of their linkers
N2 - Physical adsorption at cryogenic temperature (cryoadsorption) is a reversible mechanism that can reduce the pressure of conventional compressed gas storage systems. Metal–organic framework (MOF) materials are remarkable candidates due to the combination of high specific surface area and density which, in some cases, provide a high volumetric storage capacity. However, such extensive use of MOFs for this application requires the selection of affordable structures, easy to produce and made from feasible metallic and organic components. Herein, we introduce a MOF database detailing the crystallographic and porous properties of 3600 existing MOFs made from industrially relevant metals and their organic composition. The comparison of the available minimum costs of linkers allowed the creation of a database to select affordable structures with high potential for volumetric hydrogen storage by cryoadsorption, considering their composition based on individual or mixed building blocks. A user inter� face, available online, facilitates the selection of MOFs based on the properties or names of structures and linkers.
KW - MOF´s
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-583619
DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ma00315a
VL - 4
IS - 18
SP - 4226
EP - 4237
PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
AN - OPUS4-58361
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Scheurrell, Kerstin
A1 - B. Martins, Inês C.
A1 - Murray, Claire
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
T1 - Exploring the role of solvent polarity in mechanochemical Knoevenagel condensation: in situ investigation and isolation of reaction intermediates
N2 - Mechanochemistry has proven to be a highly effective method for the synthesis of organic compounds. We studied the kinetics of the catalyst-free Knoevenagel reaction between 4-nitrobenzaldehyde and malononitrile, activated and driven by ball milling. The reaction was investigated in the absence of solvents (neat grinding) and in the presence of solvents with different polarities (liquid-assisted grinding). The reaction was monitored using time-resolved in situ Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). Our results indicate a direct relationship between solvent polarity and reaction kinetics, with higher solvent polarity leading to faster product (2-(4-nitrobenzylidone)malononitrile) formation. For the first time, we were able to isolate and determine the structure of an intermediate 2-(hydroxy(4-nitrophenyl)methyl)malononitrile based on PXRD data.
KW - Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
KW - General Physics and Astronomy
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-588071
DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP02883F
SN - 1463-9076
VL - 25
IS - 35
SP - 23637
EP - 23644
PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
AN - OPUS4-58807
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Peters, Stefan
A1 - Kunkel, Benny
A1 - Cakir, Cafer Tufan
A1 - Kabelitz, Anke
A1 - Witte, Steffen
A1 - Bernstein, Thomas
A1 - Bartling, Stephan
A1 - Radtke, Martin
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
A1 - Abdel-Mageed, Ali Mohamed
A1 - Wohlrab, Sebastian
A1 - de Oliveira Guilherme Buzanich, Ana
T1 - Time-, space- and energy-resolved in situ characterization of catalysts by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
N2 - A novel setup for dispersive X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) with simultaneous resolution of space, time and energy for in situ characterization of solid materials is demonstrated.
KW - Dispersive XAS
KW - Catalysis
KW - In situ
KW - Structure analysis
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-584924
DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc03277a
SN - 1359-7345
SP - 1
EP - 4
PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
AN - OPUS4-58492
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Wiesner, Yosri
A1 - Bednarz, Marius
A1 - Braun, Ulrike
A1 - Bannick, Claus Gerhard
A1 - Ricking, Mathias
A1 - Altmann, Korinna
T1 - A promising approach to monitor microplastic masses in composts
N2 - Inputs of plastic impurities into the environment via the application of fertilizers are regulated in Germany and the EU by means of ordinances. Robust and fast analytical methods are the basis of legal regulations. Currently, only macro- and large microplastic contents (>1 mm) are measured. Microplastics (1–1,000 µm), are not yet monitored. Thermal analytical methods are suitable for this purpose, which can determine the mass content and can also be operated fully automatically in routine mode. Thermal extraction desorption-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (TED-GC/MS) allows the identification of polymers and the determination of mass contents in solid samples from natural environments. In accordance with the German or European Commission (EC) Fertiliser Ordinance, composting plants should be monitored for microplastic particles with this method in the future. In this context a compost plant was sampled. At the end of the rotting process, the compost was sieved and separated in a coarse (>1 mm) and a fine fraction (<1 mm). The fine fraction was processed using density separation comparing NaCl and NaI as possible salt alternative and screened for microplastic masses by TED-GC/MS with additional validation and quality assurance experiments. With TED-GC/MS total microplastics mass contents of 1.1–3.0 μg/mg in finished compost could be detected with polyethylene mainly. What differs much to the total mass of plastics in the coarse fraction with up to 60 μg/mg, which were visually searched, identified via ATR-FTIR and gravimetrically weighted.
KW - Microplastics
KW - TED-GC/MS
KW - Compost
KW - Monitoring
KW - Soil
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-586688
DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvc.2023.1281558
SN - 2673-4486
VL - 4
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - Frontiers Media
CY - Lausanne
AN - OPUS4-58668
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Abusafia, A.
A1 - Scheid, C.
A1 - Meurer, Maren
A1 - Altmann, Korinna
A1 - Dittmer, U.
A1 - Steinmetz, H.
T1 - Microplastic sampling strategies in urban drainage systems for quantification of urban emissions based on transport pathways
N2 - Tracking waterborne microplastic (MP) in urban areas is a challenging task because of the various sources and transport pathways involved. Since MP occurs in low concentrations in most wastewater and stormwater streams, large sample volumes need to be captured, prepared, and carefully analyzed. The recent research in urban areas focused mainly on MP emissions at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), as obvious entry points into receiving waters. However, important transport pathways under wet-weather conditions are yet not been investigated thoroughly. In addition, the lack of comprehensive and comparable sampling strategies complicated the attempts for a deeper understanding of occurrence and sources. The goal of this paper is to (i) introduce and describe sampling strategies for MP at different locations in a municipal catchment area under dry and wet-weather conditions, (ii) quantify MP emissions from the entire catchment and two other smaller ones within the bigger catchment, and (iii) compare the emissions under dry and wet-weather conditions. WWTP has a high removal rate of MP (>96%), with an estimated emission rate of 189 kg/a or 0.94 g/[population equivalents (PEQ · a)], and polyethylene (PE) as the most abundant MP. The specific dry-weather emissions at a subcatchment were ≈30 g/(PEQ · a) higher than in the influent of WWTP with 23 g/(PEQ · a). Specific wet-weather emissions from large sub-catchment with higher traffic and population densities were 1952 g/(ha · a) higher than the emissions from smaller catchment (796 g/[ha · a]) with less population and traffic. The results suggest that wet-weather transport pathways are likely responsible for 2–4 times more MP emissions into receiving waters compared to dry-weather ones due to tire abrasion entered from streets through gullies. However, more investigations of wet-weather MP need to be carried out considering additional catchment attributes and storm event characteristics.
KW - Combined sewer system
KW - Large volume samplers
KW - Microplastic pollution
KW - Separate sewer system
KW - Stormwater retention tank
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-568271
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/appl.202200056
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - Wiley-VCH
CY - Weinheim
AN - OPUS4-56827
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Wiesner, Yosri
A1 - Hoffmann, Thomas
A1 - Range, David
A1 - Altmann, Korinna
T1 - Microplastics in sediments of the river Rhine—A workflow for preparation and analysis of sediment samples from aquatic river systems for monitoring purposes
N2 - AbstractMicroplastics (MP) can be detected in all environmental systems. Marine and terrestrial aquatic systems, especially the transported suspended solids, have often been the focus of scientific investigations in the past. Sediments of aquatic river systems, on the other hand, were often ignored due to the time‐consuming sample preparation and analysis procedures. Spectroscopic measurement methods counting particle numbers are hardly suitable as detection methods, because there are plenty of natural particles next to a small number of MP particles. Integral methods, such as thermoanalytical methods are determining the particle mass independently of the inorganic components.In this study, a workflow for sample preparation via density separation and subsequent analysis by thermal extraction desorption‐gas chromatography/mass spectrometry is presented, which leads to representative and homogeneous samples and allows fast and robust MP mass content measurements suitable for routine analysis. Polymers were identified and quantified in all samples. Polyethylene and styrene‐butadiene rubber are the dominant polymers, besides polypropylene and polystyrene. Overall, total polymer masses between 1.18 and 337.0 µg/g could be determined. Highest MP concentrations in riverbed sediment are found in sites characterized by low flow velocities in harbors and reservoirs, while MP concentrations in sandy/gravelly bed sediments with higher flow velocities are small.
KW - Microplastics
KW - Density separation
KW - TED-GC/MS
KW - NaI
PY - 2023
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-597335
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/appl.202200125
VL - 3
IS - 2
SP - 1
EP - 10
PB - Wiley VHC-Verlag
AN - OPUS4-59733
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Bonse, Jörn
A1 - Sokolowski‐Tinten, Klaus
T1 - Probing Laser‐Driven Structure Formation at Extreme Scales in Space and Time
N2 - Irradiation of solid surfaces with high intensity, ultrashort laser pulses triggers a variety of secondary processes that can lead to the formation of transient and permanent structures over a large range of length scales from mm down to the nano‐range. One of the most prominent examples are LIPSS – Laser‐Induced Periodic Surface Structures. While LIPSS have been a scientific evergreen for of almost 60 years, experimental methods that combine ultrafast temporal with the required nm spatial resolution have become available only recently with the advent of short pulse, short wavelength free electron lasers. Here, the current status and future perspectives in this field are discussed by exploiting the unique possibilities of these 4th‐generation light sources to address by time‐domain experimental techniques the fundamental LIPSS‐question, namely why and how laser irradiation can initiate the transition of a “chaotic” (rough) surface from an aperiodic into a periodic structure.
KW - Laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS)
KW - Free electron laser
KW - Pump-probe experiments
KW - Time-resolved scattering
KW - Capillary waves
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-595048
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202300912
SN - 1863-8899
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 11
PB - Wiley-VCH GmbH
CY - Weinheim
AN - OPUS4-59504
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Keshmiri, Hamid
A1 - Cikes, Domagoj
A1 - Samalova, Marketa
A1 - Schindler, Lukas
A1 - Appel, Lisa-Marie
A1 - Urbanek, Michal
A1 - Yudushkin, Ivan
A1 - Slade, Dea
A1 - Weninger, Wolfgang J.
A1 - Peaucelle, Alexis
A1 - Penninger, Josef
A1 - Elsayad, Kareem
T1 - Brillouin light scattering anisotropy microscopy for imaging the viscoelastic anisotropy in living cells
N2 - Maintaining and modulating mechanical anisotropy is essential for biological processes. However, how this is achieved at the microscopic scale in living soft matter is not always clear. Although Brillouin light scattering (BLS) spectroscopy can probe the mechanical properties of materials, spatiotemporal mapping of mechanical anisotropies in living matter with BLS microscopy has been complicated by the need for sequential measurements with tilted excitation and detection angles. Here we introduce Brillouin light scattering anisotropy microscopy (BLAM) for mapping high-frequency viscoelastic anisotropy inside living cells. BLAM employs a radial virtually imaged phased array that enables the collection of angle-resolved dispersion in a single shot, thus enabling us to probe phonon modes in living matter along different directions simultaneously. We demonstrate a precision of 10 MHz in the determination of the Brillouin frequency shift, at a spatial resolution of 2 µm. Following proof-of-principle experiments on muscle myofibres, we apply BLAM to the study of two fundamental biological processes. In plant cell walls, we observe a switch from anisotropic to isotropic wall properties that may lead to asymmetric growth. In mammalian cell nuclei, we uncover a spatiotemporally oscillating elastic anisotropy correlated to chromatin condensation. Our results highlight the role that high-frequency mechanics can play in the regulation of diverse fundamental processes in biological systems. We expect BLAM to find diverse applications in biomedical imaging and material characterization.
KW - Optical and magnetic materials
KW - Atomic and molecular physics and optics
KW - Electronic
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-595125
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01368-w
SN - 1749-4885
SN - 1749-4893
VL - 18
IS - 3
SP - 276
EP - 285
PB - Nature Publ. Group
CY - London
AN - OPUS4-59512
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schuberth, Jens
A1 - Ebert, Thomas
A1 - Schlegel, Moritz-Caspar
A1 - Rödig, Lisa
A1 - Jepsen, Dirk
A1 - Memelink, Robin
A1 - Hauschke, Fynn
T1 - The Front-Runner Approach - Facilitating Progressive Product Policy by Using Information from EU Product Databases
N2 - The European Commission has recently announced two guiding principles for EU product policy: First, product policy shall ensure that the performance of front-runner products in terms of sustainability becomes the norm, and second, the effectiveness of the current Ecodesign legislative framework is going to be significantly improved. Within this paper, already existing front-runner approaches and recent and ongoing product policy-making processes were reviewed. Based on the results, an EU front-runner approach is outlined. The presented approach (i) refers to performance levels of the best products already available on the market, (ii) aggregates information in existing databases, and (iii) works semi-automated. Together, all three attributes have a high potential to facilitate and accelerate the specification of appropriate minimum requirements for products at the EU level. This way, EU policymakers can deliver on the core objectives of the Ecodesign legislative framework much better. The basic mechanism and its legal entrenchment of the approach are illustrated for the energy efficiency of energy-related products. In addition, the Front-Runner Approach can be applied to any product group in the scope of the upcoming Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and to a wide range of product-related minimum requirements, such as durability, reparability, or recycled content. The study’s objective is to suggest a tailor-made and dynamic approach to keep the EU product legislation up to date using innovative technology based on the investigation of current regulations and identify the gap. Experiences from three international case studies suggest that a front-runner approach to setting energy-performance standards can drive innovation and reduce energy consumption via promoting energy-efficient products; transparency about available products is one of the key factors and can be established by a database. The EU front-runner approach comprises extending the existing energy label database (or making use of the digital product passport) and introducing a legislative procedure that triggers changes in the energy efficiency requirements in the specific EU regulations if the database shows that a certain threshold value is reached. Challenges such as limited EU staff capacities and opportunities such as increased dynamic are discussed.
KW - Ecodesign
KW - ESPR
KW - Energy labelling
KW - EPREL
KW - Policy making
KW - Front-runner
KW - Material efficiency
KW - Resource efficiency
KW - Energy efficiency
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-595132
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/en17020504
VL - 17
IS - 2
SP - 1
EP - 11
PB - MDPI
AN - OPUS4-59513
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Slotyuk, Lyubov
A1 - Part, Florian
A1 - Schlegel, Moritz-Caspar
A1 - Akkerman, Floris
T1 - Life Cycle Assessment of the Domestic Micro Heat and Power Generation Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell in Comparison with the Gas Condensing Boiler Plus Electricity from the Grid
N2 - The energy demand of private households contributes globally to 36.5% of the total CO2 emissions. To analyze the emissions reduction potential, we conducted a comparative life cycle assessment of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell in a residential application and a conventional system with a stand-alone gas condensing boiler and electricity from a grid mix. The period under review was referred to as the service life of the PEMFC and is assumed to be 10 years (83,038 h of PEMFC). The applicability of this in a single-family house built between 1991 and 2000 under German climatic conditions was investigated. The functional unit is set to the thermal energy demand of 16,244 kWh/a and electricity demand of 4919 kWh/a of a single-family house. The impact assessment method “CML 2001–August 2016” was used in this investigation. The manufacturing phase of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell showed disadvantages, whereby the use phase had significant advantages in most of the environmental impact categories as compared to the conventional energy supply system. Considering the whole life cycle, the advantages from the use phase could outperform the disadvantages from the manufacturing phase in most of the impact categories, except for ADP elements and TETP.
KW - Sustainability
KW - Circular Economy
KW - Comparative life cycle assessment
KW - Proton exchange membrane fuel cell
KW - Gas condensing boiler
KW - Micro heat and power generation
KW - Residential application
KW - Single-family house energy supply system
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-598134
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/su16062348
VL - 16
IS - 6
SP - 1
EP - 16
PB - MDPI AG
AN - OPUS4-59813
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Turski Silva Diniz, Analice
A1 - Schartel, Bernhard
T1 - The effects of property variation on the dripping behaviour of polymers during UL94 test simulated by particle finite element method
N2 - The dripping behaviour of polymers is often observed experimentally through the UL94 flammability standard test. In this work, polymeric dripping under fire is investigated numerically using particle finite element method. A parametric analysis was carried out to observe the influence of a single property on overall dripping behaviour via a UL94 vertical test model. Surrogates and property ranges were defined for variation of the following parameters: glass transition temperature (Tg), melting temperature (Tm), decomposition temperature (Td), density (ρ), specific heat capacity (Cp), apparent effective heat of combustion of the volatiles, char yield (μ), thermal conductivity (k), and viscosity (η). Polyamide, poly(ether ether ketone), poly(methyl methacrylate), and polysulfone were used as benchmarks. Simulated results showed that specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, and char yield allied with viscosity were the properties that most influenced dripping behaviour (starting time and occurrence).
KW - Dripping
KW - PFEM
KW - UL 94
KW - Simulation
KW - Fire behaviour
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-597449
DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/epoly-2023-0194
SN - 1618-7229
VL - 24
IS - 1
PB - De Gruyter
AN - OPUS4-59744
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Temgoua, Ranil C.T.
A1 - Dontsi, Fabiola T.
A1 - Lebègue, Estelle
A1 - Thobie-Gautier, Christine
A1 - Tonlé, Ignas K.
A1 - Boujtita, Mohammed
T1 - Understanding the behavior of phenylurazole-tyrosine-click electrochemical reaction using hybrid electroanalytical techniques
N2 - In this work, the electrochemical behavior of 4-phenylurazole (Ph-Ur) was studied and the latter was used as a molecular anchor for the electrochemical bioconjugation of tyrosine (Y). Cyclic voltammetry (CV) and controlled potential coulometry (CPC) allowed the in-situ generation of the PTAD (4-phenyl-3 H-1,2,4-triazole-3,5(4 H)-dione) species from phenylurazole on demand for tyrosine electrolabeling. The chemoselectivity of the reaction was studied with another amino acid (lysine, Lys) and no changes in Lys were observed. To evaluate the performance of tyrosine electrolabeling, coulometric analyses at controlled potentials were performed on solutions of phenylurazole and the phenylurazole-tyrosine mixture in different proportions (2:1, 1:1, and 1:2). The electrolysis of the phenylurazole-tyrosine mixture in the ratio (1:2) produced a charge of 2.07 C, very close to the theoretical value (1.93 C), with high reaction kinetics, a result obtained here for the first time. The products obtained were identified and characterized by liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS and LC- HRMS2). Two products were formed from the click reactions, one of which was the majority. Another part of this work was to study the electrochemical degradation of the molecular anchor 4-phenylazole (Ph-Ur). Four stable degradation products of phenylurazole were identified (C7H9N2O, C6H8N, C6H8NO, C14H13N4O2) based on chromatographic profiles and mass spectrometry results. The charge generated during the electrolysis of phenylurazole (two-electron process) (2.85 C) is inconsistent with the theoretical or calculated charge (1.93 C), indicating that secondary/parasitic reactions occurred during the electrolysis of the latter. In conclusion, the electrochemically promoted click phenylurazole-tyrosine reactions give rise to click products with high reaction kinetics and yields in the (1:2) phenylurazole-tyrosine ratios, and the presence of side reactions is likely to affect the yield of the click phenylurazole-tyrosine reaction.
KW - Clinical Biochemistry
KW - Spectroscopy
KW - Drug Discovery
KW - Pharmaceutical Science
KW - Analytical Chemistry
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-599267
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2024.116147
VL - 245
SP - 1
EP - 8
PB - Elsevier BV
AN - OPUS4-59926
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Asna Ashari, Parsa
A1 - Blind, Knut
T1 - The effects of hydrogen research and innovation on international hydrogen trade
N2 - Climate change and the pressure to decarbonize, as well as energy security concerns, have drawn the attention of policymakers and the industry to hydrogen energy. To ad-vance the hydrogen economy at a global scale, research and innovation progress is of significant importance, among others. However, previous studies have provided only lim-ited quantitative evidence of the effects of research and innovation on the formation of a global hydrogen market. Instead, they postulate rather than empirically support this rela-tionship. Therefore, this study analyzes the effects of research and innovation measured by scientific publications, patents, and standards on bilateral hydrogen trade flows for 32 countries between 1995 and 2019 in a gravity model of trade, using regression analyses and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimation. The main results of the PPML estimation show that research and innovation progress is indeed associated with increased trade, especially with patenting and (international) standardization enhancing hydrogen export volumes. As policy implications, we derive that increased public R&D funding can help increase the competitiveness of hydrogen energy and boost market growth, along with infrastructure support and harmonized standards and regulations.
KW - Hydrogen supply
KW - Global hydrogen market
KW - Research and innovation
KW - Push and pull effects
KW - Hydrogen policies
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-594875
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113974
SN - 0301-4215
VL - 186
SP - 1
EP - 15
PB - Elsevier B.V.
AN - OPUS4-59487
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Andreoli, A. F.
A1 - Fantin, Andrea
A1 - Kasatikov, S.
A1 - Bacurau, V. P.
A1 - Widom, M.
A1 - Gargarella, P.
A1 - Mazzer, E. M.
A1 - Woodcock, T. G.
A1 - Nielsch, K.
A1 - Coury, F. G.
T1 - The impact of chemical short-range order on the thermophysical properties of medium- and high-entropy alloys
N2 - The unusual behavior observed in the coefficient of thermal expansion and specific heat capacity of CrFeNi, CoCrNi, and CoCrFeNi medium/high-entropy alloys is commonly referred to as the K-state effect. It is shown to be independent of the Curie temperature, as demonstrated by temperature-dependent magnetic moment measurements. CoCrFeNi alloy is chosen for detailed characterization; potential reasons for the K-state effect such as texture, recrystallization, and second-phase precipitation are ruled out. An examination of the electronic structure indicates the formation of a pseudo-gap in the Density of States, which suggests a specific chemical interaction between Ni and Cr atoms upon alloying. Hybrid Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamic (MC/MD) simulations indicate the presence of non-negligible chemical short-range order (CSRO). Local lattice distortions are shown to be negligible, although deviations around Cr and Ni elements from those expected in a fully disordered structure are experimentally observed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The determined bonding distances are in good agreement with MC/MD calculations. A mechanism is proposed to explain the anomalies and calorimetric experiments and their results are used to validate the mechanism.
KW - Mechanical Engineering
KW - Mechanics of Materials
KW - General Materials Science
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-595869
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112724
SN - 0264-1275
VL - 238
SP - 1
EP - 15
PB - Elsevier B.V.
AN - OPUS4-59586
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - von Törne, Wipert Jannik
A1 - Steinhäuser, Lorin
A1 - Klyk-Seitz, Urszula-Anna
A1 - Piechotta, Christian
T1 - High-resolution mass spectrometric elucidation of electron ionization induced fragmentation pathways of methylated warfarin and selected hydroxylated species
N2 - The plant secondary metabolite families of coumarin and 4-hydroxy coumarin have a broad pharmacological spectrum ranging from antibacterial to anticancer properties. One prominent member of this substance class is the synthetic but naturally inspired anticoagulant drug and rodenticide warfarin (coumadin). A vast number of publications focus on the identification of warfarin and its major cytochrome P450-mediated phase I metabolites by liquid chromatography (LC) with mass spectrometry (MS) and tandem mass spectrometric (MS/MS) detection techniques. For the first time, electron ionization (EI) induced high-resolution quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometric (HR-qToF-MS) data of in-liner derivatized warfarin and selected hydroxylated species is provided in this study as an alternative to LC-MS/MS approaches. Furthermore, the characteristic fragments and fragmentation pathways of the analyzed methyl ethers are concluded. The obtained data of analytical standards, specific deuterated and 13C-labeled compounds prove inductive cleavage of the acyl or acetonyl side chain, methyl migration, and H-migration, along with consequential inductive cleavage as predominant fragmentation routes. Based on the HR-spectral data, commonalities and differences between the analyzed compounds and fragment groups were evaluated with future applicability in structure elucidation and spectra prediction of related compounds.
KW - High-resolution mass spectrometry
KW - Warfarin
KW - Hydroxy warfarin
KW - Fragmentation pathway
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-596025
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2024.117220
SN - 1387-3806
VL - 499
SP - 1
EP - 7
PB - Elsevier B.V.
AN - OPUS4-59602
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - von Törne, Wipert Jannik
A1 - Klyk-Seitz, Urszula-Anna
A1 - Piechotta, Christian
T1 - Developing a GC-EI-MS/MS method for quantifying warfarin and five hydroxylated metabolites generated by the Fenton reaction
N2 - AbstractSince the 1950s, Warfarin has been used globally as both a prescription drug and a rodenticide. Research has shown that warfarin and other rodenticides are present in the environment and food chain. However, emerging contaminants are subject to degradation by biotic and abiotic processes and advanced oxidation processes. In some cases, detecting the parent compound may not be possible due to the formation of structurally changed species. This approach aims to identify hydroxylated transformation products of warfarin in a laboratory setting, even after the parent compound has undergone degradation. Therefore, the Fenton reaction is utilized to insert hydroxylation into the parent compound, warfarin, by hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl radicals generated by Fe2+/Fe3+ redox reaction with hydrogen peroxide. Using multiple reaction monitoring, a GC–MS/MS method, incorporating isotopically labeled reference compounds, is used to quantify the expected derivatized species. The analytes are derivatized using trimethyl-3-trifluoromethyl phenyl ammonium hydroxide, and the derivatization yield of warfarin is determined by using isotopically labeled reference compounds. The method has a linear working range of 30 to 1800 ng/mL, with detection limits ranging from 18.7 to 67.0 ng/mL. The analytes are enriched using a C18-SPE step, and the recovery for each compound is calculated. The Fenton reaction generates all preselected hydroxylated transformation products of warfarin. The method successfully identifies that 4′-Me-O-WAR forms preferentially under the specified experimental conditions. By further optimizing the SPE clean-up procedures, this GC–MS-based method will be suitable for detecting transformation products in more complex matrices, such as environmental water samples. Overall, this study provides a better understanding of warfarin’s degradation and offers a robust analytical tool for investigating its transformation products.
KW - Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
KW - Pollution
KW - Environmental Chemistry
KW - General Medicine
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-595737
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-32133-3
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 31
SP - 16986
EP - 16994
PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AN - OPUS4-59573
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lu, Xin
A1 - Hicke, Konstantin
A1 - Krebber, Katerina
T1 - Distributed acoustic sensing to monitor ground motion/movement at multi-frequency bands
N2 - A novel distributed acoustic sensing technique is proposed that exploits both phase and amplitude of the Rayleigh backscattered light to quantify the environmental variation. The system employs a wavelength-scanning laser and an imbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer to acquire the reflection spectra and the phase of the detected light, respectively. Fading-free and low-frequency measurements are realized via the crosscorrelation of the reflection spectra. The discrete crosscorrelation is used to circumvent the nonlinear frequency sweeping of the laser. Based on the phase of the backscattered light, it is possible to quantify fast environmental variations. The whole system requires no hardware modification of the existing system and its functionality is experimentally validated. The proposed system has the potential to monitor ground motion/movement at very low frequency band like subsidence around mining areas and at high frequency band like earthquakes and vibrations induced by avalanches.
KW - Distributed acoustic sensing
KW - DAS
KW - Distributed fiber optic sensing
KW - Ground motion detection
KW - Subsidence monitoring
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-596129
DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2024.3358495
VL - 42
IS - 18
SP - 1
EP - 8
PB - Optical Society und IEEE Photonics Society
AN - OPUS4-59612
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kornev, Roman
A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B.
A1 - Shabarova, Lubov
A1 - Kadomtseva, Alena
A1 - Mochalov, Georgy
A1 - Rekunov, Nikita
A1 - Romanov, Sergey
A1 - Medov, Vitaly
A1 - Belousova, Darya
A1 - Maleev, Nikita
T1 - Plasma-Chemical Disposal of Silicon and Germanium Tetrachlorides Waste by Hydrogen Reduction
N2 - The processes of hydrogen reduction of silicon and germanium chlorides under the conditions of high-frequency (40.68 MHz) counteracted arc discharge stabilized between two rod electrodes are investigated. The main gas-phase and solid products of plasma-chemical transformations are determined. Thermodynamic analysis of SiCl4 + H2 and GeCl4 + H2 systems for optimal process parameters was carried out. Using the example of hydrogen reduction of SiCl4 by the method of numerical modeling, gas-dynamic and thermal processes for this type of discharge are investigated. The impurity composition of gas-phase and solid reaction products is investigated. The possibility of single-stage production of high-purity Si and Ge mainly in the form of compact ingots, as well as high-purity chlorosilanes and trichlorogermane, is shown.
KW - High-frequency arc discharge
KW - Hydrogen reduction
KW - Silicon chlorides
KW - Germanium chlorides
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-594454
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/sci6010001
VL - 6
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - MDPI AG
AN - OPUS4-59445
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hupp, Vitus
A1 - Schartel, Bernhard
A1 - Flothmeier, K.
A1 - Hartwig, A.
T1 - Fire Behavior of Pressure-sensitive Adhesive Tapes and Bonded Materials
N2 - Pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes are used in several industrial applications such as con-struction, railway vehicles and the automotive sector,where the burning behavior is ofcrucial importance. Flame retarded adhesivetapes are developed and provided, however,often without considering the interaction of adhesive tapes and the bonded materialsduring burning nor the contribution of the tapes to fire protection goal of the bondedcomponents in distinct fire tests. This publication delivers an empirical comprehensiveknowledge how adhesive tapes and their flame retardancy effect the burning behaviorof bonded materials. With a special focus on the interaction between the single compo-nents, one flame retarded tape and one tapewithout flame retardant are examined inscenarios of emerging and developing fires, along with their bonds with the commonmaterials wood, zinc-plated steel, mineral wool, polycarbonate, and polymethylmethacry-late. The flame retardant significantly improved the flame retardancy of the tape as afree-standing object and yielded a V-2 rating in UL 94 vertical test and raised the OxygenIndex by 5 vol.%. In bonds, or rather laminates, the investigations prove that the choiceof carrier and substrates are the factors with the greatest impact on the fire propertiesand can change the peak of heat release rate and the maximum average rate of heatemission up to 25%. This research yielded a good empirical overall understanding of thefire behavior of adhesive tapes and bonded materials. Thus, it serves as a guide for tapemanufacturers and applicants to develop tapes and bonds more substrate specific.
KW - Adhesives
KW - Cone calorimeter
KW - Flame retardancy
KW - Laminates
KW - Phosphorus flame retardants
KW - Pressure-sensitive adhesive
KW - Tapes
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-593207
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.3171
SN - 0308-0501
SN - 1099-1018
VL - 48
IS - 1
SP - 114
EP - 127
PB - Wiley
CY - New York, NY
AN - OPUS4-59320
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Bayerlein, Bernd
A1 - Schilling, Markus
A1 - Birkholz, Henk
A1 - Jung, Matthias
A1 - Waitelonis, Jörg
A1 - Mädler, Lutz
A1 - Sack, Harald
T1 - PMD Core Ontology: Achieving semantic interoperability in materials science
N2 - Knowledge representation in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) domain is a vast and multi-faceted challenge: Overlap, ambiguity, and inconsistency in terminology are common. Invariant (consistent) and variant (context-specific) knowledge are difficult to align cross-domain. Generic top-level semantic terminology often is too abstract, while MSE domain terminology often is too specific. In this paper, an approach how to maintain a comprehensive MSE-centric terminology composing a mid-level ontology–the Platform MaterialDigital Core Ontology (PMDco)–via MSE community-based curation procedures is presented. The illustrated findings show how the PMDco bridges semantic gaps between high-level, MSE-specific, and other science domain semantics. Additionally, it demonstrates how the PMDco lowers development and integration thresholds. Moreover, the research highlights how to fuel it with real-world data sources ranging from manually conducted experiments and simulations with continuously automated industrial applications.
KW - Ontology
KW - Materials science and engineering
KW - Knowledge representation
KW - Reproducibility
KW - Semantic interoperability
KW - Semantic data integration
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-592948
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2023.112603
SN - 0264-1275
VL - 237
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
AN - OPUS4-59294
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Flierl, Lukas
A1 - Rienitz, Olaf
A1 - Vogl, Jochen
A1 - Pramann, Axel
T1 - An advancement of the gravimetric isotope mixture method rendering the knowledge of the spike purity superfluous
N2 - The gravimetric isotope mixture method is the primary method to determine absolute isotope ratios. This method, however, depends on the existence of suitable spike materials and knowledge of their purities. Determining the purity of the spikes can be tedious and labour-intensive. In this publication, an advancement of the gravimetric isotope mixture method, rendering the determination of the purity of the spike materials unnecessary, is presented. The advancement combines mass spectrometry and ion chromatography leading to an approach being independent of the purity of the spike materials. In the manuscript the mathematical background and the basic idea of the novel approach are described using a two-isotope system like copper or lithium.
KW - Isotope amount ratios
KW - Metrology
KW - Mass spectrometry
KW - Ion chromatography
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608726
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-024-05465-9
SP - 5325
EP - 5333
PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AN - OPUS4-60872
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
A1 - Pearce, Ben K.D.
A1 - Etter, Martin
A1 - Truong, Khai-Nghi
A1 - Ostojić, Tea
A1 - Krajnc, Andraž
A1 - Mali, Gregor
A1 - Rossi, Barbara
A1 - Molčanov, Krešimir
A1 - Lončarić, Ivor
A1 - Meštrović, Ernest
A1 - Užarević, Krunoslav
A1 - Grisanti, Luca
T1 - Base-pairing of uracil and 2,6-diaminopurine: from cocrystals to photoreactivity
N2 - We show that the non-canonical nucleobase 2,6-diaminopurine (D) spontaneously base pairs with uracil (U) in water and the solid state without the need to be attached to the ribose-phosphate backbone. Depending on the reaction conditions, D and U assemble in thermodynamically stable hydrated and anhydrated D-U base-paired cocrystals. Under UV irradiation, an aqueous solution of D-U base-pair undergoes photochemical degradation, while a pure aqueous solution of U does not. Our simulations suggest that D may trigger the U photodimerization and show that complementary base-pairing modifies the photochemical properties of nucleobases, which might have implications for prebiotic chemistry.
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - In situ monitoring
KW - Cocrystals
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608622
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109894
VL - 27
IS - 6
SP - 1
EP - 14
PB - Elsevier Inc.
AN - OPUS4-60862
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Davison, Nathan
A1 - Hemingway, Jack M.
A1 - Wills, Corinne
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
A1 - Waddell, Paul G.
A1 - Dixon, Casey M.
A1 - Barron, Luke
A1 - Dawson, James A.
A1 - Lu, Erli
T1 - Mechanochemical Synthesis of a Sodium Anion Complex [Na+(2,2,2-cryptand)Na–] and Studies of Its Reactivity: Two-Electron and One-Electron Reductions
N2 - Group 1 metal molecular chemistry is dominated by a +1 oxidation state, while a 0 oxidation state is widespread in the metals. A more exotic, yet still available, oxidation state of group 1 metal is −1, i.e., alkalide. Reported as early as the 1970s, the alkalides appear in every modern inorganic chemistry textbook as an iconic chemical curiosity, yet their reactivity remains unexplored. This is due to their synthetic hurdles. In this work, we report the first facile synthesis of the archetypical alkalide complex, [Na+(2,2,2-cryptand)Na–], which allows us to unveil a versatile reactivity profile of this once exotic species.
KW - Mechanochemistry
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608632
DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c02914
VL - 63
IS - 32
SP - 15247
EP - 15258
PB - American Chemical Society (ACS)
AN - OPUS4-60863
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Giv, Ali Nemati
A1 - Asante, Bright
A1 - Yan, Libo
A1 - Kasal, Bohumil
T1 - Shear performance and durability of adhesively bonded spruce wood-concrete composite joints: Effects of indoor and outdoor environmental conditions, mechanical load, and their coupled effect
N2 - A long-term study was conducted on double-lap spruce wood-concrete joints to investigate their shear strength and stiffness over a 12-month period. These joints were manufactured using both wet and dry processes, each incorporating two adhesive types for bonding the wood to the concrete: a brittle epoxy and a ductile polyurethane (PUR). The experimental design exposed the joints to three specific long-term environments: (1) outdoor exposure, (2) indoor conditions with applied load, and (3) outdoor conditions with applied load. The wood concrete joints exposed to outdoor conditions were subjected to destructive shear testing at intervals of 0 (serving as the reference sample), 2, 4, 6, and 12 months, respectively. For joints subjected to both indoor and outdoor conditions with shear loading, the shear deformation of joints was monitored continuously over the 12 months before performing the destructive tests. A gradual reduction in the shear stiffness and strength of dry joints (produced using the dry bond method) exposed to outdoor conditions was observed over a 12-month period, primarily due to bond failure at the concrete-adhesive interface. The wet joints exhibited no degradation in shear stiffness and strength across long-term conditions over the same period. The bond failure observed in dry joints was predominantly associated with stresses arising from dimensional changes in the wood. No degradation was found in the cross-linking density of the adhesive or in the concrete’s compressive stiffness and strength.
KW - Adhesively bonded joints
KW - Long-term study
KW - Ductile PUR
KW - Brittle epoxy
KW - Outdoor condition
KW - Mechanical load
KW - Indoor condition
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608878
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.136905
VL - 436
SP - 1
EP - 22
PB - Elsevier BV
AN - OPUS4-60887
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Wegner, Karl David
A1 - Hildebrandt, N.
T1 - Near infrared quantum dots for biosensing and bioimaging
N2 - Quantum dots (QDs) possess unique optoelectronic properties, which make them very attractive to be used as optical probes in biosensing and bioimaging applications. The strong absorbance and light scattering of biological compounds like tissue and blood in the visible range pose a problem. However, if optical probes emitting in the near-infrared (NIR) range are used, scattering, absorption, and autofluorescence of biological components are strongly reduced. This allows for an increased light penetration depth and higher spatial and temporal resolution for the investigation of biological processes. The synthesis and application of NIR emitting QDs is a fast-growing research field and the benefits of using QDs were demonstrated for a variety of applications, such as photoelectrochemical biosensor, in vivo vascular imaging, and fluorescence-guided surgery. This article reviews the state-of-the-art developments in the preparation of NIR/IR QDs and highlights the latest research about their utilization in biosensing and bioimaging applications.
KW - Quantum dots
KW - Near-infrared
KW - Biosensing
KW - Bioimaging
KW - NIR-II / SWIR
KW - Advanced nanomaterials
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-609708
SN - 0165-9936
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2024.117922
VL - 180
SP - 1
EP - 19
PB - Elsevier B.V.
AN - OPUS4-60970
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - CONF
A1 - Schmitt, M.
A1 - Casperson, Ralf
A1 - Baensch, F.
A1 - Müller, D.
T1 - Nationale, europäische und internationale Normung in der zerstörungsfreien Prüfung
N2 - Normung und Standardisierung in der zerstörungsfreien Prüfung finden auf nationaler, europäischer und internationaler Ebene statt. Die Übernahme von Leitungsfunktionen in diesen Gremien erzeugt die Möglichkeit der Steuerung von Themen und Inhalten der relevanten Normen. Das persönliche Engagement der Fachexpert*innen in den nationalen Gremien und den europäischen und internationalen Arbeitsgruppen ist ein zusätzlicher Faktor für die inhaltliche Korrektheit und die inhaltliche Ausrichtung der Norm. Denn wer nicht normt, wird genormt und muss letztlich Normen anwenden, die andere entsprechend ihrer eigenen Interessen gestaltet haben. Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme in europäischen und internationalen Normungsgremien ist die Mitwirkung in den entsprechenden DINSpiegelgremien, welche die europäischen (CEN) und internationalen (ISO) Aktivitäten spiegeln und die Fachexpert*innen für die Mitarbeit autorisieren.
Auf internationaler Ebene findet die Normungsarbeit in den technischen Komitees ISO/TC 135 “Non-destructive testing” und ISO/TC 44/SC 5 “Testing and inspection of welds” und ihren Arbeitsgruppen statt. Das europäische Pendant ist das CEN/TC 138 “Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren” mit seinen Arbeitsgremien. Die DINSpiegelgremien sind für die deutsche Mitarbeit in diesen Gremien und die inhaltliche Bewertung der Norm-Entwürfe zuständig.
T2 - DGZfP Jahrestagung 2024
CY - Osnabrück, Germany
DA - 05.05.2024
KW - Normung
KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung
KW - Qualifizierung
KW - Qualitätssicherung
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-600726
DO - https://doi.org/10.58286/29496
IS - 5
SP - 1
EP - 6
AN - OPUS4-60072
LA - deu
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Sunder, S.
A1 - Jauregui Rozo, Maria
A1 - Inasu, S.
A1 - Schartel, Bernhard
A1 - Ruckdäschel, H.
T1 - A systematic investigation of the transfer of polyphosphate/inorganic silicate flame retardants from epoxy resins to layered glass fiber-reinforced composites and their post-furnace flexural properties
N2 - The systematic transfer of solvent-free, additive flame retardant (FR) formulations from epoxy resins to glass fiber-reinforced epoxy composites (GFRECs) through prepregs is difficult. Additionally, obtaining data on their post-fire mechanics is often challenging. Utilizing melamine polyphosphate (MPP), ammonium polyphosphate (APP), and silane-coated ammonium polyphosphate (SiAPP) FRs with low-melting inorganic silicates (InSi) in an 8:2 proportion and 10% loading by weight in a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) resin, a systematic investigation of the processing properties, room-temperature mechanics, and temperature-based mechanics of the systems was performed. The resin was cured with a dicyandiamide hardener (DICY) and a urone accelerator. The results revealed no substantial impact of these FRs at the current loading on the resin's glass transition temperature or processability. However, the fire residues from cone calorimetry tests of the composites containing FRs were found to be only 15-20% of the thickness of the resins, implying a suppression of intumescence upon transfer. At room temperature, the decrease in the flexural modulus for the composites containing FRs was negligible. Exposure of the composites in a furnace at 400°C as a preliminary study before ignition tests was shown to cause significant flexural moduli reductions after 2.5 min of exposure and complete delamination after 3 min making further testing unviable. This study emphasizes the need for future research on recovering modes of action upon transfer of FR formulations from resins to composites. Based on the challenges outlined in this investigation, sample adaptation methods for post-fire analysis will be developed in a future study.
KW - DGEBA
KW - Prepregs
KW - Glass fiber-reinforced composites
KW - Post-fire testing
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-605239
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/pc.28416
SN - 1548-0569
SN - 0272-8397
VL - 45
IS - 10
SP - 9389
EP - 9406
PB - Wiley
AN - OPUS4-60523
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg
A1 - Scholz, Philipp
T1 - Sequential Extraction of Incineration Bottom Ash: Conclusions Regarding Ecotoxicity
N2 - The classification of incineration bottom ash (IBA) as hazardous or non-hazardous according to ecotoxic hazard property HP14 is still under debate. In this context, only the compounds of Zn and Cu with the hazard statement code H410 are of relevance. With an approach based on the grouping of substances, it was shown that such substances are either readily water-soluble or slightly and sparingly soluble. The concentrations of readily soluble Cu and Zn compounds in IBA are far below the cut-off value of 0.1%. Slightly and sparingly soluble Zn and Cu compounds could be quantified in the first fraction of a four-step sequential extraction procedure. With the results from the complete sequence, the dimensionless synthesis toxicity index (STI) was calculated and was in the range of 494 to 1218 for the four investigated IBA samples. It was concluded that IBA can usually be classified as non-hazardous.
KW - Incineration bottom ash
KW - Hazard properties
KW - Ecotoxicity
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-605262
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/app14135541
SN - 2076-3417
VL - 14
IS - 13
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - MDPI
CY - Basel
AN - OPUS4-60526
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rockel, Daniel
A1 - Sanchez Olivares, G.
A1 - Schartel, Bernhard
T1 - Improving the Flame Retardancy of Aluminium Trihydroxide in Thermoplastic Starch Biocomposites Using Waste Fibers and Silicon-Based Synergists
N2 - The synergistic behavior of different silicon compounds is investigated in flame retardant biocomposites with aluminum trihydroxide (ATH) as the main flame retardant. The paper shows a new approach towards sustainable biocomposites through the implementation of thermoplastic starch (TPS), leather fibers from industrial waste streams, and non-hazardous flame retardants and synergists. In these multicomponent systems, the different components address different modes of action in the fire scenario. When ATH is partially substituted by glass frits or layered silicates, fire performance is enhanced without changing the total amount of filler in the polymer. In a biocomposite with 25 phr of fiber and 90 phr of ATH, substituting 5 phr of ATH for layered silicates increased the LOI from 31.5 vol % to 34.8 vol %, decreased the peak of heat release by 20%, and increased the UL 94 rating from V-1 to V-0.
KW - Biocomposites
KW - Sustainability
KW - Waste streams
KW - Flame retardancy
KW - Synergism
KW - Modes of action
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-605711
DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00053
SN - 2837-1445
VL - 1
IS - 6
SP - 1131
EP - 1145
PB - ACS
AN - OPUS4-60571
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Scales, B. S.
A1 - Hasenrück, C.
A1 - Moldaenke, L.
A1 - Hassa, J.
A1 - Rückert-Reed, C.
A1 - Rummel, C.
A1 - Völkner, C.
A1 - Rynek, R.
A1 - Busche, T.
A1 - Kalinowski, J.
A1 - Jahnke, A.
A1 - Schmitt-Jansen, M.
A1 - Wendt-Potthoff, K.
A1 - Oberbeckmann, Sonja
T1 - Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
N2 - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a significant collection of plastic introduced by human activities, provides an ideal environment to study bacterial lifestyles on plastic substrates. We proposed that bacteria colonizing the floating plastic debris would develop strategies to deal with the ultravioletexposed substrate, such as the production of antioxidant pigments. We observed a variety of pigmentation in 67 strains that were directly cultivated from plastic pieces sampled from the Garbage Patch. The genomic analysis of four representative strains, each distinct in taxonomy, revealed multiple pathways for carotenoid production. These pathways include those that produce
less common carotenoids and a cluster of photosynthetic genes. This
cluster appears to originate from a potentially new species of the Rhodobacteraceae family. This represents the first report of an aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacterium from plastic biofilms. Spectral analysis showed that the bacteria actively produce carotenoids, such as betacarotene and beta-cryptoxanthin, and bacteriochlorophyll a. Furthermore, we discovered that the genetic ability to synthesize carotenoids is more common in plastic biofilms than in the surrounding water communities. Our findings suggest that plastic biofilms could be an overlooked source of bacteria-produced carotenoids, including rare forms. It also suggests that photoreactive molecules might play a crucial role in bacterial biofilm communities in surface water.
KW - Microplastics
KW - Biofilm
KW - Pigment
KW - Microorganisms
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-605725
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16639
SN - 1462-2912
VL - 26
IS - 6
SP - e16639
PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
AN - OPUS4-60572
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Bacurau, V. P.
A1 - Moreira, P. A. F. P.
A1 - Bertoli, G.
A1 - Andreoli, A. F.
A1 - Mazzer, E.
A1 - de Assis, F. F.
A1 - Gargarella, P.
A1 - Koga, G.
A1 - Stumpf, G. C.
A1 - Figueroa, S. J. A.
A1 - Widom, M.
A1 - Kaufman, M.
A1 - Fantin, Andrea
A1 - Cao, Y.
A1 - Freitas, R.
A1 - Miracle, D.
A1 - Coury, F. G.
T1 - Comprehensive analysis of ordering in CoCrNi and CrNi2 alloys
N2 - Chemical Short-Range Order (CSRO) has attracted recent attention from many researchers, creating intense debates about its impact on material properties.
The challenges lie in confirming and quantifying CSRO, as its detection proves exceptionally demanding, contributing to conflicting data in the literature regarding its true effects on mechanical properties. Our work uses highprecision calorimetric data to unambiguously prove the existence and, coupled with atomistic simulations, quantify the type of CSRO. This methodology allows us to propose a mechanism for its formation and destruction based on the heat evolution during thermal analysis and facilitates a precise identification of local ordering in CoCrNi alloys. Samples of CoCrNi (Co33Cr33Ni33) and CrNi2 (Cr33Ni66) alloys are fabricated in varying ordered states, extensively characterized via synchrotron X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Samples with considerably different ordered states are submitted to tensile tests with in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction. We demonstrate, despite inducing varied CSRO levels in CoCrNi, no significant alterations in overall mechanical behavior emerge.
However, the CrNi2 alloy, which undergoes long-range ordering, experiences significant shifts in yield strength, ultimate tensile stress and ductility.
KW - Mechanical properties
KW - Short-range ordering
KW - Calorimetry
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-611075
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52018-w
VL - 15
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 11
PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AN - OPUS4-61107
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Chronakis, Michail Ioannis
A1 - Meermann, Björn
A1 - von der Au, Marcus
T1 - The evolution of data treatment tools in single-particle and single-cell ICP-MS analytics
N2 - Single-particle inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (sp-ICP-MS) is one of the most powerful tools in the thriving field of nanomaterial analysis. Along the same lines, single-cell ICP-MS (sc-ICP-MS) has become an invaluable tool in the study of the variances of cell populations down to a per-cell basis. Their importance and application fields have been listed numerous times, across various reports and reviews. However, not enough attention has been paid to the immense and ongoing development of the tools that are currently available to the analytical community for the acquisition, and more importantly, the treatment of single-particle and single-cell-related data. Due to the ever-increasing demands of modern research, the efficient and dependable treatment of the data has become more important than ever. In addition, the field of single-particle and single-cell analysis suffers due to a large number of approaches for the generated data—with varying levels of specificity and applicability. As a result, finding the appropriate tool or approach, or even comparing results, can be challenging. This article will attempt to bridge these gaps, by covering the evolution and current state of the tools at the disposal of sp-ICP-MS users.
Graphical Abstract
KW - Trend Article
KW - spICP-MS
KW - Data Tools
KW - scICP-MS
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-610539
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-024-05513-4
SP - 1
EP - 7
PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AN - OPUS4-61053
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Sunder, S.
A1 - Jauregui Rozo, Maria
A1 - Inasu, S.
A1 - Schartel, Bernhard
A1 - Ruckdäschel, H.
T1 - Investigating the changing dynamics of processing, temperature-based mechanics, and flame retardancy in the transfer of ammonium polyphosphate/inorganic silicate flame retardants from epoxy resins to glass fiber composites
N2 - Although numerous investigations study the improvement of flame retardancy of epoxy resins using additives, maintaining the flame retardant (FRs) modes of action present in the resins upon transfer to composites is challenging. In this study, ammonium polyphosphate (APP) and inorganic silicate (InSi) are loaded at 10%, 30%, and 50% by weight, in a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) resin cured with dicyandiamide and transferred to bidirectional (BD) glass fiber (GF) composites. Although a 50% loading of the FRs impacts the curing kinetics of the resin system, the effect on the glass transition temperature of the resin system remains negligible compared to reactive FRs in the state of the art integrated into the resin's chemical structure. Increasing the FR content improved the heat release characteristics in both the resins and composites. However, the charring mode of action is completely suppressed in the formulation with 10% APP + InSi. A 30% concentration of the FRs restored the charring action in the composite and the GFs provide increased protective layer action upon transfer to the composites. This study highlights the importance of accounting for the changing dynamics related to processing and flame retardancy upon transferring FRs from resins to composites.
KW - Composites
KW - Flame retardance
KW - Resins
KW - Synthesis and processing techniques
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-610484
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/app.55988
SN - 1097-4628
VL - 141
IS - 39
SP - 1
EP - 18
PB - Wiley
CY - New York, NY
AN - OPUS4-61048
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Golian, M. J.
A1 - Friedman, D. A.
A1 - Harrison, M.
A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter
A1 - Buellesbach, J.
T1 - Chemical and transcriptomic diversity do not correlate with ascending levels of social complexity in the insect order Blattodea
N2 - AbstractEusocial insects, such as ants and termites, are characterized by high levels of coordinated social organization. This is contrasted by solitary insects that display more limited forms of collective behavior. It has been hypothesized that this gradient in sociobehavioral sophistication is positively correlated with chemical profile complexity, due to a potentially increased demand for diversity in chemical communication mechanisms in insects with higher levels of social complexity. However, this claim has rarely been assessed empirically. Here, we compare different levels of chemical and transcriptomic complexity in selected species of the order Blattodea that represent different levels of social organization, from solitary to eusocial. We primarily focus on cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) complexity, since it has repeatedly been demonstrated that CHCs are key signaling molecules conveying a wide variety of chemical information in solitary as well as eusocial insects. We assessed CHC complexity and divergence between our studied taxa of different social complexity levels as well as the differentiation of their respective repertoires of CHC biosynthesis gene transcripts. Surprisingly, we did not find any consistent pattern of chemical complexity correlating with social complexity, nor did the overall chemical divergence or transcriptomic repertoire of CHC biosynthesis genes reflect on the levels of social organization. Our results challenge the assumption that increasing social complexity is generally reflected in more complex chemical profiles and point toward the need for a more cautious and differentiated view on correlating complexity on a chemical, genetic, and social level.
KW - Chemical ecology
KW - Ecological genetics
KW - Entomology
KW - Evolutionary ecology
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608260
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70063
SN - 2045-7758
VL - 14
IS - 8
SP - 1
EP - 13
PB - Wiley
AN - OPUS4-60826
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hellemans, S.
A1 - Rocha, M. M.
A1 - Wang, M.
A1 - Romero Arias, J.
A1 - Aanen, D. K.
A1 - Bagnères, A.-G.
A1 - Buček, A.
A1 - Carrijo, T. F.
A1 - Chouvenc, T.
A1 - Cuezzo, C.
A1 - Constantini, J. P.
A1 - Constantino, R.
A1 - Dedeine, F.
A1 - Deligne, J.
A1 - Eggleton, P.
A1 - Evans, T. A.
A1 - Hanus, R.
A1 - Harrison, Mark C.
A1 - Harry, M.
A1 - Josens, G.
A1 - Jouault, C.
A1 - Kalleshwaraswamy, C. M.
A1 - Kaymak, E.
A1 - Korb, J.
A1 - Lee, C.-Y.
A1 - Legendre, F.
A1 - Li, H.-F.
A1 - Lo, N.
A1 - Lu, T.
A1 - Matsuura, K.
A1 - Maekawa, K.
A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter
A1 - Mizumoto, N.
A1 - Oliveira, D. E.
A1 - Poulsen, M.
A1 - Sillam-Dussès, D.
A1 - Su, N.-Y.
A1 - Tokuda, G.
A1 - Vargo, E. L.
A1 - Ware, J. L.
A1 - Šobotník, J.
A1 - Scheffrahn, R. H.
A1 - Cancello, E.
A1 - Roisin, Y.
A1 - Engel, M. S.
A1 - Bourguignon, T.
T1 - Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites
N2 - The higher classification of termites requires substantial revision as the Neoisoptera, the most diverse termite lineage, comprise many paraphyletic and polyphyletic higher taxa. Here, we produce an updated termite classification using genomic-scale analyses. We reconstruct phylogenies under diverse substitution models with ultraconserved elements analyzed as concatenated matrices or within the multi-species coalescence framework. Our classification is further supported by analyses controlling for rogue loci and taxa, and topological tests. We show that the Neoisoptera are composed of seven family-level monophyletic lineages, including the Heterotermitidae Froggatt, Psammotermitidae Holmgren, and Termitogetonidae Holmgren, raised from subfamilial rank. The species-rich Termitidae are composed of 18 subfamily-level monophyletic lineages, including the new subfamilies Crepititermitinae, Cylindrotermitinae, Forficulitermitinae, Neocapritermitinae, Protohamitermitinae, and Promirotermitinae; and the revived Amitermitinae Kemner, Microcerotermitinae Holmgren, and Mirocapritermitinae Kemner. Building an updated taxonomic classification on the foundation of unambiguously supported monophyletic lineages makes it highly resilient to potential destabilization caused by the future availability of novel phylogenetic markers and methods. The taxonomic stability is further guaranteed by the modularity of the new termite classification, designed to accommodate as-yet undescribed species with uncertain affinities to the herein delimited monophyletic lineages in the form of new families or subfamilies.
KW - Termite
KW - Taxonomy
KW - Evolution
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608276
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51028-y
VL - 15
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 17
PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AN - OPUS4-60827
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - CONF
A1 - El Moutaouakil, H.
A1 - Fuchs, C.
A1 - Savli, E.
A1 - Heimann, Jan
A1 - Prager, Jens
A1 - Moll, J.
A1 - Tschöke, K.
A1 - Márquez Reyes, O.
A1 - Schackmann, O.
A1 - Memmolo, V.
A1 - Schneider, T.
T1 - Acquiring a Machine Learning Data Set for Structural Health Monitoring of Hydrogen Pressure Vessels at Operating Conditions using Guided Ultrasonic Waves
N2 - Hydrogen is an energy source of increasing importance. As hydrogen is very reactive to air and needs to be stored under high pressure, it is crucial to provide safe transportation and storage. Therefore, structural health monitoring, based on guided ultrasonic waves and machine learning methods, is used for Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs) containing hydrogen. To acquire data that allows robust detection of COPV defects, there are two main process parameters to consider. These are the pressurization of the vessel and the temperature conditions at the vessel. This paper will focus on the derivation of a design of experiment (DoE) from the needs of various validation scenarios (e.g. concerning pressure, temperature or excitation frequency). Practical limitations must be considered as well. We designed experiments with multiple reversible damages at different positions. A network of 25 transducers, structured as five rings with five sensors in one line, is installed on a vessel. Guided ultrasonic waves are used via the pitch-catch procedure, which means that the transducers act pairwise as transmitter and receiver in order to measure all transmitterreceiver combinations. This leads to 600 signal paths, recorded by a Verasonics Vantage 64 LF data acquisition system. Finally, the influences of temperature and pressure within the acquired data set are going to be visualized.
T2 - 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
CY - Potsdam, Germany
DA - 10.06.2024
KW - Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel
KW - Hydrogen
KW - Guided Ultrasonic Waves
KW - Data Acquisition
KW - Pressurization
KW - Machine Learning
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-607472
DO - https://doi.org/10.58286/29754
SN - 1435-4934
SP - 1
EP - 8
AN - OPUS4-60747
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schneider, Beate
A1 - Pfeiffer, Friedhelm
A1 - Remus, Daniela
A1 - Dyall-Smith, Mike
A1 - Kunte, Hans-Jörg
ED - Klepac-Ceraj, Vanja
T1 - Genome sequence of Pseudomonas silesiensis strain G3, a member of a bacterial consortium capable of polyethylene degradation
N2 - A consortium of landfill bacteria including strain G3 can break down polyethylene, a long-lasting plastic that accumulates in the environment. The complete genome sequence of strain G3 was determined by PacBio and Nanopore sequencing and consists of three circular replicons. Genome-based classification assigned strain G3 to the species Pseudomonas silesiensis.
KW - PE degradation
KW - Polyethylene
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-611618
DO - https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00138-24
SN - 2576-098X
VL - 13
IS - 11
SP - 1
EP - 3
PB - American Society for Microbiology
AN - OPUS4-61161
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Breuninger, Esther S.
A1 - Tolu, Julie
A1 - Aemisegger, Franziska
A1 - Thurnherr, Iris
A1 - Bouchet, Sylvain
A1 - Mestrot, Adrien
A1 - Ossola, Rachele
A1 - McNeill, Kristopher
A1 - Tukhmetova, Dariya
A1 - Vogl, Jochen
A1 - Meermann, Björn
A1 - Sonke, Jeroen E.
A1 - Winkel, Lenny H. E.
T1 - Marine and terrestrial contributions to atmospheric deposition fluxes of methylated arsenic species
N2 - Arsenic, a toxic element from both anthropogenic and natural sources, reaches surface environments through atmospheric cycling and dry and wet deposition. Biomethylation volatilizes arsenic into the atmosphere and deposition cycles it back to the surface, affecting soil-plant systems. Chemical speciation of deposited arsenic is important for understanding further processing in soils and bioavailability. However, the range of atmospheric transport and source signature of arsenic species remain understudied. Here we report significant levels ofmethylated arsenic in precipitation, cloudwater and aerosols collected under free tropospheric conditions at Pic du Midi Observatory (France) indicating long-range transport, which is crucial for atmospheric budgets. Through chemical analyses andmoisture source diagnostics, we identify terrestrial and marine sources for distinct arsenic species. Estimated atmospheric deposition fluxes of methylated arsenic are similar to reported methylation rates in soils, highlighting atmospheric deposition as a significant, overlooked source of potentially bioavailable methylated arsenic
species impacting plant uptake in soils.
KW - Arsenic
KW - Speciation
KW - Fluxes
KW - Marine
KW - Terrestrial
KW - Sulfur isotopes
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-615551
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53974-z
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 15
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 13
PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AN - OPUS4-61555
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Yagdjian, H.
A1 - Lecompagnon, Julien
A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel
A1 - Ziegler, Mathias
A1 - Gurka, M.
T1 - Application of the thermal shock response spectrum (TSRS) methodology to various forms of heat sources by pulse thermography and comparison by using a rotating line scan contour search algorithm
N2 - In this paper, we propose a novel contour search algorithm (CSA) for image processing. Its efficacy is evaluated through a comparative analysis with established techniques such as Canny Edge and Snakes: Active contour models, utilizing infrared thermography (IRT) images. Based on the new CSA, we investigate the influence of different pulse shapes on the IRT post-processing methodology, particularly focusing on the thermal shock response spectrum (TSRS), using two different heat sources: xenon flash lamps and a laser. Moreover, this allows for a more precise quantitative comparison of the TSRS with existing IRT post-processing techniques, including pulse phase thermography and thermal signal reconstruction, concerning the detection of defects in composite materials, particularly in carbon fiber-reinforced polymer. A quantitative comparison was performed using the Tanimoto criterion and signal-to-noise ratio. A more detailed analysis is conducted to identify inherent limitations and potential benefits of the new TSRS methodology. We further investigate and experimentally confirm our previous finding on the qualitative correlation between the one-dimensional thermal N-layer model and test data from the TSRS optimization process for defect determination. This correlation can eliminate the time-consuming optimization step, making TSRS a more attractive alternative to common IRT methods and enhancing the quantitative description of defects.
KW - Thermography
KW - Non-destructive testing
KW - NDT
KW - Defect identification
KW - Laser
KW - Contour search
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-615056
DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0232015
SN - 1089-7550
VL - 136
IS - 175101
SP - 1
EP - 20
PB - AIP Publishing
AN - OPUS4-61505
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Abed, Jehad
A1 - Bai, Yanh
A1 - Persaud, Daniel
A1 - Kim, Jiheon
A1 - Witt, Julia
A1 - Hattrick.Simpers, Jason
A1 - Sargent, Edward
T1 - AMPERE: automated modular platform for expedited and reproducible electrochemical testing
N2 - Rapid and reliable electrochemical screening is critical to accelerate the development of catalysts for sustainable energy generation and storage. This paper introduces an automated and modular platform for expedited and reproducible electrochemical testing (AMPERE), designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of multivariate optimization. The platform integrates a liquid-handling robot with custommade modular array reactors, offering sample preparation and electrochemical testing in the same platform. Additionally, we use offline inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICPOES) to measure metal concentrations in the electrolyte after the reaction, which serves as a proxy for assessing the electrochemical stability. We use the platform to conduct 168 experiments continuously in less than 40 hours to examine the influence of catalyst ink formulation on the performance of Ir, Ru, IrO2, and RuO2 for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in acid. We specifically investigate the role of solvent type and concentration, catalyst concentration, and binder content on the performance. We find that Ru/RuO2 catalysts show improvements in activity that are not directly linked to improvements in the electrochemical surface area or inversely correlated to Ru dissolution. This suggests a complex interplay between the catalytic performance of the drop-casted catalyst film and ink formulation. AMPERE simplifies catalyst preparation and testing at large scale, making it faster, more reliable, and accessible for
widespread use.
KW - Electrochemical screening
KW - Automated platform
KW - Catalysis
KW - Energy generation and storage
KW - Oxygen evolution reaction (OER)
KW - MAPz@BAM
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-614724
DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/d4dd00203b
SP - 1
EP - 10
PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
AN - OPUS4-61472
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Jauregui Rozo, Maria
A1 - Sunder, S:
A1 - Ruckdäschel, H.
A1 - Schartel, Bernhard
T1 - Char, gas, and action: Transfer of the flame-retardant modes of action in epoxy resins and their fiber-reinforced composites
N2 - Flame retardants are often developed for epoxy resins and then transferred into their fiber-reinforced composites with uncertain results. Understanding this transfer in detail represents a critical scientific challenge. This study systematically compares epoxy resins with their glass-fiber reinforced composites, focusing on bisphenol A diglycidyl ether with the hardener dicyandiamide, the flame retardants melamine polyphosphate, ammonium polyphosphate, and silane ammonium polyphosphate, along with inorganic silicate. The research investigates changes in pyrolysis (thermogravimetry), flammability (UL 94, limiting oxygen index), and fire behavior (cone calorimeter) while also examining the flame-retardant modes of action and overall fire performance. The findings reveal that alterations in the amount of fuel, thermal properties, melt flow, and protective layer significantly impact ignition, flammability, and fire load, with a critical reduction in carbonaceous char within the composites preventing intumescence. This study quantifies the effects and provides a fundamental scientific understanding of the complex transfer process of flame retardants from resins to composites, offering essential insights that are of major importance for developing more effective flame-retardant materials.
KW - Glas fibers
KW - Epoxy resins
KW - Fire behavior
KW - Flammability
KW - Composites
KW - Flame retardants
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-615371
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2024.108610
SN - 0142-9418
SN - 1873-2348
VL - 140
PB - Elsevier Ltd.
AN - OPUS4-61537
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -