TY - CONF A1 - Fuentes, Elsa A1 - Prieto, Beatriz T1 - Effect of climate change on phototrophic biofilms colonizing granitic rocks and their biodeteriogenic activity. N2 - Material cultural heritage from NW of the Iberian Peninsula is linked to the use or presence of granite, whether in historical buildings, sculptures, archaeological sites or any other artistic manifestation. This resistant material has the ideal physical characteristics that favor its longevity, but, like any material exposed to the environment, it is susceptible to deterioration. To this respect, environmental changes due to climate change and global change may modify biological colonization-substrate interactions. The main objective of the present research was to analyse the effects of Climate Change, more specifically changes in water availability, increased temperature, increased CO2 concentrations and changes in UV-B radiation patterns, on the survival and biodeteriogenic activity of phototrophic biofilms on granite heritage and the consequences for the built heritage. Both field and laboratory work were carried out. Field studies were conducted on three rural churches to characterise the current biological colonization. A higher proportion of algae than cyanobacteria was identified, with the genera Trentepohlia and Desmococcus standing out among the former. The most common current fungi are lichenised fungi, but black fungal genera such as Catenulostroma, Rhinocladiella and Knufia were also identified. Bacterial genera related to the production of sphinganes, EPS, carotenoids and some causing the so-called pink discolouration are also present. The effect of climate change on the growth and physiological state of the organisms was analysed in the laboratory. For this purpose, mixed biofilms were developed in the laboratory and exposed to changing conditions of temperature, water availability, CO2 and UV-B. A reduction in growth was observed with increasing water restriction, although in the initial colonization process, rock bioreceptivity was shown to be a more important aspect in favoring anchorage and retention of organisms. Temperature was shown to have a growth-enhancing effect when water availability was low, whereas an increase in CO2 only resulted in increased growth under conditions of high-water availability. Increased UV-B produced a reduction in growth, especially at the highest dose (equivalent to the current dose of a west-facing wall in southern Portugal, which is considered as high), while little difference in the physiological state of the organisms was observed at the current doses in Galicia (considered as medium) and southern Ireland (considered as low). Clear changes in microbial composition were observed, with a trend towards increased or greater resistance of cyanobacteria to higher temperature, lower water availability and higher UV-B doses. In addition, all these changes in development, physiological and microbial composition had an effect on the predominant pigments, tending towards more yellowish-brownish colourations, and on the ability of the organisms to generate biodeterioration by affecting ion concentrations on water solutions by enhancing their consumption or adhesion which lead to granite deterioration. Future work should take into account the combination of a greater number of climatic parameters simultaneously and also the possible resistances associated with the nature of the SAB community studied. T2 - 19th International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Symposium CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 09.09.2024 KW - Biofilm KW - Granite KW - Climate change KW - Biodeterioration KW - Cultural heritage PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-62271 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Meermann, Björn T1 - Analytical Approaches for PFAS Sum-parameter Analysis – From Materials to Environment N2 - PFAS sind emerging pollutants und sind omnipräsent – sowohl in vielen Produkten als auch in der Umwelt. Aufgrund der Vielzahl an verschiedenen Verbindungen werden dringend neue Analytische Methoden zum Nachweis der PFAS benötigt. Im Rahmen meines eingeladenen Vortrags werden neue elementanalytische Summenparameterverfahren, die in meinem Fachbereich entwickelt wurden, vorgestellt. T2 - Analytisches Seminar Uni Duisburg Essen CY - Duisburg, Germany DA - 26.02.2024 KW - PFAS KW - HR-CS-GFMAS KW - Sum parameter PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-62240 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Meermann, Björn T1 - Analytical Approaches for PFAS Sum-parameter Analysis – From Materials to Environment N2 - PFAS sind emerging pollutants und sind omnipräsent – sowohl in vielen Produkten als auch in der Umwelt. Aufgrund der Vielzahl an verschiedenen Verbindungen werden dringend neue Analytische Methoden zum Nachweis der PFAS benötigt. Im Rahmen meines eingeladenen Vortrags werden neue elementanalytische Summenparameterverfahren, die in meinem Fachbereich entwickelt wurden, vorgestellt. T2 - GDCh Kolloquium CY - Freiberg, Germany DA - 29.05.2024 KW - PFAS KW - HER-CS-GFMAS KW - Evolution of pollution PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-62241 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Meermann, Björn T1 - Element Analytical Methods for a Sustainable Transformation of our Society N2 - Ressourcenknappheit benötigt alternative Strategien, um auch nachfolgenden Generationen eine lebenswerte Welt zu erhalten und einen guten Lebensstandard zu gewährleisten. Ein wesentlicher Beitrag hierzu wird die Transformation unserer Gesellschaft hin zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft (CEco) sein. Bisher ist unsere Wirtschaft nicht dahingehend ausgelegt – ein wesentlicher Beitrag muss seitens der Analytischen Chemie kommen – nur hierüber können Qualitätsstandards und –kontrolle gewährleistet werden Im Rahmen meines eigeladenen Vortrags werden elementanalytisch Methoden, die in meinem Fachbereich entwickelt/angewendet werden, für eine CEco vorgestellt. T2 - Analytica Conference CY - Munich, Germany DA - 11.04.2024 KW - PFAS KW - HR-CS-GFMAS KW - Sum parameter PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-62242 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Meermann, Björn T1 - Discrete element and isotope analytical methods for a sustainable transformation of our society N2 - Ressourcenknappheit benötigt alternative Strategien, um auch nachfolgenden Generationen eine lebenswerte Welt zu erhalten und einen guten Lebensstandard zu gewährleisten. Ein wesentlicher Beitrag hierzu wird die Transformation unserer Gesellschaft hin zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft (CEco) sein. Bisher ist unsere Wirtschaft nicht dahingehend ausgelegt – ein wesentlicher Beitrag muss seitens der Analytischen Chemie kommen – nur hierüber können Qualitätsstandards und –kontrolle gewährleistet werden. Im Rahmen meines eigeladenen Vortrags werden elementanalytisch Methoden, die in meinem Fachbereich entwickelt/angewendet werden, für eine CEco vorgestellt. T2 - Summer school CY - Poland DA - 31.07.2024 KW - Elemental analysis KW - Division 1.1 KW - Environment - material PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-62245 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heide, K. A1 - Nolze, Gert A1 - Völksch, G. A1 - Heide, G. T1 - Boracite Mg3[B7O13Cl] from the Zechstein salt deposits N2 - Among the borates in the Middle European Zechstein Salt Succession boracite Mg3[B7O13Cl] is the most common mineral in quantity and local distribution. An exceptional enrichment is observed in Stassfurt Serie Z2) in the Stassfurth seam K2H. Boracite is to be found in two varieties: individual crystals in cubic, tetrahedral or dodecahedral habit on the one hand and fibrous crystals so-called “stassfurtite” on the other hand. The formation conditions such widely spread borates in the salt succession are ambiguous in two respects. First of all the synthetic formation of boracites is to be made by hydrothermal or melt conditions. Both processes can be suspended for the salt succession. Furthermore the cubic modification is stable above 265°C for the Mg-boracite. The cubic, tetrahedral or dodecahedral habit could be used as a geothermometer, but such conditions can be exclude by the paragenetic minerals, esp. carnallite (MgKCl3 x 6H2O). The chemical composition of orthorhombic, pseudo-cubic boracite depends on the location. Pure Mg-boracite in hexahedral habit and in fibrous habit, so-called “stassfurtite”, occurs in the North Harz region, whereas the Fe-, Mn-, Mg-boracite appears in the South Harz region. Until now the source of boron, the time of formation of crystals, but also the reasons for the differences in habit of the single hexahedral crystals are still unclear. The formation during a diagenetic/metamorphic process is evident. However, the preferred formation in Stassfurt seam could be an indication for the boron enrichment in an early diagenetic process. Furthermore permit the determination of the thermal stability and the volatile content of crystals conclusions to the chemical composition of the fluid. The observed variation suggests that the condition of crystal growth as well as the chemical composition of fluid repeatedly changed over the time. Randomly occuring xenomorpheous anhydrite and magnesite inclusions within single boracite crystals have been interpreted as an indication to factors of chemical milieu during the formation of crystals. The reversible phase transition temperature of the boracite is a linearly function of the iron and manganese content and varies from 265°C for Mg-boracite to 330°C for Fe(Mn)-boracite. The thermal decomposition of boracite is determined by two processes. The decomposition started with a boron-chlorine release (BOCl?), having a maximum rate at 1050°C. Additionally to this release one observes a simultaneous emission of H2O, HCl, HF, CO2 , N2 , SO2 , H2 , and hydro carbons. The results give evidence for the aged approach of a secondary formation of boracite within the complete Stassfurt seam, possibly in connection with the formation of salt diapirs in the Jura and Cretaceous period. The wider environmental distribution of borates is an indication of chemical transport processes within the salt succession. This should be a more important issue in the discussion about the utilisation of salt diapirs for the storage of nuclear waste. KW - Borate KW - Boracite KW - Thermal behaviour KW - Electron backscatter diffraction KW - Energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1524/zkri.2013.1633 VL - 228 SP - 467 EP - 475 PB - Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, München AN - OPUS4-37982 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reith, F. A1 - Fairbrother, L. A1 - Nolze, Gert A1 - Wilhelmi, O. A1 - Clode, P. L. A1 - Gregg, A. O. A1 - Parsons, J. E. A1 - Wakelin, S. A. A1 - Pring, A. A1 - Hough, R. A1 - Southam, G. A1 - Brugger, J. T1 - Nanoparticle factories: Biofilms hold the key to gold dispersion and nugget formation N2 - Biofilms living on gold (Au) grains play a key role in the biogeochemical cycle of Au by promoting the dispersion of Au via the formation of Au nanoparticles as well as the formation of secondary biomorphic Au. Gold grains from Queensland, Australia, are covered by a polymorphic, organic-inorganic layer that is up to 40 μm thick. It consists of a bacterial biofilm containing Au nanoparticles associated with extracellular polymeric substances as well as bacterioform Au. Focused ion beam (FIB) sectioning through the biofilm revealed that aggregates of nanoparticulate Au line open spaces beneath the active biofilm layer. These aggregates (bacterioform Au type 1) resulted from the reprecipitation of dissolved Au, and their internal growth structures provide direct evidence for coarsening of the Au grains. At the contact between the polymorphic layer and the primary Au, bacterioform Au type 2 is present. It consists of solid rounded forms into which crystal boundaries of underlying primary Au extend, and is the result of dealloying and Ag dissolution from the primary Au. This study demonstrates that (1) microbially driven dissolution, precipitation, and aggregation lead to the formation of bacterioform Au and contribute to the growth of Au grains under supergene conditions, and (2) the microbially driven mobilization of coarse Au into nanoparticles plays a key role in mediating the mobility of Au in surface environments, because the release of nanoparticulate Au upon biofilm disintegration greatly enhances environmental mobility compared to Au complexes only. KW - Nanomaterial KW - Gold KW - Electron backscatter diffraction PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1130/G31052.1 VL - 38 IS - 9 SP - 843 EP - 846 PB - Geological Society of America AN - OPUS4-37995 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schoknecht, Ute T1 - Leaching of biocides from organic coatings N2 - Biocide leaching was investigated for acrylate and polymer based coatings containing biocides either as liquid formulations or microcapsules. Laboratory and field tests indicate similar relations of results on carbendazim, diuron, terbutryn and OIT from different coatings in laboratory and field experiments. Emissions were higher in EN 16105 laboratory tests than from vertically installed test specimens exposed to weathering, and slower for microencapsulated biocides. Competing processes that cause losses of active substances can occur in both tests, but to a higher degree in field experiments. Emission curves related to runoff water were similar in repeated field experiments. Relative humidity, temperature and global radiation were identified as meteorological factors that affect leaching by complex interaction besides the amount of driving rain. T2 - Advances in Coatings Technology CY - Sosnowiec, Poland DA - 08.11.2016 KW - Biocide KW - Coating KW - Leaching PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38234 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schoknecht, Ute A1 - Mathies, Helena A1 - Wegner, R. A1 - Uhlig, S. A1 - Baldauf, H. A1 - Colson, B. T1 - Leaching of biocides from organic coatings N2 - Biocide leaching was investigated for acrylate and vinyl acetate based coatings containing biocides either as liquid formulations or microcapsules. Laboratory and field tests indicate similar relations of results on carbendazim, diuron, terbutryn and OIT from different coatings in laboratory and field experiments. Emissions were higher in EN 16105 laboratory tests than from vertically installed test specimens exposed to weathering, and slower for microencapsulated biocides. Competing processes that cause losses of active substances can occur in both tests, but to a higher degree in field experiments. Emission curves related to runoff water were similar in repeated field experiments. Relative humidity, temperature and global radiation were identified as meteorological factors that affect leaching by complex interaction besides the amount of driving rain. T2 - 12th International Conference 'Advances in Coatings Technology ACT´16' CY - Sosnowiec, Poland DA - 08.11.2016 KW - Biocide KW - Leaching KW - Coating PY - 2016 SN - 978‒83‒63555‒50‒4 SP - Paper 51, 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-38236 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. T1 - Leak detection with linear soil gas sensors under field conditions - First experiences running a new measurement technique N2 - A 400 m² soil test field with gas injection system was built up, which enables an experimental validation of linear gas sensors for specific applications and gases in an application-relevant scale. Several injection and soil watering experiments with carbon dioxide (CO2) at different days with varying boundary conditions were performed indicating the potential of the method for, e.g., rapid leakage detection with respect to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) issues. T2 - IEEE Sensors 2016 CY - Orlando, FL, USA DA - 30.10.2016 KW - Soil test field KW - Membrane-based linear gas sensor KW - Leak detection KW - Field conditions PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38247 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra T1 - Human influences on forest soil - pollution with PAH, PCB and OCP in Germany N2 - While organic pollutants have been extensively studied in urban and agricultural areas, data from forested regions are relatively rare. Within the framework of a forest soil inventory in Germany polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and organochlorine pesticides (OCP) were analyzed in 1500 soil samples taken from 3 soil horizons at 447 sites. An analytical protocol was developed and validated for the simultaneous extraction and measurement of all analytes in humic rich soil at trace level range. It included pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) and a two step cleanup procedure consisting of gel permeation chromatography (GPC) followed by solid phase extraction (SPE). Quantification was carried out using gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). In line with the monitoring campaign a comprehensive quality assurance concept was implemented to guarantee constant analytical measurement conditions for two years. The protocol is applicable for field laboratories with a high level of automation and for analyzing high sample amounts. At most sampling sites pollutant concentrations gradually decrease with depth. Only few spots showed highest concentrations in the upper mineral soil. In the O-horizon the sum concentrations of 16 PAHs range from 104 to 14.000 µg/kg, of 6 PCBs from <1 to 106 µg/kg and the sum of DDT and metabolites range from <1 to ca. 4.000 µg/kg. The observed concentration of PAH, PCB and OCP reflect an ubiquitous background contamination at most sites. Relatively high concentrations of PAH and PCB are related to industrial areas and peak concentrations only of PAH are associated with open cast mining of brown coal areas. The spatial distribution of the contents of DDT and metabolites in German forest soils can clearly be attributed to historic application. A contribution of ubiquitous background pollution derived from long-range atmospheric transport is likely for some compounds in the studied area, e.g., DDT in the western part of Germany. The results generally reflect the distribution of POPs in densely populated and industrialized countries located in temperate regions]. T2 - International network of environmental forensics CY - Oerebro, Sweden DA - 27.06.2016 KW - Forest soil KW - Organic pollution KW - Spatial distribution PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38598 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra T1 - Evaluation of suitability of PLE, soxhlet, and shaking for extraction of POPs from soil N2 - The occurrence of persistent organic pollutants like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and organochlorine pesticides (OCP) in the environment is still a matter of concern, even years after their use was abolished. Hence, threshold values are regulated by law which reference a number of national and international standards for determination of said contaminants. In this context, soil is an especially difficult matrix, because several defining parameters can vary in a wide range. Organic matter content in particular has a crucial influence on extractability of contaminants because it largely governs formation of non-extractable or bound residues. For this study, four soils of different total organic carbon (TOC) content were generated from uncontaminated reference soil (RefeSol 01-A) and compost which were spiked to contaminant levels representative of the Bundes-Bodenschutz-Verordnung (BBodSchV). These test materials were extracted using accelerated solvent extraction (ASE), Soxhlet extraction, and liquid-liquid extraction. For the latter method, samples were initially extracted for 15 minutes employing acetone. The follow-up extraction step was carried out using cyclohexane and the extraction time varied between 15 minutes and 16 hours. After clean-up, extracts were analysed via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC MS) and with a gas chromatograph equipped with an electron capture detector (GC ECD). Statistical analysis of the experimental values showed that recovery was not dependent on matrix TOC content. Also, no clear preference for a single method could be detected. Concerning liquid-liquid-extraction, it is merely observed that prolonged extraction time results in slightly higher recoveries, while moderate extraction times appear to yield the most robust results. Although Soxhlet and ASE show high recoveries, they also lead to larger standard deviations and are not suitable for determination of thermolabile pesticides. In addition to recovery by different extraction methods, the agreement of values obtained by ECD and MS was evaluated. For ECD, standard deviations are generally higher but overall the values obtained by MS and ECD are comparable. T2 - International network of environmental forensics CY - Oerebro, Sweden DA - 27.06.2016 KW - Pesticides KW - PCB KW - Organic matter KW - Comparison extraction methods PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38605 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra T1 - Comparison of extraction methods for analysis of OCP and PCB in soils N2 - The determination of organochlorine pesticides (OCP) and polychlorinated biphenyls is challenging because they are strongly physical and chemical bound to soil organic matter. There are various valid standards for the determination of these analytes in soil that differ especially in the extraction method and extraction time. In order to make profound assessments concerning the extraction efficiency seven extraction procedures namely pressurized liquid extraction (PLE), soxhlet and shaking with different extraction times 0.5 h, 1 h, 3 h, 6 h and 16 h were compared. For the study four soils of different total organic carbon (TOC) content were generated from uncontaminated reference soil and compost which were spiked to contaminant levels representative of the Bundes-Bodenschutz-Verordnung. Clean-up and measurement conditions using gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were kept constant. Statistically analysis of the experimental values showed that recovery rates were not dependent on matrix TOC content. In consideration of measurement uncertainties of 10% - 20% for the determination of OCP and PCB in soil no differences in the efficiency between the tested extraction procedures could be observed. T2 - ISO Meeting CY - Paris, France DA - 24.10.2016 KW - Standardization KW - PCB KW - OCP KW - Extraction methods PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38611 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Philipp, Rosemarie T1 - Traceable measurements for monitoring critical pollutants under the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC N2 - The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC specifies a list of 33 priority water pollutants. For these substances, Environmental Quality Standards (EQS), equivalent to the maximum allowable concentrations, had been defined at very low levels. EQS values refer to the whole water body, i.e. include contaminants which are associated to suspended solids or colloids present in the natural water. For several priority pollutants primary analytical methods capable of measuring the target analytes at EQS level in natural water are still missing. The project has developed and validated such methods for three selected compounds, namely Tributyltin (TBT), Polybrominated Diphenylether (PBDE) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH). KW - Water polluntants KW - Monitoring KW - Water analysis KW - Tributyltin KW - Polybrominated diphenylether KW - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-386230 SP - 1 EP - 3 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-38623 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc T1 - Prospects of the metal magnetic memory technique N2 - Prospects and Restrictions of the Metal Magnetic Memory Technique T2 - 69th-IIW-Meeting CY - Melbourne, Australia DA - 12.07.2016 KW - Metal magnetic memory KW - Magnetic field KW - GMR sensor KW - Microstructure PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38133 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Piechotta, Christian T1 - Characterization of new disinfection by-products of polycyclic musks (AHTN and HHCB) and their metabolites N2 - The polycyclic musks 6-Acetyl-1,1,2,4,4,7-hexamethyltetraline (AHTN) and 1,3,4,6,7,8-Hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethylcyclopenta-ɣ-2-benzopyran (HHCB) are widely used fragrances in cosmetics, products of daily care and cleaning products for households and industry. They are in the focus of interest due to their estrogenic potential. Both compounds can be found at low μg/L concentrations in surface water where they are introduced mainly by sewage treatment plants supplied by municipal wastewater. In order to disinfect wastewater in sewage treatment plants or water in swimming pools, chlorine can be added to water as gas or hypochlorite solution. This disinfectant has a high oxidation potential resulting in the formation of disinfection by-products, the estrogenicity and toxicity of which might differ from their precursor. In this work the behaviour of AHTN and HHCB upon treatment with sodium hypochlorite solution was investigated and chlorinated possible disinfection by-products could be identified as well as a carboxylic acids and lactones derived from AHTN and HHCB. The identified species were characterized by GC-MS, LC-MSn and 1H-NMR. The elucidated structures of potential disinfection by-products are verified by X-ray crystallography. Finally the estrogenicity between the parent analytes and generated transformation products were compared. For that task, MCF-7 assay has been chosen for being most relevant to humans. Moreover metabolism studies were carried out using AHTN, HHCB and their disinfection by-products. T2 - ISEB 2016 CY - Barcelona, Spain DA - 30.05.2016 KW - AHTN PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38523 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Piechotta, Christian T1 - Traceability for mercury measurements - MeTra N2 - The aim of this work is to develop measurement procedures to provide full traceability and robust uncertainty statements for dissolved elemental mercury (Hg(0)), inorganic mercury (Hg(II)) and methyl-mercury (MeHg) in freshwater and sea water, and inorganic mercury (Hg(II)) and methyl-mercury (MeHg) in biota. Accurate measurements with low uncertainties e.g. <50 % at the EQS level are required to assess concentration levels and trends in these important environmental reservoirs for mercury. In particular this work aims to: Develop and validate primary measurement procedures for Hg speciation (Hg(II), MeHg and Hg(0)) in fresh and sea waters at sub-ng levels in the presence of suspended particular matter and/or colloidal fractions, Apply the developed IDMS procedures in water in order to evaluate possible artefacts associated with sample collection and preparation, preserving speciation and/or correcting for possible post-sampling interconversions, Develop and validate primary measurement procedures for the accurate quantification of Hg(II) and MeHg in biota, using samples from the Federal Environmental Specimen Bank, Apply the developed IDMS procedures in biota in order to evaluate the effect of different treatments for fish sample preparation. T2 - EMRP MeTra Meeting CY - Geel, Belgium DA - 01.02.2016 KW - Methyl mercury PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38519 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Köpp, Christian A1 - Helmerich, Rosemarie T1 - CHEF - Cultural heritage protection against flooding N2 - CHEF provides knowledge about flood protection of cultural heritage objects and directly supports the European Floods Directive by giving recommendations on how to assess the vulnerability of monuments. A comprehensive analysis of protective measures BEFORE, DURING and AFTER a flood has been carried out within the project, including technical and administrational measures. An overview of these measures is given, followed by recommendations on how to establish the most effective protective strategies. KW - Cultural heritage KW - Flood protection KW - Flood risks PY - 2011 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-385463 SP - 1 EP - 3 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-38546 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg A1 - Bandow, Nicole T1 - Significance of cadmium from artists‘ paints to agricultural soil and the food chain N2 - An Annex XV restriction dossier for cadmium in artists’ paints was submitted by an EU member state to the European Chemicals Agency ECHA. By cleaning used brushes under the tap cadmium can enter the food chain via waste water treatment and subsequent agricultural application of the sewage sludge. It was estimated that 110 kg Cd per year is spread on agricultural land via this exposure route. Other sources of Cd amount to almost 120 tons per year. The mobility of Cd from pigments was studied in a field-like scenario by leaching experiments using soil samples amended with sewage sludge and spiked with Cd pigments in percolation columns. The redox conditions were confirmed to be the decisive factor for the release of Cd. The release of Cd from artists’ paints was in most cases 1% or lower in the experiments performed. Cd from artists’ paints in sewage sludge applied in agriculture will be mobilized for intake by crops or to leaching either by oxidation of sulfide to sulfate or by dissolution at lower pH values. The quantity of Cd from artists’ paints calculated in the restriction dossier is however negligible compared to other sources of Cd to agricultural soil. Therefore ECHA did not consider the proposed restriction to be the most appropriate EU wide measure to address the negligible level of risk. In the presentation sources of Cd on agricultural land will be discussed together with possible policy instruments to mitigate such emissions. T2 - 9th International Cadmium Conference CY - Lisbon, Portugal DA - 26.10.2016 KW - Cadmium KW - REACH KW - leaching PY - 2016 UR - http://www.conference.cadmium.org/ SP - 9 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-38473 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Carl, Peter T1 - A bead suspension array for measuring emerging pollutants and anthropogenic markers in wastewater. N2 - The assessment of water quality demands for high-throughput and multi-target compatible analytical methods. On the one hand, the influence of sewage on natural surface waters must be routinely monitored - according to the European Water Framework Directive. On the other hand, estimation of removal efficiencies of pollutants, such as drug residues, is in the focus of industrial and public wastewater treatment. Immunoassays, such as ELISA, are often applied in this area owing to their cost-efficiency and high-throughput capability. However, it is only possible to measure a single analyte in one measurement. In contrast, array technology is capable for measuring multiple substances in parallel. Here we present a four-plex bead-based flow cytometric assay for measuring three drugs (carbamazepine, an anti-epileptic drug, diclofenac, an antiphlogistic and caffeine, a psychoactive substance) and the bile acid isolithocholic acid, which is proposed to be used as a fecal marker. In this suspension array core-shell particles, consisting of a polystyrene core and a silica shell are used. They can be easily encoded with a fluorophore which is introduced to the core and functionalized with amino groups on the surface for creating binding sites for antibodies: Therefore, the marker substances are bound to the amino groups via NHS chemistry. For the determination of the pollutants, the beads are incubated with a mixture of the analyte-specific antibodies. The antibodies undergo a competitive reaction to bind the immobilised molecules on the surface of the beads or the free analyte in the solution, respectively. Bound antibodies can then be visualized via fluorophore-labelled secondary antibodies. For read-out a flow cytometer is used to virtually separate the different encoded beads and to measure the resulting signal intensity of the immunoassay. In order to obtain highly selective binding of the antibodies, we investigated different types of surface modifications to overcome unspecific binding, finding that a PEG-based surface is suitable to support our immunoassay format. The resulting multiplexing assay is appropriate to detect the marker substances in the low µg/L range. T2 - The Singlet Oxygen Strategy: From Singlet Oxygen to Sustainable Oxidation CY - Gent, Belgium DA - 15.06.2016 KW - Bead-based assay KW - Small-molecule sensors KW - Immunoassay KW - Anthropogenic markers KW - Wastewater PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-36753 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Braun, Ulrike T1 - General aspects of polymers and and polymers in environment N2 - The presentation addresses first general aspects of polymers and polymers in environment (definitions, types, phases, morphology, density) and than summarise the possibilities of analysis. T2 - 1. meeting of ISO/TC 61/SC 5/AHG "microplastics" CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 12.04.2016 KW - Microplastics KW - Polymers PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-36758 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunte, Hans-Jörg A1 - Lentzen, G. A1 - Galinski, E. T1 - Industrial production of the cell protectant ectoine: protection mechanisms, processes, and products N2 - Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya can adapt to Saline environments by accumulating compatible solutes in order to maintain an osmotic equilibrium. Compatible solutes are of diverse chemical structure (sugars, polyols, amino acid derivatives) and are beneficial for bacterial cells not only as osmoregulatory solutes, but also as protectants of proteins by mitigating detrimental effects of freezing, drying and high temperatures. The aspartate derivative ectoine is a wide spread compatible solute in Bacteria and possesses additional protective properties compared with other compatible solutes, and stabilizes even whole cells against stresses such as UV radiation or cytotoxins. The protective properties of ectoine for proteins can be explained by its strong (kosmotropic) interaction with water and subsequent exclusion from Protein surface, the decrease of the solubility of the peptide backbone and the strengthening of intramolecular hydrogen bonds (secondary structures). The stabilizing and UV-protective properties of ectoine attracted industry, which saw the potential to market ectoine as a novel active component in health care products and cosmetics. In joint efforts of industry and research large-scale fermentation procedures have been developed with the halophilic bacterium Halomonas elongata used as a producer strain. The two key technologies that allow for the annual production of ectoine on a scale of tons are the bacterial milking procedure and the development and application of ectoine-excreting mutants (“leaky” mutant). The details of these two procedures including the strain development and Fermentation processes will be introduced and current and future applications of ectoine will be discussed. KW - Bacterial milking KW - Batch fermentation KW - Continuous culture KW - Ectoine excretion KW - Hofmeister effect KW - Kosmotrope KW - “leaky” mutant KW - Osmophobic effect KW - Protein protection KW - Preferential exclusion PY - 2014 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-376805 DO - https://doi.org/10.2174/22115501113026660037 SN - 2211-551X VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 10 EP - 25 PB - Bentham Science AN - OPUS4-37680 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marinelli, F. A1 - Kuhlmann, S. I. A1 - Grell, E. A1 - Kunte, Hans-Jörg A1 - Ziegler, C. M. A1 - Faraldo-Gómez, J. D. T1 - Evidence for an allosteric mechanism of substrate release from membrane-transporter accessory binding proteins N2 - Numerous membrane importers rely on accessory water-soluble proteins to capture their substrates. These substrate-binding Proteins (SBP) have a strong affinity for their ligands; yet, Substrate release onto the low-affinity membrane transporter must occur for uptake to proceed. It is generally accepted that release is facilitated by the association of SBP and transporter, upon which the SBP adopts a conformation similar to the unliganded state, whose affinity is sufficiently reduced. Despite the appeal of this mechanism, however, direct supporting evidence is lacking. Here, we use experimental and theoretical methods to demonstrate that an allosteric mechanism of enhanced substrate release is indeed plausible. First, we report the atomic-resolution structure of APO TeaA, the SBP of the Na!-coupled ectoine TRAP transporter TeaBC from Halomonas elongata DSM2581T, and compare it with the substrate-bound structure previously reported. Conformational freeenergy landscape calculations based upon molecular Dynamics simulations are then used to dissect the mechanism that couples ectoine binding to structural change in TeaA. These insights allow us to design a triple mutation that biases TeaA toward apo-like conformations without directly perturbing the binding cleft, thus mimicking the influence of the membrane transporter. Calorimetric measurements demonstrate that the ectoine affinity of the conformationally biased triple mutant is 100-fold weaker than that of the wild type. By contrast, a control mutant predicted to be conformationally unbiased displays wild-type affinity. This work thus demonstrates that substrate release from SBPs onto their Membrane transporters can be facilitated by the latter through a mechanism of allosteric modulation of the former. KW - Binding thermodynamics KW - Periplasmic binding protein KW - Secondary transporter KW - ABC transporter KW - Replica-exchange metadynamics PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112534108 SN - 0027-8424 SN - 1091-6490 VL - 108 IS - 49 SP - E1285 EP - E1292 AN - OPUS4-37681 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schweikhard, E. S. A1 - Kuhlmann, S. I. A1 - Kunte, Hans-Jörg A1 - Grammann, K. A1 - Ziegler, C. M. T1 - Structure and function of the universal stress protein TeaD and its role in regulating the ectoine transporter TeaABC of halomonas elongata DSM 2581T N2 - The halophilic bacterium Halomonas elongata takes up the compatible solute ectoine via the osmoregulated TRAP transporter TeaABC. A fourth orf (teaD) is located adjacent to the teaABC locus that encodes a putative universal stress protein (USP). By RT-PCR experiments we proved a cotranscription of teaD along with teaABC. Deletion of teaD resulted in an enhanced uptake for ectoine by the Transporter TeaABC and hence a negative activity regulation of TeaABC by TeaD. Atranscriptional regulation viaDNA binding could be excluded. ATP binding to native TeaD was shown by HPLC, and the Crystal structure of TeaD was solved in complex with ATP to a resolution of 1.9 A ° by molecular replacement. TeaD forms a dimer-dimer complex with one ATP molecule bound to each monomer, which has a Rossmann-like R/β overall fold. Our results reveal an ATP-dependent oligomerization of TeaD, which might have a functional role in the regulatory mechanism of TeaD. USP-encoding orfs, which are located adjacent to genes Encoding for TeaABC homologues, could be identified in several other organisms, and their physiological role in balancing the internal cellular ectoine pool is discussed. KW - Universal stress protein KW - Ectoine KW - Transporter TeaABC PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/bi9017522 SN - 1520-4995 SN - 0006-2960 VL - 49 IS - 10 SP - 2194 EP - 2204 AN - OPUS4-37682 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Fontana, Patrick A1 - Miccoli, Lorenzo A1 - Kocadag, R. A1 - Silva, N. A1 - Qvaesching, D. A1 - Kreft, O. A1 - Cederqvist, Ch. ED - Fehling, E. ED - Middendorf, B. ED - Thiemicke, J. T1 - Composite UHPC facade elements with functional surfaces N2 - This paper presents an innovative way to combine an external ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) supporting layer with an insulation layer of autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) or cellular lightweight concrete (CLC) to create light-weight façade elements, which are improved in functionality and in energy efficiency. The durability of the façade elements is improved by developing UHPC with self-cleaning properties. One approach is based on the photocatalytic activation of the external UHPC shell by incorporation of TiO2 particles. The second approach consists of the modification of the UHPC surface by micro structuring in combination with the application of water-repellent agents to create durable super hydrophobicity. The current results obtained from laboratory testing are promising and demonstrate the feasibility of the approaches. T2 - HiPerMat 2016 4th International Symposium on Ultra-High Performance Concrete and High Performance Construction Materials CY - Kassel, Germany DA - 09.03.2016 KW - Composite UHPC elements KW - photocatalysis KW - super hydrophobicity KW - self-cleaning KW - autoclaved aerated concrete KW - cellular lightweight concrete PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-7376-0094-1 VL - 27 SP - 159 EP - 160 PB - kassel university press GmbH CY - Kassel AN - OPUS4-36566 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Pavlovic, Mato T1 - Reliability Analysis of the Phased-Array Ultrasonic System used for the Inspection of Friction Stir Welds of Copper Canisters N2 - The canister for the permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel used by SKB in Sweden consists of a cast iron insert surrounded by a five centimetre thick shell of copper. It is a safety critical component and in order to secure long-term structural integrity non-destructive methods are used to inspect 100% of the volume of each canister, before it is disposed of in the repository. One of the critical components that requires inspection is a sealing weld, joining the copper tube and the lid. The friction stir weld is inspected using an ultrasonic phased array system. The area of the weld is inspected with several inspection channels with different angles and varying coverage. To make sure that no defects that might occur in the weld are overseen, the reliability of the inspection must be quantified. The reliability of NDT is usually quantified with the probability of detection curves. The influence of the parameters that might influence the POD of the flaws in the weld is investigated analysing the experimental results, as well as with a help of a numerical simulation of the inspection. T2 - Proceedings of the 19th World Conference on Nondestructive Testing CY - Munich, Germany DA - 13.06.2016 KW - Ultrasonic KW - Copper KW - NDT KW - FSW KW - JLH KW - Weld KW - POD KW - Reliability PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-36703 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schmidt, Stephan T1 - Monoclonal Antibodies against Diclofenac N2 - Mittels Festphasensynthese konnte ein Amid aus Diclofenac und 6-Aminohexansäure synthetisert werden. Dieses Hapten wurde an Trägerproteinen gekoppelt. Diese wurden für Immunisierungen und als Coatingantigene existierender Antikörper eingesetzt. Die Coatingantigene bewirkten eine Verbesserung etablierter indirekter ELISA mit kommerziell verfügbaren Antikörpern. Positive Immunantworten auf Diclofenac in der Immunisierung wurden bereits nachgewiesen. N2 - Diclofenac is a widely used drug against fever, inflammation, pain, and rheumatic diseases. An average of 70 % of the ingested diclofenac is excreted in the urine. Thus, 63 tons are introduced into the water cycle in Germany. Due to insufficient removal of diclofenac in wastewater treatment plants, residues of diclofenac can be found in surface water and sometimes in drinking water It exist a polyclonal against diclofenac and monoclonal antibodies against diclofenac and it`s metabolites. There all based on direct couling of diclofenac on proteins via carboxylic functions. However it was imagined advantageous to introduce a heterobifunctional spacer between the analyte and the carrier protein. Aceclofeac is commercial available. All other spacers can only be introduced with solid phase synthesis. T2 - Wasser 2016 CY - Bamberg, Germany DA - 02.05.2016 KW - Diclofenac KW - Proteinkonjugate KW - Haptensynthese KW - Monoklonale Antikörper KW - Monoclonal antibodies KW - Haptenes KW - Protein conjugates PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-36707 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hofmann, Michael T1 - Proficiency test of commercial radon monitors for low level radon exhalation measurements in chambers with air exchange N2 - Compared to the designated European upper reference level of 300 Bq m-3 for indoor radon concentrations, the contribution of building materials appears to be low. Taking into account the recommended limit of 100 Bq m-3 by WHO as well as the increased dose conversion factor, the contribution of building products is quite relevant, especially at low air change rates. Therefore in Germany a maximum contribution of building materials to the indoor radon concentration of 20 Bq m-3 is discussed. Because measurements of low concentrations are associated with high uncertainties, radon exhalation rates are often determined in chambers without air exchange and indoor conditions are extrapolated. This study investigated the suitability of direct low level radon measurement under simulated indoor conditions with commercially available instruments, based on the preliminary EU standard for the determination of the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) from building materials in test chambers. Measurements are possible with a relative uncertainty ranging from 7 to 18 %. Four major problems were identified: 1. Detector sensitivity: Two of four instruments were identified to determine low radon concentrations in a sufficiently short measuring time. 2. Thoron discrimination: Thoron was discriminated by aging the sampled air in a hose before the detector. 3. Sampling setup: An external chamber measurement was feasible as long as all main system parts were under slight overpressure. 4. Blank value: For VOC-emission testing ambient air, conditioned by filtration and sorption, is used to generate an air exchange. Regarding radon, this treatment is non-effective. If all instrument background levels have been characterized, the blank value must be measured with a second detector in parallel. T2 - 8th International Conference on Protection against Radon at Home and at Work CY - Prague; Czechia DA - 12.09.2016 KW - Radon exhalation KW - Building materials KW - Radon measurement KW - VOC emission test chamber PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37437 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hofmann, Michael ED - Thinová, L. T1 - Proficiency test of commercial radon monitors for low level radon exhalation measurements in chambers with air exchange N2 - Compared to the designated European upper reference level of 300 Bq/m³ for indoor radon concentrations, the contribution of building materials appears to be low. Taking into account the recommended limit of 100 Bq/m³ by WHO as well as the increased dose conversion factor, the contribution of building products is quite relevant, especially at low air change rates. Therefore in Germany a maximum contribution of building materials to the indoor radon concentration of 20 Bq/m³ is discussed. Because measurements of low concentrations are associated with high uncertainties, radon exhalation rates are often determined in chambers without air exchange and indoor conditions are extrapolated. This study investigated the suitability of direct low level radon measurement under simulated indoor conditions with commercially available instruments, based on the preliminary EU standard for the determination of the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) from building materials in test chambers. Measurements are possible with a relative uncertainty ranging from 7 to 18%. Four major problems were identified: 1. Detector sensitivity: Two of four instruments were identified to determine low radon concentrations in a sufficiently short measuring time. 2. Thoron discrimination: Thoron was discriminated by aging the sampled air in a hose before the detector. 3. Sampling setup: An external chamber measurement was feasible as long as all main system parts were under slight overpressure. 4. Blank value: For VOC-emission testing ambient air, conditioned by filtration and sorption, is used to generate an air exchange. Regarding radon, this treatment is non-effective. If all instrument background levels have been characterized, the blank value must be measured with a second detector in parallel. T2 - 8th International Conference on Protection against Radon at Home and at Work CY - Prague, Czechia DA - 12.09.2016 KW - Radon exhalation KW - Building materials KW - Radon measurement KW - VOC emission test chamber PY - 2016 UR - http://www.radon2016.cz/download/radon2016-el.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1 SN - 978-80-01-05993-7 SP - 21 EP - 21 PB - České vysoké učení technické v Praze CY - Prague AN - OPUS4-37439 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Torge, Manfred A1 - Bücker, Michael A1 - Drachenberg, E. A1 - Müller, W. A1 - Schaaf, U. ED - Roemich, H. ED - Fair, L. T1 - Protection of stained-glass windows - case studies in Poland N2 - Several restoration projects of stained-glass windows have been performed in Lower Silesia (Poland) since 2010. The aim of the projects was to protect stained-glass windows against environmental impact of industial pollutants and acid rain by installing a protective glazing. The usefulness of protective glazing has been proved by climate measurements and determination of environmental impact before and after installation. T2 - Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2016, ICOM-CC Working Group “Glass and Ceramics” Interim Meeting CY - The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland DA - 25.05.2016 KW - weathering KW - stained glass KW - protective glazing KW - glass dosimeters KW - outdoor pollutants PY - 2016 SN - 978-83-64419-80-5 SP - 53 EP - 62 PB - International Council of Museums - Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) CY - Paris, France AN - OPUS4-36678 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss N2 - Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have contributed significantly to the current biodiversity crisis, leading to widespread epidemics and population loss. Owing to genetic variation in pathogen virulence, a complete understanding of species decline requires the accurate identification and characterization of EIDs. We explore this issue in the Western honeybee, where increasing mortality of populations in the Northern Hemisphere has caused major concern. Specifically, we investigate the importance of genetic identity of the main suspect in mortality, deformed wing virus (DWV), in driving honeybee loss. Using laboratory experiments and a systematic field survey, we demonstrate that an emerging DWV genotype (DWV-B) is more virulent than the established DWV genotype (DWV-A) and is widespread in the landscape. Furthermore, we show in a simple model that colonies infected with DWV-B collapse sooner than colonies infected with DWV-A. We also identify potential for rapid DWV evolution by revealing extensive genome-wide recombination in vivo. The emergence of DWV-B in naive honeybee populations, including via recombination with DWV-A, could be of significant ecological and economic importance. Our findings emphasize that knowledge of pathogen genetic identity and diversity is critical to understanding drivers of species decline. T2 - 8th European meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects CY - Helsinki, Finland DA - 08.08.2016 KW - Emerging infectious disease KW - Species decline KW - Virulence PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37849 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Sieksmeyer, Thorben T1 - Beyond nutrition: pathogen infection drives macronutrient dietary preference in the cockroach Blatta orientalis N2 - Diverse animal species consume toxins, minerals or secondary compounds as an adaptive response to pathogen infection – a process termed self-medication. Recent studies have also shown that macronutrients can play an important role in an individual’s infection response. For instance African army worm caterpillars select a diet rich in protein and low in carbohydrate upon baculovirus infection. Here we investigate whether dietary choice of macronutrients also plays a role in immunity in the omnivorous cockroach: Blatta orientalis. After challenging individual cockroaches with a common entomopathogenic soil bacterium, Pseudomonas entomophila, we conducted food-choice experiments using two artificial diets differing in their relative protein to carbohydrate ratio. We show for the first time that cockroaches are able to self-select a protein-enriched diet as a response to bacterial infection. This is driven by a sharp decline in carbohydrate intake rather than an increase in protein intake. Additionally, infected cockroaches reduced their overall nutrient intake, which is consistent with an illness-induced anorexia-like response. The feeding pattern of bacteria-challenged individuals returned to normality approx 4 days after challenge. We also investigate whether cockroach survival and hemolymph immunity are enhanced in individuals when restricted to a protein-rich vs. carbohydrate-rich diet. Overall, our findings demonstrate that macronutrient preferences follow a general pattern independent of pathogen type. Furthermore, we show that interactions between nutrition and immunity are highly conserved in evolution, highlighted by the fact that caterpillars and cockroaches diverged some 386 million years ago. T2 - 109. Jahrestagung der deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft CY - Kiel, Germany DA - 14.09.2016 KW - Self-medication KW - Nutrition KW - Cockroach PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37843 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss N2 - Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have contributed significantly to the current biodiversity crisis, leading to widespread epidemics and population loss. Owing to genetic variation in pathogen virulence, a complete understanding of species decline requires the accurate identification and characterization of EIDs. We explore this issue in the Western honeybee, where increasing mortality of populations in the Northern Hemisphere has caused major concern. Specifically, we investigate the importance of genetic identity of the main suspect in mortality, deformed wing virus (DWV), in driving honeybee loss. Using laboratory experiments and a systematic field survey, we demonstrate that an emerging DWV genotype (DWV-B) is more virulent than the established DWV genotype (DWV-A) and is widespread in the landscape. Furthermore, we show in a simple model that colonies infected with DWV-B collapse sooner than colonies infected with DWV-A. We also identify potential for rapid DWV evolution by revealing extensive genome-wide recombination in vivo. The emergence of DWV-B in naive honeybee populations, including via recombination with DWV-A, could be of significant ecological and economic importance. Our findings emphasize that knowledge of pathogen genetic identity and diversity is critical to understanding drivers of species decline. T2 - International Congress of Entomology 2016 CY - Orlando, Florida, USA DA - 26.09.2016 KW - Emerging infectious disease KW - Species decline KW - Virulence PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37847 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Eisentraut, Paul T1 - Analysis of microplastics in environmental samples using TED-GC-MS N2 - The presence of plastic debris and especially small plastic particles in marine ecosystems has been recognized in the 1970`s. Since then various other environmental systems all over the world, like rivers, lakes and biota have been found to be polluted by plastics. Lately, agriculturally used land, waste-water treatment and biogas facilities come into focus as possibly relevant distribution vectors. To monitor the situation and investigate distribution pathways, the need for fast and reliable analytical procedures is high. Up to now, there is no standard procedure for sampling, concentrating and analyzing plastic particles in environmental samples. Our group recently reported the development of a new analyzing method for microscale plastic particles, thermal extraction desorption gas chromatography mass spectrometry (TED-GC-MS). This method consists of thermal extraction of the sample via thermogravimetric analysis, collection of the evolved gaseous decomposition products on a solid-phase adsorber and analysis of the loaded adsorber using Thermal-Desorption-GC-MS. This technique utilizes the characteristic decomposition products of polymers for identification and even quantification of plastics in environmental samples. In the present work we investigated samples of fermentation residues taken from a biogas plant. The results of sample preparation, concentration and analysis are presented as well as a comparison with alternative methods. T2 - MoDeSt 2016 CY - Cracow, Poland DA - 04.09.2016 KW - Microplastic PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37782 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Eisentraut, Paul T1 - Analysis of microplastics in environmental samples using TED-GC-MS N2 - The first analysis of environmental samples shows, that the use of TED-GC-MS is suitable to analyse microplastic in environmental samples. Compared to the micro-spectroscopic methods this method is faster and gives good hints to the occurrence of high loadings of MP in environmental samples. In consequence, the method allows the monitoring of the situation and the investigation of MP distribution pathways in environment, to assess the relevance of various inputs. T2 - 7th Late Summer Workshop "Microplastics in the aquatic environment" CY - Haltern am See, Germany DA - 25.09.2016 KW - Microplastic PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37785 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krüger, Oliver T1 - Recovery of phosphorus - German trends N2 - The seminar aimed on improved wastewater treatment and resource recovery in Poland. Tha talk was about the current situation and future prospects of phosphorus recovery in Germany. T2 - GFW Seminar 2016 CY - Gdansk, Poland DA - 15.09.2016 KW - Phosphorus KW - Resource recovery KW - Wastewater treatment KW - Supply risk PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37764 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Breitenbach, Romy T1 - The role of c-di-GMP in biofilm formation of the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme N2 - The signaling molecule c-di-GMP is a ubiquitous second messenger in bacterial species including cyanobacteria. C-di-GMP stimulates the biosynthesis of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in biofilms and regulates the transition between a motile and a sessile life style in many bacteria. In our study we focus on c-di-GMP function and EPS production associated with biofilm Formation in Nostoc punctiforme, which is known to produce EPS in biofilms and liquid culture. T2 - VAAM-Jahrestagung 2016 CY - Jena, Germany DA - 13.03.2016 KW - Cyanobacteria KW - EPS KW - C-di-GMP PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37974 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Predicting, measuring and explaining the consequences of high-speed railway traffic in respect to the track, underground and environment N2 - Some results of our measurements of the Intercity experimental are presented together with simulated results and their interpretation. Three frequeny ranges could be measured and calculated: low frequencies which decrease very rapidly with distance (the quasi-static part), high frequencies (mainly due to the sleeper passage), and a mid-frequency which has the weakest attenuation with distance and is therefore dominant at the far field. Mono-frequent excitations get a wide frequency band due to the Doppler effect of the moving high-speed train. T2 - Seminar Fahrzeug-Fahrweg-Dynamik, TU Berlin - TH Warschau - BAM CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 25.02.1988 KW - High-speed trains KW - Doppler effect KW - Frequency-specific attenuation PY - 1986 AN - OPUS4-38080 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Meconcelli, Stefania T1 - Bridging the gap between individual and social immunity in colony disease defence N2 - In addition to individual immunity, social insects have evolved collective defence strategies against pathogens, which consist of behavioural, physiological and organisational adaptations. The importance of social immunity in preventing disease transmission in insect societies is well known. However, we still lack a clear understanding of how collective defence mechanisms are regulated and how they interact with the other regulatory systems of the organism such us the individual immune system. Here we assess how individual immune factors shape the collective immune response to pathogens by inhibiting a key Termite immune effector: gram-negative binding protein (tGNBP-2). tGNBP-2 triggers downstream innate immunity, in addition to cleaving fungal and bacterial pathogens directly in the external environment. We established mini-colonies of Reticulitermes flavipes inside planar arenas where we were able to observe and record hygienic behaviours (i.e. allogrooming and cannibalism) in near-natural nest conditions. Colonies were either treated with the tGNBP-2 inhibitor or a control solution, after which 5 focal workers were introduced into each colony. Focal workers were pre-exposed to either: 1) the fungal pathogen Metharizium anisopliae 2) the t-GNBP-2 inhibitor + M. anisopliae 3) a control solution. Colonies were recorded and the hygienic behaviours performed by nestmates towards focal termites were analysed. We examined the impact of tGNBP-2 inhibition on individual innate immune regulation, in addition to exploring the wider impact of immune suppression on collective social behavioural responses. T2 - International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI 2016) CY - Helsinki, Finland DA - 08.08.2016 KW - Social immunity KW - Termite KW - Destructive allogrooming PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38416 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - He, Shulin T1 - Defend and disinfect: a dual use for soldiers in a complex insect society N2 - It is thought that the primary function of soldier castes in insect societies is to protect colonies against macroscale predators and parasites. By comparison, little attention has been paid to the role of soldiers against pathogenic microorganisms. This is a significant gap in knowledge because in non-hymenopteran societies, such as the eusocial termites, the first-evolved, and arguably most important sterile caste, is the soldier. Here, we investigate whether soldiers of the wood-eating termite, Mastotermes darwiniensis, play a significant role in social immunity. Firstly, we show that uninfected soldiers improve the survival of worker nestmates exposed to a lethal dose of a fungal pathogen, despite the fact that soldiers (unlike workers) cannot allogroom. Hazard ratios of pathogen-exposed workers decreased from 6.616 in infected groups to 4.376 and 2.786 in infected groups containing uninfected workers and soldiers, respectively. To explore the basis of soldier protection, we applied soldier-derived oral secretions to infected worker cuticle, resulting in significantly improved worker survival. Soldiers that contacted infected workers were also more active and produced secretions with significantly greater mass variance than soldiers exposed to uninfected workers. Significantly, we show that secretions produced by soldiers inhibit the growth of a broad range of microorganisms, including gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, in addition to fungi. Our findings demonstrate that soldiers can contribute powerful antimicrobial factors to external immune defenses, effectively complementing behaviour-based protective activities provided by workers. T2 - International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI 2016) CY - Helsinki, Finland DA - 08.08.2016 KW - External immunity KW - Social insect KW - Termite PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38419 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf T1 - VOC-Emissions from thermoplastic filaments for 3-D-printing N2 - Summary: A screening test for potential emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) was run on different thermoplastic filaments used for 3D printing. The method of direct thermal desorption was used to simulate the high temperatures during the 3D printing process and to identify the main compounds emitted from the filaments. A large number of unexpected compounds were detected that might affect the user’s health and have an impact on indoor air chemistry. Introduction: The use of desktop 3D printers is increasing. Compared to other devices with known emissions, e.g. laser printers, there is still a lack of information on possible emissions of VOC and ultrafine particles during operation and the effect on indoor air quality. Most of the commercially available desktop 3D printers operate with a molten polymer deposition. For this process a solid thermoplastic filament is heated in an extrusion nozzle. Most filaments for desktop 3D printers use either acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) or polylactic acid (PLA) as filament. Alternatives are polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) or polycarbonate (PC). Method: Eight different thermoplastic filaments for 3D printers were analysed by direct thermal desorption followed by GC-MS identification of the emitted substances. Direct thermal desorption was done by desorbing 5 mg of the feedstock for 1 minute at a temperature of 210°C. This is an average temperature for 3D printing with thermoplastic filaments. Results and conclusions: The comparison of the 4 different filament groups showed the highest overall emissions from ABS, followed by PLA, PC and PVA. Filament ABS 2 emitted mainly SVOCs and triphenyl phosphate, the latter has the highest emission for a single compound from all evaluated filaments. Thermoplastic filaments are a new source of VOC emissions due to the high temperatures associated with 3D printing, which can reach up to 270°C. Some of the detected compounds like lactic acid, lactide and bisphenol A have never been described before in the indoor environment. Additionally some of the main substances could not be identified and some others might have the potential to affect the indoor air chemistry. The appearance of some newly detected compounds raises concerns about potential health effects for the users of 3D printers at home. T2 - 20th Conference | Odour and Emissions of Plastic Materials CY - Kassel, Germany DA - 20.03.2018 KW - VOC KW - Emissions KW - 3D printing KW - Thermoplastic filaments PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44551 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wachtendorf, Volker A1 - Barthel, Anne-Kathrin A1 - Geburtig, Anja A1 - Trubiroha, P. ED - Reichert, T. T1 - Low-Temperature Irradiation Experiments for PE, PA, and PC Matrices N2 - In this paper, we demonstrate the effects of radiation exposures of polymeric materials with UV-A 340 nm lamps (ISO 4892-3, Type 1A) at -10 °C in comparison to an irradiation at +50 °C using a Global UV Test 200 fluorescent lamp device from Weiss Umwelttechnik GmbH, which incorporates an active cooling appliance. While the effects at -10 °C actually are lower than at + 50°C their extent was clearly beyond expectations. T2 - 8th European Weathering Symposium CY - Vienna, Austria DA - 20.09.2017 KW - Artificial weathering KW - Irradiation KW - Low-temperature KW - Photo-oxidation KW - Polyamide KW - Polycarbonate KW - Polyethylene PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-9818507-1-0 VL - 18 SP - Paper 22, 319 EP - 329 PB - Thomas Würtz Grafik Design CY - Karlsruhe AN - OPUS4-42130 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Torge, Manfred T1 - Determination of lost paint layers by scanning electron microskopy N2 - The identification of external paint layers on medieval stained glass windows in Lincoln Cathedral is not only of interest for art historians but is also important for the development of conservation proposals. For the gradual reduction and removal of corrosion layers conservators have to take care to preserve any remaining paint layers which are hidden underneath these corrosion and weathering crusts. T2 - Aspects of Glass - Stained Glass - Art at the Glass Surface CY - Cambridge, Great Britain DA - 02.09.2017 KW - Medieval glass composition KW - SEM/EDX KW - Glass conservation PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42131 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra T1 - NWIP - Determination of OCP and PCB in soils and sediments N2 - Organochlorine pesticides (OCP) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) are two classes of organic synthetic substances which are globally used. The vast majority of OCP have been released directly in the environment as agricultural insecticides but they have been also used as byproducts for different applications e.g. wood preserver. PCB have been widely used as additives in industrial applications where chemical stability has been required. OCP and PCB are persistent, bioaccumulating and prone to long-range atmosheric transport and deposition. They are ubiquitous in the environment (water, soil, sediment and waste) and their presence is regularly monitored and controlled. At present determination of OCP and PCB is carried out in these matrices in most of the routine laboratories following the preceding steps for sampling, pre-treatment, extraction, clean-up by measurement of specific OCP and PCB by means of gas chromatography in combination with mass spectrometric detection (GC-MS) or gas chromatography with electron capture detector (GC-ECD). Considered the different matrices and possible interfering compounds, this draft International Standard does not contain one single possible way of working. Several choices are possible, in particular relating to clean-up. Detection with both Mass Spectrometry and Electron Capture is possible. Three different extraction procedures and nine clean-up procedures are described. The use of internal and injection standards is described in order to have an internal check on choice of the extraction and clean-up procedure. T2 - ISO Meeting CY - Seoul, South Korea DA - 25.09.2017 KW - Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) KW - Organochlorine Pesticides (OCP) KW - Soil standard PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43020 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra T1 - Comparison of standards for the determination of PAH in soil and waste N2 - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are ubiquitous because of the fact that they are released in appreciable quantities every year into the environment through the combustion of organic matters such as coal, fuel oils, petrol, wood, refuse and plant materials. Since some of these PAH compounds are carcinogenic or mutagenic, their presence in the environment (air, water, soil, sediment and waste) are regularly monitored and controlled. At present determination of PAH are carried out in these matrices in most of the routine laboratories following the preceding steps for sampling, pre-treatment, extraction, clean up by measurement of specific PAH by means of Gas chromatography in combination with mass spectrometric detection(GC-MS) or by HPLC in combination with UV-DAD- or Fluorescence-detection(HPLC-UV-DAD/FLD). At present there two standards for the determination of PAH in soil, sludge and biowaste and in waste valid. The goal is the development of only one standard for solid materials. T2 - CEN Meeting CY - Paris, France DA - 29.05.2017 KW - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) KW - Soil standard PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43022 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Muelow-Stollin, Ulrike A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra A1 - Kluge, Stephanie A1 - Bremser, Wolfram A1 - Piechotta, Christian T1 - Efficiency Evaluation of Extraction Methods for Analysis of OCPs and PCBs in Soils of Varying TOC N2 - Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls are toxic, carcinogenic, and have a high potential for bioaccumulation. Due to their stability, they are still considered an environmental problem even though the use of most of them has been phased out several decades ago. Soil is a matrix which can retain these contaminants to a great extent. This ability is often associated with the total organic carbon content (TOC). In order to judge the pollution status of soil and to make monitoring data more easily comparable a simple, yet robust extraction method is needed. Agitation solid-liquid-extraction is well suited for this purpose. However, the influence of TOC on the analyte recovery has to be known. For the presented study, 12 organochlorine pesticides and 7 polychlorinated biphenyls were spiked into four model soils with organic carbon contents between 1.6% - 13.3%. The matrices were extracted using solid-liquid extraction between 45 minutes and 16 hours. For comparison, all soils were also extracted using pressurised liquid extraction and Soxhlet extraction. After clean-up the extracts were measured using a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) system. Statistical analysis of the results implied that the TOC content of the soils did not have significant influence on the extraction efficiency. A longer solid-liquid extraction time did not necessarily increase analyte recovery: Extraction for one hour resulted in 88% recovery while 16 hour extraction led to 89%. Thus, the efficiency of all the methods was comparable for all model soils. Additional investigations regarding GC liner performance highlighted the need for isotopically labelled standards during the analysis of thermolabile pesticides. KW - POP KW - Soil organic matter KW - Solid-liquid-extraction KW - Pressurised liquid extraction PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-430238 DO - https://doi.org/10.4236/jep.2017.86045 SN - 2152-2219 VL - 08 IS - 06 SP - Article ID:77202, 693 EP - 713 PB - Scientific Research Publishing AN - OPUS4-43023 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Moldenhauer, Laura T1 - Experimental modeling approach for determining the moisture damping exponent of a bluetooth low energy signal in moist building material N2 - We investigated, the damped Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signal, transmitted from the BLE-module embedded in building materials with changing moisture content, Fig. 1. The BLE-module communicates with a mobile Smart Device as tablet via 2.45 GHz-ISM-frequency band where water dipoles start to oscillate, Fig. 2. The damping model demonstrates this damping effect on RSSI by the abstraction of the reality observed in a real system. Through the reproduction of the active relationships, the system behavior is decomposed in such a way that a separate consideration of the required system parameters is possible. T2 - 34th DANUBIA ADRIA SYMPOSIUM on Advances in Experimental Mechanics (DAS 2017) CY - Trieste, Italy DA - 18.09.2017 KW - Structural health monitoring KW - Long-term monitoring KW - Bluetooth Low Energy KW - BLE KW - Moisture KW - Network Communication KW - Experimental study KW - Modellierung PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42966 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - Blurred boundaries between society and individuality: using immunity to understand a major evolutionary transition N2 - A fundamental yet seemingly contradictory aspect of biological individuals is their capacity to remain the same while changing through time. This self-regulatory ability is facilitated by a number of factors that are shared by all complex multicellular life-forms. One such essential trait is an effective immune system. Here, I use concepts of individuality and immunity to explore the blurred line between society and individual in termite “superorganisms”. I discuss our current understanding of the breadth and mechanistic underpinnings of collective immunity in termites, before going on to explore the evolution of the immune system during the transition from a cockroach-like ancestor to a fully-fledged termite society. I end by discussing the possibly crucial role played by immunity during the emergence of eusociality, and in transitions in organismal complexity generally. T2 - BIO-Seminar, University of Copenhagen CY - Copenhagen, Denmark DA - 27.02.2018 KW - Termite KW - Evolution KW - Social KW - Immunity PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44242 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - The evolution of termite immunity N2 - The evolution and mechanistic underpinnings of termite immunity are not well understood. Given the intimate relationship between sociality and disease, this represents a major gap in understanding, particularly since termites represent the only animal group outside of Hymenoptera to have evolved such advanced forms of social living. We explore the evolution of termite immunity by conducting qualitative and quantitative transcriptomic analyses from twelve cockroach and termite species occurring along a gradient of sociality. We incorporate lineages spanning the origin of eusociality, and include species from a key transitional subsocial group: the wood roaches. Firstly, we analyze immune characteristics in the context of termite phylogeny. Here, we examine the evolution of immune traits during the transition to eusociality, and explore the extent to which immune adaptations are associated with evolutionary shifts in social complexity and ecology. Secondly, we conduct a quantitative analysis of responses to a common immune stimulus to examine the role of both sociality and caste in immunity. Here, we test the hypothesis that the evolution of division of labour – and associated increases in investment into costly altruistic (immune) traits – occurred at the expense of individual immunity in the sterile caste. T2 - Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology CY - Groningen, Netherlands DA - 20.08.2017 KW - Evolution KW - Termite KW - Immunity PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44243 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - The evolution of termite immunity N2 - The evolution and mechanistic underpinnings of termite immunity are not well understood. Given the intimate relationship between sociality and disease, this represents a major gap in understanding, particularly since termites represent the only animal group outside of Hymenoptera to have evolved such advanced forms of social living. We explore the evolution of termite immunity by conducting qualitative and quantitative transcriptomic analyses from twelve cockroach and termite species occurring along a gradient of sociality. We incorporate lineages spanning the origin of eusociality, and include species from a key transitional subsocial group: the wood roaches. Firstly, we analyze immune characteristics in the context of termite phylogeny. Here, we examine the evolution of immune traits during the transition to eusociality, and explore the extent to which immune adaptations are associated with evolutionary shifts in social complexity and ecology. Secondly, we conduct a quantitative analysis of responses to a common immune stimulus to examine the role of both sociality and caste in immunity. Here, we test the hypothesis that the evolution of division of labour – and associated increases in investment into costly altruistic (immune) traits – occurred at the expense of individual immunity in the sterile caste. T2 - Ecological Immunology Workshop 2017 CY - Blossin, Brandenburg, Germany DA - 28.08.2017 KW - Evolution KW - Termite KW - Immunity PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44244 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - He, Shulin T1 - Defend and disinfect: a flexible role for soldiers in termite society N2 - The first sterile caste to evolve in termites was the soldier. While the importance of soldiers to termite society defense has long been recognized, the contribution of soldiers to other societal functions, such as colony immunity, is less well understood. We explore this issue by examining the role of soldiers in protecting nestmates against pathogen infection. Even though they are unable to engage in grooming behavior, we find that the presence of soldiers of the Darwin termite, Mastotermes darwiniensis, significantly improves the survival of nestmates following entomopathogenic infection. We also show that the copious exocrine oral secretions produced by Darwin termite soldiers contain a high concentration of proteins involved in digestion, chemical biosynthesis, and immunity. The oral secretions produced by soldiers are sufficient to protect nestmates against infection, and they have potent inhibitory activity against a broad spectrum of microbes. Our findings support the view that soldiers may play an important role in colony immunity, and broaden our understanding of the possible function of soldiers during the origin of soldier-first societies. T2 - Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology CY - Groningen, Netherlands DA - 20.08.2018 KW - Termite KW - Immunity KW - Social PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44248 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - He, Shulin A1 - Lokatis, S. A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - Defend and disinfect: a flexible role for soldiers in termite society N2 - The first sterile caste to evolve in termites was the soldier. While the importance of soldiers to termite society defense has long been recognized, the contribution of soldiers to other societal functions, such as colony immunity, is less well understood. We explore this issue by examining the role of soldiers in protecting nestmates against pathogen infection. Even though they are unable to engage in grooming behavior, we find that the presence of soldiers of the Darwin termite, Mastotermes darwiniensis, significantly improves the survival of nestmates following entomopathogenic infection. We also show that the copious exocrine oral secretions produced by Darwin termite soldiers contain a high concentration of proteins involved in digestion, chemical biosynthesis, and immunity. The oral secretions produced by soldiers are sufficient to protect nestmates against infection, and they have potent inhibitory activity against a broad spectrum of microbes. Our findings support the view that soldiers may play an important role in colony immunity, and broaden our understanding of the possible function of soldiers during the origin of soldier-first societies. T2 - 22nd Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology of the German Zoological Society CY - Plön, Germany DA - 12.09.2017 KW - Termite KW - Social KW - Immunity PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44249 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - He, Shulin T1 - Differentiation of immune response with castes in termites N2 - Effective immunity is essential for maintaining insect society integrity but the mechanisms that connect immunity at the level of the individual to the level of society are poorly understood. Here, we begin to resolve this issue by addressing the interaction between individual immunity and caste identity in the termite Neotermes castaneus. We characterize the transcriptomic responses of different castes to a general immune challenge by sequencing mRNAs from false workers, soldiers and reproductive following injection with a cocktail of heat-killed pathogens. We found many more genes to be differentially regulated in reproductives (1420 and 398 genes down- and upregulated respectively) than soldiers (90 and 108 genes) or false workers (135 and 71 genes). We go on to conduct a quantitative analysis of the specific changes to immune regulation across the castes following pathogen exposure, before discussing the implications of these findings for our understanding of the evolution of immunity in eusocial termites. T2 - Ecological Immunology Workshop 2017 CY - Blossin, Brandenburg, Germany DA - 28.08.2017 KW - Termite KW - Immunity KW - Caste PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44251 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - He, Shulin T1 - Differentiation of immune response with castes in termites by de novo transcriptome sequencing N2 - Eusociality is one major evolutionary transitions, during which the division of labor is considered as the hallmark feature. This character of evolution, also interpreted as task specialization, is associated with multiple morphological, physiological and behavioral adaptations required for brood care, foraging, and defense. With these adaptations which ultimately cause the formation of castes in insect sociality (mostly in termites, ants, some bees and wasps), while whether immune system is related to eusociality in termites is rare understood. We hypothesis that immune system in termite sociality had also differentiation along with the formation of castes. We address this issue by exploring the immune responses of different castes with de novo transcriptome sequencing. After injection with cocktail of heat-killed pathogens (Pseudomonas entomophila, Bacillus thuringiensis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae), the mRNAs from false workers, soldiers and reproductive of Neotermes canstaneus were sequenced. We found much more genes are regulated (1420 genes downregulated and 398 genes upregulated) in reproductives compared to soldiers (90 genes downregulated and 108 genes upregulated) and false workers (135 genes downregulated and 71 genes upregulated). In these upregulated genes, reproductives had 54 same genes as soldiers, while only 7 same genes as workers which almost is same number between soldiers and workers. In the downregulated genes, reproductives shared 50 and 41 same genes as soldiers and workers, respectively. Besides, soldiers and workers had 29 same downregulated genes. From these findings, it is indicated that the immune system differentiates with division of labor during eusociality in termites. T2 - V. Central European Meeting of IUSSI 2017 CY - Kloster Schöntal, Deutschland DA - 09.10.2017 KW - Immunity KW - Social KW - Termite KW - Transcriptome PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44252 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - He, Shulin T1 - The evolution of immunity during the transition to eusociality N2 - The evolution and mechanistic underpinnings of termite immunity are not well understood. Given the intimate relationship between sociality and disease, this represents a major gap in understanding, particularly since termites represent the only animal group outside of Hymenoptera to have evolved such advanced forms of social living. We explore the evolution of termite immunity by conducting qualitative and quantitative transcriptomic analyses from twelve cockroach and termite species occurring along a gradient of sociality. We incorporate lineages spanning the origin of eusociality, and include species from a key transitional subsocial group: the wood roaches. Firstly, we analyze immune characteristics in the context of termite phylogeny. Here, we examine the evolution of immune traits during the transition to eusociality, and explore the extent to which immune adaptations are associated with evolutionary shifts in social complexity and ecology. Secondly, we conduct a quantitative analysis of responses to a common immune stimulus to examine the role of both sociality and caste in immunity. Here, we test the hypothesis that the evolution of division of labour – and associated increases in investment into costly altruistic (immune) traits – occurred at the expense of individual immunity in the sterile caste. T2 - CONFLICT AND COOPERATION – BRIDGING EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY" PHD STUDENT MEETING CY - Bautzen, Germany DA - 16.03.2018 KW - Evolution KW - Termite KW - Immunity PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-44253 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Dümichen, Erik T1 - Fast identification of microplastics using thermal extractions methods N2 - A new and full automated system for the analysis of microplastics in environmental samples is presented. T2 - BAM-BfR Seminar 2018 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 15.02.2018 KW - Mikroplastik KW - TED KW - Thermal degradation PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44179 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bandow, Nicole T1 - Consideration of organic contaminants and ecotoxicologal impact of recycling materials - Handling of substances without treshold values N2 - The presentation gives an overview about the use of ecotoxicity testing in assessment of waste. Especially in cases with unknown composition this kind of test are useful. Recently, the assessment of the hazard property HP 14 "ecotoxicity" for the labelling of waste was published. The labelling procedure is explained in detail. T2 - Travelling Conference CY - Perth, Australia DA - 06.02.2018 KW - Ecotoxicity KW - HP14 KW - Recycling materials PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44456 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bandow, Nicole T1 - Consideration of organic contaminants and ecotoxicologal impact of recycling materials - Handling of substances without treshold values N2 - The presentation gives an overview about the use of ecotoxicity testing in assessment of waste. Especially in cases with unknown composition this kind of test are useful. Recently, the assessment of the hazard property HP 14 "ecotoxicity" for the labelling of waste was published. The labelling procedure is explained in detail. T2 - Travelling Conference CY - Seoul, Korea DA - 29.01.2018 KW - Ecotoxicity KW - Recycling materials KW - HP14 PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44454 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bandow, Nicole T1 - Consideration of organic contaminants and ecotoxicologal impact of recycling materials - Handling of substances without treshold values N2 - The presentation gives an overview about the use of ecotoxicity testing in assessment of waste. Especially in cases with unknown composition this kind of test are useful. Recently, the assessment of the hazard property HP 14 "ecotoxicity" for the labelling of waste was published. The labelling procedure is explained in detail. T2 - Travelling Conference CY - Ho-Chi-Ming City, Vietnam DA - 01.02.2018 KW - Ecotoxicity KW - HP14 KW - Recycling materials PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44455 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Braun, Ulrike T1 - Fast identification of microplastics using thermal extraction methods N2 - The presentation presents an overview about existing methods of microplastic detection with a special focus on thermo-analytical methods. T2 - Perkin Elmer Workshop Microplastics CY - Vienna, Austria DA - 11.01.2018 KW - Microplastics KW - TED-GC-MS KW - Analysis PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-43803 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. T1 - Mobile robot olfaction with flying platforms N2 - This presentation gives an introduction to the gas-sensitive aerial robots developed at BAM, including various application examples in the field of mobile robot olfaction: gas source localization and gas distribution mapping T2 - Networked Environmental Monitoring – from sensor principles to novel services CY - BAM, Berlin, Germany DA - 06.02.2018 KW - Localization of gas sources KW - Mobile Robot Olfaction KW - Tomographic reconstruction of gas plumes KW - Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS) KW - UAV-REGAS PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44086 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Schütze, A. T1 - Sensor network deployment N2 - Content • Fixed monitoring stations • Mobile monitoring stations (on trams, buses, cars) • Personal mobile monitoring systems • Environmental monitoring for agriculture and beyond • Sensors on flying platforms T2 - Networked Environmental Monitoring – from sensor principles to novel services CY - BAM, Berlin, Germany DA - 06.02.2018 KW - Environmental monitoring KW - Gas sensors PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44073 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Tracks with under-ballast plates and their mitigation of train induced ground vibration N2 - Experiments have been performed at a test site with six different tracks with under-ballast plates. Hammer excitations of the soil and the tracks as well as train passages have been measured. The experimental observations are as follows. 1. The natural soil is stiff gravel whereas the railway dam consists of softer material. 2. The track compliance indicates a soft ballast if no train is present to provide a confining pressure. 3. The track response to the train passages can be split into a low-frequency region which is ruled by the static loads and a high-frequency region which is ruled by dynamic loads. 4. The track responses to hammer and track excitation indicate the presence of many voids between the sleepers and the ballast. 5. The ground vibrations are highly influenced by the soil. Due to the stiff soil at the site, the hammer and train induced spectra have a considerable high-frequency content. 6. A reduction of the ground vibration has been observed in a low-frequency range. The mitigation effects of an under-ballast plate are also investigated by calculations of a wavenumber domain model. The under-ballast plate has an effect at low frequencies where it distributes the static load over a longer track section. The impulse of the axle passage is longer and the frequencies are lower due to the plate stiffness. The axle impulses could yield a low-frequency ground vibration in an irregular soil with a randomly varying stiffness. This low-frequency part of the ground vibration (the scattered axle impulses) seem to be reduced by the under-ballast plate. T2 - 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration CY - London, UK DA - 23.7.2017 KW - Railway vibration KW - Ballast tracks KW - Under-ballast plate KW - Ground vibration PY - 2017 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - IIAV CY - Auburn, USA AN - OPUS4-42091 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schlegel, Moritz-Caspar T1 - Following the evidence - How quality of appliance components can hint at non-compliance with efficiency requirements N2 - Vortrag zu Steigerung der Effizienz der Marktüberwachungsaktivitäten. T2 - EEDAL'17 CY - Los Angeles, CA, USA DA - 13.09.2017 KW - Market surveillance KW - Product test KW - Methodology PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42231 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Paul, Niels A1 - Hüllmann, Dino A1 - Kohlhoff, Harald A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. ED - Cosmi, F. T1 - A concept for an aerial-based landfill monitoring system N2 - Aerial based robots constitute a safe and suitable approach to remote gas-sensing. This paper describes a new concept , incorporating existing UAVs and newly developed gas sensors. The presented autonomous system is able to perform gas source localization and gas distribution mapping. T2 - 34th Danubia-Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Trieste, Italy DA - 19.09.2017 KW - Gassensor KW - Multicopter KW - UAV KW - Olfaction PY - 2017 SN - 978-88-8303-863-1 SP - 179 EP - 181 PB - University of Trieste, Italy CY - Trieste, Italy AN - OPUS4-42122 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Geburtig, Anja A1 - Wachtendorf, Volker A1 - Trubiroha, P. T1 - Evaluation of outdoor exposures by means of exposure response functions N2 - Outdoor exposure tests are a common tool to evaluate the weathering resistance of a polymeric material or component. However, they have only a limited validity, mainly due to the limited reproducibility of the weather as well as of the bad adaptability to other exposure sites. Typically, an outdoor exposure is characterized by the measured radiant exposure; sometimes averaged temperature data are added. These can be – separately – related to long-term annual means, to get an idea on the severity of the exposure. However, as for polymeric ageing, irradiance and temperature act simultaneously, such severity of an outdoor exposure could be better described by a computed property change of a similar material, which is calculated from the hourly irradiance and temperature values on the base of established exposure response functions. In this way, various outdoor exposures are evaluated. For several exposure sites, annual deviations of the ageing amount are related to annual mean values, to evaluate the weathering reproducibility at the exposure site. Additionally, correlations to relevant weather parameters are illuminated. Also some specific exposure conditions, such as tilt angle, are tested. Compared to the use of weathering reference materials, this procedure unfavourably depends on the availability of a suited control as well as on the quality of the established exposure response function. In contrast, it enables a later exposure evaluation, on the base of documented weather data, if for instance no reference material was exposed. T2 - 8th European Weathering Symposium CY - Vienna, Austria DA - 20.09.2017 KW - Weathering KW - Service life prediction KW - Photodegradation PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-9818507-1-0 VL - 18 SP - 127 EP - 135 PB - Thomas Würtz Grafik Design CY - Karlsruhe AN - OPUS4-42126 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Trubiroha, P. A1 - Geburtig, Anja A1 - Wachtendorf, Volker T1 - Natural versus artificial weathering of polymers – main differences in climatic conditions N2 - Different climatic conditions and weather variables during natural and artificial exposure of polymers may be reasons for an unsatisfying correlation between the ageing results. Here the main differences are discussed for: - Global solar radiation In weathering devices there is a constant spectral irradiance which is 5 times higher than the averaged spectral irradiance outdoors, which is strongly varying in its diurnal course. Intensified weathering using Fresnel reflectors concentrates only the direct solar radiation with a relatively low UV proportion. Problems of reciprocity may arise from the different mean of irradiance levels. - Temperatures at specimen surfaces. Because of the high irradiance levels mentioned above, artificial exposures may lead to high surface temperatures and large temperature differences between differently coloured specimen surfaces, if the artificial radiation source emits much VIS- and IR-radiation. Outdoors the surface temperature and temperature differences of exposed specimens are influenced by considerably lower irradiance levels and additionally by an effective radiation loss in the night. - Relative humidity at specimen surfaces In weathering devices the relative humidity at specimen surfaces is very low if it is uncontrolled. If controlled by ultrasonic humidifiers or spray nozzles, the additional exposure to water droplets is quite likely. - Wetness on specimen surfaces All usual spray programs prescribed in weathering standards recommend frequently changing of short spray/dry periods and result in total times of wetness (TOW) of the exposed specimen surfaces which is only about 30 % of the outdoor TOW. - Acidic precipitation and bio films Acidic precipitation and bio films are usual outdoor conditions which are only considered in special weathering tests. T2 - 8th European Weathering Symposium CY - Vienna, Austria DA - 20.09.2017 KW - Artificial weathering KW - Natural weathering KW - Weathering parameters PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-9818507-1-0 VL - 18 SP - 63 EP - 75 CY - Karlsruhe AN - OPUS4-42127 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf T1 - Die Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung N2 - Overview of BAM T2 - JBMIA Meeting CY - Tokio, Japan DA - 17.11.2017 KW - Focus area KW - Safety KW - Technology KW - Chemistry PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43215 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf T1 - Determination of emissions from materials and products into indoor air N2 - The lecture gives information about analytical methods for the determination of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and especially the equipment at BAM division 4.2. Examples are given for chamber test measurements and thermal extraction of materials. A special focus is put on chemical and particle emissions during 3-D-printing with thermoplastic filaments. T2 - JBMIA Meeting CY - Tokio, Japan DA - 17.11.2017 KW - Emissions KW - VOC KW - Test chamber KW - 3-D-printing PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43217 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf T1 - Blue angel current and future criteria N2 - The lecture shows the history of the German Environmental Label RAL-UZ 205 for printers from 2003 until now. Information about the AgBB-scheme for the health-related evaluation of building products is given and ideas for the future improvement of the label are presented. T2 - JBMIA seminar CY - Tokio, Japan DA - 17.11.2017 KW - Blue Angel KW - Environmental label KW - Printer emission KW - AgBB PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43218 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg A1 - Holm, Olaf T1 - Resources from recycling and urban mining, limits and prospects N2 - In Germany, the direct material input (DMI) was 1727 million tons in the year 2014. This figure would be even higher by more than 14 % if no secondary materials were already used in industrial production. For example, production of secondary Cu is advantageous due to lower energy consumption and conservation of scarce natural resources. The presentation will discuss pathways to increase the use of secondary raw materials to foster a circular economy with a focus on waste treatment processes. T2 - The 13th International Conference on Ecomaterials CY - Bangkok, Thailand DA - 10.11.2017 KW - Waste treatment KW - Secondary raw materials KW - Direct material input PY - 2017 SP - 9 EP - 9 PB - King Mongkut's University of Technnology Thonburi CY - Bangkok, Thailand AN - OPUS4-43186 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Measurements on the vehicle-track interaction and the excitation of railway-induced ground vibration N2 - Two railway measurement campaigns have been performed in Germany and Switzerland which yield insight in the vehicle-track-soil interaction. The campaign in Germany has included simultaneous measurement of vehicle, track, and soil vibrations during train runs with 16, 25, 40, 63, 80, 100, 125, 140, 160 km/h, and impulse measurements of the passenger car, three track sections and the soil. Two ballast tracks, one on the soil surface and one on a concrete bridge, have been investigated as well as a slab track in a tunnel. Ten different sites in Switzerland have been measured for soil properties and train-induced ground vibrations, which allow to determine the excitation forces of the railway traffic. New axle-box measurements at some of the Swiss sites have been analysed to get further experimental evidence. All these measurements have been evaluated to characterize the excitation processes. Relations between vehicle vibration and ground vibration can be observed. The vehicle vibrations, namely the accelerations of the wheelsets, yield the dynamic forces due to the passage over the irregularities of the vehicle and the track. The ground vibrations are correlated to these dynamic forces to a certain extent. Some mid-frequency ground vibration amplitudes, however, are higher than expected from the dynamic excitation forces. The experimental observations can be explained by an irregular response to the passage of the static loads, that means the passage of the static loads over an irregular ballast or soil. This correct understanding of the excitation processes is important for the prediction as well as for the mitigation of railway induced ground vibrations. T2 - EURODYN 2017 CY - Rome, Italy DA - 10.09.2017 KW - Vehicle-track interaction KW - Ground vibration KW - Track vibration KW - Railway measurement campaign KW - Axle box measurements PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42487 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Mitigation of railway induced vibration at the track, in the transmission path through the soil and at the building N2 - This contribution presents some principles and some examples of the mitigation of railway-induced ground vibrations. The principles are different for the mitigation measures at the track, in the soil or at the building. Force transfer functions of isolated and un-isolated track-soil systems, reflected and transmitted wave amplitudes at walls and trenches in the soil, and the transfer of the (free-field) vibration amplitudes to the foundation amplitudes of the building are analysed. The mitigation effect can be calculated by exact or simplified formulas. Some examples with 3D (finite-element boundary-element), 2D (beam-on-support), and 1D track models, 2D and 1D soil models, detailed 3D building models and finite or infinite 1D wall-floor models are investigated to find out if simple models can be used for a satisfactory prediction of the mitigation effect. The 1D track examples show that the force transfer of the track without vehicle can be exactly calculated, whereas the total force transfer can be calculated approximately if appropriate wheelset masses per track length are used for the isolated and the un-isolated track. The mitigation effect of a filled trench is calculated by a 2D finite element model and the results compare with simple transmission formula if the stiffness per area rather than the wave impedances are used for the infill material. The base isolation of a building is analysed by a detailed 3D model and the results are similar to the analytic results of a single wall with floors on the soil. Other reduction measures as different floor and column dimensions are usually less effective so that the clearly best mitigation solution at a building is a partly or a complete base isolation. T2 - EURODYN 2017 CY - Rome, Italy DA - 10.09.2017 KW - Mitigation KW - Soil-building interaction KW - Base isolation KW - Ground vibration PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42488 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Tracks with under-ballast plates and their mitigation of train induced ground vibration N2 - Experiments have been performed at a test site with six different tracks with under-ballast plates. Hammer excitations of the soil and the tracks as well as train passages have been measured. The experimental observations are as follows. 1. The natural soil is stiff gravel whereas the railway dam consists of softer material. 2. The track compliance indicates a soft ballast if no train is present to provide a confining pressure. 3. The track response to the train passages can be split into a low-frequency region which is ruled by the static loads and a high-frequency region which is ruled by dynamic loads. 4. The track responses to hammer and track excitation indicate the presence of many voids between the sleepers and the ballast. 5. The ground vibrations are highly influenced by the soil. Due to the stiff soil at the site, the hammer and train induced spectra have a considerable high-frequency content. 6. A reduction of the ground vibration has been observed in a low-frequency range. The mitigation effects of an under-ballast plate are also investigated by calculations of a wavenumber domain model. The under-ballast plate has an effect at low frequencies where it distributes the static load over a longer track section. The impulse of the axle passage is longer and the frequencies are lower due to the plate stiffness. The axle impulses could yield a low-frequency ground vibration in an irregular soil with a randomly varying stiffness. This low-frequency part of the ground vibration (the scattered axle impulses) seem to be reduced by the under-ballast plate. T2 - Int. Conf. Sound&Vibration CY - London, UK DA - 23.7.2017 KW - Railway vibration KW - Ballast tracks KW - Under-ballast plate KW - Ground vibration PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42489 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Iznaguen, Hassan T1 - Behaviour and resistance of selected model plastics to accelerated weathering under different environmental conditions N2 - MaUS is an acronym for ”Material und Umweltsimulationen“. Plastics are in the focus of environmental politics due to their long term behaviour and therefore to their persistence. Not only that they appear as visible contaminants in the sea and on the beach, but their unknown behaviour concerning their additives as well as the related transformation products are anxious. Therefore, a certified reference procedure must be established to provide a method for testing plastics. The aim of this project is the development of fast motion standard reference methods for testing plastics regarding to their environmental compatibility. To establish these testing methods polystyrene (PS) and polypropylene (PP) with environmental relevant brominated flame retardants were used, known for their persistent bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) properties. In case of PS the material contains 1 wt.% of 1,2,5,6,9,10-hexabromo-cyclododecan (HBCD) and in case of PP 0.1 wt.% of a defined bromodiphenylether (BDE-209) were chosen. These additives are known as substances of very high concern (SVHC). Furthermore, polycarbonate (PC), which is still used as material in baby flasks and releases Bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogenic active substance is used as a model material. Finally PTFE is used regarding to its importance as a source for two ubiquitous environmental substances PFOS and PFOA, whose toxicological effects are still incompletely known. The focus in this current work is set on the transfer of potential pollutants out of the applied materials mentioned above into environmental compartments like water or soil. Here an accelerated aging concept should be developed to shortened time consuming natural processes. For these resulting simulations a programmable weathering chamber with dry and wet periods and with high and low temperatures is used. These programmes run for several weeks and according to a defined sampling schedule water samples were taken. After a distinct clean-up procedure the samples were analysed by HPLC-UV, LC-MS/MS or GC-MS. Of most interest in case of flame retardants are photocatalytic transformation products. Therefore, a non-target-screening resp. a suspected target-screening by LC-MS/MS and HRMS must be applied. T2 - 8th European Weathering Symposium EWS CY - Wien, Austria DA - 20.09.2017 KW - Passive sampling KW - Environmental simulation KW - BFR PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43314 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dümichen, Erik A1 - Eisentraut, Paul A1 - Bannick, Claus Gerhard A1 - Barthel, Anne-Kathrin A1 - Braun, Ulrike A1 - Senz, R. T1 - Fast identification of microplastics in complex environmental samples by a thermal degradation method N2 - n order to determine the relevance of microplastic particles in various environmental media, comprehensive investigations are needed. However, no analytical method exists for fast identification and quantification. At present, optical spectroscopy methods like IR and RAMAN imaging are used. Due to their time consuming procedures and uncertain extrapolation, reliable monitoring is difficult. For analyzing polymers Py-GC-MS is a standard method. However, due to a limited sample amount of about 0.5 mg it is not suited for analysis of complex sample mixtures like environmental samples. Therefore, we developed a new thermoanalytical method as a first step for identifying microplastics in environmental samples. A sample amount of about 20 mg, which assures the homogeneity of the sample, is subjected to complete thermal decomposition. The specific degradation products of the respective polymer are adsorbed on a solid-phase adsorber and subsequently analyzed by thermal desorption gas chromatography mass spectrometry. For certain identification, the specific degradation products for the respective polymer were selected first. Afterwards real environmental samples from the aquatic (three different rivers) and the terrestrial (bio gas plant) systems were screened for microplastics. Mainly polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE) and polystyrene (PS) were identified for the samples from the bio gas plant and PE and PS from the rivers. However, this was only the first step and quantification measurements will follow. KW - Thermal Degradation KW - Microplastic PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.010 VL - 174 SP - 572 EP - 584 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-42143 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Mull, B. A1 - Richter, Matthias A1 - Brödner, Doris A1 - Mölders, N. A1 - Renner, M. T1 - Reproducibly emitting reference material for quality assurance/quality control of emission test chamber measurements N2 - Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) are ubiquitous in the indoor air, since they emit from materials used indoors. Investigations of these materials are mostly carried out in test chambers under controlled climatic conditions. Quality control of these test chamber measurements is important but there is a lack of commercially available homogenous reference materials as required for round robin tests or quality assurance of laboratories. The approach of the present study is the impregnation of a supporting material with VOC, which are reproducibly released in measurable chamber air concentrations under standardised test conditions. A polymer made of Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) was chosen as carrier material. It was impregnated with the VOC trimethyl pentanediol isobutyrat (texanol). T2 - Healthy Buildings 2017 Europe CY - Lublin, Poland DA - 02.07.2017 KW - Emissions testing KW - Volatile organic compounds KW - Polymeric material KW - CO2 assisted impregnation PY - 2017 SN - 978-83-7947-232-1 SP - Paper 0172, 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-42348 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Raysyan, Anna T1 - Fluorescence polarization immunoassay for determination of diclofenac in wastewater N2 - Pharmacologically active compounds are often detected in wastewater and surface waters. The nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac was included in the watch list of substances in the EU that requires their environmental monitoring in the member states. DCF may harmfully influence the ecosystem and the natural organization already at concentrations of ≤1 μg/l. The fast and easy quantification of DCF is becoming a subject of global importance. Fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) is a homogeneous mix-and-read method, which does not require the immobilization of reagents, they can be performed in one phase, making it possible to analyze wastewater without any complicated pre-treatment, performed within 20–30 min. T2 - Potsdam days on Bioanalysis 2017 CY - Potsdam, Germany DA - 23.11.2017 KW - Diclofenac KW - DCF KW - FPIA KW - Wastewater PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43127 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Raysyan, Anna T1 - Development of a quick test to screen for bisphenol A release from polymer materials N2 - Bisphenol A (BPA) is a common industrial chemical that is widely used as a monomer or additive in the production of polymer materials. This substance causes impairment of the childbearing function, acceleration of sexual aging, negatively impacts the brain, and also contributes to the development of certain oncological diseases, as well as increasing the risk of a fetus developing the Down syndrome. But the biggest downside of bisphenol is the fact that it accumulates in the system during its use, as well as after. Many methods have been proposed for the determination of BPA, in particular, gas and liquid chromatography. The main disadvantages of such approaches are the high cost of the equipment, the significant duration of an analysis, and difficulties in screening a large number of samples. Immunoanalytical techniques attributes are high throughput, high specificity and sensitivity, as well as low cost and simplicity. Particularly interesting as a quick test for screenings is the lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA), a format widely in use for the detection of pregnancy. LFIA for BPA have been described before, but lack sensitivity. In this work, focuses on the conjugation (by passive adsorption) efficiency of the different monoclonal antibodies with 40 nm gold nanoparticles. The effect of factors such as pH value and concentration of antibody has been quantificationally discussed using spectra methods after adding 10% NaCl which induced gold nanoparticle aggregation. Consequently, 40 nm gold nanoparticles should be labeled with antibody under optimal pH value and optimal concentrations of antibody. It will be helpful for the application of antibody-labeled gold nanoparticles for the determination of bisphenol A in aqueous solutions (water from different sources, leachates and extracts). T2 - Adlershofer Forschungsforum 2017 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 10.11.2017 KW - Bisphenol A KW - BPA KW - LFIA KW - ELISA KW - GNP KW - Passive absorption PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43125 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Chao, Madlen T1 - Influence of moisture and grain sizes on the analysis of nutrients in agricultural soils using LIBS N2 - Over the last few years, there has been a growing interest to apply spectroscopic methods to the agricultural field for better understanding of soil properties and for efficient, sustainable management of arable land. Within the project I4S (intelligence for soil), funded by the BMBF, an integrated system for site-specific soil fertility management is developed, consisting of different sensors like X-Ray fluorescence analysis (XRF), near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). LIBS provides a fast and simultaneous multi-element analysis with little to no sample preparation, which makes it a suitable method for real-time analysis on the field. The quantification of macro and micro nutrients in soils with LIBS is challenging due to matrix effects, different levels of moisture content and varying grain sizes. First studies revealed that the problems with matrix effects can be overcome by using well characterised soils as reference materials and chemometric tools like Partial Least Squares Regression(PLSR) for calibration. The next step was to investigate the influence of moisture and grain sizes on the LIBS signal, which is a big issue when measuring directly on the field. The results showed that the LIBS signal decreases exponentially with increasing moisture content, as most of the laser energy is used for vaporising the water. With moisture contents of 30 % or higher almost no signal can be detected. This decrease is more severe for sandy soils than for clay soils. First tests of different grain size distributions indicate that the variation of the LIBS signal increases with growing amounts of larger grains. This results in a higher standard deviation, because of a poorer reproducibility of the plasma formation and plasma characteristic. With the help of chemometric tools the influence of moisture and grain sizes should be implemented in the calibration model for accurate analysis of nutrient composition in agricultural soils. T2 - 14. Kolloqium Ak Prozessanalytik CY - Hannover, Germany DA - 03.12.2018 KW - Soil KW - LIBS KW - Moisture KW - PLSR KW - Grain size PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47056 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hüllmann, Dino A1 - Paul, Niels A1 - Kohlhoff, Harald A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. A1 - Lilienthal, A. J. ED - Eberhardsteiner, J. ED - Růžička, M. ED - Cosmi, F. T1 - Measuring rotor speed for wind vector estimation on multirotor aircraft N2 - For several applications involving multirotor aircraft, it is crucial to know both the direction and speed of the ambient wind. In this paper, an approach to wind vector estimation based on an equilibrium of the principal forces acting on the aircraft is shown. As the thrust force generated by the rotors depends on their rotational speed, a sensor to measure this quantity is required. Two concepts for such a sensor are presented: One is based on tapping the signal carrying the speed setpoint for the motor controllers, the other one uses phototransistors placed underneath the rotor blades. While some complications were encountered with the first approach, the second yields accurate measurement data. This is shown by an experiment comparing the proposed speed sensor to a commercial non-contact tachometer. T2 - 34th Danubia Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Trieste, Italy DA - 19.09.2017 KW - Wind vector estimation KW - Rotor speed KW - UAV KW - Tachometer PY - 2018 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785318321114 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2018.08.139 SN - 2214-7853 VL - 5 IS - 13 SP - 26703 EP - 26708 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands AN - OPUS4-47097 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Piechotta, Christian T1 - Transformation of the antidiabetic drug metformin N2 - For years there have been more and more reports on the presence of drugs in the aquatic environment. Due to the demographic change, the consumption of pharmaceuticals has risen sharply. After taking the drugs, they are partly metabolized in the human body. However, the metabolism is not complete so that both the metabolites and non-metabolized amounts of the parent compounds are excreted. These compounds reach the waste water and afterwards the sewage treatment plants. In sewage treatment plants transformation products can be formed by the oxidative conditions during wastewater treatment processes. The transformation products may have a higher toxicity than the actual environmental pollutants and are often only partly removed during the waste water treatment. Since a lot of these compounds are still unknown, the transformation products are not detected by target analysis used in sewage treatment plants and are often released undetected in the aquatic ecosystems. The released substances may be subject to additional transformation processes in the environment. Pharmaceuticals produced in high amounts can be already detected in the μg/L range in water bodies worldwide. Metformin and its major transformation product guanylurea are one of the main representatives. Metformin is the drug of choice for treating type 2 diabetes. The drug therapy for diabetes mellitus has increased significantly in recent years. In the year 2015 1500 tons of metformin were prescribed in Germany (for statutory insured persons). Metformin is not metabolized in the human body and is excreted unchanged therefore concentrations between 57 μg/L and 129 μg/L are found in German waste water treatment plants influents. In this work the transformation of the antidiabetic drug metformin is investigated. The degradation of metformin is initialize by commercial water treatment techniques like UV-radiation or noncommercial techniques like heterogenous photocatalysis based on titanium dioxide. The degradation of metformin and resulting transformation products are analyzed by LC-MS/MS and LC-HRMS. T2 - SPEA 10 CY - Almeria, Spain DA - 04.06.2018 KW - Metformin KW - Photocatalysis PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47030 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lardy-Fontan, S. T1 - SRT-n11: Metrology for monitoring endocrine disrupting compounds under the Water Framework Directive N2 - The Water Framework Directive (WFD) establishes a strategy for the protection and improvement of the aquatic environment and water quality in Europe. Among chemical pollutants of particular concern are endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) due to their environmental and public health effects. In 2013, a class of EDCs - natural and synthetic estrogens - were introduced in the first WFD watch list of priority substances together with their possible methods of analysis and performance requirements. However, reliable harmonised methods that meet these requirements are still missing and urgently needed. The project plan to develop traceable measurement methods for the determination of the targeted EDCs and to ensure their transfer to normative bodies. T2 - EMPIR Partnering Meeting CY - Prague, Czech Republic DA - 25.06.2018 KW - EDC KW - WFD PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47031 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Geburtig, Anja T1 - Testing of HDPE containers for dangerous goods after outdoor exposure N2 - Focus areas of BAM as well as testing results of HDPE containers for dangerous goods after outdoor exposure of were presented. T2 - 70th CEEES Meeting CY - Hørsholm, Danmark DA - 13.11.2018 KW - HDPE KW - Dangerous goods KW - Chemical resistance PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47032 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Büchele, Dominique T1 - Development of a robust calibration model for determination of nutriens in soils using EDXRF N2 - As part of the BonaRes research initiative, funded by the BMBF, strategies are being developed to use soil as a sustainable resource in the bio economy. The interdisciplinary subproject I4S - “Intelligence for soil” - is responsible for the development of an integrated system for site-specific management of soil fertility. For this purpose, a platform is constructed and various sensors are installed. Real-time data will be summarised in models and decision-making algorithms will be used to control fertilisation and accordingly improve soil functions. Aim of the BAM in the frame of I4S is the characterisation of an energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) based sensor for robust determination of plant essential nutrients in soil. First a principal component analysis (PCA) was used to identify outliers and to observe the largest variance within the German soil samples. It could be monitored that splitting of the samples was due to their iron content. Given that clay samples contain high amounts of iron and sandy samples low amounts, a classification of the samples by their soil texture according to VD LUFA was possible. Considering the complex composition of soil, a matrix-specific calibration was carried out by univariate and multivariate data analysis. The figures of merit demonstrated that a more robust calibration model with negligible matrix effects can be obtained by a multivariate approach using partial least squares regression (PLSR). A better correlation between predicted values compared to reference values for German soil samples was observed for the chemometric calibration model than for the univariate one. Different factors can affect the received calibration models such as moisture and particle size distribution which is especially important due to later online analysis. In first studies the influence of moisture on the detection of plant essential nutrients was investigated. With increasing water content, the characteristic fluorescence peaks decrease and start to increase again at a water content of 15 %. With lower moisture content the soil agglomerates which leads to lower packing of the sample, resulting in a rougher surface which negatively influence the signals. Whereas, agglomerates are not formed at higher water content. This allows the sample to be packed more tightly thus a smoother surface and a better homogeneity is obtained. Furthermore, particle size distribution leads to significantly higher uncertainties and lower signals when comparing grounded (< 500 μm) and not grounded (< 2 mm) samples. This can be explained by amplifying of the already known inhomogeneity of soils. Both factors must be included in the chemometric PLSR to obtain robust calibration models for each macro and micro nutrient. T2 - 14. Herbstkolloquium Prozessanalytik CY - Hannover, Germany DA - 03.12.2018 KW - Soil KW - Grain size KW - Moisture KW - EDXRF KW - PLSR PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47057 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Herzel, Hannes T1 - Project ASHES – nutrient recycling from the thermo-chemical processing of waste bagasse and straw N2 - Recycling of nutrients from residues of thermo-chemical processing of bagasse/sugar cane straw. The project ASHES is a German-Brazilian collaborative research project and is focused on the recycling of nutrients from residues of thermo-chemical processing of by-products of sugar cane industry (bagasse/straw) in Brazil. The challenge of the project is to increase the energy efficiency of thermal conversion (combustion/gasification) and to enable the recycling of process ashes to close material cycles by gaining adequate and competitive fertilizers as well as (functional) fillers in (bio-)polymer compounds. For this purpose, phosphorus salts are recovered from bagasse, straw, filtercake and vinasse with leaching and precipitation. The AshDec process was used to increase the availability of phosphorus for plant uptake in the ashes. Additives like sewage sludge and chicken manure were also tested. Different fertilizer formulations are granulated/pelletized and tested regarding their storage/handling characteristics. The fertilizing effects are evaluated in plant growth tests and compared with common extraction methods and the new promising diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)-method. The results of the agronomic investigation of various ashes based products should provide targeted and integrated recommendations for the thermal conversion of bagasse/straw to secondary fertilizers in line with the so-called Next Generation fertilizer strategy. ASHES-partners are Fraunhofer UMSICHT (coordinator), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Fraunhofer IGB, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), CUTEC Institute, the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Federal Institute of Goiás (IFG), Laboratório Nacional Agropecuario (LANAGRO) and the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), as well as the companies Tecnaro and Outotec. T2 - European nutrient event CY - Basel, Switzerland DA - 18.10.2017 KW - Phosphorus KW - Recycling KW - Thermochemical KW - Bagasse KW - AshDec PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42653 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rohn, H. A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg A1 - Schmidt, M. A1 - Giegrich, J. A1 - Oberender, C. A1 - Denz, W. A1 - Niebaum, A. ED - Ludwig, C. ED - Matasci, C. T1 - The Guideline Series VDI 4800 Resource Efficiency: An Approach for Increasing Resource Efficiency with Aim of Conservation of Natural Resources in the Industrial Sector N2 - In 2011, the Association of German Engineers (VDI) started working on a set of guidelines towards increased resource efficiency. These guidelines represent a framework that defines resource efficiency and outlines considerations for the producing industry. A special guideline for SMEs is included as well as guidelines on methodologies for evaluating resource use indicators, such as the cumulative raw material demand of products and production systems. Resource efficiency, defined here as the relationship between a specific benefit or use and the natural resources that need to be spent or consumed to attain this benefit or use. It can be evaluated by defining a function which expresses the specific benefit and quantifies the resource requirements through a set of indicators (use of raw materials, energy, water, land and ecosystem services including sinks). The results from this also depend on the system boundary parameters and the allocation rules for by-products and waste treatment options. Optimising resource use is possible at all stages of a product’s or production system’s life cycle chain (raw material extraction, production and manufacturing, use and consumption, and the end-of-life stage). VDI guidelines are widely accepted across Germany’s industrial sector and therefore represent an important means of mainstreaming resource efficiency in this target area. As well as providing a methodological framework, the guidelines describe strategies and measures towards increasing resource efficiency, and they enable industrial producers and service providers to identify potential areas of improvement. The full article presents an overview of the methodology and contents of these guidelines and discusses their impact in achieving absolute reductions in the industrial use of natural resources. KW - Resource efficiency KW - Life cycle thinking KW - Products and production systems KW - Standardization PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-426443 UR - https://www.wrforum.org/wrfpublicationspdf/boosting-resource-productivity/ SN - 978-3-9521409-7-0 SP - 125 EP - 132 PB - Paul Scherrer Institute CY - Villigen PSI, Switzerland ET - 1 AN - OPUS4-42644 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gehrmann, H.-J. A1 - Hiebel, M. A1 - Simon, Franz-Georg T1 - Methods for the Evaluation of Waste Treatment Processes N2 - Decision makers for waste management are confronted with the problem of selecting the most economic, environmental, and socially acceptable waste treatment process. This paper elucidates evaluation methods for waste treatment processes for the comparison of ecological and economic aspects such as material flow analysis, statistical entropy analysis, energetic and exergetic assessment, cumulative energy demand, and life cycle assessment.The work is based on the VDI guideline 3925. A comparison of two thermal waste treatment plants with different process designs and energy recovery systems was performed with the described evaluation methods. The results are mainly influenced by the type of energy recovery, where the waste-to-energy plant providing district heat and process steam emerged to be beneficial in most aspects. Material recovery options from waste incineration were evaluated according to sustainability targets, such as saving of resources and environmental protection. KW - Material flow analysis KW - Life cycle assessment KW - Cumulative energy demand KW - Cost benefit analysis KW - Eco-efficiency analysis PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-426455 UR - https://www.hindawi.com/journals/je/2017/3567865/ DO - https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3567865 SN - 2314-4912 VL - 2017 SP - Article ID 3567865-1 EP - 13 PB - Hindawi CY - London AN - OPUS4-42645 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hahn, Marc Benjamin T1 - Direct electron irradiation of DNA in fully aqueous environment: Microscopic dose determination in combination with Monte-Carlo simulations N2 - Introduction: Ionizing radiation & DNA damage Experimental setup: Direct electron irradiation of DNA in liquid Monte-Carlo simulations: Electron scattering & diffusion Application: Radiation protection by compatible solutes T2 - Seminarvortrag im Joint Ultrafast Dynamics Laboratory in Solution and at Interfaces CY - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany DA - 14.06.2017 KW - DNA KW - Ectoine KW - Microdosimetry KW - Dosimetry KW - Radiation damage KW - Compatible solutes KW - Low energy electrons KW - Ionizing radiation KW - OH radical KW - Hydroxyl radicals KW - Prehydrated electrons KW - Radiation therapy KW - Cancer KW - Cancer therapy KW - Radiation protection KW - Proteins KW - Monte carlo simulations KW - Geant4 KW - Electron scattering PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42620 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wander, Lukas T1 - Speeding up microplastics analysis with modern NIR spectroscopy N2 - Annually vast amounts of plastics are produced world-wide. However, recycling and waste management is still insufficient resulting in large quantities of plastics being released into the environment. Degradation by sunlight, mechanical and biological factors lead to the breakdown of this waste into little fragments. By convention particles smaller than 5 mm are referred to as microplastics (MP). The occurrence of MP has been reported by researchers virtually all around the globe. Gaining knowledge on MP is currently a time-consuming process because analysis mainly relies on micro-infrared and micro-Raman methods. Prior to that the particles need to undergo purification and enrichment. Thus, only small numbers and volumes of samples can be investigated. Here we tested NIR spectroscopy combined with a multivariate data analysis as a means of speeding up the process of MP analysis. Experiments were performed using the most abundant polymers polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate and polystyrene. MP samples were obtained by adding the cryomilled and sieved (<125 µm) particles to approximately 1 g of standard soil at 0,5–10 mass%. Spectra were recorded with a fiber optic reflection probe connected to a FT-NIR spectrometer. 5–10 spectra recorded of each sample were used for the calibration of chemometric models (partial least squares regression, PLSR). “Unknown” test samples were then used to test the model’s capability to predict the type and amount of polymer. In samples containing 1–5 % of the polymers the prediction yielded the highest degree of agreement with the gravimetric reference values. At low polymer loads some false positive results in the identification were observed. Large amounts of polymers limited the prediction capability by a nonlinear behaviour of the absorption. Further testing was done with real world samples such as compost and washing machine filters. Even though the calibration did not account for these highly complex sample compositions, satisfactory results could be achieved. T2 - Adlershofer Forschungsforum CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 10.11.2017 KW - NIR spectroscopy KW - Microplastics KW - Mikroplastik KW - Chemometrics PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42916 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - De la Rosa, J. M. A1 - Martin-Sanchez, Pedro Maria A1 - Santiago-Cortes, S. A1 - Hermosin, B. A1 - Knicker, H. A1 - Saiz-Jimenez, C. ED - De la Rosa, J. M. T1 - Structure of melanins from the fungi Ochroconis lascauxensis and Ochroconis anomala contaminating rock art in the Lascaux Cave N2 - Two novel species of the fungal genus Ochroconis, O. lascauxensis and O. anomala have been isolated from the walls of the Lascaux Cave, France. The interest in these fungi and their melanins lies in the formation of black stains on the walls and rock art which threatens the integrity of the paintings. Here we report solid-state cross polarization magic-angle spinning 13C and 15N nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of the melanins extracted from the mycelia of O. lascauxensis and O. anomala in order to known their chemical structure. The melanins from these two species were compared with those from other fungi. The melanins from the Ochroconis species have similar SERS and 13C and 15N NMR spectra. Their chemical structures as suggested by the data are not related to 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, 5,6-dihydroxyindole or 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene precursors and likely the building blocks from the melanins have to be based on other phenols that react with the N-terminal amino acid of proteins. The analytical pyrolysis of the acid hydrolysed melanin from O. lascauxensis supports this assumption. KW - Microbiology KW - Biodeterioration KW - Melanins KW - Fungi PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-435345 DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13862-7 SN - 2045-2322 VL - 7 SP - 13441, 1 EP - 13441, 11 PB - Nature AN - OPUS4-43534 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schlegel, Moritz-Caspar T1 - Following the Evidence - How quality of appliance components can hint at non-compliance with efficiency requirements N2 - Improving the energy efficiency of products was identified as the most important short-term opportunity to decrease energy consumption and therefore CO2-emission worldwide. More efficient products are created due to technical innovation. Restricting market access to efficient products only and making the most efficient products stand out by energy labelling are legislative tools to encourage this development. Market surveillance authorities’ checks are fundamental to protect the consumer from wrongly declared goods on the market and ensure fair competition between manufacturers. However, the activities of market surveillance authorities are limited by their financial resources. Testing all product efficiency parameters in an accredited laboratory is very time consuming and cost intensive. In this study, a theoretical concept is presented which can be used to develop screening tests in order to perform product tests by market surveillance authorities with less financial resources. The method identifies components which lead to non-compliance or make a product less energy efficient with minimum effort. The concept is based on a combination of random product tests, dismantling specific products and comparing components. This represents a new approach in product testing procedures beyond the current market surveillance activities. The concept is being tested within a research project funded by the German government. T2 - EEDAL '17 CY - Irvine, CA, USA DA - 12.09.2017 KW - Compliance KW - Energy efficiency KW - Ecodesign KW - Energy labelling PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-43517 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schmidt, Birgit Angelika A1 - Pentzien, Simone A1 - Conradi, Andrea A1 - Krüger, Jörg A1 - Roth, C. A1 - Beier, O. A1 - Hartmann, A. A1 - Grünler, B. T1 - Decontamination of biocidal loaded wooden artworks by means of laser and plasma processing N2 - Many wooden artworks are contaminated by DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) as a result of a surface treatment by means of the liquid preservative Hylotox-59©. It was used until the end of the 1980s. DDT crystal structures are formed on the wood surfaces by the "blooming" of chlorine compounds. In addition to an aesthetic disturbance, it is assumed that DDT represents a health risk. Even decades after applying, the toxins in the wood preservatives are still detectable because they are of low volatility in many wood samples. Contaminated waste wood with natural biocide ageing, gilded and wood carved elements of an old picture frame and wooden samples with paint layers were provided by the Schlossmuseum Sondershausen. Non-contact procedures using laser and plasma appear reasonable to remove the DDT crystals. During the experiments, health and safety issues for the operator have to be taken into account. The removal of DDT was evaluated employing femtosecond and nanosecond laser radiation and cold atmospheric plasma techniques with different working gases (air, nitrogen, and argon). Before laser application, a chlorine measurement representing the DDT density on the wooden surface is done by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis as reference. After laser processing, the XRF analysis is used again at the same surface position to determine the depletion rate. Additionally, a documentation and characterization of the sample surface is performed before and after laser and plasma treatment using optical microscopy (OM). For plasma processing with various systems a chlorine measurement is done by gas chromatographic-mass spectrometry (GCMS) analysis. T2 - 11th Conference on Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks CY - Kraków, Poland DA - 20.09.2016 KW - Decontamination KW - DDT KW - Wooden artworks KW - Femtosecond laser KW - Cold atmospheric pressure plasma PY - 2017 SN - 978-83-231-3875-4 DO - https://doi.org/10.12775/3875-4.17 SP - 241 EP - 251 PB - NCU Press CY - Toruń AN - OPUS4-43526 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hüllmann, Dino T1 - Bringing robot gas tomography to the next dimension - Aerial-based gas source localisation and gas distribution mapping using an open-path gas detector N2 - An unmanned micro aircraft (UAV) is equipped with an open-path gas detector to localise gas sources and to generate gas distribution maps. The gas detector is based on the tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) and attached to a 3-axis aerial stabilisation gimbal. Sensor validation experiments and first gas tomography reconstructions are shown. T2 - AASS Seminar Vortragsreihe der Universität Örebro CY - Örebro, Sweden DA - 11.10.2018 KW - Gas Source Localisation KW - Gas Distribution Mapping KW - UAV KW - TDLAS KW - Gas Spectroscopy KW - Gas Tomography KW - Mobile Robot Olfaction PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46866 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hüllmann, Dino T1 - Gas Source Localisation from the Next Dimension N2 - Leaking methane (CH4) from infrastructures, like pipelines, industrial complexes and landfills, or accidental hazardous goods transports is critical for the environment, but can also pose a risk to human life. To enable a fast detection and localisation of these kind of leaks, we developed a novel robotic platform for aerial remote gas sensing. The platform combines an unmanned micro aircraft (UAV), a 3-axis aerial stabilisation gimbal and an open-path gas detector based on the tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS). T2 - PhD Poster Session an der Universität Örebro CY - Örebro, Sweden DA - 27.11.2018 KW - Gas Source Localisation KW - Mobile Robot Olfaction KW - UAV KW - TDLAS KW - Gas Spectroscopy PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46869 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hüllmann, Dino T1 - Aerial-based Gas Source Localisation using an Open-Path Gas Detector N2 - Presentation of the aerial robotic platform to localise gas sources with an open-path gas detector based on the tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) and project overview. T2 - Seminarserie an der Universität Örebro CY - Örebro, Sweden DA - 28.11.2018 KW - Gas Source Localisation KW - Gas Spectroscopy KW - UAV KW - TDLAS PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46870 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - Evolution, recombination and virulence of emerging bee viruses N2 - Bee populations have declined significantly in recent years and this is thought to be attributable at least in part to the (re-)emergence of viruses. These viruses are predominantly positive single stranded (+ss) RNA viruses belonging to the Picornavirales. Managed honeybees are often infested with the invasive mite, Varroa destructor, which vectors RNA viruses including Deformed wing virus (DWV, family Iflaviridae): a leading culprit of colony losses. Many bee viruses have been sequenced and structural features are now available for viruses such as DWV. DWV consists of at least 3 distinct genotypes, two of which have been shown to be differentially virulent in honeybees. Molecular studies have demonstrated that DWV has a mean evolutionary rate of 1.35 x 10-3 per site per year. For such viruses – in contrast to their eukaryotic hosts – ecological and evolutionary timescales significantly overlap. This rapid evolution allows RNA viruses to adapt quickly to novel host environments with recombination representing an additional key source of genetic variation. Interestingly, recombination between genotypes of DWV has recently been shown to be a common occurrence in honeybees. A challenge has been to develop bioinformatics tools that can accurately reconstruct viral haplotypes – including recombinants – from heterogenous high-throughput sequence data. The impact of blood-to-blood Varroa destructor transmission on virus evolution represents an important question in bee virus research. Due to the nature of the V. destructor life cycle, predictions can be made about the potential impact of the mite on virus virulence evolution. Specifically, the developing honeybee host pupa should remain alive until close to the completion of metamorphosis to provide sufficient time for successful mite reproduction, including offspring mating. For optimal transmission, any virus found in a mature and mated daughter mite will hold a significant selective advantage over a virus found in an immature or unmated daughter mite – placing a cost on virus virulence that impacts honeybee pupae before mites can mate. On the other side, viruses replicating too slowly and with delayed virulence effects will hold a selective handicap because fewer transmission units will be found in mated mites. I have hypothesized that the evolution of virus virulence shifted following the arrival of V. destructor, with viruses, including recombinants and/or specific viral genotypes being selected for a level of virulence in pupae (and likely also in adults) that maximises R0, which represents the basic reproductive number of the virus in the host population. R0 is defined by the number of subsequent infections caused by a single infection and it must be greater than 1 for an infection to spread in a population. It is enhanced by maximising the number of transmission units passed to uninfected susceptible vectors, and ultimately hosts (Figure 1). Honeybee viruses are also shared with sympatric wild bees and viral prevalence and sequence data indicate frequent virus transmission between managed and wild bee species. In addition to infecting the western honeybee (Apis mellifera), DWV can infect other Asian honeybee species such as Apis ceranae. Outside of honeybees, DWV has been found widely in bumblebees, including solitary bees and wasps and there is evidence that it can actively replicate in several Bombus and solitary bee species. Whether the arrival of the V. destructor mite in A. mellifera has driven viral emergence in non-Apis bees is a target of ongoing research. T2 - 2nd European Virus Bioinformatics Centre (EVBC) conference CY - Utrecht, Netherlands DA - 09.05.2018 KW - Virus KW - Virulence KW - Bees PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47155 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - Emerging Viruses in Bees: From Molecules toEmerging bee viruses: from molecules to host and vector ecology Ecology N2 - Technical advances in the study of molecular evolution have crystallized the fundamental insight that many bee pathogens evolve and adapt over timescales that overlap with host ecology. At the same time, the role played by bee host community ecology is increasingly being appreciated in host-parasite interactions. Here, we focus on Deformed wing virus (DWV) and present recent studies exploring the link between virulence, DWV genetic diversity and changes to host ecology - namely the arrival of an invasive ectoparasite, the Varroa destructor mite, which vectors viruses between honeybees. Specifically, we show how V. destructor may have created conditions for the emergence of more virulent strains of DWV in the western honeybee, Apis mellifera. We present a molecule-to-ecology framework to help interpret findings and to guide future hypotheses, emphasizing the role of molecular interactions between viruses and host immunity as drivers of change at the bee population level. T2 - International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI2018) CY - Guaruja, Brazil DA - 05.08.2018 KW - Disease KW - Virus KW - Emerging KW - Pathogen KW - Bee PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47156 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - Exploring RNA viruses in edible insects: a case study using cockroaches, termites N2 - Our understanding of RNA viruses from edible insects is minimal at best, with studies largely focusing on model insect species and those associated with obvious signs of disease. This represents a considerable gap in understanding, given the growing role of insects as a source of food and feed, as well as the more general relevance of insects in agriculture and health. Illness due to entomophagy is rare but well documented, including fatal cases following the consumption of termites. Termites are eaten commonly in tropical Asia, Africa and South America, and are among the insects with the highest recorded fat content. There are many species of termites, with a wide range of diets and habitats centering around the consumption of wood and soil substrates. In this study, we report the results from a survey of more than 30 cockroach and termite transcriptomes, with the aim of understanding the diversity and evolution of RNA viruses as well as other potentially pathogenic organisms that are associated with this relevant but somewhat overlooked group of insects. We discuss our results in the context of the possible zoonotic risk posed by insects, as well as in the context of emerging viral and other disease threats that may face insects being reared at industrial scales. T2 - 4th International INSECTA 2018 Conference CY - Giessen, Germany DA - 05.09.2018 KW - Edible insects KW - Emerging KW - Virus KW - Pathogen KW - Termite KW - Cockroach PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47157 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - McMahon, Dino Peter T1 - The evolution of termite immunity N2 - The termites are a derived eusocial lineage of otherwise non-social cockroaches. Understanding the proximal and ultimate drivers of this major evolutionary transition represents an important goal in biology. One outstanding question concerns the evolution of termite immunity, which is thought to have undergone broad-sweeping adaptations in order to enhance group-level immune protection. To understand the evolutionary origins of termite immunity, we conducted qualitative and quantitative transcriptome analyses along a gradient of sociality. Firstly, we aimed to identify large-scale genetic shifts in immune traits linked to eusociality by comparing immune gene repertoires in solitary and subsocial cockroaches and across a range of eusocial termite lineages. Secondly, we compared the responses of a solitary cockroach, a subsocial wood-roach and different castes of a lower termite species to a non-specific immune challenge, in order to understand how sociality may have influenced the evolution of immune gene regulation. Firstly, we found that termites have a broadly representative repertoire of canonical immune genes as compared to gregarious cockroaches and subsocial wood-roaches. Secondly, with respect to immune challenge, the solitary cockroach and the subsocial wood-roach displayed a similarly comprehensive induced response, while the termite response was considerably dampened by comparison and strongly influenced by caste; with reproductives displaying a generally higher constitutive level of immune-gene expression compared to sterile castes. In summary we did not find termite eusociality to be associated with significant changes in immune gene diversity, but rather to be linked with significant modifications to the regulation of immunity following the origin of division of labour. T2 - BeGenDiv Annual Genomics Symposium 2018 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 02.10.2018 KW - Evolution KW - Immunity KW - Termite PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-471581 AN - OPUS4-47158 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -