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Health hazards of methylammonium lead iodide based perovskites: cytotoxicity studies

László Forró, Hilal Lashuel, Endre Horvath, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier, Massimo Spina, Bohumil Maco, Ryma Iness Benmessaoud

New technologies launch novel materials; besides their performances in products, their health hazards must be tested. This applies to the lead halide perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 as well, which offers fulgurate applications in photovoltaic devices. We report the ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Sustainability assessment of succinic acid production technologies from biomass using metabolic engineering

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Merten Morales, Konrad Hungerbühler

Over the past few years, bio-succinic acid from renewable resources has gained increasing attention as a potential bio-derived platform chemical for the detergent/surfactant, ion chelator, food and pharmaceutical markets. Until now, much research was under ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Engineered nanomaterials: toward effective safety management in research laboratories

Heinrich Hofmann, Thierry Meyer, Amela Groso, Alke Fink

Background: It is still unknown which types of nanomaterials and associated doses represent an actual danger to humans and environment. Meanwhile, there is consensus on applying the precautionary principle to these novel materials until more information is ...

BioMed Central2016

New Developments in Rock Fall Hazard Assessment and Zoning: An Application of the Cadanav Methodology

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

Rock fall hazard assessment and zoning are very important for an appropriate land use planning in mountainous areas. However, they are complex topics, and current methodologies adopted for producing zoning maps do not provide satisfactory results, due to a ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2015

Multiple stressor effects in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - Toward understanding mechanisms of interaction between effects of ultraviolet radiation and chemical pollutants

Renata Behra

The effects of chemical pollutants and environmental stressors, such as ultraviolet radiation (UVR), can interact when organisms are simultaneously exposed, resulting in higher (synergistic) or lower (antagonistic) multiple stressor effects than expected b ...

Elsevier2015

Water and Waste Reuse to Enhance Environmental and Human Health

As strategies in sustainability permeate modern engineering approaches, opportunities to re-engineer our water and sanitation systems in ways that simultaneously address human and ecological needs become apparent. Yet uncertainties remain regarding the hum ...

2015

Emerging risks from ballast water treatment: The run-up to the International Ballast Water Management Convention

Urs von Gunten

Uptake and discharge of ballast water by ocean-going ships contribute to the worldwide spread of aquatic invasive species, with negative impacts on the environment, economies, and public health. The International Ballast Water Management Convention aims at ...

Elsevier2014

Systems Toxicology Approach to Understand the Kinetics of Benzo(a)pyrene Uptake, Biotransformation, and DNA Adduct Formation in a Liver Cell Model

Kristin Schirmer

Cell-based models are important for deriving mechanistic information about stress response pathways that have evolved to protect cells from toxic insult, such as exposure to environmental pollutants. One determinant of the stress response is the amount of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

New developments in rock fall hazard assessment and zoning: an application of the Cadanav methodology

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

Springer2014

TBM tunneling in squeezing ground: Problems and solutions

Jian Wang, Lijun Yin, Hongsu Ma

The squeezing ground encountered in Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) tunneling presents great challenges and may trigger the potential hazards without warning. A detailed understanding of such unfavorable condition is therefore critical to a successful bored tu ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

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