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Print-Light-Synthesis of ruthenium oxide thin film electrodes for electrochemical sensing applications

Print-Light-Synthesis (PLS) combines the inkjet printing of a ruthenium precursor ink with the simultaneous photo-induced generation of ruthenium oxide films. During PLS, inkjet-printing generates on conductive as well as insulating substrates micrometer-t ...

Elsevier BV2025

Purification of Cellulose and Chitin Polymers and Other Value-Added Products from the Microalga Chlorella vulgaris Using a Green Biorefinery Process

Christian Ludwig, Horst Pick, Enio Daniel Zanchetta, Eya Nicodeme

Microalgae produce renewable biomass at high efficiency by using photosynthesis to capture the greenhouse gas CO2 from the atmosphere and releasing O2. Chlorella vulgaris is one of the most frequently cultivated unicellular green microalgae of commercial r ...

2025

Abiotic stress approaches for enhancing cellulose and chitin production in Chlorella vulgaris

Christian Ludwig, Horst Pick, Enio Daniel Zanchetta, Eya Nicodeme

Several lines of evidence point to the presence of both, cellulose and chitin as structural constituents of the Chlorella vulgaris cell wall. These biopolymers are favourable building blocks for many sustainable industrial applications for instance as bioc ...

Elsevier BV2025

Print-Light-Synthesis of Gold Thin Film Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensing

Horst Pick, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Emanuela Maiorano

The one-step fabrication of gold films by inkjet printing of a gold precursor ink and its photochemical reduction by exposure to UV light is presented. Inkjet printing creates on a substrate with high control micrometer-thin reaction volumes in which upon ...

Wiley2023

Effective removal of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus from a Chlorella vulgaris microalgal culture by homogeneous solar photo-Fenton at neutral pH

Christian Ludwig, Horst Pick, Stefanos Giannakis, Adrian Pulgarin, Jiahua Chen, Dominik Refardt, Jérémie Decker

In this study, a citrate-modified photo-Fenton process was successfully applied to decontaminate a Chlorella vulgaris microalgae culture spiked with the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus (5 individuals mL−1). The applied treatment (1 mg L−1 Fe2+, 20 mg L−1 H ...

2022

RB714, RB715, RB716, RB717 and RB718 antibodies recognize the histone HMtA protein from Methanobrevibacter smithii by ELISA

Horst Pick, Duncan-Bruce Sutherland

The recombinant antibodies RB714, RB715, RB716, RB717 and RB718 detect by ELISA the M. smithi histone HMtA protein fused to a GST. ...

2022

Rapid Noninvasive Skin Monitoring by Surface Mass Recording and Data Learning

Hubert Girault, Horst Pick, Natalia Gasilova, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic, Yingdi Zhu, Tzu-En Lin

Skin problems are often overlooked due to a lack of robust and patient-friendly monitoring tools. Herein, we report a rapid, noninvasive, and high-throughput analytical chemical methodology, aiming at real-time monitoring of skin conditions and early detec ...

2021

Soft-probe-scanning electrochemical microscopy reveals electrochemical surface reactivity of E. coli biofilms

Hubert Girault, Emad Oveisi, Horst Pick, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Sorour Darvishi

Investigating and understanding dynamic biofilm growth mechanisms is challenging, often because state-of-the-art optical characterization tools provide limited information. Micrometric electrochemical imaging of Escherichia coli biofilms using Soft-Probe-S ...

2021

Algal cellulose, production and potential use in plastics: Challenges and opportunities

Christian Ludwig, Horst Pick, Enio Daniel Zanchetta, Eya Nicodeme, Tobias Borgmeyer, Adrian Pulgarin

The development of new biodegradable plastic materials from renewable sources is a major challenge for plastic industries to provide sustainable alternatives to petroleum plastic. Bio-based plastics are generally obtained from photosynthetic biomass such a ...

2021

Highly Loaded Mildly Edge‐Oxidized Graphene Nanosheet Dispersions for Large‐Scale Inkjet Printing of Electrochemical Sensors

Hubert Girault, Horst Pick, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic, Victor Costa Bassetto, Yingdi Zhu, Bhawna Nagar

Inkjet printing of electrochemical sensors using a highly loaded mildly edge‐oxidized graphene nanosheet (EOGN) ink is presented. An ink with 30 mg/mL EOGNs is formulated in a mixture of N‐methyl pyrrolidone and propylene glycol with only 30 min of sonicat ...

2020