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Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann, Christelle Oltramare, Jean-Jacques Stéphane Nfon Dibie

The present work assesses human exposure to pesticides in vegetable-producing areas in Burkina Faso, using hair as an indicator. The study design includes a comparison between operators who are occupationally exposed while working in the fields and a refer ...
2018

Experimental setup and o-ring based μfluidic interface for suspended microchannel resonators

Annalisa De Pastina, Damien Maillard

Existing solutions for suspended microchannel resonators packaging - Fluidic delivery (back-side) : PDMS or o-ring sealing - Vacuum encapsulation (front-side) : glass capping or o-ring sealing Our suspended microchannel resonators have inlets and outlets o ...
2017

Selectivity Control in Palladium-Catalyzed Alcohol Oxidation through Selective Blocking of Active Sites

Davide Ferri, Oliver Kröcher, Di Wang

Stabilized metal nanoparticles (NPs) have received wide interest in a number of liquid-phase catalytic transformations, but the role of the capping/protective agent is still debated. Operando attenuated total reflection infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy enabl ...
American Chemical Society2016

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

Using very toxic or especially hazardous chemical substances in a research and teaching institution

Thierry Meyer, Jean-Luc Marendaz, Sebastian Brückner

Wrong manipulation, storage or disposal of chemicals can cause great damage whether it occurs on industrial plants, in academia or at home. Amongst the numerous reasons, lack of knowledge and haste are the most common ones. Except for a few substances subj ...
2016

Research and developments-where people are exposed to nanomaterials

Thierry Meyer, Chantal Imhof

Objectives: Many nanomaterials (materials with structures smaller than 100 nm) have chemical, physical and bioactive characteristics of interest for novel applications. Considerable research efforts have been launched in this field. This study aimed to stu ...
2015

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