Institute of Sustainable Chemistry

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

At the Institute of Sustainable Chemistry the research and teaching activities focus on Environmental Chemistry as well as Sustainable Chemistry. Environmental Chemistry focuses on studies regarding the environmental fate and behaviour of already existing chemicals, Sustainable Chemistry develops in a more holistic approach solutions that meet the criteria of sustainability.

In addition, the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry is also home to the didactics of natural sciences with its research and teaching activities in the profession of chemistry, biology and science education with the reference subject of natural sciences.

 

 

Main research areas

Key topics of our research field are as follows:

  • Sustainable Chemistry and Sustainable Pharmacy
  • Inclusive science education
  • Efficient use of biogenic resources
  1. Published

    Photolytic transformation products and biological stability of the hydrological tracer Uranine

    Gutowski, L., Olsson, O., Lange, J. & Kümmerer, K., 15.11.2015, In: The Science of The Total Environment. 533, p. 446-453 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Thermal conductivity measurement of thermochemical storage materials

    Fopah Lele, A., N'Tsoukpoe, K. E., Osterland, T., Kuznik, F. & Ruck, W., 05.10.2015, In: Applied Thermal Engineering. 89, p. 916-926 11 p., 6771.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Combining charcoal sediment and molecular markers to infer a Holocene fire history in the Maya Lowlands of Petén, Guatemala

    Schüpbach, S., Kirchgeorg, T., Colombaroli, D., Beffa, G., Radaelli, M., Kehrwald, N. & Barbante, C., 01.05.2015, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 115, p. 123-131 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Evaluation of the toxic effects of four anti-cancer drugs in plant bioassays and its potency for screening in the context of waste water reuse for irrigation

    Lutterbeck, C. A., Kern, D. I., Machado, Ê. L. & Kümmerer, K., 01.09.2015, In: Chemosphere. 135, p. 403-410 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    The madrid statement on poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)

    Blum, A., Balan, S. A., Scheringer, M., Trier, X., Goldenman, G., Cousins, I. T., Diamond, M., Fletcher, T., Higgins, C., Lindeman, A. E., Peaslee, G., Voogt, P. D., Wang, Z. & Weber, R., 01.05.2015, In: Environmental Health Perspectives. 123, 5, p. A107-A111 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  6. Published

    Maternal transfer of emerging brominated and chlorinated flame retardants in European eels

    Sühring, R., Freese, M., Schneider, M., Schubert, S., Pohlmann, J. D., Alaee, M., Wolschke, H., Hanel, R., Ebinghaus, R. & Marohn, L., 15.10.2015, In: The Science of The Total Environment. 530-531, p. 209-218 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Thermal decomposition kinetic of salt hydrates for heat storage systems

    Fopah Lele, A., Kuznik, F., Rammelberg, H., Osterland, T. & Ruck, W., 15.09.2015, In: Applied Energy. 154, p. 447-458 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Numerical investigations of a thermochemical heat storage system during the discharging

    Fopah Lele, A., Hu, J., Kuznik, F., Osterland, T. & Ruck, W., 19.05.2015, ASME-ATI-UIT 2015 Conference on Thermal Energy Systems: Production, Storage, Utilization and the Environment: Heat and Mass transfer in porous media. Napoli: Unione Italiana Termofluidodinamica, 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Degradation of 5-FU by means of advanced (photo)oxidation processes: UV/H2O2, UV/Fe(2+)/H2O2 and UV/TiO2 - Comparison of transformation products, ready biodegradability and toxicity

    Lutterbeck, C. A., Wilde, M. L., Baginska, E., Leder, C., Machado, Ê. L. & Kümmerer, K., 15.09.2015, In: The Science of The Total Environment. 527-528, p. 232-245 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    In Memoriam; Zum Tode von Hans Primas, 1928 bis 2014: Mut zur Ganzheit: Wie ist Naturverständnis möglich ohne Naturbeherrschung?

    Scheringer, M. & Jaeger, J., 2015, In: GAIA. 24, 1, p. 7 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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Activities

  1. How to educate the educators of tomorrow. Teacher education for sustainable development – inquiries, insights and implications.
  2. Networks, Transcultural Entanglements, and the Power of Aesthetic Choices: Artistic Encounters in the Medieval Afro-Eurasian World
  3. Building Collective Institutional Infrastructures for Decent Platform Work: The Development of a Crowdwork Agreement in Germany
  4. How working from home impairs recovery from work: Anticipated availability as a cognitive process in the stressor-detachment model
  5. 84. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. - VHB 2024
  6. Why Do School Teachers Engage with Sustainable Consumption? Exploring the Role of Personal, Group and Organizational Influence Factors
  7. Tourismus auf den Spuren der "Schatten des Windes": Vom Zusammenspiel medialer Bedeutungskonstruktion und performativer touristischer Praxen
  8. Performing ventures in, trough and with regional start-up ecosystems: Emering insights on slowness in accelerators and the pedagogy of pitching
  9. Multi-level Governance, Policy Implementation & Participation: The Mandated Participatory Planning Approach to Implementing Environmental Policy
  10. Schiffbauerdamm und Ostkreuz – die Wende der "freien" Fotografie: Vom informellen Fotosalon zur unabhängigen Fotoagentur und privaten Fotoschulen
  11. Die Rolle von Unterrichtsmaterialien aus dem Internet und OER (open educational ressources) im Kontext einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung
  12. Makroökonomische Effekte von 100%-Geld, Vollgeld und Co. und Auswirkungen auf die Stabilität und Nachhaltigkeit der Geld- und Finanzordnung - ZÖSS 2013
  13. Challenging the functionality of audits: Examining the bureaucratization of risks of industrial accidents through the eyes of Franz Kafka, novelist and auditor
  14. Challenging the functionality of audits: Examining the bureaucratization of risks of industrial accidents through the eyes of Franz Kafka, novelist and insurance lawyer

Publications

  1. Resource Allocation in Startup Teams: Exploring Entrepreneurial Coping with Radical Uncertainty during the Corona Pandemic
  2. Supporting sustainability transitions by enhancing the human dimension via empowerment, social learning and social capital
  3. With a little help from my website. Firm survial and web presence in times of COVID-19 - Evidence from 10 European Countries
  4. Understanding drivers of human tolerance towards mammals in a mixed-use transfrontier conservation area in southern Africa
  5. Strategien von Kleinstunternehmen, kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) für ein integriertes Online- und Offline-Channel-Marketing
  6. Effects of daily static stretch training over 6 weeks on maximal strength, muscle thickness, contraction properties, and flexibility
  7. »keep the contemporaryartmuseum groovy – keep the home fires burning«. Zum Verhältnis von feministischer Kritik und Kunstinstitutionen
  8. Ammonia volatilization after application of urea to winter wheat over 3 years affected by novel urease and nitrification inhibitors
  9. Vereinbarungen zur Chancengleichheit von Frauen und Männern - Verbreitung und Determinanten in Niedersachsen, West- und Ostdeutschland
  10. Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the pandemic
  11. A modeling assessment of the physicochemical properties and environmental fate of emerging and novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
  12. Lösung kurzfristiger kostenrechnerischer Entscheidungsprobleme im Absatz- und Beschaffungsbereich mithilfe der linearen Simultanplanung
  13. Demarcating transdisciplinary research in sustainability science—Five clusters of research modes based on evidence from 59 research projects
  14. Adapting energy infrastructure to climate change - Is there a need for government interventions and legal obligations within the German "energiewende"?
  15. PoNa – Shaping Nature: Policy, Politics and Polity. Inter- and transdisciplinary research in the policy areas of rural development and agro-biotechnology
  16. Toward holistic corporate sustainability-Developing employees' action competence for sustainability in small and medium-sized enterprises through training
  17. Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of guided and unguided internet- and mobile-based indicated transdiagnostic prevention of depression and anxiety (ICare Prevent)
  18. „Durchgriffshaftung“ im Aktienrecht – haften Aktionäre für existenzvernichtende Eingriffe, qualifizierte faktische Konzernierung oder materielle Unterkapitalisierung
  19. Education and Communication as Prerequisites for and Components of Sustainable Development. Reflections for Policies, Conceptual Work, and Theory, Based on Previous Practises