Publications

1. Steven Soini, Sofia Feliciano, Bobby Duersch, Vivian Merk, Nanocrystalline Iron Hydroxide Lignocellulose Filters for Arsenate Remediation, RSC Sustainability, 2024, 2(3), 626-634, DOI: 10.1039/D3SU00326D

2. Natasha Ramnauth, Elise Neubarth, Amy Makler-Disatham, Mazhar Sher, Steven Soini, Vivian Merk, Waseem Asghar, Development of a microfluidic device for exosome isolation in point-of-care settings, Sensors, 2023, 23(19), 8292, DOI: 10.3390/s23198292

3. Bobby G. Duersch, Yanqi Luo, Dawn Raja Somu, Si Chen, Steven A. Soini, Vivian Merk, Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy mapping the ionome of a toxic freshwater cyanobacterium, Environmental Pollution, 2023, 334, 121781-121790, DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121781 

4. Bobby G. Duersch, Steven A. Soini, Yanqi Luo, Xiaoyang Liu, Si Chen, Vivian Merk, Multimodal Imaging of Nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria in the Near-native State, Microscopy and Microanalysis,  2023   29(1), 1953–1954, DOI:10.1093/micmic/ozad067.1011

5. Dawn Raja Somu, Timothy Cracchiolo, Elena Longo, Imke Greving, Vivian Merk, On stars and spikes: Resolving the skeletal morphology of planktonic Acantharia using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography and deep learning image segmentation, Acta Biomaterialia, 2023, 159, 74-82, DOI:10.1016/j.actbio.2023.01.037

6. Fengyun Shen, Deepika Regmi, Majedul Islam, Dawn Raja Somu, Vivian Merk, Deguo Du, Effects of Zinc and Carnosine on Aggregation Kinetics of Amyloid-β40 Peptide, Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 2022, 32, 101333, DOI:10.1016/j.bbrep.2022.101333

7. Bobby G. Duersch, Yanqi Luo, Si Chen, Steven A. Soini, Dawn M. Raja Somu, Vivian M. Merk,, Visualizing the Macro- and Micronutrient Distribution of Toxic Cyanobacteria in Two and Three Dimensions. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2022, 28, 1128–1131, DOI:10.1017/S1431927622004743

8. Vivian Merk, Johan Decelle, Si Chen, Derk Joester, Multi-modal correlative chemical imaging of aquatic microorganisms, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2021, 27 (S1), DOI: 10.1017/S1431927621001641

9. Vivian Merk, Johan Decelle, Si Chen, Antonio Lanzirotti, Matthew Newville, Olga Antipova, Derk Joester, Selective Ion Accumulation in Biomineralizing Marine Acantharia, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2019, 25 (S2), DOI: 1072-1073, 10.1017/S1431927619006093

10. Sanja Kostić, Vivian Merk, John K. Berg, Philipp Hass, Ingo Burgert, Etienne Cabane, Timber-mortar composites: the effect of sol-gel surface modification on the wood-adhesive interface, Composite Structures, 2018, 201, 828-833, DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.06.108

11. Maija Kymäläinen, Selim Ben Mlouka, Tiina Belt, Vivian Merk, Ville Liljeström, Tuomas Hänninen, Tuuli Uimonen, Mauri Kostiainen, Lauri Rautkari, Chemical, water vapour sorption and ultrastructural analysis of Scots pine wood thermally modified in high-pressure reactor under saturated steam, Journal of Materials Science, 2018, 53 (4), 3027–3037, DOI: 10.1007/s10853-017-1714-1

12. Sanja Kostić, John K. Berg, Kirstin Casdorff, Vivian Merk, Ingo Burgert, Etienne Cabane, straightforward thiol-ene click reaction to modify lignocellulosic scaffolds in water, Green Chemistry, 2017,19, 4017-4022, DOI: 10.1039/C7GC01601H

13. Vivian Merk, John K. Berg, Christina Krywka, Ingo Burgert, Oriented Crystallization of Barium Sulfate Confined in Hierarchical Cellular Structures. Crystal Growth & Design, 2017, 17 (2), 677–684, DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01517

14. Etienne Cabane, Tobias Keplinger, Tina Künniger, Vivian Merk, Ingo Burgert, Functional lignocellulosic materials prepared by ATRP from a wood scaffold. Scientific reports, 2016, 6, 31287, DOI:10.1038/srep31287

15. Ingo Burgert, Vivian Merk, Tobias Keplinger, Holzbasierte Materialien ‒ Forschungsansätze für eine erweiterte Nutzung des Werkstoffs, Wood materials – Research approaches for a wider utilization, Holztechnologie, 2016, 57 (5), 38-43

16. Vivian Merk, Munish Chanana, Sabyasachi Gaan, Ingo Burgert, Mineralization of Wood by Calcium Carbonate Insertion for Improved Flame Retardancy. Holzforschung, 2016, 70 (9), 867-876, DOI: 10.1515/hf-2015-0228

17. Vivian Merk, Munish Chanana, Tobias Keplinger, Sabysachi Gaan, Ingo Burgert, Hybrid wood materials with improved fire retardance by bio-inspired mineralisation on the nano- and submicron level. Green Chemistry, 2015, 17, 1423-1428, DOI: 10.1039/C4GC01862A5

18. Tobias Keplinger, Etienne Cabane, Munish Chanana, Philipp Hass, Vivian Merk, Notburga Gierlinger, Ingo Burgert, A versatile strategy for grafting polymers to wood cell walls. Acta Biomaterialia, 2015, 11, 256-263, DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.09.016

19. Vivian Merk, Munish Chanana, Notburga Gierlinger, Ann M. Hirt, Ingo Burgert, Hybrid Wood Materials with Magnetic Anisotropy Dictated by the Hierarchical Cell Structure. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014, 6 (12), 9760–9767, DOI: 10.1021/am5021793

20. Etienne Cabane, Tobias Keplinger, Vivian Merk, Philipp Hass, Ingo Burgert, Renewable and Functional Wood Materials by Grafting Polymerization Within Cell Walls. ChemSusChem, 2014, 7 (4), 1020–1025, DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201301107

21. Vivian Merk, Christoph Rehbock, Felix Becker, Ulrich Hagemann, Herman Nienhaus, Stephan Barcikowski, In Situ Non-DLVO Stabilization of Surfactant-Free, Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles: Effect of Hofmeister’s Anions. Langmuir, 2014, 30 (15), 4213–4222, DOI: 10.1021/la404556a

22. Christian Pfeiffer, Christoph Rehbock, Dominik Hühn, Carolina Carrillo-Carrion, Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi, Vivian Merk, Stephan Barcikowski, Wolfgang Parak, Interaction of colloidal nanoparticles with their local environment: the (ionic) nanoenvironment around nanoparticles is different from bulk and determines the physico-chemical properties of the nanoparticles. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 2014, 11 (96), 20130931, DOI 10.1098/rsif.2013.0931

23. Christoph Rehbock, Vivian Merk, Lisa Gamrad, René Streubel, Stephan Barcikowski, Size control of laser-fabricated surfactant-free gold nanoparticles with highly diluted electrolytes and their subsequent bioconjugation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013, 15, 3057-3067, DOI:10.1039/C2CP42641B

Book Chapter

1.  Ingo Burgert, Tobias Keplinger, Etienne Cabane, Vivian Merk, Markus Rüggeberg, Biomaterial Wood: Wood-based and Bioinspired Materials, Secondary Xylem Biology, 1st Edition, Elsevier, 2016

Patents

1. Munish Chanana, Ingo Burgert, Vivian Merk, International (PCT) application for technology No. WO 2015/162061 Mineralized wood materials and methods providing mineralized wood materials, Granted October 29, 2015

2. Vivian Merk, Satviki Singh, Daniela Scheurle, Provisional U.S. Patent Application Serial No.: 63/298,469 Biocompatible metal ion-chitosan hydrogels with antimicrobial properties.

3. Vivian Merk, Edward de la Uz, U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11605-053PV1, Title: Chitin aerogels and mineralized aerogels derived from biomass, filed on October 4, 2023, Attorney Docket No. 11605-053PV1