Alke Petri-Fink

Management of nanomaterials safety in research environment.

Nanoparticles and cells: an interdisciplinary approach.

Can the Ames test provide an insight into nano-object mutagenicity? Investigating the interaction between nano-objects and bacteria.

Gold nanorods: controlling their surface chemistry and complete detoxification by a two-step place exchange.

Nanomaterials and the human lung: what is known and what must be deciphered to realise their potential advantages?

Exposure of silver-nanoparticles and silver-ions to lung cells in vitro at the air-liquid interface.

Bioavailability of silver nanoparticles and ions: from a chemical and biochemical perspective.

A comparative study of different in vitro lung cell culture systems to assess the most beneficial tool for screening the potential adverse effects of carbon nanotubes.

Fluorescence-encoded gold nanoparticles: library design and modulation of cellular uptake into dendritic cells.

Insertion of nanoparticle clusters into vesicle bilayers.

Test-methods on the test-bench: a comparison of complete exhaust and exhaust particle extracts for genotoxicity/mutagenicity assessment.

Modeling nanoparticle-alveolar epithelial cell interactions under breathing conditions using captive bubble surfactometry.

Magnetic microreactors for efficient and reliable magnetic nanoparticle surface functionalization.

Effects of an iron-based fuel-borne catalyst and a diesel particle filter on exhaust toxicity in lung cells in vitro.

Size-dependent accumulation of particles in lysosomes modulates dendritic cell function through impaired antigen degradation.

An in vitro testing strategy towards mimicking the inhalation of high aspect ratio nanoparticles.

Mimicking exposures to acute and lifetime concentrations of inhaled silver nanoparticles by two different in vitro approaches.

Thermally reversible self-assembly of nanoparticles via polymer crystallization.

Quantification of nanoparticles at the single-cell level: an overview about state-of-the-art techniques and their limitations.

Different endocytotic uptake mechanisms for nanoparticles in epithelial cells and macrophages.

Uptake efficiency of surface modified gold nanoparticles does not correlate with functional changes and cytokine secretion in human dendritic cells in vitro.

Engineering an in vitro air-blood barrier by 3D bioprinting.

Characterizing nanoparticles in complex biological media and physiological fluids with depolarized dynamic light scattering.

Repeated exposure to carbon nanotube-based aerosols does not affect the functional properties of a 3D human epithelial airway model.

A biological perspective toward the interaction of theranostic nanoparticles with the bloodstream - what needs to be considered?

Fate of cellulose nanocrystal aerosols deposited on the lung cell surface in vitro.

Avoiding drying-artifacts in transmission electron microscopy: Characterizing the size and colloidal state of nanoparticles.

Nanoparticle colloidal stability in cell culture media and impact on cellular interactions.

Plasmonic nanoparticles and their characterization in physiological fluids.

Translocation of gold nanoparticles across the lung epithelial tissue barrier: Combining in vitro and in silico methods to substitute in vivo experiments.

Assessment of a panel of interleukin-8 reporter lung epithelial cell lines to monitor the pro-inflammatory response following zinc oxide nanoparticle exposure under different cell culture conditions.

Ultrathin Ceramic Membranes as Scaffolds for Functional Cell Coculture Models on a Biomimetic Scale.

Engineered nanomaterials: toward effective safety management in research laboratories.

Pulmonary delivery of cationic gold nanoparticles boost antigen-specific CD4 T Cell Proliferation.

Diesel exhaust: current knowledge of adverse effects and underlying cellular mechanisms.

A lock-in-based method to examine the thermal signatures of magnetic nanoparticles in the liquid, solid and aggregated states.

Current in vitro approaches to assess nanoparticle interactions with lung cells.

A new angle on dynamic depolarized light scattering: number-averaged size distribution of nanoparticles in focus.

Hazard identification of exhausts from gasoline-ethanol fuel blends using a multi-cellular human lung model.

Decoupling the shape parameter to assess gold nanorod uptake by mammalian cells.

Combined exposure of diesel exhaust particles and respirable Soufrière Hills volcanic ash causes a (pro-)inflammatory response in an in vitro multicellular epithelial tissue barrier model.

Interaction of biomedical nanoparticles with the pulmonary immune system.

A rapid screening method to evaluate the impact of nanoparticles on macrophages.

A novel technique to determine the cell type specific response within an in vitro co-culture model via multi-colour flow cytometry.

Assumption-free morphological quantification of single anisotropic nanoparticles and aggregates.

Quantifying nanoparticle cellular uptake: which method is best?

Human Asthmatic Bronchial Cells Are More Susceptible to Subchronic Repeated Exposures of Aerosolized Carbon Nanotubes At Occupationally Relevant Doses Than Healthy Cells.

Speckle-Visibility Spectroscopy of Depolarized Dynamic Light Scattering.

Cellulose Nanocrystals: Surface Modification, Applications and Opportunities at Interfaces.

Biokinetics of Aerosolized Liposomal Ciclosporin A in Human Lung Cells In Vitro Using an Air-Liquid Cell Interface Exposure System.

Exposure to silver nanoparticles affects viability and function of natural killer cells, mostly via the release of ions.

Assessing the Stability of Fluorescently Encoded Nanoparticles in Lysosomes by Using Complementary Methods.

Hybrid Lipid/Polymer Nanoparticles for Pulmonary Delivery of siRNA: Development and Fate Upon In Vitro Deposition on the Human Epithelial Airway Barrier.

Biodistribution of single and aggregated gold nanoparticles exposed to the human lung epithelial tissue barrier at the air-liquid interface.

Assessment of lung cell toxicity of various gasoline engine exhausts using a versatile in vitro exposure system.

Nanoparticle-Cell Interaction: A Cell Mechanics Perspective.

Biodistribution, Clearance, and Long-Term Fate of Clinically Relevant Nanomaterials.

Respiratory hazard assessment of combined exposure to complete gasoline exhaust and respirable volcanic ash in a multicellular human lung model at the air-liquid interface.

A realistic in vitro exposure revealed seasonal differences in (pro-)inflammatory effects from ambient air in Fribourg, Switzerland.

Hypothesis Test of the Photon Count Distribution for Dust Discrimination in Dynamic Light Scattering.

Probing nano-scale viscoelastic response in air and in liquid with dynamic atomic force microscopy.

Biological response of an in vitro human 3D lung cell model exposed to brake wear debris varies based on brake pad formulation.

Acute effects of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on primary bronchial epithelial cells from COPD patients.

Distribution of polymer-coated gold nanoparticles in a 3D lung model and indication of apoptosis after repeated exposure.

Mimicking the Chemistry of Natural Eumelanin Synthesis: The KE Sequence in Polypeptides and in Proteins Allows for a Specific Control of Nanosized Functional Polydopamine Formation.

A rational and iterative process for targeted nanoparticle design and validation.

Carbon nanodots: Opportunities and limitations to study their biodistribution at the human lung epithelial tissue barrier.

The crux of positive controls - Pro-inflammatory responses in lung cell models.

Revealing the Role of Epithelial Mechanics and Macrophage Clearance during Pulmonary Epithelial Injury Recovery in the Presence of Carbon Nanotubes.

Recent advances in nano-bio-interactions: Editorial.

Nanoparticles and Taylor Dispersion as a Linear Time-Invariant System.

Polydopamine/Transferrin Hybrid Nanoparticles for Targeted Cell-Killing.

Emergence of Nanoplastic in the Environment and Possible Impact on Human Health.

Nanoparticle administration method in cell culture alters particle-cell interaction.

Polymer-Coated Gold Nanospheres Do Not Impair the Innate Immune Function of Human B Lymphocytes in Vitro.

A hydrofluoric acid-free method to dissolve and quantify silica nanoparticles in aqueous and solid matrices.

Precision of Taylor Dispersion.

On the issue of transparency and reproducibility in nanomedicine.

Reduction of Nanoparticle Load in Cells by Mitosis but Not Exocytosis.

Publisher Correction: On the issue of transparency and reproducibility in nanomedicine.

Publisher Correction: On the issue of transparency and reproducibility in nanomedicine.

Assessment of the potential for in-plume sulphur dioxide gas-ash interactions to influence the respiratory toxicity of volcanic ash.

Lipid nanoparticles biocompatibility and cellular uptake in a 3D human lung model.

Understanding the assembly of amphiphilic additives in bulk and dispersed non-lamellar lipid-based matrices: Phosphorylation, H-bonding and ionisation.

Resolution Limit of Taylor Dispersion: An Exact Theoretical Study.

Quantification of Carbon Nanotube Doses in Adherent Cell Culture Assays Using UV-VIS-NIR Spectroscopy.

Corrigendum to "The crux of positive controls - Pro-inflammatory responses in lung cell models" [Toxicology in Vitro 54 (2019) 189-193].

Versatile Macroscale Concentration Gradients of Nanoparticles in Soft Nanocomposites.

Use of EpiAlveolar Lung Model to Predict Fibrotic Potential of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes.

Bioprinting for Human Respiratory and Gastrointestinal In Vitro Models.

From Bioinspired Glue to Medicine: Polydopamine as a Biomedical Material.

A novel 3D intestine barrier model to study the immune response upon exposure to microplastics.

Characterization of the Shape Anisotropy of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles during Thermal Decomposition.