Overview
- Summarizes the chemistry of uranium and its environmental distribution
- Elucidates the uranium uptake by plants and its impact on plant metabolism
- Presents several methodologies for uranium detection
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Biometals (SB BIOMETALS)
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About the author
Gerhard Geipel graduated in Chemistry at the Mining Academy of Freiberg, and holds a PhD from the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic. Afterwards, he was employed by Central Institute for Nuclear Research at Rossendorf. After German unification, he moved to the Research Center Rossendorf, Institute of Radiochemistry, now Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Resource Ecology. In 2005 he was awarded with the “Kurt Schwabe Award” of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences for the first detection of dissolved Calcium-Uranyl-Carbonate species, which have fundamental importance in the environmental behavior of uranium migration. Since 2005 he was the head of the department Biogeochemistry. His research interests are especially the determination of the speciation of uranium and trans-uranium elements by laser-induced spectroscopic methods. Nanosecond laser pulses were applied to determine mainly inorganic species. For species with organic ligands femtosecond laser pulses were applied. During the last ten years his research interest has focused more on the interaction of uranium and lower actinides with living organisms and microorganisms, especially plants and plant cells. Up to now he is author/coauthor of about 100 scientific publications and have contributed to 6 books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uranium and Plant Metabolism
Book Subtitle: Measurement and Application
Authors: Gerhard Geipel
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80815-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80814-3Published: 14 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80815-0Published: 13 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 55
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organometallic Chemistry, Plant Physiology, Ecotoxicology, Analytical Chemistry, Plant Biochemistry