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Overview

Kai-Uwe Goss is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work includes significant contributions to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oncology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Spectroscopy.

Their main research topics cover a broad spectrum related to drug transport, toxicology, and computational methods in pharmaceutical sciences. Key topics include:

  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Kai-Uwe Goss has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Chemical Research in Toxicology
  • Forensic Science International Reports

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Goss include:

  • "Membrane/Water Partitioning and Permeabilities of Perfluoroalkyl Acids and Four of their Alternatives and the Effects on Toxicokinetic Behavior" (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Exploring the octanol-water partition coefficient dataset using deep learning techniques and data augmentation" (2021), Communications Chemistry
  • "COSMOperm: Mechanistic Prediction of Passive Membrane Permeability for Neutral Compounds and Ions and Its pH Dependence" (2020), The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Yolk Sac of Zebrafish Embryos as Backpack for Chemicals?" (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Estimating the Equilibrium Distribution of Perfluoroalkyl Acids and 4 of Their Alternatives in Mammals" (2020), Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, with repeated co-authorships including:

  • Andrea Ebert
  • Nadin Ulrich
  • Carolin Dahley
  • Sophia Krause
  • Soné Kotze

Best Publications

  • The pKa values of PFOA and other highly fluorinated carboxylic acids.

    Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Linear free energy relationships used to evaluate equilibrium partitioning of organic compounds.

    Kai-Uwe Goss;Rene P. Schwarzenbach

  • Gas/solid and gas/liquid partitioning of organic compounds: Critical evaluation of the interpretation of equilibrium constants

    Kai-Uwe Goss;René P. Schwarzenbach

  • Polyparameter linear free energy relationships for estimating the equilibrium partition of organic compounds between water and the natural organic matter in soils and sediments.

    Thanh H. Nguyen;Kai Uwe Goss;William P. Ball

  • Applications of polyparameter linear free energy relationships in environmental chemistry.

    Satoshi Endo;Kai-Uwe Goss;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Capacities of Membrane Lipids to Accumulate Neutral Organic Chemicals

    Satoshi Endo;Beate I. Escher;Kai-Uwe Goss;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Predicting the Partitioning Behavior of Various Highly Fluorinated Compounds

    Hans Peter H. Arp;Christian Niederer;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Salting-Out Effect in Aqueous NaCl Solutions: Trends with Size and Polarity of Solute Molecules

    Satoshi Endo;Andrea Pfennigsdorff;Kai-Uwe Goss;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Predicting the equilibrium partitioning of organic compounds using just one linear solvation energy relationship (LSER)

    Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Effects of temperature and relative humidity on the sorption of organic vapors on quartz sand

    Kai Uwe Goss

  • Light penetration in soil and particulate minerals

    A. Ciani;K.-U. Goss;R. P. Schwarzenbach

  • The road to nowhere: equilibrium partition coefficients for nanoparticles

    Antonia Praetorius;Nathalie Tufenkji;Kai-Uwe Goss;Martin Scheringer

  • Elucidating differences in the sorption properties of 10 humic and fulvic acids for polar and nonpolar organic chemicals.

    Christian Niederer;René P. Schwarzenbach;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • The Air/Surface Adsorption Equilibrium of Organic Compounds Under Ambient Conditions

    Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Adsorption of VOCs from the Gas Phase to Different Minerals and a Mineral Mixture

    Kai-Uwe Goss;Steven J. Eisenreich

  • pH-Dependent sorption of acidic organic chemicals to soil organic matter.

    Holger C. Tülp;Kathrin Fenner;René P. Schwarzenbach;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Prediction of the water sorption isotherm in air dry soils

    Martina Schneider;Kai-Uwe Goss;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • The partition behavior of fluorotelomer alcohols and olefins.

    Kai-Uwe Goss;Guido Bronner;Tom Harner;Monika Hertel

  • Predicting Sorption of Pesticides and Other Multifunctional Organic Chemicals to Soil Organic Carbon

    Guido Bronner;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Serum Albumin Binding of Structurally Diverse Neutral Organic Compounds: Data and Models

    Satoshi Endo;Kai-Uwe Goss;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Photolytic Transformation of Organic Pollutants on Soil SurfacesAn Experimental Approach

    Marianne E. Balmer;Kai-Uwe Goss;René P. Schwarzenbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Peter H. Arp
Hans Peter H. Arp Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Frank Wania
Frank Wania University of Toronto
Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Kathrin Fenner
Kathrin Fenner Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Torsten C. Schmidt
Torsten C. Schmidt University of Duisburg-Essen
Michael S. McLachlan
Michael S. McLachlan Stockholm University
Ying Duan Lei
Ying Duan Lei University of Toronto
Frank-Dieter Kopinke
Frank-Dieter Kopinke Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Andreas Klamt
Andreas Klamt University of Regensburg

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