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Michael Krachler

Michael Krachler

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Chemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
7474
World Ranking
12866
National Ranking
159

Overview

Michael Krachler is affiliated with the Joint Research Center in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to subfields such as Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Radiation, Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scope of their work includes topics related to Radioactivity and Radon Measurements, Nuclear Physics and Applications, Heavy Metals in the Environment, Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, Radioactive Contamination and Transfer, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Recent publications from Michael Krachler include:

  • "Spatially-resolved uranium isotopic analysis of contaminated scrap metal using laser ablation multi-collector ICP-MS," 2020, RSC Advances

Other prominent recent papers in their research environment - while not always as lead author - relate to nuclear forensic science and environmental pollution:

  • "Trends and perspectives in Nuclear Forensic Science," 2021, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry
  • "Cadmium contents of vertically and horizontally deposited winter precipitation in Central Europe: Spatial distribution and long-term trends," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "Atmospheric deposition and trajectories of antimony in Central Europe," 2022, Environmental Pollution
  • "Winter arsenic pollution in 10 forest ecosystems in the mountainous border regions of the Czech Republic," 2020, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Krachler's publication activity includes frequent contributions to journals such as Environmental Pollution and Microchemical Journal, alongside publications in TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, RSC Advances, and Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

Their collaborative network features recurring co-authors including A. Bulgheroni, Ana Isabel Martinez Ferri, Martin Novák, Leona Bohdálková, and Eva Přechová.

In addition to journal articles, Michael Krachler has contributed to book literature, including a work published by The Groundwater Project eBooks titled "The Elmvale Groundwater Observatory: A Facility Developed to Sample Pristine Artesian Groundwater for Trace Elements," released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Contamination of Canadian and European bottled waters with antimony from PET containers

    William Shotyk;Michael Krachler;Bin Chen

  • Contamination of Bottled Waters with Antimony Leaching from Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Increases upon Storage

    William Shotyk;Michael Krachler

  • A peat bog record of natural, pre-anthropogenic enrichments of trace elements in atmospheric aerosols since 12 370 14C yr BP, and their variation with Holocene climate change

    William Shotyk;Michael Krachler;Antonio Martinez-Cortizas;Andriy K. Cheburkin

  • Speciation of antimony for the 21st century: promises and pitfalls

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  • Analytical problems in the determination of platinum-group metals in urine by quadrupole and magnetic sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Michael Krachler;Alessandro Alimonti;Francesco Petrucci;Kurt J Irgolic

  • Increasing atmospheric antimony contamination in the northern hemisphere: snow and ice evidence from Devon Island, Arctic Canada

    Michael Krachler;James Zheng;James Zheng;Roy Koerner;Christian Zdanowicz

  • Analytical procedures for the determination of selected trace elements in peat and plant samples by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Michael Krachler;Carola Mohl;Hendrik Emons;William Shotyk

  • Trace and ultratrace metals in bottled waters: survey of sources worldwide and comparison with refillable metal bottles.

    Michael Krachler;William Shotyk

  • Suggested protocol for collecting, handling and preparing peat cores and peat samples for physical, chemical, mineralogical and isotopic analyses

    Nicolas Givelet;Gaël Le Roux;Andriy Cheburkin;Bin Chen

  • Influence of digestion procedures on the determination of rare earth elements in peat and plant samples by USN-ICP-MS

    Michael Krachler;Carola Mohl;Hendrik Emons;William Shotyk

  • Changes in the concentrations of trace elements in human milk during lactation.

    M. Krachler;F. Shi Li;E. Rossipal;K.J. Irgolic

  • Characterization of the Running-in Period in Total Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty: An in Vivo and in Vitro Metal Ion Analysis

    Christian Heisel;Nikolaus Streich;Michael Krachler;Eike Jakubowitz

  • Concentrations of selected trace elements in human milk and in infant formulas determined by magnetic sector field inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.

    Michael Krachler;Thomas Prohaska;Gunda Koellensperger;Erich Rossipal

  • A 15,800‐year record of atmospheric lead deposition on the Devon Island Ice Cap, Nunavut, Canada: Natural and anthropogenic enrichments, isotopic composition, and predominant sources

    Jiancheng Zheng;Jiancheng Zheng;William Shotyk;Michael Krachler;David A. Fisher

  • Metal release and corrosion effects of modular neck total hip arthroplasty.

    J. Philippe Kretzer;Eike Jakubowitz;Michael Krachler;Marc Thomsen

  • Assessment of exposure to platinum-group metals in urban children ☆

    S. Caroli;A. Alimonti;F. Petrucci;B. Bocca

  • The potential of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for the simultaneous determination of trace elements in whole blood, plasma and serum.

    M. Krachler;K. J. Irgolic

  • Urinary antimony speciation by HPLC-ICP-MS

    Michael Krachler;Hendrik Emons

  • Sphagnum mosses from 21 ombrotrophic bogs in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands region show no significant atmospheric contamination of “heavy metals”

    William Shotyk;Rene Belland;John Duke;Heike Kempter

  • Atmospheric deposition of V, Cr, and Ni since the late glacial: effects of climatic cycles, human impacts, and comparison with crustal abundances.

    Michael Krachler;Carola Mohl;Hendrik Emons;William Shotyk

  • Analytical procedures for improved trace element detection limits in polar ice from Arctic Canada using ICP-SMS

    Michael Krachler;James Zheng;James Zheng;David Fisher;William Shotyk

Frequent Co-Authors

William Shotyk
William Shotyk University of Alberta
David A. Fisher
David A. Fisher University of Ottawa
Kurt J. Irgolic
Kurt J. Irgolic University of Graz
Dominik J. Weiss
Dominik J. Weiss Imperial College London
Francesco Forastiere
Francesco Forastiere Imperial College London
Peter Stille
Peter Stille University of Strasbourg
Walter Goessler
Walter Goessler University of Graz
Peter Steier
Peter Steier University of Vienna
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice
Nathalie Fagel
Nathalie Fagel University of Liège

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