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Michael Wilhelm is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. They have contributed extensively to research in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their work also spans Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their research covers a range of topics centered on crystallization and solubility studies as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography. They have made contributions relating to advancements in battery materials and advanced battery technologies research. Additionally, their interests include MXene and MAX phase materials, 2D materials and applications, and quantum dots synthesis and properties.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Sanjay Mathur, Veronika Brune, Corinna Hegemann, Thomas Fischer, and Fabian Hartl.

Michael Wilhelm has published papers in notable scientific venues, with multiple articles appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database. Other frequent publication venues include Advanced Engineering Materials, Pediatric Cardiology, Nano Energy, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Recent selected papers authored or coauthored by them are:

  • New insights into carbon-based and MXene anodes for Na and K-ion storage: A review (2021), Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Nacre-Mimetic, Mechanically Flexible, and Electrically Conductive Silk Fibroin-MXene Composite Foams as Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors (2021), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Perovskite solar cells based self-charging power packs: Fundamentals, applications and challenges (2022), Nano Energy
  • Enhanced piezoresponse and surface electric potential of hybrid biodegradable polyhydroxybutyrate scaffolds functionalized with reduced graphene oxide for tissue engineering (2021), Nano Energy
  • Selective degradation of synthetic polymers through enzymes immobilized on nanocarriers (2021), MRS Communications

Best Publications

  • Perfluorinated compounds--exposure assessment for the general population in Western countries.

    Hermann Fromme;Sheryl A. Tittlemier;Wolfgang Völkel;Michael Wilhelm

  • Human biomonitoring: state of the art.

    Jürgen Angerer;Ulrich Ewers;Michael Wilhelm

  • Ambient air pollution and low birthweight: a European cohort study (ESCAPE)

    Marie Pedersen;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Claire Bernard;Inmaculada Aguilera

  • Biomonitoring of perfluorinated compounds in children and adults exposed to perfluorooctanoate-contaminated drinking water.

    Jürgen Hölzer;Oliver Midasch;Knut Rauchfuss;Martin Kraft

  • Birth weight and prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE): a meta-analysis within 12 European Birth Cohorts

    Eva Govarts;Mark Nieuwenhuijsen;Greet Schoeters;Greet Schoeters;Ferran Ballester

  • Update of the reference and HBM values derived by the German Human Biomonitoring Commission.

    Christine Schulz;Michael Wilhelm;Ursel Heudorf;Marike Kolossa-Gehring

  • Revised and new reference values for some trace elements in blood and urine for human biomonitoring in environmental medicine.

    Michael Wilhelm;Ulrich Ewers;Christine Schulz

  • New HBM values for emerging substances, inventory of reference and HBM values in force, and working principles of the German Human Biomonitoring Commission.

    Petra Apel;Jürgen Angerer;Michael Wilhelm;Marike Kolossa-Gehring

  • Evaluation of pepper mild mottle virus, human picobirnavirus and Torque teno virus as indicators of fecal contamination in river water

    Ibrahim Ahmed Hamza;Lars Jurzik;Klaus Überla;Michael Wilhelm

  • Revised and new reference values for environmental pollutants in urine or blood of children in Germany derived from the German environmental survey on children 2003-2006 (GerES IV).

    Christine Schulz;Jürgen Angerer;Ulrich Ewers;Ursel Heudorf

  • Reference values and human biological monitoring values for environmental toxins. Report on the work and recommendations of the Commission on Human Biological Monitoring of the German Federal Environmental Agency.

    U. Ewers;C. Krause;C. Schulz;M. Wilhelm

  • Air pollution during pregnancy and childhood cognitive and psychomotor development: six European birth cohorts.

    Mònica Guxens;Raquel Garcia-Esteban;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Joan Forns

  • Detection of human viruses in rivers of a densly-populated area in Germany using a virus adsorption elution method optimized for PCR analyses.

    Ibrahim Ahmed Hamza;Lars Jurzik;Alexander Stang;Klaus Sure

  • PCDD/F and dioxin-like PCB in human blood and milk from German mothers.

    Jürgen Wittsiepe;Peter Fürst;Petra Schrey;Friederike Lemm

  • Comparison of free-living amoebae in hot water systems of hospitals with isolates from moist sanitary areas by identifying genera and determining temperature tolerance.

    Ute Rohr;Susanne Weber;Rolf Michel;Fidelis Selenka

  • Occurrence of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in drinking water of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and new approach to assess drinking water contamination by shorter-chained C4-C7 PFCs.

    Michael Wilhelm;Sabine Bergmann;Hermann H. Dieter

  • Human biomonitoring assessment values: Approaches and data requirements

    Juergen Angerer;Lesa L. Aylward;Sean M. Hays;Birger Heinzow

  • Two-year follow-up biomonitoring pilot study of residents' and controls' PFC plasma levels after PFOA reduction in public water system in Arnsberg, Germany.

    Edna Brede;Michael Wilhelm;Thomas Göen;Johannes Müller

  • European birth cohorts for environmental health research

    Martine Vrijheid;Maribel Casas;Anna Bergström;Amanda Carmichael

  • Methods to detect infectious human enteric viruses in environmental water samples

    Ibrahim Ahmed Hamza;Lars Jurzik;Klaus Überla;Michael Wilhelm

  • High levels of PAH-metabolites in urine of e-waste recycling workers from Agbogbloshie, Ghana.

    Torsten Feldt;Julius N. Fobil;Jürgen Wittsiepe;Michael Wilhelm

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Brüning
Thomas Brüning Ruhr University Bochum
Ursula Krämer
Ursula Krämer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Holger M. Koch
Holger M. Koch Ruhr University Bochum
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Marike Kolossa-Gehring
Marike Kolossa-Gehring German Environment Agency
Greet Schoeters
Greet Schoeters University of Antwerp
Hermann Fromme
Hermann Fromme Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dennis Nowak
Dennis Nowak Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Albrecht Seidel
Albrecht Seidel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Klaus Überla
Klaus Überla University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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