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Wolf-Dieter Deckwer was affiliated with the Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany. Their academic career centered around scientific research associated with this institution.

While specific recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, fields or subfields of study, and main topics of work are not listed, the available data confirms the scientist's contributions were formally recognized in an academic context.

Wolf-Dieter Deckwer was deceased at the time this information was recorded.

Best Publications

  • Enzymatic Degradation of Poly(ethylene terephthalate): Rapid Hydrolyse using a Hydrolase from T. fusca

    Rolf-Joachim Müller;Hedwig Schrader;Jörn Profe;Karolin Dresler

  • Biodegradation of polyesters containing aromatic constituents.

    Rolf-Joachim Müller;Ilona Kleeberg;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Fermentation of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol by Klebsiella and Citrobacter strains

    Thomas Homann;Carmen Tag;Hanno Biebl;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Studies on the enzymatic hydrolysis of polyesters. II. Aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters

    Elke Marten;Rolf-Joachim Müller;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Bacillus megaterium—from simple soil bacterium to industrial protein production host

    Patricia S. Vary;Rebekka Biedendieck;Tobias Fuerch;Friedhelm Meinhardt

  • Studies on the enzymatic hydrolysis of polyesters I. Low molecular mass model esters and aliphatic polyesters

    Elke Marten;Rolf-Joachim Müller;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Hydrodynamic Properties of the Fischer-Tropsch Slurry Process

    Wolf-Dieter Deckwer;Youssef Louisi;Ahmed Zaidi;Milos Ralek

  • Degradation of natural and synthetic polyesters under anaerobic conditions

    Dunja-Manal Abou-Zeid;Rolf-Joachim Müller;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Biodegradation of Aliphatic-Aromatic Copolyesters by Thermomonospora fusca and Other Thermophilic Compost Isolates

    Ilona Kleeberg;Claudia Hetz;Reiner Michael Kroppenstedt;Rolf-Joachim Müller

  • Synthesis, properties and biodegradability of polyesters based on 1,3‐propanediol

    Uwe Witt;Rolf-Joachim Müller;Josef Augusta;Hartmut Widdecke

  • Glycerol conversion to 1,3-propanediol by newly isolated clostridia

    Hanno Biebl;Sabine Marten;Hans Hippe;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • New biodegradable polyester-copolymers from commodity chemicals with favorable use properties

    Uwe Witt;Rolf-Joachim Müller;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Removal of mercury from chemical wastewater by microoganisms in technical scale

    Irene Wagner-Döbler;Harald Von Canstein;Ying Li;Kenneth N. Timmis

  • Studies on sequence distribution of aliphatic/aromatic copolyesters by high‐resolution 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for evaluation of biodegradability

    Uwe Witt;Rolf-Joachim Müller;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Combined use of proteomic analysis and enzyme activity assays for metabolic pathway analysis of glycerol fermentation by Klebsiella pneumoniae.

    Wei Wang;Jibin Sun;Michael Hartlep;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Biodegradation of aliphatic homopolyesters and aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters by anaerobic microorganisms.

    Dunja-Manal Abou-Zeid;Rolf-Joachim Müller;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Production and secretion of recombinant Leuconostoc mesenteroides dextransucrase DsrS in Bacillus megaterium.

    Marco Malten;Rajan Hollmann;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer;Dieter Jahn

  • Fermentative production of 1,3-propanediol from glycerol by Clostridium butyricum up to a scale of 2m 3

    Bernd Günzel;Sems Yonsel;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Multiplicity and stability analysis of microorganisms in continuous culture: effects of metabolic overflow and growth inhibition

    Zhi-Long Xiu;An-Ping Zeng;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

  • Comparison of temperature- and isopropyl-β-d-thiogalacto-pyranoside-induced synthesis of basic fibroblast growth factor in high-cell-density cultures of recombinant Escherichia coli

    Anke Seeger;Bernard Schneppe;John E.G. McCarthy;Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf D. Schmid
Rolf D. Schmid University of Stuttgart
An-Ping Zeng
An-Ping Zeng Hamburg University of Technology
Dieter Jahn
Dieter Jahn Technische Universität Braunschweig
Kenneth N. Timmis
Kenneth N. Timmis Technische Universität Braunschweig
Christoph Wittmann
Christoph Wittmann Saarland University
Jens Weitkamp
Jens Weitkamp University of Stuttgart
Manfred Nimtz
Manfred Nimtz Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Irene Wagner-Döbler
Irene Wagner-Döbler Technische Universität Braunschweig
Zhilong Xiu
Zhilong Xiu Dalian University of Technology
Ursula Rinas
Ursula Rinas University of Hannover

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