Lukas Gerber

Interests

Bio-inspired functional living materials
Antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles
Salt nanoparticles

Education

I  Research

A  Refereed Journal Articles

• L.C. Gerber, N. Moser, N.A. Luechinger, W.J. Stark, R.N. Grass, Phosphate starvation as an antimicrobial strategy: the controllable toxicity of lanthanum oxide nanoparticles, Chem. Commun., 48, 3869-3871 (2012).
  Featured in RSC Chemistry World, News, March 2012. Link
  
  
• L.C. Gerber, F.M. Koehler, R.N. Grass, W.J. Stark, Incorporating microorganisms into polymer layers provides bio-inspired functional living materials, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109(1), 90-94 (2012).
  Featured on the PNAS cover, 109, 1 (2012). Link
  Featured in Science as Editors' Choice, Science, 335, 6066 (2012). Link
  Featured in Nature Materials as News&Views, Nature Materials, 11, 2 (2012). DOI:10.1038/nmat3232
  Featured in Chemical & Engineering News as Newscript, Chemical & Engineering News, 90, 5 (2012). Link
  
  
• L.C. Gerber, D. Mohn, G. Fortunato, M. Astasov-Frauenhoffer, T. Imfeld, T. Waltimo, M. Zehnder, W.J. Stark. Incorporation of reactive silver-tricalcium phosphate nanoparticles into polyamide 6 allows preparation of self-disinfecting fibers, Polym. Eng. Sci., 51(1), 71-77 (2011).
• A.M. Studer, L.K. Limbach, L. Van Duc, F. Krumeich, E,K. Athanassiou, L.C. Gerber, H. Moch, W.J. Stark. Nanoparticle cytotoxicity depends on intracellular solubility: Comparison of stabilized copper metal and degradable copper oxide nanoparticles, Toxicol. Lett., 197, 169-174 (2010).
  
  

C  Conference Presentation and Proceedings

• L.C. Gerber, F.M. Koehler, R.N. Grass, W.J. Stark, Bio-Inspired Self-Cleaning Living-Materials, oral presentation, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, November 28 - December 2, 2011.
  
• L.C. Gerber, S. Loher, D. Mohn, O.D. Schneider, W.J. Stark, Reactive self-sterilizing surfaces (poster), ETH Industry Day, Zurich, Switzerland, September 17, 2010.
• L.C. Gerber, D. Mohn, W.J. Stark, Highly Efficient Nano-Silver Composites Enable Self-Disinfecting Polymer, oral presentation, World Congress on Particle Technology 6, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26 - 29, 2010.
• L.C. Gerber, D. Mohn, and W.J. Stark, Incorporation of Reactive Silver-Tricalcium Phosphate Nanoparticles Into Polyamide (Nylon) Allows Preparation of Self-Sterilizing Fibers, oral presentation, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, USA, November 9 - 13, 2009.
• L.C. Gerber, D. Mohn, W.J. Stark, Reactive self-sterilizing ­Fibers – Controlled antibacterial silver release (poster), 4th MRC Graduate Symposium, ETH Zurich, June 10, 2009.

D  Media Coverage

• Discover Magazine - USA - Jan., 2012
• Discovery News - USA - Jan. 6, 2012
• Membrana.ru - Russia - Jan. 10, 2012
• Pavlo News - Ukraine - Jan. 11, 2012
• Scix - Italy - Jan. 9, 2012
• feelGreen.de - Germany - Dec. 30, 2011
• Scientias.nl - Holland - Jan. 10, 2012
• Physorg.com - England - Jan. 9, 2012
• The Globe and Mail - Canada - Jan. 03, 2012
• Engadget - Germany - Dec. 25, 2011
• Kuwait News Agency - Kuwait - Dec. 22, 2011
• Hamburger Abendblatt - Germany - Dec. 22, 2011
• Krone - Austria- Dec. 22, 2011
• Wienerzeitung - Austria - Dec. 22, 2011
• ETH Life - Switzerland - Dec. 22, 2011
• Schweizer Fernsehen, Tagesschau - Switzerland - Dec. 22, 2011
• Laborpraxis - Germany - Dec. 22, 2011
• Schweizerbauer - Switzerland - Dec. 22, 2011
• NPR, The Salt - USA - Jan. 05, 2012
• Blick am Abend - Switzerland - Dec. 22, 2011

Contact Info

Institute for Chemical and Bio-Engineering
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10
ETH Zurich, HCI E 114
CH-8093 Zurich

Tel: +41 44 633 41 47
Fax: +41 44 633 15 71
Email: Lukas Gerber