The staff of the Central Radionuclide Laboratory has its scientific expertise mainly in the inorganic nuclear- and radiochemistry. It focuses its own scientific work onto the complexation chemistry of actinide and lanthanide elements.

The Central Radionuclide Laboratory was and is used by a variety of scientists both of TU Dresden and their co-operation partners:

Current Projects

Central Radionuclide Laboratory

• Nuclear waste depository research: Chemistry of Americium complexes with environmentally relevant small organic ligands
   

Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf
Institute of Resource Ecology

• UV/vis spectroscopic investigation of Nd with borate and organic ligands
   

Universitaet Heidelberg: Physikalisch-chemisches Institut

• Microcalorimetric investigation of complex formation reactions
   

Department of Chemistry: Chair of Special Inorganic Chemistry

• Extraction experiments of the complexation of 60Co, 65Zn, 110mAg, 64Cu, 152Eu, and 169Yb with macrocyclic organic ligands
• Synthesis, complexation, structure and separation capabilities of new selective ligand systems for actinide ions
   

Department of Biology: Chair of Molecular Cell Physiology and Endocrinology

• Cellular uptake and cytotxicity of lanthanides and actinides in mammalian kidney cells
   

Max-Bergmann-Zentrum für Biomaterialien

• Immobilization of 125I labelled proteins onto collagene-heparine conjugates
• Development, optimization, and application of a modular self-organizing immobilization system based on nucleic acids for the biosurface engineering of enossal implantate materials
   

Department of Physics: Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics

• Investigation of cosmogenic radionuclides in natural soils
   

Former Projects

Department of Biology: Chair of Biochemistry

• Coupling of 32P labeled DNA to Carbon nanotubes for the delivery of oligodeooxynucleotides against bladder cancer
   

Department of Biology: Chair of Zoology and Developmental Biology

• Application of telomeric repeat amplification protocol assays with 32P labelled desoxy guanosine triphosphate and subsequent audioradiography
   

Department of Biology: Moleculare Biotechnology

• Incorporation of 14C labeleld leucine in sediments
   

Department of Biology: Chair of Microbial Diversity

• In-vivo labelling of micro organisms with 75Se Selenite
   

Department of Forest sciences: Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology

• Organic matter and microbial community structure in soils of the mountain rainforrest region of Ecuador
   

Department of Physics: Chair of Structural Physics of Condensed Matter

• Studies for an ESA project of an upcoming Mars mission:
  Measurement of the energy spectrum of a 109Cd X-ray source with a fluorescence detector
  Measurement of diffractograms of polycrystalline samples of Si and Ni powders with 109Cd as X-ray source
   

Department of Physics: Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics 

• Irradiation of BeO detectors with intensive beta radiation in 90Y solutions
  Ruprecht-karls-Universität Heidelberg
   

Department of Chemistry: Chair of Food Chemistry

• Metabolic transit of 14C labelled Maillard reaction products
• Distribution of 14C labelled tryptophane between bood plasma and erythrocytes