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SCHWAB Fabienne

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Alumni

Senior Scientist, Project Director, BioNanomaterials

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Office:	B226
Phone:	+41 26 300 9510
Email:	fabienne.schwab@unifr.ch
	0000-0002-0946-9994

Projects team

Soil Plant Analytics

Soil Plant Analytics

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Bio-inspired Agrochemicals

We use the agricultural legume crop Medicago sativa (alfalfa) to characterize the efficiency and biological…

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Publications

Strategies for Enhancing Plant Immunity and Resilience Using Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agriculture
Peng Zhang, Yaqi Jiang, Fabienne Schwab, Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh, Renato Grillo, Jason C. White, Zhiling Guo, Iseult Lynch
Environmental Science & Technology 58 , 9051-9060 (2024)

The need for awareness and action in managing nanowaste
Fabienne Schwab, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Aline Scherz, Thierry Meyer, Bedia Begüm Karakoçak, Alke Petri-Fink
Nature Nanotechnology (2023)

Opportunities and Limitations of Nanoagrochemicals
Fabienne Schwab
Helvetica Chimica Acta (2022)

Encapsulated salts in velvet worm slime drive its hardening
Yendry Regina Corrales-Ureña, Fabienne Schwab, Efraín Ochoa-Martínez, Miguel Benavides-Acevedo, José Vega-Baudrit, Reinaldo Pereira, Klaus Rischka, Paul-Ludwig Michael Noeske, Alexander Gogos, Dimitri Vanhecke, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Alke Petri-Fink
Scientific Reports 12 (2022)

Silica nanoparticles enhance disease resistance in Arabidopsis plants
Mohamed El-Shetehy, Aboubakr Moradi, Mattia Maceroni, Didier Reinhardt, Alke Petri-Fink, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Felix Mauch, Fabienne Schwab
Nature Nanotechnology (2021)

When plants and plastic interact
Fabienne Schwab, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Alke Petri-Fink
Nature Nanotechnology (2020)

A hydrofluoric acid-free method to dissolve and quantify silica nanoparticles in aqueous and solid matrices
David Bossert, Dominic A. Urban, Mattia Maceroni, Liliane Ackermann-Hirschi, Laetitia Haeni, Phattadon Yajan, Miguel Spuch-Calvar, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Laura Rodriguez-Lorenzo, Alke Petri-Fink, Fabienne Schwab
Scientific Reports (2019)

Nanoparticle Uptake in Plants: Gold Nanomaterial Localized in Roots of Arabidopsis thaliana by X-ray Computed Nanotomography and Hyperspectral Imaging
Astrid Avellan, Fabienne Schwab, Armand Masion, Perrine Chaurand, Daniel Borschneck, Vladimir Vidal, Jérôme Rose, Catherine Santaella, Clément Levard
Environmental Science & Technology (2017)

Uptake and Distribution of Silver in the Aquatic Plant Landoltia punctata (Duckweed) Exposed to Silver and Silver Sulfide Nanoparticles
John P. Stegemeier, Benjamin P. Colman, Fabienne Schwab, Mark R. Wiesner, Gregory V. Lowry
Environmental Science & Technology (2017)

Ecotoxicology Principles for Manufactured Nanomaterials

Environmental Nanotechnology: Applications and Impacts of Nanomaterials (2016)

Speciation Matters: Bioavailability of Silver and Silver Sulfide Nanoparticles to Alfalfa (Medicago sativa).
John P. Stegemeier, Fabienne Schwab, Benjamin P. Colman, Samuel M. Webb, Matthew Newville, Antonio Lanzirotti, Christopher Winkler, Mark R. Wiesner, Gregory V. Lowry
Environmental Science and Technology (2015)

Barriers, pathways and processes for uptake, translocation and accumulation of nanomaterials in plants - Critical review
Fabienne Schwab, Guangshu Zhai, Meaghan Kern, Amalia Turner, Jerald L. Schnoor, Mark R. Wiesner
Nanotoxicology (2015)

Sorption kinetics and equilibrium of the herbicide diuron to carbon nanotubes or soot in absence and presence of algae
Fabienne Schwab, Louise Camenzuli, Katja Knauer, Bernd Nowack, Arnaud Magrez, Laura Sigg, Thomas D. Bucheli
Environmental Pollution (2014)

Fusarium Head Blight Control and Prevention of Mycotoxin Contamination in Wheat with Botanicals and Tannic Acid
Hans-Rudolf Forrer, Tomke Musa, Fabienne Schwab, Eveline Jenny, Thomas Bucheli, Felix Wettstein, Susanne Vogelgsang
Toxins (2014)

Keynote: Modeling nanomaterial transport and biouptake in a complex aquatic system: exploring surface affinity as a predictor of nanoparticle fate

Goldschmidt Conference (2013)

Diuron Sorbed to Carbon Nanotubes Exhibits Enhanced Toxicity to Chlorella vulgaris
Fabienne Schwab, Thomas D. Bucheli, Louise Camenzuli, Arnaud Magrez, Katja Knauer, Laura Sigg, Bernd Nowack
Environmental Science & Technology (2013)

Impact of Natural Sulfidation of Silver Nanoparticles on Bioavailability and Biouptake

Goldschmidt Conference (2013)

Are Carbon Nanotube Effects on Green Algae Caused by Shading and Agglomeration?
Fabienne Schwab, Thomas D. Bucheli, Lungile P. Lukhele, Arnaud Magrez, Bernd Nowack, Laura Sigg, Katja Knauer
Environmental Science & Technology (2011)

Computational study of the mechanism and the relative free energies of binding of anticholesteremic inhibitors to squalene-hopene cyclase
Fabienne Schwab, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren, Bojan Zagrovic
Biochemistry (2008)

SCHWAB Fabienne

Soil Plant Analytics

Bio-inspired Agrochemicals