POLICY BRIEFS
- Advancing Global Mercury Management Through Innovation and Collaboration, 2025
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury – Insights from Hydrothermal Mercury Fluxes, 2025
- Advancements in Methylmercury (MeHg) Detection Using Biosensors, 2025
- Enhancing Global Mercury Emission Scenarios for Effective Environmental Management, 2025
- Enhancing Atmospheric Mercury Monitoring, 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLES
- »TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry« (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2025.118157
Title: Recent progress and advancement in detecting Methylmercury using a battery of biosensors and biomolecular-based techniques: An updated overview
Authors: A. F. P. Allwin Mabes Raj, Raghuraj Singh Chouhan, Aljoša Košak, Milena Horvat, Aleksandra Lobnik, Tomaž Rijavec, Aleš Lapanje.
- »Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry« (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-023-05116-5
Title: Optimization of a pre‑concentration method for the analysis of mercury isotopes in low‑concentration foliar samples
Authors: Saeed Waqar Ali, Dominik Božič, Sreekanth Vijayakumaran Nair, Igor Živković, Jan Gačnik, Teodor‑Daniel Andron, Marta Jagodic Hudobivnik, David Kocman, Milena Horvat
- »Analytica Chimica Acta« (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2023.342168
Title: Application of traceable calibration for gaseous oxidized mercury in air
Authors: Sreekanth Vijayakumaran Nair, Jan Gačnik, Igor Živković, Teodor Daniel Andron, Saeed Waqar Ali, Jože Kotnik, and Milena Horvat
- »International Journal of Molecular Sciences« (2023)https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241210072
Title: Superparamagnetic Spinel-Ferrite Nano-Adsorbents Adapted for Hg2+, Dy3+, Tb3+ Removal/Recycling: Synthesis, Characterization, and Assessment of Toxicity.
Authors: Allwin Mabes Raj, A.F.P.; Bauman, M.; Dimitrušev, N.; Ali, L.M.A.; Onofre, M.; Gary-Bobo, M.; Durand, J.-O.; Lobnik, A.; Košak, A.
- »Environmental science. Nano« (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EN00367A
Title: Green synthesis of a magnetite/graphitic carbon nitride 2D nanocomposite for efficient Hg2+ remediation
Authors: CHOUHAN, Raghuraj S., GAČNIK, Jan, ŽIVKOVIĆ, Igor, VIJAYAKUMARAN NAIR, Sreekanth, VAN DE VELDE, Nigel Willy, VESEL, Alenka, ŠKET, Primož, GANDHI, Sonu, JERMAN, Ivan, HORVAT, Milena
- »Chemosensors« (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors11020136
Title: Comparison of Surface and Spectral Properties of Optical Sensor Layers Prepared by Spin/Spray Coating and Printing Techniques
Authors: Dimitrušev, N.; Nedeljko, P.; Mabes Raj, A.F.P.A.; Lobnik, A.
- »Geoscientific Model Development« (2023)
https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/2649/2023/gmd-16-2649-2023.html
Title: The 3D biogeochemical marine mercury cycling model MERCY v2.0 – linking atmospheric Hg to methylmercury in fish
Authors: Johannes Bieser; David J. Amptmeijer; Ute Daewel; Joachim Kuss; Anne L. Soerensen; Corinna Schrum
- “Environmental Science: Atmospheres” (2023):
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/ea/d3ea00063j
Title: Observed in-plume gaseous elemental mercury depletion suggests significant mercury scavenging by volcanic aerosols
Authors: Koenig, Alkuin M. and Magand, Olivier and Rose, Clemence and Di Muro, Andrea and Miyazaki, Yuzo and Colomb, Aurelie and Rissanen, Matti and Lee, Christopher F. and Koenig, Theodore K. and Volkamer, Rainer and Brioude, Jerome and Verreyken, Bert and Roberts, Tjarda and Edwards, Brock A. and Sellegri, Karine and Arellano, Santiago and Kowalski, Philippe and Aiuppa, Alessandro and Sonke, Jeroen E. and Dommergue, Aurélien
- »International Journal of Molecular Sciences« (2022)
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232416186
Title: Removal of Pb2+, CrT, and Hg2+ Ions from Aqueous Solutions Using Amino-Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles.
Authors: Allwin Mabes Raj, A.F.P.; Bauman, M.; Laki´c, M.; Dimitrušev, N.; Lobnik, A.; Košak, A.
- »Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology« (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-022-05830-z
Title: Removal of Pb2+, Cr3+ and Hg2+ ions from aqueous solutions using SiO2 and amino-functionalized SiO2 particles
Authors: A. F. P. Allwin Mabes, Raj Sara Krajnc, Maja Bauman, Marijana Lakić, Andreja Gutmaher, Aleksandra Lobnik, Aljoša Košak
- »Environmental Science & Technology« (2022)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c08443
Title: Photochemical Degradation of Dimethylmercury in Natural Waters
Authors: Johannes West; Sonja Gindorf; Sofi Jonsson
- “JGR-Atmospheres” (2022):
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JD036283
Title: Evidence for Interhemispheric Mercury Exchange in the Pacific Ocean Upper Troposphere
Authors: Alkuin M. Koenig, Jeroen E. Sonke, Olivier Magand, Marcos Andrade, Isabel Moreno, Fernando Velarde, Ricardo Forno, René Gutierrez, Luis Blacutt, Paolo Laj, Patrick Ginot, Johannes Bieser, Andreas Zahn, Franz Slemr, Aurélien Dommergue
- “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics” (2023):
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/1309/2023/
Title: Mercury in the free troposphere and bidirectional atmosphere–vegetation exchanges – insights from Maïdo mountain observatory in the Southern Hemisphere tropics
Authors: Alkuin M. Koenig, Olivier Magand, Bert Verreyken, Jerome Brioude, Crist Amelynck, Niels Schoon, Aurélie Colomb, Beatriz Ferreira Araujo, Michel Ramonet, Mahesh K. Sha, Jean-Pierre Cammas, Jeroen E. Sonke, and Aurélien Dommergue
- “Environmental Pollution” (2022):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749122012714
Title: Dispersion of airborne mercury species emitted from the cement plant
Authors: Sreekanth Vijayakumaran Nair, Jože Kotnik, Jan Gačnik, Igor Živković, Alkuin Maximilian Koenig, Tanja Ljubič Mlakar, Milena Horvat
- “Analytical Chemistry” (2022)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00260
Title: Calibration Approach for Gaseous Oxidized Mercury Based on Nonthermal Plasma Oxidation of Elemental Mercury
Authors: Jan Gačnik, Igor Zivković, Sergio Ribeiro Guevara, Jože Kotnik, Sabina Berisha, Sreekanth Vijayakumaran Nair, Andrea Jurov, Uroš Cvelbar, and Milena Horvat
- “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics” (2021)
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3447-2021
Title: Seasonal patterns of atmospheric mercury in tropical South America as inferred by a continuous total gaseous mercury record at Chacaltaya station (5240 m) in Bolivia
Authors: Alkuin Maximilian Koenig, Olivier Magand, Paolo Laj, Marcos Andrade, Isabel Moreno, Fernando Velarde, Grover Salvatierra, René Gutierrez, Luis Blacutt, Diego Aliaga, Thomas Reichler, Karine Sellegri, Olivier Laurent, Michel Ramonet, and Aurélien Dommergue