Publications

Researchers who have received funding from SUCCeSS are required to use the affiliation when publishing results related to the funding: the SUCCeSS PIs; SUCCeSS post docs; SUCCeSS travel grant recipients, and SUCCeSS executive committee.

Affiliation: Stockholm University Center for Circular and Sustainable Systems (SUCCeSS), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Publication list for 2026

Reactivity under mechanochemical conditions: a new and more sustainable era for hypervalent iodine?
Pernilla Öberg, Sayad Doobary and Berit Olofsson
Green Chem. 2026, 28, 5896-5909 Link

Pollutant biodegradation profile mediated by multi-trophic microbial dynamics in rivers
Joeselle M Serrana, Run Tian, Francisco J A Nascimento, Elias Broman, Benoît Dessirier, Malte Posselt
ISME Communications 2026, 6, ycag089 Link

Valorization of Spruce Bark to Environmentally Sustainable Packaging Materials
Houssine Khalili, Suthawan Muangmeesri, Lala Ramazanova, Léa Braud, Joseph SM Samec, Aji P Mathew
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2026, 14, 3, 1596 Link

A call for chemical safety and sustainability
Oskar Karlsson, Berit Olofsson, Aji P Mathew
Nat. Rev. Chem. 2026, 10, 147-148. Link

Publication list for 2025

Safe-and-sustainable-by-design approach to polyesters from non-oestrogenic bisphenols
Cristiana Margarita, Paula Pierozan, Sathiyaraj Subramaniyan, Andrey Shatskiy, Darius Pakarinen, Annabelle Fritz, Emma Lundqvist, Victoria Chu, Hampus Hagelin, Ulf Norinder, Minna Hakkarainen, Oskar Karlsson & Helena Lundberg
Nat Sustain 9, 86–95 (2026) Link

Sustainable and scalable one-pot synthesis of diaryliodonium salts
Sayad Doobary, Leonard Kersting, Piret Villo, Marufa Akter, Berit Olofsson
Chemical Communications, 2025, 61, 5158. Link

Physiological roles of lignins – tuning cell wall hygroscopy and
biomehanics
Edouard Pesquet, Igor Cesarino, Shinya Kajita, Katharina Pawlowski
New Phythologist, 2025, 248, 2674. Link

Cross-taxa assessment of species diversity and phylogenetic structure of benthic communities in a dam-impacted river undergoing habitat restoration
J. M. Serrana, B. Li, K. Watanabe
Science of The Total Environment, 2025, 958, 177886. Link

Environmental drivers of the resistome across the Baltic Sea
Joeselle Serrana, Malte Posselt, Francisco Nascimiento, Benoit Dessirier
Microbiome, 2025, 13, 92. Link

Is it possible to completely dry cellulose?
Aleksandar Y. Mehandzhiyski , Maria-Ximena Ruiz-Caldas , Patrick Heasman
Varvara Apostolopoulou-Kalkavoura , Lennart Bergstrom, Igor Zozoulenko
Carbohydrate Polymers 2025, 365 , 123803- 123812. Link

Systematic metaproteomics mapping reveals functional and ecological landscapes of Ex vivo human gut microbiota responses to therapeutic drugs
Joeselle Serrana, Li Leyuan, Caitlin M. A Simopoulos, Janice Mayne,
Ning Zhibin
Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 9383. Link

Progress and future outlook towards a safe and sustainable production and use of chemicals
John Munthe, Lennart Bergström, Dämien Bolinius, Ian Cotgreave, Anna-Karin Hellström, Hanna Holmquist, Magnus J Johansson, Anneli Julander, Richard Lihammar, Jonathan Martin, Belén Martín-Matute, Aji P Mathew, Tomas Rydberg, Lisa Skedung, Monika Witala, Per-Olof Syrén
Communications Chemistry, 2025, 8, 350. Link

In Operando Characterization of Nanocellulose Based Water Treatment Materials Using Atomic Force Microscopy and Synchrotron Scattering
Houssine Khalili, Senuri H Kumarage, Aji P Mathew
Accounts of Materials Research, 2025, 6, 1451. Link

Mechanochemical synthesis of X-vinylbenziodoxol(on)es and one-pot conversion to complex alkenes
Sayad Doobary, Judith Braunreuther, Andrew K. Inge, Berit Olofsson
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, e 19049. Link

Critical review on in silico methods for structural annotation of chemicals detected with LC/HRMS non-targeted screening
Henrik Hupatz, Ida Rahu, Wei-Chieh Wang, Pilleriin Peets, Emma H Palm, Anneli Kruve
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2025, 417, 473-493. Link

Microbial hydrocarbon degradation potential of the Baltic Sea ecosystem
Joeselle M Serrana, Benoît Dessirier, Francisco J. A. Nascimento,
Elias Broman, Malte Posselt
Microbiome, 2025, 13(1), 204. Link

Cover Feature: Upcycling Textile Waste into Anionic and Cationic Cellulose Nanofibrils and Their Assembly into 2D and 3D Materials
Maria-Ximena Ruiz-Caldas, Varvara Apostolopoulou-Kalkavoura, Laura Pacoste, Aleksander Jaworski, Aji P. Mathew
ChemSusChem 9/2025. Link

Sustainable and scalable one-pot synthesis of diaryliodonium salts
Sayad Doobary, Leonard Kersting, Piret Villo, Marufa Akter and Berit Olofsson
Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 5158-5161. Link
Invited contribution for the themed collection “Chemistry for a Sustainable World – Celebrating Our Community Tackling Global Challenges”

Publication list for 2024

Upcycling Textile Waste into Anionic and Cationic Cellulose Nanofibrils and Their Assembly into 2D and 3D Materials
Maria-Ximena Ruiz-Caldas, Varvara Apostolopoulou-Kalkavoura, Laura Pacoste, Aleksander Jaworski, Aji P. Mathew
ChemSusChem 2024, e202402103. Link

Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) induced cancer related DNA methylation alterations in human breast cells: A whole genome methylome study
P. Pierozan, A. Höglund, E. Theodoropoulou, O. Karlsson
Sci Total Environ. 2024, 949, 174864. Link

Automated Image-Based Fluorescence Screening of Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Daphnia magna: An Advanced Ecotoxicological Testing Tool
C. Abele, A. Perez, A. Höglund, P. Pierozan, M. Breitholt, O. Karlsson
Environ Sci Technol. 2024, 58, 15926-15937. Link

Hypervalent iodine chemistry with a mechanochemical twist
S. Doobary, M. M. de Vries Ibáñez, B. Olofsson
Green Chemistry 2024, 26, 11518-11523. Link

Nanocellulose: New horizons in organic chemistry and beyond
S. Doobary, V. Apostolopoulou Kalkavoura, A. P. Mathew, B. Olofsson
Chem 2024, 10, 3279-3293. Link

Understanding the effect of different nanocelluloses on the proliferation and biomechanical properties of E. coli
A. Aguilar-Sánchez, J. Li, B. Jalvo, E. Pesquet, A. P. Mathew
Cell Reports Physical Science 2024, 5, 102226. Link

Critical review on in silico methods for structural annotation of chemicals detected with LC/HRMS non-targeted screening
H. Hupatz, I. Rahu, W.-C. Wang, P. Peets, E. H. Palm, A. Kruve
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2024. Link

In Situ Functionalisation and Upcycling of Post-Consumer Textile Blends into 3D Printable Nanocomposite Filaments
V. Apostolopoulou-Kalkavoura, N. Fijoł, S. Lombardo, M.-X. Ruiz-Caldas, A. P. Mathew
Advanced Sustainable Systems 2024, 8, 2400132. Link

Publication list for 2023

Prospects for the integration of lignin materials into the circular economy
B. L. Tardy, E. Lizundia, C. Guizani, M. Hakkarainen, M. H. Sipponen
Materials Today, 2023, 65, 122-132. Link