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Aleksandr Savateev is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany, where their research focuses primarily on energy conversion and materials science. Their work spans multiple disciplines including chemistry, renewable energy, materials chemistry, and catalysis.

The main fields of study for Aleksandr Savateev include:

  • Energy
  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

They contribute extensively to several subfields, notably:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Aleksandr Savateev's research topics cover:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Notable recent papers by Aleksandr Savateev include:

  • Potassium Poly(Heptazine Imide): Transition Metal-Free Solid-State Triplet Sensitizer in Cascade Energy Transfer and [3+2]-cycloadditions, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Enabled Efficient Ammonia Synthesis and Energy Supply in a Zinc-Nitrate Battery System by Separating Nitrate Reduction Process into Two Stages, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Lead author: Haifeng Jiang)
  • Azide-Alkyne Click Chemistry over a Heterogeneous Copper-Based Single-Atom Catalyst, 2022, ACS Catalysis (Lead author: Gianvito Vilé)
  • Dichloromethylation of enones by carbon nitride photocatalysis, 2020, Nature Communications (Lead author: Stefano Mazzanti)
  • Photocatalytic (Het)arylation of C(sp 3 )-H Bonds with Carbon Nitride, 2021, ACS Catalysis (Lead author: Saikat Das)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Markus Antonietti
  • Yevheniia Markushyna
  • Nadezda V. Tarakina
  • Stefano Mazzanti
  • Ivo F. Teixeira

Best Publications

  • Optimizing Optical Absorption, Exciton Dissociation, and Charge Transfer of a Polymeric Carbon Nitride with Ultrahigh Solar Hydrogen Production Activity.

    Guigang Zhang;Guosheng Li;Zhi-An Lan;Lihua Lin

  • Organic semiconductor photocatalyst can bifunctionalize arenes and heteroarenes

    Indrajit Ghosh;Indrajit Ghosh;Jagadish Khamrai;Aleksandr Savateev;Nikita Shlapakov

  • Ionothermal Synthesis of Triazine-Heptazine-Based Copolymers with Apparent Quantum Yields of 60 % at 420 nm for Solar Hydrogen Production from "Sea Water".

    Guigang Zhang;Lihua Lin;Guosheng Li;Yongfan Zhang

  • Photoredox Catalytic Organic Transformations using Heterogeneous Carbon Nitrides

    Aleksandr Savateev;Indrajit Ghosh;Indrajit Ghosh;Burkhard König;Markus Antonietti

  • Tailoring the Grain Boundary Chemistry of Polymeric Carbon Nitride for Enhanced Solar Hydrogen Production and CO2 Reduction

    Guigang Zhang;Guosheng Li;Tobias Heil;Spiros Zafeiratos

  • “The Easier the Better” Preparation of Efficient Photocatalysts—Metastable Poly(heptazine imide) Salts

    Zupeng Chen;Aleksandr Savateev;Sergey Pronkin;Vasiliki Papaefthimiou

  • Advancing the n → π* electron transition of carbon nitride nanotubes for H2 photosynthesis

    Guigang Zhang;Aleksandr Savateev;Yubao Zhao;Lina Li

  • Heterogeneous Organocatalysis for Photoredox Chemistry

    Aleksandr Savateev;Markus Antonietti

  • Potassium Poly(heptazine imides) from Aminotetrazoles: Shifting Band Gaps of Carbon Nitride-like Materials for More Efficient Solar Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution

    Aleksandr Savateev;Sergey Pronkin;Jan Dirk Epping;Marc Georg Willinger;Marc Georg Willinger

  • Electron Deficient Monomers that Optimize Nucleation and Enhance the Photocatalytic Redox Activity of Carbon Nitrides.

    Guigang Zhang;Minghui Liu;Tobias Heil;Spiros Zafeiratos

  • Semi-heterogeneous Dual Nickel/Photocatalysis using Carbon Nitrides: Esterification of Carboxylic Acids with Aryl Halides

    Bartholomäus Pieber;Jamal A. Malik;Cristian Cavedon;Cristian Cavedon;Sebastian Gisbertz;Sebastian Gisbertz

  • Potassium Poly(Heptazine Imide) – Transition Metal‐free Solid State Triplet Sensitizer in Cascade Energy Transfer and [3+2]‐cycloadditions

    Aleksandr Savateev;Nadezda V. Tarakina;Volker Strauss;Tanveer Hussain

  • A “waiting” carbon nitride radical anion: a charge storage material and key intermediate in direct C–H thiolation of methylarenes using elemental sulfur as the “S”-source

    Aleksandr Savateev;Bogdan Kurpil;Artem Mishchenko;Guigang Zhang

  • Towards Organic Zeolites and Inclusion Catalysts: Heptazine Imide Salts Can Exchange Metal Cations in the Solid State

    Aleksandr Savateev;Sergey Pronkin;Marc Georg Willinger;Marc Georg Willinger;Markus Antonietti

  • Dichloromethylation of enones by carbon nitride photocatalysis

    Stefano Mazzanti;Bogdan Kurpil;Bartholomäus Pieber;Markus Antonietti

  • Photocatalytic (Het)arylation of C(sp3)–H Bonds with Carbon Nitride

    Saikat Das;Kathiravan Murugesan;Gonzalo J. Villegas Rodríguez;Jaspreet Kaur

  • Solar Reforming of Biomass with Homogeneous Carbon Dots.

    Demetra S. Achilleos;Demetra S. Achilleos;Wenxing Yang;Hatice Kasap;Aleksandr Savateev

  • Template- and Metal-Free Synthesis of Nitrogen-Rich Nanoporous "Noble" Carbon Materials by Direct Pyrolysis of a Preorganized Hexaazatriphenylene Precursor.

    Ralf Walczak;Bogdan Kurpil;Aleksandr Savateev;Tobias Heil

  • Photo-Ni dual catalytic C(sp2)–C(sp3) Cross-Coupling Reactions with Mesoporous Graphitic -Carbon Nitride as Heterogenous Organic Semiconductor Photocatalyst

    Jagadish Khamrai;Indrajit Ghosh;Aleksandr Savateev;Markus Antonietti

  • Ionic Carbon Nitrides in Solar Hydrogen Production and Organic Synthesis: Exciting Chemistry and Economic Advantages

    Aleksandr Savateev;Markus Antonietti

  • Facile Synthesis of Potassium Poly(heptazine imide) (PHIK)/Ti-Based Metal–Organic Framework (MIL-125-NH2) Composites for Photocatalytic Applications

    Nicolás Artemio Rodríguez;Nicolás Artemio Rodríguez;Aleksandr Savateev;Maria Alejandra Grela;Maria Alejandra Grela;Dariya Dontsova

  • Organic Photocatalysis: Carbon Nitride Semiconductors vs. Molecular Catalysts

    Yevheniia Markushyna;Christene A. Smith;Aleksandr Savateev

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Antonietti
Markus Antonietti Max Planck Society
Guigang Zhang
Guigang Zhang Fuzhou University
Marc Georg Willinger
Marc Georg Willinger Technical University of Munich
Martin Oschatz
Martin Oschatz Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Burkhard König
Burkhard König University of Regensburg
Xinchen Wang
Xinchen Wang Fuzhou University
Peter H. Seeberger
Peter H. Seeberger Max Planck Society
Dirk M. Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erwin Reisner
Erwin Reisner University of Cambridge
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London

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