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Bernd Meyer is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with notable expertise in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Organic Chemistry.

Their work addresses a range of topics including:

  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Bernd Meyer has contributed to several scientific journals and has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Surface Science

Their recent papers include:

  • "Revealing the strain-associated physical mechanisms impacting the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells" (2022) published in Joule
  • "Direct assessment of the acidity of individual surface hydroxyls" (2021) published in Nature
  • "Dynamic Covalent Formation of Concave Disulfide Macrocycles Mechanically Interlocked with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" (2020) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Chemisorption and Physisorption at the Metal/Organic Interface: Bond Energies of Naphthalene and Azulene on Coinage Metal Surfaces" (2020) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Tribological Behavior of Magnetron-Sputtered MoS2 Solid Lubricant Coatings Deposited under Industrial Conditions" (2021) published in Coatings

Bernd Meyer has collaborated extensively with several coauthors including Christian L. Ritterhoff, Norbert Jux, Christoph Oleszak, Andreas Hirsch, and Sebastian Gsänger. The frequency of their collaborations indicates ongoing research partnerships within their scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Effect of friction on oxidative graphite intercalation and high-quality graphene formation

    Steffen Seiler;Christian E. Halbig;Christian E. Halbig;Fabian Grote;Fabian Grote;Philipp Rietsch;Philipp Rietsch

  • Density-functional study of the structure and stability of ZnO surfaces

    B. Meyer;Dominik Marx

  • Ab initio study of ferroelectric domain walls in PbTiO 3

    B. Meyer;David Vanderbilt

  • Ab initio study of BaTiO 3 and PbTiO 3 surfaces in external electric fields

    B. Meyer;David Vanderbilt

  • First-principles study of the polar O-terminated ZnO surface in thermodynamic equilibrium with oxygen and hydrogen

    B. Meyer

  • Composition, structure, and stability of the rutile TiO 2 (110) surface: Oxygen depletion, hydroxylation, hydrogen migration, and water adsorption

    Piotr M. Kowalski;Bernd Meyer;Bernd Meyer;Dominik Marx

  • Partial dissociation of water leads to stable superstructures on the surface of zinc oxide.

    Bernd Meyer;Dominik Marx;Olga Dulub;Ulrike Diebold

  • Dislocations in bilayer graphene

    Benjamin Butz;Christian Dolle;Florian Niekiel;Konstantin Weber

  • Hydrogen induced metallicity on the ZnO(1010) surface.

    Y. Wang;B. Meyer;X. Yin;M. Kunat

  • Charge localization dynamics induced by oxygen vacancies on the TiO₂(110) surface.

    Piotr M. Kowalski;Matteo Farnesi Camellone;Nisanth N. Nair;Bernd Meyer

  • Observation of the dynamical change in a water monolayer adsorbed on a ZnO surface.

    Olga Dulub;Bernd Meyer;Ulrike Diebold

  • Active Sites on Oxide Surfaces: ZnO-Catalyzed Synthesis of Methanol from CO and H2

    Melanie Kurtz;Jennifer Strunk;Olaf Hinrichsen;Martin Muhler

  • Stabilization of polar ZnO surfaces: validating microscopic models by using CO as a probe molecule.

    V. Staemmler;K. Fink;B. Meyer;D. Marx

  • Theory of PbTiO3, BaTiO3, and SrTiO3 surfaces

    B. Meyer;J. Padilla;David Vanderbilt

  • Atomic defects in the ordered compound B 2 -NiAl: A combination of ab initio electron theory and statistical mechanics

    B. Meyer;M. Fähnle

  • Water adsorption on ZnO(101̄0): from single molecules to partially dissociated monolayers

    Bernd Meyer;Hassan Rabaa;Dominik Marx

  • Compositional inversion symmetry breaking in ferroelectric perovskites

    Na Sai;B. Meyer;David Vanderbilt

  • Phosphonate- and carboxylate-based self-assembled monolayers for organic devices: a theoretical study of surface binding on aluminum oxide with experimental support.

    Thilo Bauer;Thomas Schmaltz;Thomas Lenz;Marcus Halik

  • Concave-Convex π-π Template Approach Enables the Synthesis of [10]Cycloparaphenylene-Fullerene [2]Rotaxanes.

    Youzhi Xu;Ramandeep Kaur;Bingzhe Wang;Martin B. Minameyer

  • Density-functional study of Fe3Al: LSDA versus GGA

    F. Lechermann;F. Welsch;C. Elsässer;C. Ederer

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominik Marx
Dominik Marx Ruhr University Bochum
Christof Wöll
Christof Wöll Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Yuemin Wang
Yuemin Wang Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hans-Peter Steinrück
Hans-Peter Steinrück University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
David Vanderbilt
David Vanderbilt Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andreas Hirsch
Andreas Hirsch University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Peter Gumbsch
Peter Gumbsch Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Martin Muhler
Martin Muhler Ruhr University Bochum
Liang Zhang
Liang Zhang Soochow University

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