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D-Index
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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Christoph Janiak is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions in the subfields of materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, organic chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their scholarly work covers a diverse range of topics, including:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes

Janiak has published extensively in several frequent venues, which include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Molecules
  • Preprints.org
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

The scientist has collaborated regularly with specific co-authors, often working alongside:

  • Dennis Woschko
  • Mohammed Enamullah
  • Robert Oestreich
  • Mohammad Khairul Islam
  • Hadi Amiri Rudbari

Among their recent papers are:

  • Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (open metal sites) in metal-organic frameworks: design and applications, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • A practical guide to calculate the isosteric heat/enthalpy of adsorption via adsorption isotherms in metal-organic frameworks, MOFs, 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • Capture and Separation of SO2 Traces in Metal-Organic Frameworks via Pre-Synthetic Pore Environment Tailoring by Methyl Groups, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Zirconium and Aluminum MOFs for Low-Pressure SO2 Adsorption and Potential Separation: Elucidating the Effect of Small Pores and NH2 Groups, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Design and properties of multiple-emitter luminescent metal-organic frameworks, 2020, Chemical Communications

Best Publications

  • A critical account on π–π stacking in metal complexes with aromatic nitrogen-containing ligands

    Christoph Janiak

  • Engineering coordination polymers towards applications

    Christoph Janiak

  • MOFs, MILs and more: concepts, properties and applications for porous coordination networks (PCNs)

    Christoph Janiak;Jana K. Vieth

  • Recent advances in crystal engineering

    Christer B. Aakeröy;Neil R. Champness;Christoph Janiak

  • Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (open metal sites) in metal–organic frameworks: design and applications

    Ülkü Kökçam-Demir;Anna Goldman;Leili Esrafili;Maniya Gharib

  • Mixed-Matrix Membranes.

    Janina Dechnik;Jorge Gascon;Christian J. Doonan;Christoph Janiak

  • Functional Organic Analogues of Zeolites Based on Metal–Organic Coordination Frameworks

    Christoph Janiak

  • Metal–organic frameworks in mixed-matrix membranes for gas separation

    Harold B. Tanh Jeazet;Claudia Staudt;Christoph Janiak

  • MOFs as adsorbents for low temperature heating and cooling applications.

    Stefan K. Henninger;Hesham A. Habib;Christoph Janiak

  • MIL-100(Al, Fe) as water adsorbents for heat transformation purposes—a promising application

    Felix Jeremias;Felix Jeremias;Anupam Khutia;Stefan K. Henninger;Christoph Janiak

  • Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed Directed C ? H Coupling with Diazo Compounds: Straightforward Access towards Extended π-Systems

    Dongbing Zhao;Ju Hyun Kim;Linda Stegemann;Cristian A. Strassert

  • Metal catalysts for the vinyl/addition polymerization of norbornene

    Frederik Blank;Christoph Janiak

  • A practical guide to calculate the isosteric heat/enthalpy of adsorption via adsorption isotherms in metal-organic frameworks, MOFs.

    Alexander Nuhnen;Christoph Janiak

  • Hydrazone Schiff base-manganese(II) complexes: Synthesis, crystal structure and catalytic reactivity

    Omid Pouralimardan;Anne-Christine Chamayou;Christoph Janiak;Hassan Hosseini-Monfared

  • Water Adsorption Characteristics of MIL-101 for Heat-Transformation Applications of MOFs

    Johannes Ehrenmann;Johannes Ehrenmann;Stefan K. Henninger;Christoph Janiak;Christoph Janiak

  • MOFs for Use in Adsorption Heat Pump Processes

    Stefan K. Henninger;Felix Jeremias;Harry Kummer;Christoph Janiak

  • Metal catalysts for the vinyl polymerization of norbornene

    Christoph Janiak;Paul G Lassahn

  • Crystal structure solid-state cross polarization magic angle spinning 13C NMR correlation in luminescent d10 metal-organic frameworks constructed with the 1,2-Bis(1,2,4-triazol-4-yl)ethane ligand.

    Hesham A. Habib;Anke Hoffmann;Henning A. Höppe;Gunther Steinfeld

  • Programming MOFs for water sorption: amino-functionalized MIL-125 and UiO-66 for heat transformation and heat storage applications

    Felix Jeremias;Felix Jeremias;Vasile Lozan;Stefan K. Henninger;Christoph Janiak

  • Advancement of sorption-based heat transformation by a metal coating of highly-stable, hydrophilic aluminium fumarate MOF

    Felix Jeremias;Felix Jeremias;Dominik Fröhlich;Dominik Fröhlich;Christoph Janiak;Stefan K. Henninger

  • Water and methanol adsorption on MOFs for cycling heat transformation processes

    Felix Jeremias;Felix Jeremias;Dominik Fröhlich;Dominik Fröhlich;Christoph Janiak;Stefan K. Henninger

  • Naked metal nanoparticles from metal carbonyls in ionic liquids: Easy synthesis and stabilization

    Christian Vollmer;Christoph Janiak

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiao-Yu Yang
Xiao-Yu Yang Wuhan University of Technology
Herbert Schumann
Herbert Schumann Technical University of Berlin
Bao-Lian Su
Bao-Lian Su University of Namur
Thomas J. J. Müller
Thomas J. J. Müller Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
José Ruiz
José Ruiz University of Murcia
Peter Proksch
Peter Proksch Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Joaquín Sanchiz
Joaquín Sanchiz University of La Laguna
Ralf Thomann
Ralf Thomann University of Freiburg
Roland A. Fischer
Roland A. Fischer Technical University of Munich
Bernhard Rieger
Bernhard Rieger Technical University of Munich

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