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Claus H. Christensen

Claus H. Christensen

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Chemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
22868
World Ranking
6766
National Ranking
53

Overview

Claus H. Christensen is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on food science.

Their work spans several interconnected subfields including:

  • Food Science
  • Ecology
  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

Key topics addressed by Christensen's research include:

  • Proteins in Food Systems
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Meat and Animal Product Quality
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Food composition and properties
  • Muscle metabolism and nutrition
  • Polysaccharides Composition and Applications

Their recent publications cover various aspects of protein functionality and food structure. Notable papers include:

  • Plant proteins as substitutes for egg white protein in food foams: Meringues as a model system, 2025, Food Structure
  • Composition and functionality differences of oat protein concentrates: Potential of less refined concentrates obtained by wet milling, 2024, Food Hydrocolloids
  • Plant Proteins as Substitutes for Egg White Protein in Food Foams: Meringues as a Model System, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Microstructure and rheology of heated foams stabilized by faba bean isolate and their comparison to egg white foams, 2025, Applied Rheology
  • Exploring whey and faba bean protein interactions at the oil-water interface: A combined drop tensiometry and microfluidics study, 2025, Current Research in Food Science

Christensen frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Milena Corredig
  • Nadia Flarup Laursen
  • Ruifen Li
  • Sandra Beyer Gregersen
  • Gil Makiel Nielsen

Their work is published in a variety of specialized venues such as Food Structure, Food Hydrocolloids, SSRN Electronic Journal, Applied Rheology, and Current Research in Food Science. These outlets reflect an engagement with multidisciplinary approaches to food system proteins and material properties.

Best Publications

  • The Brønsted–Evans–Polanyi relation and the volcano curve in heterogeneous catalysis

    T. Bligaard;J.K. Nørskov;S. Dahl;J. Matthiesen

  • Ammonia for hydrogen storage: challenges and opportunities

    Asbjørn Klerke;Claus H. Christensen;Jens Kehlet Nørskov;Tejs Vegge

  • Identification of non-precious metal alloy catalysts for selective hydrogenation of acetylene

    Felix Studt;Frank Abild-Pedersen;Thomas Bligaard;Rasmus Zink Sørensen

  • Catalytic activity of Au nanoparticles

    Britt Hvolbæk;Ton V.W. Janssens;Bjerne S. Clausen;Hanne Falsig

  • The nature of the active site in heterogeneous metal catalysis.

    Jens K. Nørskov;Thomas Bligaard;Britt Hvolbæk;Frank Abild-Pedersen

  • Templating Mesoporous Zeolites

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  • Towards an ammonia-mediated hydrogen economy?

    Claus H. Christensen;Tue Johannessen;Rasmus Zink Sørensen;Jens Kehlet Nørskov

  • Beyond Petrochemicals: The Renewable Chemicals Industry

    P.N.R. Vennestrøm;Christian Mårup Osmundsen;C.H. Christensen;Esben Taarning

  • Toward efficient hydrogen production at surfaces

    Jens Kehlet Nørskov;Claus H. Christensen

  • Trends in the Catalytic CO Oxidation Activity of Nanoparticles

    Hanne Falsig;Britt Hvolbæk;Iben S. Kristensen;Tao Jiang

  • Zeolite-catalyzed biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals

    Esben Taarning;Christian Mårup Osmundsen;Xiaobo Yang;Bodil Voss

  • Insights into the reactivity of supported Au nanoparticles: combining theory and experiments

    Ton V. W. Janssens;Bjerne S. Clausen;Britt Hvolbæk;Hanne Falsig

  • Catalytic benzene alkylation over mesoporous zeolite single crystals: improving activity and selectivity with a new family of porous materials.

    Christina Hviid Christensen;Kim Johannsen;Iver Schmidt;Claus Hviid Christensen

  • Toward computational screening in heterogeneous catalysis: Pareto-optimal methanation catalysts

    Martin Andersson;Thomas Bligaard;Arkadii Kustov;K.E. Larsen

  • Gold-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in water at ambient temperature.

    Yury Y. Gorbanev;Søren K. Klitgaard;John M. Woodley;Claus H. Christensen

  • Why the optimal ammonia synthesis catalyst is not the optimal ammonia decomposition catalyst

    Astrid Boisen;Søren Dahl;Jens Kehlet Nørskov;Claus H. Christensen

  • The Renewable Chemicals Industry

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  • Chemicals from Renewables: Aerobic Oxidation of Furfural and Hydroxymethylfurfural over Gold Catalysts

    Esben Taarning;Inger Staunstrup Nielsen;Kresten Egeblad;Robert Madsen

  • Catalysis with hierarchical zeolites

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  • Universal Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi Relations for C–C, C–O, C–N, N–O, N–N, and O–O Dissociation Reactions

    Shengguang Wang;Burcin Temel;Juan Shen;Glenn Jones

  • CO methanation over supported bimetallic Ni–Fe catalysts: From computational studies towards catalyst optimization

    Arkadii Kustov;Anne Mette Frey;Kasper Emil Larsen;Tue Johannessen

  • Mesoporous zeolite single crystal catalysts: Diffusion and catalysis in hierarchical zeolites

    Christina Hviid Christensen;Kim Johannsen;Eric Toernqvist;Iver Schmidt

  • Assessing the acid properties of desilicated ZSM-5 by FTIR using CO and 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine (collidine) as molecular probes

    Martin Spangsberg Holm;Stian Svelle;Finn Joensen;Pablo Beato

  • Zeolite-catalyzed isomerization of triose sugars.

    Esben Taarning;Shunmugavel Saravanamurugan;Martin Spangsberg Holm;Jianmin Xiong

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Thomas Bligaard
Thomas Bligaard Technical University of Denmark
Anders Riisager
Anders Riisager Technical University of Denmark
Søren Dahl
Søren Dahl Technical University of Denmark
Robert Madsen
Robert Madsen Technical University of Denmark
Rasmus Fehrmann
Rasmus Fehrmann Technical University of Denmark
Jens Sehested
Jens Sehested Haldor Topsoe (Denmark)
Ib Chorkendorff
Ib Chorkendorff Technical University of Denmark
Ole Hansen
Ole Hansen Technical University of Denmark
John M. Woodley
John M. Woodley Technical University of Denmark

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