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Overview

Dirk G. Kurth is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Materials Science, with significant contributions to Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. Their research spans various subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, and Oncology.

The scientist's work is heavily focused on topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and the chemistry of lanthanide and transition metal complexes. Additional interests include metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, metal complexes synthesis and properties, magnetism in coordination complexes, and electrocatalysts for energy conversion.

Frequent publication venues for Dirk G. Kurth include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • Dalton Transactions
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Coordination Chemistry Reviews

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several researchers, notably:

  • Alexander E. Sedykh
  • Klaus Müller-Buschbaum
  • Garry S. Hanan
  • Robin Bissert
  • Mira T. Rupp

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Dirk G. Kurth demonstrate a focus on coordination chemistry and photophysical properties of complexes, including:

  • Enhancing the photophysical properties of Ru(II) complexes by specific design of tridentate ligands, 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Substituted 2,4-Di(pyridin-2-yl)pyrimidine-Based Ruthenium Photosensitizers for Hydrogen Photoevolution under Red Light, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Air-Stable Solid-State Photoluminescence Standards for Quantitative Measurements Based on 4'-Phenyl-2,2':6',2''-Terpyridine Complexes with Trivalent Lanthanides, 2022, ChemPhotoChem
  • Structural diversity of salts of terpyridine derivatives with europium(III) located in both, cation and anion, in comparison to molecular complexes, 2020, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
  • Similarities of Coordination Polymer and Dimeric Complex of Europium(III) with Joint and Separate Terpyridine and Benzoate, 2020, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie

Best Publications

  • Directing Self‐Assembly of Nanoparticles at Water/Oil Interfaces

    Hongwei Duan;Dayang Wang;Dirk G. Kurth;Helmuth Möhwald

  • Metallosupramolecular polyelectrolytes self-assembled from various pyridine ring-substituted bisterpyridines and metal ions: photophysical, electrochemical, and electrochromic properties.

    Fu She Han;Masayoshi Higuchi;Dirk G. Kurth

  • Magnetic colloidosomes derived from nanoparticle interfacial self-assembly

    Hongwei Duan;Dayang Wang;Nelli S Sobal;Michael Giersig

  • Surface reactions on thin layers of silane coupling agents

    Dirk G. Kurth;Thomas Bein

  • A Thin-Film Electrochromic Device Based on a Polyoxometalate Cluster

    Shaoqin Liu;Dirk G. Kurth;Helmuth Möhwald;Dirk Volkmer

  • Surfactant-encapsulated clusters (SECs): (DODA)20(NH4)[H3Mo57V6(NO)6O183(H2O)18], a case study.

    Dirk G. Kurth;Pit Lehmann;Dirk Volkmer;Helmut Cölfen

  • Metallo-supramolecular polymers based on functionalized bis-terpyridines as novel electrochromic materials

    Fu She Han;Masayoshi Higuchi;Dirk G. Kurth

  • The structure of self-assembled multilayers with polyoxometalate nanoclusters.

    Shaoqin Liu;Dirk G. Kurth;Bjoern Bredenkötter;Dirk Volkmer

  • Toward nanodevices: Synthesis and characterization of the nanoporous surfactant-encapsulated keplerate (DODA)(40)(NH4)(2)[(H2O)(n)subset of Mo132O372(CH3COO)(30)(H2O)(72)].

    D. Volkmer;A. Du Chesne;D. G. Kurth;H. Schnablegger

  • Metallosupramolecular Thin Polyelectrolyte Films

    Markus Schütte;Dirk G. Kurth;Matthew R. Linford;Helmut Cölfen

  • Transition metal ions: weak links for strong polymers

    Dirk G. Kurth;Masayoshi Higuchi

  • Biologically inspired polyoxometalate-surfactant composite materials. Investigations on the structures of discrete, surfactant-encapsulated clusters, monolayers, and Langmuir- Blodgett films of (DODA)(40)(NH4)(2)[(H2O)(n)subset of Mo132O372(CH3CO2)(30)(H2O)(72)].

    Dirk G. Kurth;Pit Lehmann;Dirk Volkmer;Achim Müller

  • Ultrathin Molybdenum Polyoxometalate−Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films

    Frank Caruso;Dirk G. Kurth;Dirk Volkmer;Michael J. Koop

  • Thin Films of (3-Aminopropyl)triethoxysilane on Aluminum Oxide and Gold Substrates

    Dirk G. Kurth;Thomas Bein

  • Core−Shell Particles and Hollow Shells Containing Metallo-Supramolecular Components

    Frank Caruso;Corinna Schüler;Dirk G. Kurth

  • Soluble dynamic coordination polymers as a paradigm for materials science

    Viviane A. Friese;Dirk G. Kurth

  • Nanocarbon Superhydrophobic Surfaces created from Fullerene-Based Hierarchical Supramolecular Assemblies

    Takashi Nakanishi;Tsuyoshi Michinobu;Kaname Yoshida;Naoto Shirahata

  • Electroactive Cytochrome c Multilayers within a Polyelectrolyte Assembly

    Moritz K. Beissenhirtz;Frieder W. Scheller;Walter F. M. Stöcklein;Dirk G. Kurth

  • Synthesis of copper sulfide nanorod arrays on molecular templates

    Guangzhao Mao;Wenfei Dong;Dirk G. Kurth;Helmuth Möhwald

  • Polyoxometalate-based electro- and photochromic dual-mode devices

    Shaoqin Liu;Helmuth Möhwald;Dirk Volkmer;Dirk G. Kurth

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmuth Möhwald
Helmuth Möhwald Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Dirk Volkmer
Dirk Volkmer University of Augsburg
Takashi Nakanishi
Takashi Nakanishi National Institute for Materials Science
Katsuhiko Ariga
Katsuhiko Ariga National Institute for Materials Science
Tsuyoshi Michinobu
Tsuyoshi Michinobu Tokyo Institute of Technology
Frieder W. Scheller
Frieder W. Scheller University of Potsdam
Andreas F. Thünemann
Andreas F. Thünemann Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing
Thomas Bein
Thomas Bein Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Achim Müller
Achim Müller Bielefeld University
Shiki Yagai
Shiki Yagai Chiba University

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