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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - Academy Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

E. W. Meijer is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with significant contributions to Organic Chemistry, Biomaterials, and Materials Chemistry. Their work extends into subfields such as Polymers and Plastics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics including:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Polymer composites and self-healing

They have published extensively in several journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Polymer Science
  • Advanced Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Notable recent papers include:

  • Supramolecular Polymerization: A Conceptual Expansion for Innovative Materials, 2020, Progress in Polymer Science
  • Highly Efficient and Tunable Filtering of Electrons' Spin by Supramolecular Chirality of Nanofiber-Based Materials, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Solute-Solvent Interactions in Modern Physical Organic Chemistry: Supramolecular Polymers as a Muse, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Supramolecular Polymers - we've Come Full Circle, 2020, Israel Journal of Chemistry
  • Competition between chiral solvents and chiral monomers in the helical bias of supramolecular polymers, 2020, Nature Chemistry

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Ghislaine Vantomme
  • Anja R. A. Palmans
  • Stefan C. J. Meskers
  • Stef A. H. Jansen
  • Takuzo Aida

Recognition for this scientist's contributions includes the Academy Medal awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Two-dimensional charge transport in self-organized, high-mobility conjugated polymers

    Henning Sirringhaus;P. J. Brown;R. H. Friend;M. M. Nielsen

  • Functional Supramolecular Polymers

    T. Aida;E. W. Meijer;S. I. Stupp

  • About Supramolecular Assemblies of π-Conjugated Systems

    Freek J M Hoeben;Pascal Jonkheijm;E W Meijer;Albertus P H J Schenning

  • About Dendrimers: Structure, Physical Properties, and Applications

    A. W. Bosman;H. M. Janssen;E. W. Meijer

  • Reversible Polymers Formed from Self-Complementary Monomers Using Quadruple Hydrogen Bonding

    Rint P. Sijbesma;Felix H. Beijer;Felix H. Beijer;Luc Brunsveld;Luc Brunsveld;Brigitte J. B. Folmer;Brigitte J. B. Folmer

  • Dendrimers: relationship between structure and biocompatibility in vitro, and preliminary studies on the biodistribution of 125I-labelled polyamidoamine dendrimers in vivo.

    N Malik;R Wiwattanapatapee;R Klopsch;K Lorenz

  • Encapsulation of guest molecules into a dendritic box.

    Johan F. G. A. Jansen;Ellen M. M. de Brabander-van den Berg;E. W. Meijer

  • Supramolecular polymerization.

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  • Pathway complexity in supramolecular polymerization

    Peter A. Korevaar;Subi J. George;Albert J. Markvoort;Maarten M. J. Smulders

  • Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

    Anne Helene Gelebart;Dirk Jan Mulder;Michael Varga;Andrew Konya

  • STRONG DIMERIZATION OF UREIDOPYRIMIDONES VIA QUADRUPLE HYDROGEN BONDING

    Felix H. Beijer;Rint P. Sijbesma;Huub Kooijman;and Anthony L. Spek

  • From precision polymers to complex materials and systems

    Jean-François Lutz;Jean-Marie Lehn;E. W. Meijer;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

  • Probing the Solvent-Assisted Nucleation Pathway in Chemical Self-Assembly

    Pascal Jonkheijm;Paul van der Schoot;Albertus P. H. J. Schenning;E. W. Meijer

  • Poly(propylene imine) Dendrimers: Large‐Scale Synthesis by Hetereogeneously Catalyzed Hydrogenations

    Ellen M. M. de Brabander-van den Berg;E. W. Meijer

  • Supramolecular Polymer Materials: Chain Extension of Telechelic Polymers Using a Reactive Hydrogen-Bonding Synthon**

    B. J. B. Folmer;R. P. Sijbesma;R. M. Versteegen;J. A. J. van der Rijt

  • Amplification of chirality in dynamic supramolecular aggregates

    Anja R. A. Palmans;E. W. Meijer

  • Helical self-assembled polymers from cooperative stacking of hydrogen-bonded pairs

    J.H.K.K. Hirschberg;L. Brunsveld;A. Ramzi;J.A.J.M. Vekemans

  • Developments in the chemistry and band gap engineering of donor-acceptor substituted conjugated polymers

    H.A.M. van Mullekom;J.A.J.M. Vekemans;E.E. Havinga;E.W. Meijer

  • The dendritic box, shape-selective liberation of encapsulated guests

    J.F.G.A. Jansen;E.W. Meijer;E.M.M. van den Berg

  • Supramolecular electronics; nanowires from self-assembled pi-conjugated systems.

    Albertus P H J Schenning;E W Meijer

  • Probing the Solvent-Assisted Nucleation Pathway in Chemical

    Self-Assembly Jonkheijm;Paul van der Schoot;Albertus P. H. J. Schenning;E. W. Meijer

Frequent Co-Authors

Anja R. A. Palmans
Anja R. A. Palmans Eindhoven University of Technology
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning Eindhoven University of Technology
Rint P. Sijbesma
Rint P. Sijbesma Eindhoven University of Technology
Ilja K. Voets
Ilja K. Voets Eindhoven University of Technology
Hans Wynberg
Hans Wynberg University of Groningen
Pascal Jonkheijm
Pascal Jonkheijm University of Twente
Lorenzo Albertazzi
Lorenzo Albertazzi Eindhoven University of Technology
Maarten Merkx
Maarten Merkx Eindhoven University of Technology
Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk
Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk Radboud University Medical Center
Philippe Leclère
Philippe Leclère University of Mons

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