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Overview

Florian Meirer is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands, focusing on research in materials science and chemistry. Their scholarly output spans core areas such as materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and catalysis, with notable contributions also in biomedical engineering and organic chemistry.

Their research encompasses a range of key topics including catalytic processes in materials science, zeolite catalysis and synthesis, machine learning applications in materials science, microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, catalysts for methane reforming, and catalysis and oxidation reactions.

Meirer's recent influential publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests and include:

  • Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Uncovering the reaction mechanism behind CoO as active phase for CO2 hydrogenation (2022), Nature Communications
  • Plastic Waste Conversion over a Refinery Waste Catalyst (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Microbial Communities on Plastic Polymers in the Mediterranean Sea (2021), Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Spectroscopy, microscopy, diffraction and scattering of archetypal MOFs: formation, metal sites in catalysis and thin films (2020), Chemical Society Reviews

Frequent coauthors with whom Meirer has collaborated include Bert M. Weckhuysen, Laurens D. B. Mandemaker, J. J. Erik Maris, Maximilian J. Werny, and Ina Vollmer.

Publications are regularly featured in several scientific journals, with a significant number of works appearing in:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ChemCatChem
  • Nature Communications

Meirer's research output reflects an interdisciplinary approach that integrates advanced catalytic techniques with environmental concerns related to plastic pollution and waste management. Their work on reaction mechanisms and catalytic materials contributes to ongoing developments in sustainable chemistry and materials science.

Best Publications

  • Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste

    Ina Vollmer;Michael J. F. Jenks;Mark C. P. Roelands;Robin J. White

  • Recent trends and fundamental insights in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons process

    Irina Yarulina;Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury;Florian Meirer;Bert M. Weckhuysen

  • Unravelling structure sensitivity in CO 2 hydrogenation over nickel

    Charlotte Vogt;Esther Groeneveld;Gerda Kamsma;Maarten Nachtegaal

  • Three-dimensional imaging of chemical phase transformations at the nanoscale with full-field transmission X-ray microscopy

    Florian Meirer;Jordi Cabana;Yijin Liu;Apurva Mehta

  • TXM-Wizard: a program for advanced data collection and evaluation in full-field transmission X-ray microscopy

    Yijin Liu;Florian Meirer;Phillip A. Williams;Junyue Wang

  • Uncovering the reaction mechanism behind CoO as active phase for CO2 hydrogenation

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  • Spatial and temporal exploration of heterogeneous catalysts with synchrotron radiation

    Florian Meirer;Bert M. Weckhuysen

  • Understanding carbon dioxide activation and carbon-carbon coupling over nickel

    Charlotte Vogt;Matteo Monai;Ellen B. Sterk;Jonas Palle

  • Influence of the Reaction Temperature on the Nature of the Active and Deactivating Species During Methanol-to-Olefins Conversion over H-SAPO-34

    E. Borodina;H. Sharbini Harun Kamaluddin;H. Sharbini Harun Kamaluddin;F. Meirer;M. Mokhtar

  • Insights into the Activity and Deactivation of the Methanol-to-Olefins Process over Different Small-Pore Zeolites As Studied with Operando UV–vis Spectroscopy

    Joris Goetze;Florian Meirer;Irina Yarulina;Jorge Gascon

  • Plastic Waste Conversion over a Refinery Waste Catalyst.

    Ina Vollmer;Michael J F Jenks;Rafael Mayorga González;Florian Meirer

  • Life and death of a single catalytic cracking particle

    Florian Meirer;Samanbir Kalirai;Darius Morris;Santosh Soparawalla

  • Mesoscale phase distribution in single particles of LiFePO4 following lithium deintercalation.

    Ulrike Boesenberg;Florian Meirer;Yijin Liu;Alpesh K. Shukla

  • MANTiS: a program for the analysis of X-ray spectromicroscopy data

    Mirna Lerotic;Rachel Mak;Sue Wirick;Florian Meirer

  • Microbial Communities on Plastic Polymers in the Mediterranean Sea

    Annika Vaksmaa;Katrin Knittel;Alejandro Abdala Asbun;Maaike Goudriaan

  • Transmission X-ray microscopy for full-field nano imaging of biomaterials.

    Joy C. Andrews;Florian Meirer;Yijin Liu;Zoltan Mester

  • Ex Situ and Operando Studies on the Role of Copper in Cu-Promoted SiO2-MgO Catalysts for the Lebedev Ethanol-to-Butadiene Process

    Carlo Angelici;Florian Meirer;Ad M. J. van der Eerden;Herrick L. Schaink

  • Nanoscale X-ray microscopic imaging of mammalian mineralized tissue.

    Joy C. Andrews;Eduardo Almeida;Marjolein C.H. van der Meulen;Joshua S. Alwood

  • Coke Formation in a Zeolite Crystal During the Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Reaction as Studied with Atom Probe Tomography.

    Joel E. Schmidt;Jonathan D. Poplawsky;Baishakhi Mazumder;Özgün Attila

  • Bone material quality in transiliac bone biopsies of postmenopausal osteoporotic women after 3 years of strontium ranelate treatment.

    Paul Roschger;Inderchand Manjubala;Norbert Zoeger;Florian Meirer

  • Mapping Metals Incorporation of a Whole Single Catalyst Particle Using Element Specific X-ray Nanotomography

    Florian Meirer;Darius T Morris;Samanbir Kalirai;Yijin Liu

  • Spectroscopy, microscopy, diffraction and scattering of archetypal MOFs: formation, metal sites in catalysis and thin films.

    Miguel Rivera-Torrente;Laurens D B Mandemaker;Matthias Filez;Guusje Delen

  • X-ray nanoscopy of cobalt Fischer-Tropsch catalysts at work

    Korneel H. Cats;Ines D. Gonzalez-Jimenez;Yijin Liu;Johanna Nelson

  • Relating structure and composition with accessibility of a single catalyst particle using correlative 3-dimensional micro-spectroscopy.

    Yijin Liu;Florian Meirer;Courtney M. Krest;Samuel Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert M. Weckhuysen
Bert M. Weckhuysen Utrecht University
Yijin Liu
Yijin Liu The University of Texas at Austin
Frank M. F. de Groot
Frank M. F. de Groot Utrecht University
Marine Cotte
Marine Cotte European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Simon R. Bare
Simon R. Bare SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx
Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx Utrecht University
Jan P. Hofmann
Jan P. Hofmann Eindhoven University of Technology
Klaus Klaushofer
Klaus Klaushofer University of Vienna
Jordi Cabana
Jordi Cabana University of Illinois at Chicago

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