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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
  • 2016 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry

Overview

Frank Würthner is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany and contributes extensively to research in materials science and chemistry. Their work focuses primarily on materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and related fields such as electrical and electronic engineering, biomaterials, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

The scientist's research covers key topics including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, luminescence and fluorescent materials, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, and organic electronics and photovoltaics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Frank Würthner include:

  • Kazutaka Shoyama
  • Matthias Stolte
  • Ana-Maria Krause
  • Vladimir Stepanenko
  • Olga Anhalt

The scientist has a notable number of publications in several key venues, most prominently:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Among recent published papers attributed to Frank Würthner or closely related works in their area are:

  • "Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE): A Historical Perspective," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Perspectives in Dye Chemistry: A Rational Approach toward Functional Materials by Understanding the Aggregate State," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Supramolecularly Engineered J-Aggregates Based on Perylene Bisimide Dyes," 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Slip-Stacked J-Aggregate Materials for Organic Solar Cells and Photodetectors," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "An Efficient Narrowband Near-Infrared at 1040 nm Organic Photodetector Realized by Intermolecular Charge Transfer Mediated Coupling Based on a Squaraine Dye," 2021, Advanced Materials

Frank Würthner has been recognized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina with an award in 2016 in the field of chemistry.

Best Publications

  • J-aggregates: from serendipitous discovery to supramolecular engineering of functional dye materials.

    Frank Würthner;Theo E. Kaiser;Chantu R. Saha-Möller

  • Perylene bisimide dyes as versatile building blocks for functional supramolecular architectures

    Frank Würthner

  • Perylene Bisimide Dye Assemblies as Archetype Functional Supramolecular Materials

    Frank Würthner;Chantu R. Saha-Möller;Benjamin Fimmel;Soichiro Ogi

  • Self-assembled π-stacks of functional dyes in solution: structural and thermodynamic features

    Zhijian Chen;Andreas Lohr;Chantu R. Saha-Möller;Frank Würthner

  • Self-sorting phenomena in complex supramolecular systems.

    Marina M. Safont-Sempere;Gustavo Fernández;Frank Würthner

  • Fluorescent J‐type Aggregates and Thermotropic Columnar Mesophases of Perylene Bisimide Dyes

    Frank Würthner;Christoph Thalacker;Siegmar Diele;Carsten Tschierske

  • Naphthalene and perylene diimides for organic transistors

    Frank Würthner;Matthias Stolte

  • High-Performance Air-Stable n-Channel Organic Thin Film Transistors Based on Halogenated Perylene Bisimide Semiconductors

    Rüdiger Schmidt;Joon Hak Oh;Ya Sen Sun;Manuela Deppisch

  • Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE): A Historical Perspective.

    Frank Würthner

  • Photoluminescence and Conductivity of Self-Assembled π–π Stacks of Perylene Bisimide Dyes

    Zhijian Chen;Vladimir Stepanenko;Volker Dehm;Paulette Prins

  • Powering the future of molecular artificial photosynthesis with light-harvesting metallosupramolecular dye assemblies

    Peter D. Frischmann;Kingsuk Mahata;Frank Würthner

  • Metallosupramolecular squares: from structure to function

    Frank Würthner;Chang-Cheng You;Chantu R. Saha-Möller

  • Vesicular perylene dye nanocapsules as supramolecular fluorescent pH sensor systems.

    Xin Zhang;Stefanie Rehm;Marina M. Safont-Sempere;Frank Würthner

  • Supramolecular polymerization through kinetic pathway control and living chain growth

    Marius Wehner;Frank Würthner

  • Supramolecular Construction of Fluorescent J-Aggregates Based on Hydrogen-Bonded Perylene Dyes†

    Theo E. Kaiser;Hao Wang;Vladimir Stepanenko;Frank Würthner

  • Mechanism of self-assembly process and seeded supramolecular polymerization of perylene bisimide organogelator.

    Soichiro Ogi;Vladimir Stepanenko;Kazunori Sugiyasu;Masayuki Takeuchi

  • Control of H‐ and J‐Type π Stacking by Peripheral Alkyl Chains and Self‐Sorting Phenomena in Perylene Bisimide Homo‐ and Heteroaggregates

    Suhrit Ghosh;Xue-Qing Li;Vladimir Stepanenko;Frank Würthner

  • Fluorescent H-aggregates of merocyanine dyes.

    Ulrich Rösch;Sheng Yao;Rüdiger Wortmann;Frank Würthner

  • Effect of Core Twisting on Self-Assembly and Optical Properties of Perylene Bisimide Dyes in Solution and Columnar Liquid Crystalline Phases

    Zhijian Chen;Ute Baumeister;Carsten Tschierske;Frank Würthner

  • All-in-one visible-light-driven water splitting by combining nanoparticulate and molecular co-catalysts on CdS nanorods

    Christian Michael Wolff;Christian Michael Wolff;Christian Michael Wolff;Peter D. Frischmann;Marcus Schulze;Bernhard J. Bohn;Bernhard J. Bohn

  • Naphthalene and Perylene Diimides for Organic Transistors

    Frank Wuerthner;Matthias Stolte

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Stolte
Matthias Stolte University of Würzburg
Vladimir Stepanenko
Vladimir Stepanenko University of Würzburg
Klaus Meerholz
Klaus Meerholz University of Cologne
David P. Schmidt
David P. Schmidt University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stefan Lochbrunner
Stefan Lochbrunner University of Rostock
Dongho Kim
Dongho Kim Yonsei University
Zengqi Xie
Zengqi Xie South China University of Technology
Joon Hak Oh
Joon Hak Oh Seoul National University
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning Eindhoven University of Technology
Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University

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