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Gerd Meyer is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and specializes in Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry. Their work also spans related subfields such as Inorganic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist's research predominantly covers topics including Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials, Rare-earth and actinide compounds, Crystallography and molecular interactions, Iron-based superconductors research, and Metal complexes synthesis and properties.

Gerd Meyer has a significant publication record, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (24 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (3 publications)
  • Inorganics (1 publication)
  • Australian Journal of Chemistry (1 publication)

Selected recent papers by Meyer include:

  • "CuII Complexes and Coordination Polymers with Pyridine or Pyrazine Amides and Amino Benzamides-Structures and EPR Patterns," 2020, Inorganics
  • "Ternary Polar Intermetallics within the Pt/Sn/R Systems (R = La-Sm): Stannides or Platinides?," 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Binary Intermetallics in the 70 atom % R Region of Two R-Pd Systems (R = Tb and Er): Hidden, Obscured, or Nonexistent?," 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "The Prolific Ternary System Pt/Sn/Nd: Insertion of Pt into the Structures of Sn/Nd Intermetallics Yields Structural Complexity and Wealth," 2023, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Pursuing the excision of carbon-centred hexanuclear scandium clusters {CSc6} from solid {CSc6}I12Sc†," 2022, Australian Journal of Chemistry

Meyer has collaborated frequently with several co-authors over their career, including:

  • Volodymyr Smetana (16 joint publications)
  • Anja-Verena Mudring (16 joint publications)
  • Axel Klein (13 joint publications)
  • Simon Schmitz (12 joint publications)
  • Chris Celania (12 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Basic Steps of Lateral Manipulation of Single Atoms and Diatomic Clusters with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Tip

    L. Bartels;G. Meyer;K.-H. Rieder

  • Controlled vertical manipulation of single CO molecules with the scanning tunneling microscope: A route to chemical contrast

    L. Bartels;G. Meyer;K.-H. Rieder

  • Reduced halides of the rare-earth elements

    Gerd Meyer

  • THE SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURES OF COMPLEX RARE-EARTH HALIDES

    G. Meyer

  • The synthesis and structures of complex rare-earth halides

    Gerd Meyer

  • An analysis of the ammonium chloride route to anhydrous rare-earth metal chlorides

    Gerd Meyer;Peter Ax

  • Single crystals of rare earth oxides from reducing halide melts

    Thomas Schleid;Gerd Meyer

  • Synthesis of Lanthanide and Actinide Compounds

    Gerd Meyer;Lester R. Morss

  • Versatility and Low-Temperature Synthetic Potential of Ammonium Halides.

    G. Meyer;T. Staffel;S. Doetsch;T. Schleid

  • Versatility and low-temperature synthetic potential of ammonium halides

    Gerd Meyer;Thomas Staffel;Siegfried Doetsch;Thomas Schleid

  • Optical spectroscopic and structural properties of V3+ -doped fluoride, chloride, and bromide elpasolite lattices

    Christian Reber;Hans U. Guedel;Gerd Meyer;Thomas Schleid

  • The Ammonium Chloride Route to Anhydrous Rare Earth Chlorides—The Example of Ycl3

    Gerd Meyer;Eduardo Garcia;John D. Corbett

  • Inorganic chemistry highlights

    Gerd Meyer;Dieter Naumann;Lars Wesemann

  • Ternäre Bromide und Iodide zweiwertiger Lanthanide und ihre Erdalkali‐Analoga vom Typ AMX3 und AM2X5

    Gaby Schilling;Gerd Meyer

  • Ternäre Halogenide vom Typ A3MX6. VI [1]. Ternäre Chloride der Selten‐Erd‐Elemente mit Lithium, Li3MCl6 (M Tb ? Lu, Y, Sc): Synthese, Kristallstrukturen und Ionenbewegung

    Andreas Bohnsack;Frauke Stenzel;Armin Zajonc;Gert Balzer

  • The evolution of CO adsorption on Cu(111) as studied with bare and CO-functionalized scanning tunneling tips

    L. Bartels;G. Meyer;K.-H. Rieder

  • The ammonium-bromide route to anhydrous rare earth bromides MBr3

    Gerd Meyer;Siegfried Dötsch;Thomas Staffel

  • Zero-field incommensurate spin-Peierls phase with interchain frustration in TiOCl.

    R. Rückamp;J. Baier;M. Kriener;M. W. Haverkort

  • Low-temperature tunneling spectroscopy of Ge(111)c(2×8) surfaces

    Randall M. Feenstra;S. Gaan;G. Meyer;K. H. Rieder

  • Die Kristallstruktur von CsTcO<sub>4</sub> [1]

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  • Three Bromides of Lanthanum: LaBr2, La2Br5, and LaBr3

    Karl Krämer;Thomas Schleid;Mathias Schulze;Werner Urland

  • Structure and mesomorphism of neodymium(III) alkanoates.

    Koen Binnemans;Liesbet Jongen;Claudia Bromant;Dirk Hinz

  • K2MCl5(M = La—Dy) und Rb2MCl5 (M = La—Eu): Ino-Chloride mit siebenfach koordinierten Seltenen Erden

    Gerd Meyer;Eberhard Hüttl

  • Leed studies of the epitaxy of Pb on Cu(111)

    G. Meyer;M. Michailov;M. Henzler

  • Ternäre Halogenide der Seltenen Erden vom Typ A2MX5 (A = K, In, NH4, Rb, Cs; X = Cl, Br, I)

    Gerd Meyer;J. Soose;A. Moritz;V. Vitt

  • The mono-, sesqui-, and dibromides of indium: InBr,In2Br3, and InBr2

    Thomas Staffel;Gerd Meyer

  • Synthesis, structure, and density functional theory analysis of a scandium dinitrogen complex, [(C(5)Me(4)H)(2)Sc](2)(mu-eta(2):eta(2)-N(2)).

    Selvan Demir;Sara E. Lorenz;Ming Fang;Filipp Furche

  • Facile synthesis of UCl4 and ThCl4, metallothermic reductions of UCl4 with alkali metals and crystal structure refinements of UCl3, UCl4 and Cs2UCl6

    Thomas Schleid;Gerd Meyer;Lester R. Morss

Frequent Co-Authors

Glen B. Deacon
Glen B. Deacon Monash University
Anja-Verena Mudring
Anja-Verena Mudring Aarhus University
Karl-Heinz Rieder
Karl-Heinz Rieder Freie Universität Berlin
Peter Nockemann
Peter Nockemann Queen's University Belfast
John D. Corbett
John D. Corbett Iowa State University
Peter C. Junk
Peter C. Junk James Cook University
Karl Krämer
Karl Krämer University of Bern
Craig Macdonald Forsyth
Craig Macdonald Forsyth Monash University
Randall M. Feenstra
Randall M. Feenstra Carnegie Mellon University

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