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Overview

Gerhard Mestl is affiliated with Clariant (Switzerland) and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering, materials science, and chemical engineering. Their research intersects multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, catalysis, computational mechanics, mechanical engineering, and inorganic chemistry.

Their research portfolio covers a range of specialized topics such as catalysis and oxidation reactions, catalytic processes in materials science, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, x-ray diffraction in crystallography, zeolite catalysis and synthesis, heat and mass transfer in porous media, and granular flow and fluidized beds.

Gerhard Mestl has published numerous papers, including notable works such as:

  • Modeling the selective oxidation of n-butane to maleic anhydride: From active site to industrial reactor, 2021, Catalysis Today
  • An improved contact modification routine for a computationally efficient CFD simulation of packed beds, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances
  • Sparse ab initio x-ray transmission spectrotomography for nanoscopic compositional analysis of functional materials, 2021, Science Advances
  • On the importance of by-products in the kinetics of n-butane oxidation to maleic anhydride, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • How Temperature Measurement Impacts Pressure Drop and Heat Transport in Slender Fixed Beds of Raschig Rings, 2022, ACS Engineering Au

The main publication venues where Mestl has contributed multiple studies include:

  • Catalysis from A to Z
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • Topics in Catalysis
  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • ChemCatChem

Collaboration is a prominent feature of their research approach, with frequent coauthors including Sebastian Böcklein, Martin Kutscherauer, Thomas Turek, Gregor D. Wehinger, and Mauritio Müller.

Best Publications

  • Raman spectroscopy of molybdenum oxides

    Martin Dieterle;Gerhard Mestl

  • Raman spectroscopy of monolayer-type oxide catalysts: Supported Mo oxides

    Gerhard Mestl;T. K. K. Srinivasan

  • The Catalytic Use of Onion‐Like Carbon Materials for Styrene Synthesis by Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethylbenzene

    Nicolas Keller;Nadezhda I. Maksimova;Vladimir V. Roddatis;Michael Schur

  • Raman spectroscopy of molybdenum oxides (part 1): structural characterization of oxygen defects in MoO3-x by DR-UV/VIS, Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction

    Martin Dieterle;Gisela Weinberg;Gerhard Mestl

  • Carbon Nanofilaments in Heterogeneous Catalysis: An Industrial Application for New Carbon Materials?

    Gerhard Mestl;Nadezhda I. Maksimova;Nicolas Keller;Vladimir V. Roddatis

  • High temperature partial oxidation reactions over silver catalysts

    Anton J. Nagy;Gerhard Mestl

  • Oxygen-Exchange Properties of MoO3: An in situ Raman Spectroscopy Study

    G. Mestl;Bernard Delmon;Patricio Ruiz;H. Knozinger

  • Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene over ultra-dispersed diamond and onion-like carbon

    Dang Sheng Su;Nadezhda I. Maksimova;Gerhard Mestl;Vladimir L. Kuznetsov

  • Properties of oxygen sites at the MoO_3(010) surface: density functional theory cluster studies and photoemission experiments

    Renata Tokarz-Sobieraj;Klaus Hermann;Malgorzata Witko;Andreas Blume

  • Nanocarbons in selective oxidative dehydrogenation reaction

    Dang Sheng Su;Nadeja I. Maksimova;Juan Jose Delgado;Nicolas Keller

  • Structure and catalytic properties of molybdenum oxide catalysts supported on zirconia

    Komandur V. R. Chary;Kondakindi Rajender Reddy;Gurram Kishan;J. W. Niemantsverdriet

  • The Correlation of Subsurface Oxygen Diffusion with Variations of Silver Morphology in the Silver–Oxygen System

    Anton J. Nagy;Gerhard Mestl;Daniel Herein;Gisela Weinberg

  • Thermally and Chemically Induced Structural Transformations of Keggin-Type Heteropoly Acid Catalysts

    Gerhard Mestl;Thomas Ilkenhans;Dieter Spielbauer;Martin Dieterle

  • Sb2o3/sb2o4 in Reducing/oxidizing Environments - An In-situ Raman-spectroscopy Study

    G. Mestl;P. Ruiz;B. Delmon;H. Knozinger

  • Mixed molybdenum oxide based partial oxidation catalyst: 2. Combined X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and Raman investigation of the phase stability of (MoVW)5O14-type oxides

    Martin Dieterle;Gerhard Mestl;Joachim Jäger;Yuji Uchida

  • Large scale synthesis of carbon nanofibers by catalytic decomposition of ethane on nickel nanoclusters decorating carbon nanotubes

    Cuong Pham-Huu;Nicolas Keller;Vladimir V. Roddatis;Gerhard Mestl

  • The Role of Subsurface Oxygen in the Silver-Catalyzed, Oxidative Coupling of Methane

    Anton J. Nagy;Gerhard Mestl;Robert Schlögl

  • In situ Raman spectroscopy — a valuable tool to understand operating catalysts

    Gerhard Mestl

  • In situ Raman spectroscopy of peroxide ions on Ba/MgO catalysts

    Jack H. Lunsford;Xueming Yang;Kristjan Haller;Jaan Laane

  • Molybdenum oxide based partial oxidation catalyst: 1. Thermally induced oxygen deficiency, elemental and structural heterogeneity and the relation to catalytic performance

    Gerhard Mestl;C. Linsmeier;Reiner Gottschall;Martin Dieterle

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Schlögl
Robert Schlögl Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Nicolas Keller
Nicolas Keller University of Strasbourg
Thomas Turek
Thomas Turek Clausthal University of Technology
Helmut Knözinger
Helmut Knözinger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fabrizio Cavani
Fabrizio Cavani University of Bologna
Bernard Delmon
Bernard Delmon Université Catholique de Louvain
Siglinda Perathoner
Siglinda Perathoner University of Messina
Dang Sheng Su
Dang Sheng Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jack H. Lunsford
Jack H. Lunsford Texas A&M University
Vladimir L. Kuznetsov
Vladimir L. Kuznetsov University of Oxford

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