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Hans Wolfgang Spiess

Hans Wolfgang Spiess

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Chemistry
Germany
2026
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Materials Science
Germany
2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
111
Citations
47625
World Ranking
685
National Ranking
38

Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
50875
World Ranking
665
National Ranking
48

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
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Hans Wolfgang Spiess is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans several areas within materials science and chemistry, with a focus on the study of complex molecular and polymeric systems.

The primary fields of study for Spiess include:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

Within these fields, subfields of particular interest are:

  • Biomaterials
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Spiess's research topics cover several specialized areas, including:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • History and advancements in chemistry

The scientist has co-authored with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Benjamin E. Partridge
  • Ning Huang
  • Dipankar Sahoo
  • Xiangbing Zeng
  • Goran Ungar

Spiess has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Giant
  • Nachrichten aus der Chemie

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Spiess include:

  • "Extraordinary Acceleration of Cogwheel Helical Self-Organization of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides by the Dendron Sequence Encoding Their Tertiary Structure," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Self-organization of rectangular bipyramidal helical columns by supramolecular orientational memory epitaxially nucleated from a Frank-Kasper σ phase," 2021, Giant
  • "Nachruf: Hans Sillescu (1936 - 2023)," 2023, Nachrichten aus der Chemie

Best Publications

  • Multidimensional solid-state NMR and polymers

    K. Schmidt-Rohr;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • Dead-time free measurement of dipole-dipole interactions between electron spins.

    M. Pannier;S. Veit;Adelheid Godt;Gunnar Jeschke

  • Self-organization of supramolecular helical dendrimers into complex electronic materials

    V. Percec;M. Glodde;T. K. Bera;Y. Miura

  • Nature of nonexponential loss of correlation above the glass transition investigated by multidimensional NMR.

    K. Schmidt-Rohr;H. W. Spiess

  • Ultrahigh Mobility in Polymer Field-Effect Transistors by Design

    Hoi Nok Tsao;Don M. Cho;Insun Park;Michael Ryan Hansen

  • Catalyst-free Preparation of Melamine-Based Microporous Polymer Networks through Schiff Base Chemistry

    Matthias Georg Schwab;Birgit Fassbender;Hans Wolfgang Spiess;Arne Thomas

  • Advanced solid-state NMR methods for the elucidation of structure and dynamics of molecular, macromolecular, and supramolecular systems.

    Steven P. Brown;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • Length Scale of Dynamic Heterogeneities at the Glass Transition Determined by Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

    U. Tracht;Manfred Wilhelm;Andreas Heuer;H. Feng

  • Broadband multiple-quantum NMR spectroscopy

    M. Feike;D. E. Demco;Robert Graf;J. Gottwald

  • Fourier-Transform rheology

    Manfred Wilhelm

  • Correlation of structure, mobility, and morphological information in heterogeneous polymer materials by two-dimensional wideline-separation NMR spectroscopy

    K. Schmidt-Rohr;J. Clauss;H. W. Spiess

  • Block Copolymer−Ceramic Hybrid Materials from Organically Modified Ceramic Precursors

    Peter F. W. Simon;Ralph Ulrich;Hans W. Spiess;Ulrich Wiesner

  • DETERMINATION OF DOMAIN SIZES IN HETEROGENEOUS POLYMERS BY SOLID-STATE NMR

    J. Clauss;K. Schmidt-Rohr;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • High-resolution 1H NMR spectroscopy in the solid state: very fast sample rotation and multiple-quantum coherences.

    Ingo Schnell;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • Handbook of Liquid Crystals Set

    D. Demus;J. Goodby;G. W. Gray;H.-W. Spiess

  • Heterogeneity in polymer melts from melting of polymer crystals

    Sanjay Rastogi;Dirk R. Lippits;Gerrit W. M. Peters;Robert Graf

  • Solid echoes in the slow-motion region

    H.W Spiess;H Sillescu

  • Fourier-transform rheology

    Manfred Wilhelm;D. Maring;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • Intermediate temperature proton conductors for PEM fuel cells based on phosphonic acid as protogenic group: A progress report

    H. Steininger;M. Schuster;K. D. Kreuer;A. Kaltbeitzel

  • Columnar mesophases of alkylated hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes with remarkably large phase widths

    Peter Herwig;Christoph W. Kayser;Klaus Müllen;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • Molecular dynamics of solid polymers as revealed by deuteron NMR

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Graf
Robert Graf Max Planck Society
John W. Goodby
John W. Goodby University of York
Manfred Wilhelm
Manfred Wilhelm Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr Brandeis University
Ulrich Wiesner
Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Gunnar Jeschke
Gunnar Jeschke ETH Zurich
Andreas Heuer
Andreas Heuer University of Münster
Virgil Percec
Virgil Percec University of Pennsylvania
Katharina Landfester
Katharina Landfester Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

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