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J. Michael Gottfried

J. Michael Gottfried

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Chemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
10116
World Ranking
13878
National Ranking
1019

Overview

J. Michael Gottfried is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany and has an active research profile spanning materials science and engineering. Their work primarily focuses on materials chemistry and intersections with electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics, optics, and organic chemistry.

Their research covers several main topics including surface chemistry and catalysis, molecular junctions and nanostructures, graphene research and applications, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, as well as porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry.

Notable recent scientific papers by Gottfried include:

  • Biphenylene network: A nonbenzenoid carbon allotrope, 2021, Science
  • Revisiting Acepleiadylene: Two-Step Synthesis and π-Extension toward Nonbenzenoid Nanographene, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Photodegradation of dyes in batch and continuous reactors by Cu2O-CuO nano-photocatalyst on Cu foils prepared by chemical-thermal oxidation, 2020, Materials Research Bulletin
  • Kekulene: On-Surface Synthesis, Orbital Structure, and Aromatic Stabilization, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Chemisorption and Physisorption at the Metal/Organic Interface: Bond Energies of Naphthalene and Azulene on Coinage Metal Surfaces, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Gottfried frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Qitang Fan
  • Jörg Sundermeyer
  • Simon Werner
  • F. Stefan Tautz
  • Jan Herritsch

Their publications appear regularly in established scientific outlets such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, arXiv (Cornell University), and ACS Nano.

Best Publications

  • Covalent bulk functionalization of graphene

    Jan M. Englert;Christoph Dotzer;Guang Yang;Martin Schmid

  • Biphenylene network: A nonbenzenoid carbon allotrope.

    Qitang Fan;Linghao Yan;Matthias W. Tripp;Ondřej Krejčí

  • Surface chemistry of porphyrins and phthalocyanines

    J. Michael Gottfried

  • Assembling molecular Sierpiński triangle fractals

    Jian Shang;Yongfeng Wang;Min Chen;Jingxin Dai

  • Surface-Catalyzed C–C Covalent Coupling Strategies toward the Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Carbon-Based Nanostructures

    Qitang Fan;J. Michael Gottfried;Junfa Zhu

  • Direct Synthesis of a Metalloporphyrin Complex on a Surface

    J. Michael Gottfried;Ken Flechtner;Andreas Kretschmann;Thomas Lukasczyk

  • Nanoporous Au: An Unsupported Pure Gold Catalyst?

    Arne Wittstock;Björn Neumann;Andreas Schaefer;Karifala Dumbuya

  • The Surface Trans Effect: Influence of Axial Ligands on the Surface Chemical Bonds of Adsorbed Metalloporphyrins

    Wolfgang Hieringer;Ken Flechtner;Andreas Kretschmann;Knud Seufert

  • Coordination and metalation bifunctionality of Cu with 5,10,15,20-tetra(4-pyridyl)porphyrin: toward a mixed-valence two-dimensional coordination network.

    Li Y;Xiao J;Shubina Te;Chen M

  • Principle and Mechanism of Direct Porphyrin Metalation: Joint Experimental and Theoretical Investigation

    Shubina Te;Marbach H;Flechtner K;Kretschmann A

  • Nanoribbons with Nonalternant Topology from Fusion of Polyazulene: Carbon Allotropes beyond Graphene.

    Qitang Fan;Daniel Martin-Jimenez;Daniel Ebeling;Claudio K. Krug

  • Surface‐Assisted Organic Synthesis of Hyperbenzene Nanotroughs

    Qitang Fan;Cici Wang;Yong Han;Junfa Zhu

  • Adsorption of carbon monoxide on Au(1 1 0)-(1 × 2)

    J.M. Gottfried;K.J. Schmidt;S.L.M. Schroeder;K. Christmann

  • Coordination of Iron Atoms by Tetraphenylporphyrin Monolayers and Multilayers on Ag(111) and Formation of Iron-Tetraphenylporphyrin

    Florian Buchner;Ken Flechtner;Yun Bai;Elisabeth Zillner

  • NO-induced reversible switching of the electronic interaction between a porphyrin-coordinated cobalt ion and a silver surface.

    Ken Flechtner;Andreas Kretschmann;Hans-Peter Steinrück;J. Michael Gottfried

  • Calorimetric Measurement of the Heat of Adsorption of Benzene on Pt(111)

    Hyeran Ihm;Henry M. Ajo;J. M. Gottfried;P. Bera

  • Physical vapor deposition of [EMIM][Tf2N]: a new approach to the modification of surface properties with ultrathin ionic liquid films.

    Till Cremer;Manuela Killian;J. Michael Gottfried;Natalia Paape

  • A new asymmetric Pseudo-Voigt function for more efficient fitting of XPS lines: New asymmetric Pseudo-Voigt function for efficient XPS line fitting

    Martin Schmid;Martin Schmid;Hans-Peter Steinrück;J. Michael Gottfried

  • Surface-Assisted Formation, Assembly, and Dynamics of Planar Organometallic Macrocycles and Zigzag Shaped Polymer Chains with C–Cu–C Bonds

    Qitang Fan;Cici Wang;Yong Han;Junfa Zhu

  • Surface Studies on the Ionic Liquid 1-Ethyl-3-Methylimidazolium Ethylsulfate Using X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

    J. M. Gottfried;F. Maier;J. Rossa;D. Gerhard

  • Surface Enrichment and Depletion Effects of Ions Dissolved in an Ionic Liquid: An X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study

    Florian Maier;J. Michael Gottfried;Jürgen Rossa;Dirk Gerhard

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Steinrück
Hans-Peter Steinrück University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Junfa Zhu
Junfa Zhu University of Science and Technology of China
Gerhard Hilt
Gerhard Hilt Philipp University of Marburg
Charles T. Campbell
Charles T. Campbell University of Washington
Jie Xiao
Jie Xiao University of Washington
Huanxin Ju
Huanxin Ju CoreTech Integrated Limited
Jörg Sundermeyer
Jörg Sundermeyer Philipp University of Marburg
Kai Wu
Kai Wu Peking University
Jin Zhao
Jin Zhao University of Science and Technology of China
Peter Kratzer
Peter Kratzer University of Duisburg-Essen

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