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Johannes A. A. W. Elemans

Johannes A. A. W. Elemans

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Chemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
10857
World Ranking
14684
National Ranking
266

Overview

Johannes A. A. W. Elemans is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands and has a research focus primarily situated within materials science and chemistry. Their work spans a range of topics including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, spectroscopy, electrical and electronic engineering, and inorganic chemistry.

Their research contributions are documented through publications covering key areas such as:

  • Porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry
  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Supramolecular chemistry and complexes
  • Molecular sensors and ion detection
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Photosynthetic processes and mechanisms

Elemans has published extensively in several scientific venues, with a notable presence in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Nature Communications
  • Natural Sciences
  • Chemical Science

Their frequent collaborations include work with scholars such as Roeland J. M. Nolte, Paul Tinnemans, Jeroen P.J. Bruekers, Pieter J. Gilissen, and Anne Swartjes, reflecting a network of consistent co-authorship with repeated joint publications.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Elemans include:

  • Water oxidation electrocatalysis using ruthenium coordination oligomers adsorbed on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (2020, Nature Chemistry)
  • Absolute configuration and host-guest binding of chiral porphyrin-cages by a combined chiroptical and theoretical approach (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Molecular motor-functionalized porphyrin macrocycles (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement NMR as a tool to probe guest binding and exchange in metallohosts (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Host-guest tuning of the CO 2 reduction activity of an iron porphyrin cage (2022, Natural Sciences)

The research outputs demonstrate a sustained focus on molecular and supramolecular frameworks, especially involving porphyrin structures as well as applications linked to catalysis and spectroscopic techniques.

Best Publications

  • Self-Assembled Nanoreactors

    Dennis M. Vriezema;Marta Comellas Aragonès;Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen

  • Molecular Materials by Self‐Assembly of Porphyrins, Phthalocyanines, and Perylenes

    J. A. A. W. Elemans;R. van Hameren;R. J. M. Nolte;A. E. Rowan

  • Molecular and Supramolecular Networks on Surfaces: From Two-Dimensional Crystal Engineering to Reactivity

    Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Shengbin Lei;Steven De Feyter

  • Mastering molecular matter. Supramolecular architectures by hierarchical self-assembly

    Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Alan E. Rowan;Roeland J. M. Nolte

  • Two-dimensional supramolecular self-assembly: nanoporous networks on surfaces

    Tibor Kudernac;Shengbin Lei;Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Steven De Feyter

  • Macroscopic hierarchical surface patterning of porphyrin trimers via self-assembly and dewetting.

    Richard van Hameren;Peter Schön;Arend M. van Buul;Johan Hoogboom

  • Molecular and Supramolecular Objects from Glycoluril

    Alan E. Rowan;Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Roeland J. M. Nolte

  • Functional interlocked systems

    Stijn F. M. van Dongen;Seda Cantekin;Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Alan E. Rowan

  • Two-dimensional chirality at liquid–solid interfaces

    Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Inge De Cat;Hong Xu;Steven De Feyter

  • Real-time single-molecule imaging of oxidation catalysis at a liquid–solid interface

    Bas Hulsken;Richard Van Hameren;Jan W. Gerritsen;Tony Khoury

  • Encoding information into polymers

    Martin G. T. A. Rutten;Frits W. Vaandrager;Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Roeland J. M. Nolte

  • Binding Features of Molecular Clips. Separation of the Effects of Hydrogen Bonding and π−π Interactions

    Joost N. H. Reek;Alex H. Priem;Hans Engelkamp;Alan E. Rowan

  • Synthesis and hierarchical self-assembly of cavity-containing facial amphiphiles.

    Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Ralf R. J. Slangen;and Alan E. Rowan;Roeland J. M. Nolte

  • Highly oriented self-assembled monolayers as templates for epitaxial calcite growth.

    A. Markus Travaille;Lotte Kaptijn;Paul Verwer;Bas Hulsken

  • Detection of different oxidation states of individual manganese porphyrins during their reaction with oxygen at a solid/liquid interface

    Duncan den Boer;Min Li;Min Li;Thomas Habets;Patrizia Iavicoli

  • Mechanism of Threading a Polymer Through a Macrocyclic Ring

    Alexander B. C. Deutman;Cyrille Monnereau;Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Gianfranco Ercolani

  • Supramolecular Porphyrin Polymers in Solution and at the Solid−Liquid Interface

    Richard Van Hameren;Arend M. Van Buul;Maria A. Castriciano;Valentina Villari

  • A Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Water.

    Wolfgang Schöfberger;Felix Faschinger;Samir Chattopadhyay;Snehadri Bhakta

  • A Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Water

    Unknown

  • Porphyrin Macrocyclic Catalysts for the Processive Oxidation of Polymer Substrates

    Cyrille Monnereau;Pilar Hidalgo Ramos;Alexander B. C. Deutman;Johannes A. A. W. Elemans

  • Porphyrin Clips Derived from Diphenylglycoluril. Synthesis, Conformational Analysis, and Binding Properties

    Johannes A. A. W. Elemans;Menno B. Claase;Patrick P. M. Aarts;Alan E. Rowan

Frequent Co-Authors

Roeland J. M. Nolte
Roeland J. M. Nolte Radboud University
Alan E. Rowan
Alan E. Rowan University of Queensland
Maxwell J. Crossley
Maxwell J. Crossley University of Sydney
Joost N. H. Reek
Joost N. H. Reek University of Amsterdam
Theo Rasing
Theo Rasing Radboud University
Jeffrey R. Reimers
Jeffrey R. Reimers University of Technology Sydney
Wybren Jan Buma
Wybren Jan Buma University of Amsterdam
Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen University of Twente
David B. Amabilino
David B. Amabilino University of Nottingham

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