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Johannes Gierschner

Johannes Gierschner

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Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
14824
World Ranking
8391
National Ranking
259

Overview

Johannes Gierschner is affiliated with IMDEA Nanoscience in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of materials science and chemistry. Their research spans across various areas with a focus on materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, organic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their principal topics of research cover several areas including luminescence and fluorescent materials, crystallization and solubility studies, organic light-emitting diodes research, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, photochemistry and electron transfer studies, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, and spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Dual Emission: Classes, Mechanisms, and Conditions" (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Luminescence in Crystalline Organic Materials: From Molecules to Molecular Solids" (2021), Advanced Optical Materials
  • "Formation and degradation of strongly reducing cyanoarene-based radical anions towards efficient radical anion-mediated photoredox catalysis" (2023), Nature Communications
  • "Counterion-Mediated Crossing of the Cyanine Limit in Crystals and Fluid Solution: Bond Length Alternation and Spectral Broadening Unveiled by Quantum Chemistry" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Anomalous deep-red luminescence of perylene black analogues with strong π-π interactions" (2023), Nature Communications

Johannes Gierschner has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Liangxuan Wang, Juan Carlos Roldao, Soo Young Park, Begoña Milián-Medina, and Min Sang Kwon. Their collaborative efforts enhance multidisciplinary research at the intersection of chemistry and materials science.

Their works have appeared commonly in publication venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, ChemPhysChem, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications, and Angewandte Chemie.

Best Publications

  • Multistimuli Two-Color Luminescence Switching via Different Slip-Stacking of Highly Fluorescent Molecular Sheets

    Seong Jun Yoon;Jong Won Chung;Johannes Gierschner;Kil Suk Kim

  • π-Conjugated Cyanostilbene Derivatives: A Unique Self-Assembly Motif for Molecular Nanostructures with Enhanced Emission and Transport

    Byeong-Kwan An;Johannes Gierschner;Soo Young Park

  • Optical Bandgaps of π‐Conjugated Organic Materials at the Polymer Limit: Experiment and Theory

    Johannes Gierschner;Johannes Gierschner;Jérome Cornil;Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf

  • A white-light-emitting molecule: frustrated energy transfer between constituent emitting centers.

    Sanghyuk Park;Ji Eon Kwon;Se Hun Kim;Jangwon Seo

  • Stabilizing and Modulating Color by Copigmentation: Insights from Theory and Experiment

    Patrick Trouillas;Juan-Carlos Sancho-Garcia;Victor De Freitas;Johannes Gierschner

  • Luminescent distyrylbenzenes: tailoring molecular structure and crystalline morphology

    Johannes Gierschner;Soo Young Park

  • Suppressing molecular motions for enhanced room-temperature phosphorescence of metal-free organic materials.

    Min Sang Kwon;Youngchang Yu;Caleb Coburn;Andrew W. Phillips

  • Tuning of Fluorescence in Films and Nanoparticles of Oligophenylenevinylenes

    Dieter Oelkrug;Alfred Tompert;Johannes Gierschner;Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf

  • Fluorescence and absorption spectra of oligophenylenevinylenes: Vibronic coupling, band shapes, and solvatochromism

    Johannes Gierschner;Hans-Georg Mack;Larry Lüer;Dieter Oelkrug

  • Tailor-Made Highly Luminescent and Ambipolar Transporting Organic Mixed Stacked Charge-Transfer Crystals: An Isometric Donor–Acceptor Approach

    Sang Kyu Park;Shinto Varghese;Jong H. Kim;Seong-Jun Yoon

  • Highly Emissive H-Aggregates or Aggregation-Induced Emission Quenching? The Photophysics of All-Trans para-Distyrylbenzene

    Johannes Gierschner;Johannes Gierschner;Larry Lüer;Larry Lüer;Begoña Milián-Medina;Dieter Oelkrug

  • UV/Visible spectra of natural polyphenols: A time-dependent density functional theory study

    El Hassane Anouar;Johannes Gierschner;Jean-Luc Duroux;Patrick Trouillas;Patrick Trouillas

  • Dual Emission: Classes, Mechanisms and Conditions.

    Johannes Gierschner;Santosh Kumar Behera;Soo Young Park

  • Luminescence in Crystalline Organic Materials: From Molecules to Molecular Solids

    Johannes Gierschner;Junqing Shi;Junqing Shi;Begoña Milián-Medina;Daniel Roca-Sanjuán

  • Organic Single Crystal Lasers: A Materials View

    Johannes Gierschner;Shinto Varghese;Soo Young Park

  • Unique piezochromic fluorescence behavior of dicyanodistyrylbenzene based donor-acceptor-donor triad: mechanically controlled photo-induced electron transfer (eT) in molecular assemblies.

    Min Sang Kwon;Johannes Gierschner;Seong-Jun Yoon;Soo Young Park

  • Solid-state optical properties of linear polyconjugated molecules: π-stack contra herringbone

    Johannes Gierschner;Markus Ehni;Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf;Begoña Milián Medina

  • Solid State Luminescence Enhancement in π-Conjugated Materials: Unraveling the Mechanism beyond the Framework of AIE/AIEE

    Junqing Shi;Luis E. Aguilar Suarez;Seong-Jun Yoon;Shinto Varghese

  • Electronic deactivation in single chains, nano-aggregates and ultrathin films of conjugated oligomers

    D. Oelkrag;H.-J. Egelhaaf;J. Gierschner;A. Tompert

  • Highly efficient organic photocatalysts discovered via a computer-aided-design strategy for visible-light-driven atom transfer radical polymerization

    Varun Kumar Singh;Changhoon Yu;Sachin Badgujar;Youngmu Kim

  • Highly fluorescent crystalline and liquid crystalline columnar phases of pyrene-based structures.

    Anna Hayer;Véronique de Halleux;Anna Köhler;Abdel El-Garoughy

Frequent Co-Authors

Soo Young Park
Soo Young Park Seoul National University
Jérôme Cornil
Jérôme Cornil University of Mons
Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf
Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf University of Tübingen
David Beljonne
David Beljonne University of Mons
Michael Hanack
Michael Hanack University of Tübingen
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona
Sean Parkin
Sean Parkin University of Kentucky
Roland Resel
Roland Resel Graz University of Technology
Jinsang Kim
Jinsang Kim University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alfred J. Meixner
Alfred J. Meixner University of Tübingen

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