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Overview

Josef Breu is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany and has a research profile situated primarily within Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The research topics covered by Breu include:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Frequent co-authors in Breu's body of work include Sabine Rosenfeldt, Volodymyr Dudko, Zi Liang Wu, Qing Zhu, and Olena Khoruzhenko, indicating collaborative research efforts across various projects.

Breu has published extensively in several prominent scientific venues. Most frequent publication venues include:

  • Langmuir
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Science

Selected recent papers by Breu feature studies focusing on hydrogels and advanced material properties with considerable citation counts, reflecting active engagement in contemporary research topics:

  • "Light-steered locomotion of muscle-like hydrogel by self-coordinated shape change and friction modulation," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Distributed Electric Field Induces Orientations of Nanosheets to Prepare Hydrogels with Elaborate Ordered Structures and Programmed Deformations," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Magneto-Orientation of Magnetic Double Stacks for Patterned Anisotropic Hydrogels with Multiple Responses and Modulable Motions," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Animating hydrogel knotbots with topology-invoked self-regulation," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Patterned Electrode Assisted One-Step Fabrication of Biomimetic Morphing Hydrogels with Sophisticated Anisotropic Structures," 2021, Advanced Science

Best Publications

  • In Situ Formation of Ag Nanoparticles in Spherical Polyacrylic Acid Brushes by UV Irradiation

    Yan Lu;Yu Mei;Marc Schrinner;Matthias Ballauff

  • Single Nanocrystals of Platinum Prepared by Partial Dissolution of Au-Pt Nanoalloys

    Marc C. Schrinner;Matthias Ballauff;Yeshayahu Talmon;Yaron Kauffmann

  • Light-steered locomotion of muscle-like hydrogel by self-coordinated shape change and friction modulation

    Qing Li Zhu;Cong Du;Yahao Dai;Matthias Daab

  • Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence and Proton‐Dependent Switching of Fluorescence: Functionalized Difluoroboradiaza‐s‐indacenes

    Matthias Kollmannsberger;Thomas Gareis;Stefan Heinl;Jörg Daub

  • Ultralight, Soft Polymer Sponges by Self-Assembly of Short Electrospun Fibers in Colloidal Dispersions

    Gaigai Duan;Shaohua Jiang;Valérie Jérôme;Joachim H. Wendorff

  • Nanoplatelets of sodium hectorite showing aspect ratios of ≈20,000 and superior purity

    Matthias Stöter;Daniel A Kunz;Marko Schmidt;Dunja Hirsemann

  • Charge homogeneity in synthetic fluorohectorite

    Josef Breu;Wolfgang Seidl;Alexander J. Stoll;Kurt G. Lange

  • Distributed Electric Field Induces Orientations of Nanosheets to Prepare Hydrogels with Elaborate Ordered Structures and Programmed Deformations.

    Qing Li Zhu;Chen Fei Dai;Daniel Wagner;Matthias Daab

  • Water Dynamics in Hectorite Clays: Infuence of Temperature Studied by Coupling Neutron Spin Echo and Molecular Dynamics

    Virginie Marry;Emmanuelle Dubois;Natalie Malikova;Serge Durand-Vidal

  • Clinical wastewater treatment: Photochemical removal of an anionic antibiotic (ciprofloxacin) by mesostructured high aspect ratio ZnO nanotubes

    Carina Bojer;Judith Schöbel;Thomas Martin;Michael Ertl

  • Template-Directed Synthesis of Silica Nanowires and Nanotubes from Cylindrical Core–Shell Polymer Brushes

    Markus Müllner;Thomas Lunkenbein;Josef Breu;Frank Caruso

  • Clay-based nanocomposite coating for flexible optoelectronics applying commercial polymers.

    Daniel A. Kunz;Jasmin Schmid;Patrick Feicht;Johann Erath

  • UV‐Cured, Flexible, and Transparent Nanocomposite Coating with Remarkable Oxygen Barrier

    Michael W. Möller;Daniel A. Kunz;Thomas Lunkenbein;Stefan Sommer

  • Polymorphism in benzamide: solving a 175-year-old riddle.

    Jürgen Thun;Lena Seyfarth;Jürgen Senker;Robert E. Dinnebier

  • Crystal Structure of fac−Ir(ppy)3 and Emission Properties under Ambient Conditions and at High Pressure†

    Josef Breu;Philipp Stössel;Sigurd Schrader;Alexander Starukhin

  • In-Depth Insights into the Key Steps of Delamination of Charged 2D Nanomaterials

    Sabine Rosenfeldt;Matthias Stöter;Mathias Schlenk;Thomas Martin

  • Water Diffusion in a Synthetic Hectorite Clay Studied by Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering

    N. Malikova;A. Cadène;E. Dubois;V. Marry

  • Fehlordnung bei Smectiten in Abhängigkeit vom Zwischenschichtkation

    Josef Breu;Wolfgang Seidl;Alexander Stoll

  • Catalytic activity of nanoalloys from gold and palladium

    Julian Kaiser;Linn Leppert;Hannes Welz;Frank Polzer

  • Template-Directed Mild Synthesis of Anatase Hybrid Nanotubes within Cylindrical Core–Shell–Corona Polymer Brushes

    Markus Müllner;Thomas Lunkenbein;Martin Schieder;André H. Gröschel

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Lunkenbein
Thomas Lunkenbein Max Planck Society
Jürgen Senker
Jürgen Senker University of Bayreuth
Volker Altstädt
Volker Altstädt University of Bayreuth
Stephan Förster
Stephan Förster Forschungszentrum Jülich
Andreas Fery
Andreas Fery Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Axel H. E. Müller
Axel H. E. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Hartmut Yersin
Hartmut Yersin University of Regensburg
Holger Schmalz
Holger Schmalz University of Bayreuth
Matthias Ballauff
Matthias Ballauff Freie Universität Berlin
Seema Agarwal
Seema Agarwal University of Bayreuth

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