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Materials Science
Germany
2023

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Materials Science

D-Index
131
Citations
66959
World Ranking
325
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Klaus Kern is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, with a primary focus on Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Materials Science. Within these broad disciplines, their work delves deeper into specialized subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Materials Chemistry; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's main research topics cover:

  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • 2D Materials and Applications

Klaus Kern has authored several recent papers, reflecting current areas of interest and collaboration. Some notable publications include:

  • "Imaging single glycans," 2020, published in Nature
  • "Light-matter interaction at atomic scales," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Physics
  • "Exploring the Molecular Conformation Space by Soft Molecule-Surface Collision," 2020, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Direct observation of glycans bonded to proteins and lipids at the single-molecule level," 2023, published in Science
  • "Real-space subfemtosecond imaging of quantum electronic coherences in molecules," 2021, published in Nature Photonics

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Stephan Rauschenbach
  • Klaus Kuhnke
  • Abhishek Grewal
  • Kelvin Anggara
  • Manish Garg

Klaus Kern often publishes in several scientific venues, with multiple publications recorded in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Nano
  • Nano Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces

    Johannes V. Barth;Giovanni Costantini;Klaus Kern;Klaus Kern

  • Electronic Transport Properties of Individual Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets

    Cristina Gómez-Navarro;R. Thomas Weitz;Alexander M. Bittner;Matteo Scolari

  • Atomic Structure of Reduced Graphene Oxide

    Cristina Gómez-Navarro;Jannik C. Meyer;Ravi S. Sundaram;Andrey Chuvilin

  • Giant Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Cobalt Atoms and Nanoparticles

    P. Gambardella;S. Rusponi;M. Veronese;S. S. Dhesi

  • Scanning field emission from patterned carbon nanotube films

    L. Nilsson;O. Groening;C. Emmenegger;O. Kuettel

  • Elastic properties of chemically derived single graphene sheets.

    Cristina Gómez-Navarro;Marko Burghard;Klaus Kern

  • Ferromagnetism in one-dimensional monatomic metal chains.

    P. Gambardella;A. Dallmeyer;K. Maiti;M. C. Malagoli

  • Giant spin splitting through surface alloying.

    Christian R. Ast;Christian R. Ast;Juergen Henk;Arthur Ernst;Luca Moreschini

  • Contact and edge effects in graphene devices

    Eduardo J. H. Lee;Kannan Balasubramanian;Ralf Thomas Weitz;Marko Burghard

  • Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns

    Harald Brune;Marcella Giovannini;Karsten Bromann;Klaus Kern

  • TiO2 anatase with a bandgap in the visible region.

    Christian Dette;Miguel A. Perez-Osorio;Christopher S. Kley;Paul Punke

  • Steering molecular organization and host-guest interactions using two-dimensional nanoporous coordination systems.

    Sebastian Stepanow;Magalí Lingenfelder;Alexandre Dmitriev;Hannes Spillmann

  • Building one- and two-dimensional nanostructures by diffusion-controlled aggregation at surfaces

    Holger Röder;Elmar Hahn;Harald Brune;Jean-Pierre Bucher

  • Atomic Hole Doping of Graphene

    Isabella Gierz;Christian Riedl;Ulrich Starke;Christian R. Ast

  • Long-range spatial self-organization in the adsorbate-induced restructuring of surfaces: Cu\{100\}-(2×1)O

    Klaus Kern;Horst Niehus;Axel Schatz;Peter Zeppenfeld

  • Biotemplate Synthesis of 3-nm Nickel and Cobalt Nanowires

    Mato Knez;Alexander M. Bittner;Fabian Boes;Christina Wege

  • Building Supramolecular Nanostructures at Surfaces by Hydrogen Bonding

    Johannes V. Barth;Jens Weckesser;Chengzhi Cai;Peter Günter

  • Tuning the Field Emission Properties of Patterned Carbon Nanotube Films

    J.-M. Bonard;N. Weiss;H. Kind;H. Kind;T. Stöckli

  • 3D optical Yagi–Uda nanoantenna array

    Daniel Dregely;Richard Taubert;Jens Dorfmüller;Ralf Vogelgesang

  • Controlled deposition of size-selected silver nanoclusters

    Karsten Bromann;Christian Félix;Harald Brune;Wolfgang Harbich

Frequent Co-Authors

Marko Burghard
Marko Burghard Max Planck Society
Harald Brune
Harald Brune École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Johannes V. Barth
Johannes V. Barth Technical University of Munich
Nian Lin
Nian Lin Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mario Ruben
Mario Ruben Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hagen Klauk
Hagen Klauk Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Ute Zschieschang
Ute Zschieschang Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Oliver G. Schmidt
Oliver G. Schmidt Chemnitz University of Technology
George Comsa
George Comsa University of Bonn
Armando Rastelli
Armando Rastelli Johannes Kepler University of Linz

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