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  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry

Overview

Klaus Müllen is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions in the fields of materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, organic chemistry, biomedical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics including graphene research and applications, molecular junctions and nanostructures, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, surface chemistry and catalysis, luminescence and fluorescent materials, organic electronics and photovoltaics, and 2D materials and their applications.

Notable recent papers authored include:

  • Boosting Oxygen Electrocatalytic Activity of Fe-N-C Catalysts by Phosphorus Incorporation, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Stable high-capacity and high-rate silicon-based lithium battery anodes upon two-dimensional covalent encapsulation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Multilayer stabilization for fabricating high-loading single-atom catalysts, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Graphene Nanoribbons: On-Surface Synthesis and Integration into Electronic Devices, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Nanographenes and Graphene Nanoribbons as Multitalents of Present and Future Materials Science, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Klaus Müllen has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Akimitsu Narita (97 publications)
  • Román Fasel (46 publications)
  • Pascal Ruffieux (44 publications)
  • Xinliang Feng (29 publications)
  • Zijie Qiu (26 publications)

The most common venues for their publications include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (30 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (16 publications)
  • Nature Communications (10 publications)
  • Chemistry - A European Journal (10 publications)

Klaus Müllen's work has been recognized through memberships and fellowships in scientific academies, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2017
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013
  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 1999 (Chemistry)

Best Publications

  • Transparent, Conductive Graphene Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Xuan Wang;Linjie Zhi;Klaus Müllen

  • Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons

    Jinming Cai;Pascal Ruffieux;Rached Jaafar;Marco Bieri

  • Graphenes as potential material for electronics.

    Jishan Wu;Wojciech Pisula;Klaus Müllen

  • Self-Organized Discotic Liquid Crystals for High-Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics

    Lukas Schmidt-Mende;Andreas Fechtenkötter;Klaus Müllen;Ellen Moons

  • Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna

    Anika A. Kinkhabwala;Zongfu Yu;Shanhui Fan;Yuri Avlasevich

  • 3D Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Aerogel-Supported Fe3O4 Nanoparticles as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Zhong-Shuai Wu;Shubin Yang;Yi Sun;Khaled Parvez

  • Nitrogen‐Doped Ordered Mesoporous Graphitic Arrays with High Electrocatalytic Activity for Oxygen Reduction

    Ruili Liu;Dongqing Wu;Xinliang Feng;Klaus Müllen

  • Pyrene-based materials for organic electronics.

    Teresa M. Figueira-Duarte;Klaus Müllen

  • Exfoliation of Graphite into Graphene in Aqueous Solutions of Inorganic Salts

    Khaled Parvez;Zhong-Shuai Wu;Rongjin Li;Xianjie Liu

  • Big is beautiful--"aromaticity" revisited from the viewpoint of macromolecular and supramolecular benzene chemistry.

    Mark D. Watson;and Andreas Fechtenkötter;Klaus Müllen

  • Three-Dimensional Nitrogen and Boron Co-doped Graphene for High-Performance All-Solid-State Supercapacitors

    Zhong-Shuai Wu;Andreas Winter;Long Chen;Yi Sun

  • New advances in nanographene chemistry

    Akimitsu Narita;Xiao-Ye Wang;Xinliang Feng;Klaus Müllen

  • On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology

    Pascal Ruffieux;Shiyong Wang;Bo Yang;Carlos Sánchez-Sánchez

  • Electronic Materials: The Oligomer Approach

    Gerhard Wegner;K. Müllen

  • Graphene-based in-plane micro-supercapacitors with high power and energy densities

    Zhong–Shuai Wu;Khaled Parvez;Xinliang Feng;Klaus Müllen

  • Efficient Synthesis of Heteroatom (N or S)‐Doped Graphene Based on Ultrathin Graphene Oxide‐Porous Silica Sheets for Oxygen Reduction Reactions

    Shubin Yang;Linjie Zhi;Kun Tang;Xinliang Feng

  • Mesoporous Metal–Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Hai-Wei Liang;Wei Wei;Zhong-Shuai Wu;Xinliang Feng

  • Fabrication of Graphene‐Encapsulated Oxide Nanoparticles: Towards High‐Performance Anode Materials for Lithium Storage

    Shubin Yang;Xinliang Feng;Sorin Ivanovici;Klaus Müllen

  • Graphene‐Based Carbon Nitride Nanosheets as Efficient Metal‐Free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reactions

    Shubin Yang;Xinliang Feng;Xinchen Wang;Klaus Müllen

  • Three-Dimensional Graphene-Based Macro- and Mesoporous Frameworks for High-Performance Electrochemical Capacitive Energy Storage

    Zhong-Shuai Wu;Yi Sun;Yuan-Zhi Tan;Shubin Yang

  • "Organic Light-Emitting Devices: Synthesis, Properties and Applications"

    Klaus Müllen;Ullrich Scherf

  • Organic Light Emitting Devices: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

    Klaus Mullen;Ullrich Scherf

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinliang Feng
Xinliang Feng TU Dresden
Wojciech Pisula
Wojciech Pisula Max Planck Society
Martin Baumgarten
Martin Baumgarten Max Planck Society
Akimitsu Narita
Akimitsu Narita Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Roman Fasel
Roman Fasel Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Chen Li
Chen Li Dongguan University of Technology
Johan Hofkens
Johan Hofkens KU Leuven
Volker Enkelmann
Volker Enkelmann Max Planck Society
Pascal Ruffieux
Pascal Ruffieux Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Andrew C. Grimsdale
Andrew C. Grimsdale Nanyang Technological University

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