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  • 1991 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Manfred M. Kappes is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics of research include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Among their recent publications are:

  • Impact of Ligands on Structural and Optical Properties of Ag29 Nanoclusters, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • 18-Crown-6 Coordinated Metal Halides with Bright Luminescence and Nonlinear Optical Effects, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Further Dimensions for Sensing in Biofluids: Distinguishing Bioorganic Analytes by the Salt-Induced Adaptation of a Cucurbit[7]uril-Based Chemosensor, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Synthesis and properties of cyclic sandwich compounds, 2023, Nature
  • Covalent cucurbit[7]uril-dye conjugates for sensing in aqueous saline media and biofluids, 2020, Chemical Science

Kappes has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. The most frequent co-authors include Sergei Lebedkin, Peter W. Roesky, Wim Klopper, Thomas J. Feuerstein, and Patrick Weis. Their joint works have contributed to over a hundred co-authored publications.

The most common venues where their research appears are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ACS Nano
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Manfred M. Kappes was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Separation of Metallic from Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Ralph Krupke;Frank Hennrich;Hilbert v. Löhneysen;Manfred M. Kappes

  • Sidewall Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes This work was supported by the European Union under the 5th Framework Research Training Network 1999, HPRNT 1999-00011 FUNCARS.

    Michael Holzinger;Otto Vostrowsky;Andreas Hirsch;Frank Hennrich

  • Functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes with (R-)oxycarbonyl nitrenes.

    Michael Holzinger;Juergen Abraham;Paul Whelan;Ralf Graupner

  • The structures of small gold cluster anions as determined by a combination of ion mobility measurements and density functional calculations

    Filipp Furche;Reinhart Ahlrichs;Patrick Weis;Christoph Jacob

  • Structures of small gold cluster cations (Aun+, n<14): Ion mobility measurements versus density functional calculations

    Stefan Gilb;Patrick Weis;Filip Furche;Reinhart Ahlrichs

  • Simultaneous Deposition of Metallic Bundles of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Ac-dielectrophoresis

    Ralph Krupke;Frank Hennrich;H. B. Weber;Manfred M. Kappes

  • Debundling of Single-Walled Nanotubes by Dilution: Observation of Large Populations of Individual Nanotubes in Amide Solvent Dispersions

    Silvia Giordani;Shane D. Bergin;Valeria Nicolosi;Sergei Lebedkin

  • Boron Cluster Cations: Transition from Planar to Cylindrical Structures

    Esther Oger;Nathan R. M. Crawford;Rebecca Kelting;Patrick Weis

  • The Structure of the C60 Molecule: X-Ray Crystal Structure Determination of a Twin at 110 K

    Shengzhong Liu;Ying Jie Lu;Manfred M. Kappes;James A. Ibers

  • Gold Mesostructures with Tailored Surface Topography and Their Self-Assembly Arrays for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

    Jixiang Fang;Shuya Du;Sergei Lebedkin;Zhiyuan Li

  • Experiment versus Time Dependent Density Functional Theory Prediction of Fullerene Electronic Absorption

    Rüdiger Bauernschmitt;Reinhart Ahlrichs;and Frank H. Hennrich;Manfred M. Kappes

  • Surface Conductance Induced Dielectrophoresis of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Ralph Krupke;Frank Hennrich;Manfred M. Kappes;Hilbert von Löhneysen

  • The mechanism of cavitation-induced scission of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Frank Hennrich;Ralph Krupke;Katharina Arnold;Jan A Rojas Stütz

  • Selective suspension in aqueous sodium dodecyl sulfate according to electronic structure type allows simple separation of metallic from semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Kai Moshammer;Frank Hennrich;Manfred M. Kappes

  • 2D-3D transition of gold cluster anions resolved

    Mikael P. Johansson;Anne Lechtken;Detlef Schooss;Manfred M. Kappes

  • Doping of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles by Brønsted acids

    Ralf Graupner;Jürgen Abraham;Andrea Vencelová;Thomas Seyller

  • Spectroscopy of single- and double-wall carbon nanotubes in different environments.

    Tobias Hertel;Axel Hagen;Vadim Talalaev;Katharina Arnold

  • Fully integrated quantum photonic circuit with an electrically driven light source

    Svetlana Khasminskaya;Felix Pyatkov;Felix Pyatkov;Karolina Słowik;Karolina Słowik;Simone Ferrari;Simone Ferrari

  • The Structure of C60: Orientational Disorder in the Low‐Temperature Modification of C60

    Hans‐Beat ‐B Bürgi;Eric Blanc;Dieter Schwarzenbach;Shengzhong Liu

  • Gas-phase oxidation catalysis by transition-metal cations

    Manfred M. Kappes;Ralph H. Staley

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Hennrich
Frank Hennrich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Patrick Weis
Patrick Weis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sergei Lebedkin
Sergei Lebedkin Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ralph Krupke
Ralph Krupke Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Reinhart Ahlrichs
Reinhart Ahlrichs Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Peter W. Roesky
Peter W. Roesky Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Mario Ruben
Mario Ruben Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Marcel Mayor
Marcel Mayor University of Basel
Hilbert von Löhneysen
Hilbert von Löhneysen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wim Klopper
Wim Klopper Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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