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Marc Armbrüster is affiliated with Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany and works primarily in the field of Materials Science, with a focus on Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. Their research addresses multiple areas within this discipline, including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics broadly cover Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, and Catalysts for Methane Reforming. Additional interest areas include Machine Learning in Materials Science, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies.

Research outputs have been published in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • ChemistryOpen
  • ChemPhysChem
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

Among their recent scientific papers are the following:

  • Intermetallic compounds in catalysis - a versatile class of materials meets interesting challenges, 2020, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
  • Mechanistic insights into the catalytic methanol steam reforming performance of Cu/ZrO2 catalysts by in situ and operando studies, 2020, Journal of Catalysis
  • Challenging the Durability of Intermetallic Mo-Ni Compounds in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Synthesis of Intermetallic Pt-Based Catalysts by Lithium Naphthalenide-Driven Reduction for Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Proving a Paradigm in Methanol Steam Reforming: Catalytically Highly Selective InxPdy/In2O3 Interfaces, 2020, ACS Catalysis

Collaborations frequently involve Leonard Rößner, Nicolas Köwitsch, Simon Penner, Yuri Grin, and Kevin Ploner.

Best Publications

  • Free-atom-like d states in single-atom alloy catalysts

    Mark T. Greiner;Mark T. Greiner;Travis Jones;Sebastian Beeg;Sebastian Beeg;Leon Zwiener

  • Pd−Ga Intermetallic Compounds as Highly Selective Semihydrogenation Catalysts

    Marc Armbrüster;Kirill Kovnir;Malte Behrens;Detre Teschner

  • Al13Fe4 as a low-cost alternative for palladium in heterogeneous hydrogenation

    Marc Armbrüster;Kirill Kovnir;Matthias Friedrich;Detre Teschner

  • Palladium-Gallium Intermetallic Compounds for the Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene: Part II: Surface Characterization and Catalytic Performance

    Jürgen Osswald;Kirill Kovnir;Marc Armbrüster;Rainer Giedigkeit

  • Palladium–gallium intermetallic compounds for the selective hydrogenation of acetylene: Part I: Preparation and structural investigation under reaction conditions

    Jürgen Osswald;Rainer Giedigkeit;Rolf E. Jentoft;Marc Armbrüster

  • Electrochemical Energy Conversion on Intermetallic Compounds: A Review

    Leonard Rößner;Marc Armbrüster

  • How to Control the Selectivity of Palladium‐based Catalysts in Hydrogenation Reactions: The Role of Subsurface Chemistry

    Marc Armbrüster;Malte Behrens;Fabrizio Cinquini;Karin Föttinger

  • Intermetallic compounds in heterogeneous catalysis?a quickly developing field

    Marc Armbrüster;Robert Schlögl;Yuri Grin

  • A new approach to well-defined, stable and site-isolated catalysts

    Kirill Kovnir;Marc Armbrüster;Marc Armbrüster;Detre Teschner;Tzvetomir V. Venkov

  • Synthesis and Catalytic Properties of Nanoparticulate Intermetallic Ga–Pd Compounds

    Marc Armbrüster;Gregor Wowsnick;Matthias Friedrich;Marc Heggen

  • In situ Surface Characterization of the Intermetallic Compound PdGa – A Highly Selective Hydrogenation Catalyst

    K. Kovnir;M. Armbrüster;D. Teschner;T.V. Venkov

  • Raman effect in icosahedral boron-rich solids

    Helmut Werheit;Volodymyr Filipov;Udo Kuhlmann;Ulrich Schwarz

  • Nanosizing Intermetallic Compounds Onto Carbon Nanotubes: Active and Selective Hydrogenation Catalysts

    Lidong Shao;Wei Zhang;Marc Armbrüster;Detre Teschner

  • Formation of Intermetallic Compounds by Reactive Metal–Support Interaction: A Frequently Encountered Phenomenon in Catalysis

    Simon Penner;Marc Armbrüster

  • High CO2 Selectivity in Methanol Steam Reforming through ZnPd/ZnO Teamwork

    Matthias Friedrich;Simon Penner;Marc Heggen;Marc Armbrüster

  • Intermetallic Compound Pd2Ga as a Selective Catalyst for the Semi-Hydrogenation of Acetylene: From Model to High Performance Systems†

    Antje Ota;Marc Armbrüster;Malte Behrens;Dirk Rosenthal

  • CuAl2 revisited: Composition, crystal structure, chemical bonding, compressibility and Raman spectroscopy

    Yuri Grin;Frank R. Wagner;Marc Armbrüster;Miroslav Kohout

  • The Intermetallic Compound ZnPd and Its Role in Methanol Steam Reforming

    Marc Armbrüster;Malte Behrens;K. Föttinger;M. Friedrich

  • Controlled Synthesis and Catalytic Properties of Supported In-Pd Intermetallic Compounds

    Matthias Neumann;Detre Teschner;Axel Knop-Gericke;Wladimir Reschetilowski

  • Influence of bulk composition of the intermetallic compound ZnPd on surface composition and methanol steam reforming properties

    Matthias Friedrich;Detre Teschner;Axel Knop-Gericke;Marc Armbrüster

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuri Grin
Yuri Grin Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Robert Schlögl
Robert Schlögl Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Kirill Kovnir
Kirill Kovnir Iowa State University
Detre Teschner
Detre Teschner Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Simon Penner
Simon Penner University of Innsbruck
Ulrich S. Schwarz
Ulrich S. Schwarz Heidelberg University
Malte Behrens
Malte Behrens University of Duisburg-Essen
Frank Girgsdies
Frank Girgsdies Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Axel Knop-Gericke
Axel Knop-Gericke Max Planck Society
Marc Heggen
Marc Heggen Forschungszentrum Jülich

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