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Marc Georg Willinger is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research spans broad areas within engineering and materials science, with notable concentration in materials chemistry and catalytic processes. Their work intersects with renewable energy, sustainability, and catalysis, emphasizing catalytic reactions and the development of nanomaterials.

The main fields of study represented in their publications include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Key subfields in which they have contributed research are:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Catalysis
  • Ocean Engineering

The primary topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
  • Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
  • Catalysts for Methane Reforming
  • Graphene research and applications

Recent significant publications by Willinger include:

  • Dynamic interplay between metal nanoparticles and oxide support under redox conditions, 2022, Science
  • The dynamics of overlayer formation on catalyst nanoparticles and strong metal-support interaction, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Following the structure of copper-zinc-alumina across the pressure gap in carbon dioxide hydrogenation, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • Large-area single-crystal AB-bilayer and ABA-trilayer graphene grown on a Cu/Ni(111) foil, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Manipulating interstitial carbon atoms in the nickel octahedral site for highly efficient hydrogenation of alkyne, 2020, Nature Communications

Willinger frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Xing Huang
  • Arik Beck
  • Zhu-Jun Wang
  • Jeroen A. van Bokhoven
  • Stefano Farolfi

Their research is regularly published in journals such as:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Nature Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie

Best Publications

  • Formation of a ZnO Overlayer in Industrial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Catalysts Induced by Strong Metal–Support Interactions

    Thomas Lunkenbein;Julia Schumann;Malte Behrens;Robert Schlögl

  • A one-pot hydrothermal synthesis of sulfur and nitrogen doped carbon aerogels with enhanced electrocatalytic activity in the oxygen reduction reaction

    Stephanie-Angelika Wohlgemuth;Robin Jeremy White;Marc Georg Willinger;Maria-Magdalena Titirici

  • Epitaxial growth of a 100-square-centimetre single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride monolayer on copper.

    Li Wang;Li Wang;Xiaozhi Xu;Leining Zhang;Ruixi Qiao

  • Galvanic Replacement Reactions in Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

    Myoung Hwan Oh;Taekyung Yu;Seung Ho Yu;Byungkwon Lim

  • Oxide-supported IrNiO(x) core-shell particles as efficient, cost-effective, and stable catalysts for electrochemical water splitting.

    Hong Nhan Nong;Hyung Suk Oh;Tobias Reier;Elena Willinger

  • Dynamic interplay between metal nanoparticles and oxide support under redox conditions

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  • “The Easier the Better” Preparation of Efficient Photocatalysts—Metastable Poly(heptazine imide) Salts

    Zupeng Chen;Aleksandr Savateev;Sergey Pronkin;Vasiliki Papaefthimiou

  • Structural Evolution and Dynamics of an In2O3 Catalyst for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol: An Operando XAS-XRD and In Situ TEM Study.

    Athanasia Tsoukalou;Paula M. Abdala;Dragos Stoian;Xing Huang

  • Spinel Mn–Co Oxide in N-Doped Carbon Nanotubes as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst Synthesized by Oxidative Cutting

    Anqi Zhao;Justus Masa;Wei Xia;Artjom Maljusch

  • Facile autoreduction of iron oxide/carbon nanotube encapsulates.

    Wei Chen;Xiulian Pan;Marc Georg Willinger;Dang Sheng Su

  • Observing Graphene Grow: Catalyst-Graphene Interactions during Scalable Graphene Growth on Polycrystalline Copper

    Piran R. Kidambi;Bernhard C. Bayer;Raoul Blume;Zhu-Jun Wang

  • Rh-Doped Pt-Ni Octahedral Nanoparticles: Understanding the Correlation between Elemental Distribution, Oxygen Reduction Reaction, and Shape Stability.

    Vera Beermann;Martin Gocyla;Elena Willinger;Stefan Rudi

  • The dynamics of overlayer formation on catalyst nanoparticles and strong metal-support interaction

    Arik Beck;Arik Beck;Xing Huang;Luca Artiglia;Maxim Zabilskiy

  • Direct Observation of Graphene Growth and Associated Copper Substrate Dynamics by in Situ Scanning Electron Microscopy

    Zhu-Jun Wang;Gisela Weinberg;Qiang Zhang;Thomas Lunkenbein

  • Identifying Key Structural Features of IrOx Water Splitting Catalysts.

    Elena Willinger;Cyriac Massué;Robert Schlögl;Marc Georg Willinger

  • Following the structure of copper-zinc-alumina across the pressure gap in carbon dioxide hydrogenation

    Arik Beck;Maxim Zabilskiy;Mark A. Newton;Olga Safonova

  • Large-area single-crystal AB-bilayer and ABA-trilayer graphene grown on a Cu/Ni(111) foil

    Ming Huang;Pavel V. Bakharev;Zhu-Jun Wang;Zhu-Jun Wang;Mandakini Biswal

  • Local Structure of Nanoscopic Materials: V2O5 Nanorods and Nanowires

    Nicola Pinna;Marc Georg Willinger;Klaus Weiss;Joachim Urban

  • Potassium Poly(heptazine imides) from Aminotetrazoles: Shifting Band Gaps of Carbon Nitride-like Materials for More Efficient Solar Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution

    Aleksandr Savateev;Sergey Pronkin;Jan Dirk Epping;Marc Georg Willinger;Marc Georg Willinger

  • A Case of Strong Metal–Support Interactions: Combining Advanced Microscopy and Model Systems to Elucidate the Atomic Structure of Interfaces

    Marc Georg Willinger;Wei Zhang;Oleksandr Bondarchuk;Shamil K. Shaikhutdinov

  • Mineral bridges in nacre.

    Antonio G. Checa;Julyan H.E. Cartwright;Marc-Georg Willinger

  • Room-Temperature CO Oxidation Catalyst: Low-Temperature Metal–Support Interaction between Platinum Nanoparticles and Nanosized Ceria

    Suresh Gatla;Daniel Aubert;Giovanni Agostini;Olivier Mathon

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Pinna
Nicola Pinna Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Xing Huang
Xing Huang ETH Zurich
Markus Antonietti
Markus Antonietti Max Planck Society
Dang Sheng Su
Dang Sheng Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Thomas Lunkenbein
Thomas Lunkenbein Max Planck Society
Annette Trunschke
Annette Trunschke Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Xiang-Min Meng
Xiang-Min Meng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Detre Teschner
Detre Teschner Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Giovanni Neri
Giovanni Neri University of Messina
Frank Girgsdies
Frank Girgsdies Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

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