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Marko Prehm is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. The primary area of their research is Materials Science, with a focus on several subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's work predominantly revolves around topics such as Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, Quasicrystal Structures and Properties, Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy and Chirality, and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation.

Prehm has published in multiple recognized scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Giant
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Prehm illustrate a wide range of topics in liquid crystal and materials chemistry, including:

  • Helical Networks of π-Conjugated Rods - A Robust Design Concept for Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phases with Achiral Iad and Chiral I23 Lattice (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Reticular liquid crystal design: Controlling complex self-assembly of p-terphenyl rods by side-chain engineering and chirality (2024, Giant)
  • Understanding the Role of Trapezoids in Honeycomb Self-Assembly-Pathways between a Columnar Liquid Quasicrystal and its Liquid-Crystalline Approximants (2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Heliconical smectic phases with transversal polar order (2025, Journal of Materials Chemistry C)
  • Understanding the Role of Trapezoids in Honeycomb Self-Assembly-Pathways between a Columnar Liquid Quasicrystal and its Liquid-Crystalline Approximants (2023, Angewandte Chemie)

Marko Prehm frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Carsten Tschierske
  • Changlong Chen
  • Yu Cao
  • Feng Liu
  • Silvio Poppe

Best Publications

  • Nematic phases of bent-core mesogens

    Christina Keith;Anne Lehmann;Ute Baumeister;Marko Prehm

  • Chiral self-sorting and amplification in isotropic liquids of achiral molecules.

    Christian Dressel;Tino Reppe;Marko Prehm;Marcel Brautzsch

  • Calamitic Bolaamphiphiles with (Semi)Perfluorinated Lateral Chains: Polyphilic Block Molecules with New Liquid Crystalline Phase Structures

    Xiaohong Cheng;Marko Prehm;Malay Kumar Das;Jens Kain

  • Dynamic Mirror‐Symmetry Breaking in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases

    Christian Dressel;Feng Liu;Marko Prehm;Xiangbing Zeng

  • Nematic Phases in 1,2,4‐Oxadiazole‐Based Bent‐Core Liquid Crystals: Is There a Ferroelectric Switching?

    Govindaswamy Shanker;Mamatha Nagaraj;Antoni Kocot;Antoni Kocot;Jagdish K. Vij

  • Self‐Assembly of Imidazolium‐Based Rodlike Ionic Liquid Crystals: Transition from Lamellar to Micellar Organization

    Xiaohong Cheng;Xueqing Bai;Shan Jing;Helgard Ebert

  • Complex Multicolor Tilings and Critical Phenomena in Tetraphilic Liquid Crystals

    Xiangbing Zeng;Robert Kieffer;Benjamin Glettner;Constance Nürnberger

  • Self-Assembly at Different Length Scales: Polyphilic Star-Branched Liquid Crystals and Miktoarm Star Copolymers

    Goran Ungar;Goran Ungar;Carsten Tschierske;Volker Abetz;Robert Holyst

  • Complex tiling patterns in liquid crystals.

    C. Tschierske;C. Nürnberger;H. Ebert;B. Glettner

  • 4-Cyanoresorcinol-Based Bent-Core Mesogens with Azobenzene Wings: Emergence of Sterically Stabilized Polar Order in Liquid Crystalline Phases

    Mohammed Alaasar;Mohammed Alaasar;Marko Prehm;Kathrin May;Alexey Eremin

  • Columnar mesophases of luminescent polycatenar liquid crystals incorporating a 1,3-substituted benzene ring interconnecting two 1,3,4-oxadiazoles

    Jianchuan Tang;Rong Huang;Hongfei Gao;Xiaohong Cheng

  • New liquid crystalline phases with layerlike organization.

    Marko Prehm;Xiao Hong Cheng;Siegmar Diele;Malay Kumar Das

  • A Liquid Crystalline Phase with Uniform Tilt, Local Polar Order and Capability of Symmetry Breaking

    Mohamed Alaasar;Marko Prehm;Mamatha Nagaraj;Jagdish K. Vij

  • 1,2,4-oxadiazole-based bent-core liquid crystals with cybotactic nematic phases.

    Govindaswamy Shanker;Govindaswamy Shanker;Marko Prehm;Mamatha Nagaraj;Mamatha Nagaraj;Jagdish K. Vij

  • Layer Frustration, Polar Order and Chirality in Liquid Crystalline Phases of Silyl‐Terminated Achiral Bent‐Core Molecules

    Christina Keith;Ramaiahgari Amaranatha Reddy;Ramaiahgari Amaranatha Reddy;Marko Prehm;Ute Baumeister

  • Effects of chain branching and chirality on liquid crystalline phases of bent-core molecules: blue phases, de Vries transitions and switching of diastereomeric states

    Hale Ocak;Belkız Bilgin-Eran;Marko Prehm;Stefan Schymura

  • Spontaneous helix formation in non-chiral bent-core liquid crystals with fast linear electro-optic effect

    Sithara P. Sreenilayam;Yuri P. Panarin;Yuri P. Panarin;Jagdish K. Vij;Vitaly P. Panov

  • End functionalised liquid crystalline bent-core molecules and first DAB derived dendrimers with banana shaped mesogenic units

    Dorota Kardas;Marko Prehm;Ute Baumeister;Damian Pociecha

  • Skeletal cubic, lamellar, and ribbon phases of bundled thermotropic bolapolyphiles.

    Feng Liu;Feng Liu;Marko Prehm;Xiangbing Zeng;Carsten Tschierske

  • Liquid‐Crystalline Triangle Honeycomb Formed by a Dithiophene‐Based X‐Shaped Bolaamphiphile

    Xiaohong Cheng;Xing Dong;Guanghui Wei;Marko Prehm

  • Liquid‐Crystalline Kagome

    Benjamin Glettner;Feng Liu;Xiangbing Zeng;Marko Prehm

  • The influence of shape and size of silyl units on the properties of bent-core liquid crystals—from dimers via oligomers and dendrimers to polymers

    Christina Keith;Gert Dantlgraber;R. Amaranatha Reddy;Ute Baumeister

  • Liquid crystals based on semiperfluorinated imines and salicylaldimato metal complexes. A comparative study of alkyl, alkoxy and polyether substituents

    Belkız Bilgin-Eran;Çiğdem Yörür;Carsten Tschierske;Marko Prehm

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University
Feng Liu
Feng Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xiangbing Zeng
Xiangbing Zeng University of Sheffield
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Heinrich Lang
Heinrich Lang Chemnitz University of Technology
Siegmar Diele
Siegmar Diele Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Jörg Kressler
Jörg Kressler Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ruibin Zhang
Ruibin Zhang University of Sydney
Georg H. Mehl
Georg H. Mehl University of Hull

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