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Markus Antonietti

Markus Antonietti

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2025
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Chemistry
Germany
2026

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National Ranking
3

Materials Science

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National Ranking
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1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2016 - Liebig-Denkmünze (Liebig Medal), Society of German Chemists

Overview

Markus Antonietti is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focused on materials science, energy, and engineering. They have contributed extensively to the scientific literature, particularly in subfields such as renewable energy, sustainability, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, organic chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

Their work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques
  • Covalent organic framework applications
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Supercapacitor materials and fabrication
  • CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts
  • Advancements in battery materials
  • Metal-organic frameworks: synthesis and applications

Frequent collaborators of Markus Antonietti include:

  • Aleksandr Savateev
  • Nadezda V. Tarakina
  • Nieves López-Salas
  • Fan Yang
  • Paolo Giusto

Their research has been published predominantly in these venues:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Advanced Materials
  • Green Chemistry

Recent notable publications by Markus Antonietti include:

  • "Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors," 2023, ACS Nano
  • "Polymer-Derived Heteroatom-Doped Porous Carbon Materials," 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "Natural and artificial humic substances to manage minerals, ions, water, and soil microorganisms," 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "A Single Cu-Center Containing Enzyme-Mimic Enabling Full Photosynthesis under CO2 Reduction," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Carbon nitride based materials: more than just a support for single-atom catalysis," 2023, Chemical Society Reviews

Markus Antonietti received the Liebig-Denkmünze (Liebig Medal) from the Society of German Chemists in 2016.

Best Publications

  • A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light

    Xinchen Wang;Kazuhiko Maeda;Arne Thomas;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Graphitic carbon nitride materials: variation of structure and morphology and their use as metal-free catalysts

    Arne Thomas;Anna Fischer;Frederic Goettmann;Markus Antonietti

  • Polymeric Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a Heterogeneous Organocatalyst: From Photochemistry to Multipurpose Catalysis to Sustainable Chemistry

    Yong Wang;Xinchen Wang;Markus Antonietti

  • Porous, Covalent Triazine-Based Frameworks Prepared by Ionothermal Synthesis

    Pierre Kuhn;Markus Antonietti;Arne Thomas

  • Engineering Carbon Materials from the Hydrothermal Carbonization Process of Biomass

    Bo Hu;Kan Wang;Liheng Wu;Shu-Hong Yu

  • Polymer semiconductors for artificial photosynthesis: hydrogen evolution by mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride with visible light.

    Xinchen Wang;Kazuhiko Maeda;Xiufang Chen;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Polymeric Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

    Xinchen Wang;Siegfried Blechert;Markus Antonietti

  • Mesocrystals: Inorganic superstructures made by highly parallel crystallization and controlled alignment

    Helmut Cölfen;Markus Antonietti

  • Vesicles and Liposomes: A Self-Assembly Principle Beyond Lipids†

    Markus Antonietti;Stephan Förster

  • Amphiphilic Block Copolymers in Structure-Controlled Nanomaterial Hybrids

    Stephan Förster;Markus Antonietti

  • Synthesis of a carbon nitride structure for visible-light catalysis by copolymerization

    Jinshui Zhang;Xiufang Chen;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Fe-g-C3N4-Catalyzed Oxidation of Benzene to Phenol Using Hydrogen Peroxide and Visible Light

    Xiufang Chen;Jinshui Zhang;Xianzhi Fu;Markus Antonietti

  • Thermally insulating and fire-retardant lightweight anisotropic foams based on nanocellulose and graphene oxide

    Bernd Wicklein;Andraž Kocjan;German Salazar-Alvarez;Federico Carosio

  • Metal‐Containing Carbon Nitride Compounds: A New Functional Organic–Metal Hybrid Material

    Xinchen Wang;Xiufang Chen;Arne Thomas;Xianzhi Fu

  • Ionic liquids for the convenient synthesis of functional nanoparticles and other inorganic nanostructures

    Markus Antonietti;Daibin Kuang;Bernd Smarsly;Yong Zhou

  • Phosphorus-doped carbon nitride solid : enhanced electrical conductivity and photocurrent generation

    Yuanjian Zhang;Toshiyuki Mori;Jinhua Ye;Markus Antonietti

  • Poly(ionic liquid)s: An update

    Jiayin Yuan;David Mecerreyes;Markus Antonietti

  • Chemistry and materials options of sustainable carbon materials made by hydrothermal carbonization

    Maria-Magdalena Titirici;Markus Antonietti

  • mpg-C3N4-Catalyzed Selective Oxidation of Alcohols Using O2 and Visible Light

    Fangzheng Su;Smitha C. Mathew;Grzegorz Lipner;Xianzhi Fu

  • Ionothermal synthesis of crystalline, condensed, graphitic carbon nitride.

    Michael J. Bojdys;Jens Oliver Müller;Markus Antonietti;Arne Thomas

  • Bioinspired hollow semiconductor nanospheres as photosynthetic nanoparticles

    Jianhua Sun;Jinshui Zhang;Mingwen Zhang;Markus Antonietti

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiayin Yuan
Jiayin Yuan Stockholm University
Helmut Cölfen
Helmut Cölfen University of Konstanz
Arne Thomas
Arne Thomas Technical University of Berlin
Bernd M. Smarsly
Bernd M. Smarsly University of Giessen
Xinchen Wang
Xinchen Wang Fuzhou University
Maria-Magdalena Titirici
Maria-Magdalena Titirici Imperial College London
Menny Shalom
Menny Shalom Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Aleksandr Savateev
Aleksandr Savateev Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Katharina Landfester
Katharina Landfester Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

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