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Overview

Matthias Thommes is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science, chemistry, and engineering, with a focus on materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biomedical engineering, spectroscopy, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics of their work include mesoporous materials and catalysis, zeolite catalysis and synthesis, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, catalytic processes in materials science, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, and analytical chemistry and chromatography.

Thommes has contributed to several recent papers, among which are:

  • Characterization of Hierarchically Ordered Porous Materials by Physisorption and Mercury Porosimetry-A Tutorial Review, 2021, Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Hierarchically-Ordered Zeolites: A Critical Assessment, 2021, Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Fingerprinting diverse nanoporous materials for optimal hydrogen storage conditions using meta-learning, 2021, Science Advances
  • Porosimetry for Thin Films of Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Comparison of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy and Adsorption-Based Methods, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Characterization of Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Storage and Compression, 2020, C - Journal of Carbon Research

Their work has been published in a range of venues, with frequent publication in:

  • Langmuir
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Carbon
  • Adsorption

Thommes collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Carlos Cuadrado-Collados
  • Carola Schlumberger
  • Erdmann Spiecker
  • Nicolas Vogel
  • Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri

Best Publications

  • Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report)

    Matthias Thommes;Katsumi Kaneko;Alexander V. Neimark;James P. Olivier

  • Carbon-based Supercapacitors Produced by Activation of Graphene

    Yanwu Zhu;Shanthi Murali;Meryl D. Stoller;K. J. Ganesh

  • Surface Area and Porosity

    Alexander V. Neimark;Kenneth S. W. Sing;Matthias Thommes

  • Physical Adsorption Characterization of Nanoporous Materials

    Matthias Thommes

  • Recent advances in the textural characterization of hierarchically structured nanoporous materials

    Katie A. Cychosz;Rémy Guillet-Nicolas;Javier García-Martínez;Matthias Thommes

  • Quenched solid density functional theory and pore size analysis of micro-mesoporous carbons

    Alexander V. Neimark;Yangzheng Lin;Peter I. Ravikovitch;Matthias Thommes

  • Synthesis of self-pillared zeolite nanosheets by repetitive branching.

    Xueyi Y Zhang;Dongxia X Liu;Dandan D Xu;Shunsuke Asahina

  • Physical adsorption characterization of nanoporous materials: progress and challenges

    Matthias Thommes;Katie A. Cychosz

  • Progress in the Physisorption Characterization of Nanoporous Gas Storage Materials

    Katie A. Cychosz;Matthias Thommes

  • Adsorption hysteresis of nitrogen and argon in pore networks and characterization of novel micro- and mesoporous silicas

    Matthias Thommes;Bernd Smarsly;Matthijs Groenewolt;Peter I. Ravikovitch

  • Comparison of DFT characterization methods based on N2, Ar, CO2, and H2 adsorption applied to carbons with various pore size distributions

    Jacek Jagiello;Matthias Thommes

  • Quenched solid density functional theory method for characterization of mesoporous carbons by nitrogen adsorption

    Gennady Yu. Gor;Matthias Thommes;Katie A. Cychosz;Alexander V. Neimark

  • Characterization of Hierarchically Ordered Porous Materials by Physisorption and Mercury Porosimetry—A Tutorial Review

    Carola Schlumberger;Matthias Thommes

  • Liquid intrusion and alternative methods for the characterization of macroporous materials (IUPAC Technical Report)

    Jean Rouquerol;Gino Baron;Renaud Denoyel;Herbert Giesche

  • Probing Adsorption, Pore Condensation, and Hysteresis Behavior of Pure Fluids in Three-Dimensional Cubic Mesoporous KIT-6 Silica

    Freddy Kleitz;François Bérubé;Rémy Guillet-Nicolas;Chia-Min Yang

  • Sorption and pore condensation behavior of pure fluids in mesoporous MCM-48 silica, MCM-41 silica, SBA-15 silica and controlled-pore glass at temperatures above and below the bulk triple point

    Matthias Thommes;Ralf Köhn;Michael Fröba

  • Cavitation in metastable liquid nitrogen confined to nanoscale pores.

    Christopher J. Rasmussen;Aleksey Vishnyakov;Matthias Thommes;Bernd M. Smarsly

  • Pore condensation and critical-point shift of a fluid in controlled-pore glass

    Matthias Thommes;Gerhard H. Findenegg

  • Molecular and Meso- and Macroscopic Properties of Hierarchical Nanocrystalline ZSM-5 Zeolite Prepared by Seed Silanization

    D. P. Serrano;J. Aguado;G. Morales;J. M. Rodríguez

  • Giant Pores in a Chromium 2,6-Naphthalenedicarboxylate Open-Framework Structure with MIL-101 Topology

    Andreas Sonnauer;Frank Hoffmann;Michael Fröba;Lorenz Kienle

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander V. Neimark
Alexander V. Neimark Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael Fröba
Michael Fröba Universität Hamburg
Freddy Kleitz
Freddy Kleitz University of Vienna
Bernd M. Smarsly
Bernd M. Smarsly University of Giessen
Gerhard H. Findenegg
Gerhard H. Findenegg Technical University of Berlin
Peter A. Monson
Peter A. Monson University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stefan Kaskel
Stefan Kaskel TU Dresden
Michael J. Brett
Michael J. Brett University of Alberta
Osamu Terasaki
Osamu Terasaki Stockholm University
Lars Borchardt
Lars Borchardt Ruhr University Bochum

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