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Michael Müller is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with substantial contributions to various subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their major topics of work include Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics, Thermal and Kinetic Analysis, Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes, Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes, Metal Extraction and Bioleaching, and Phase Change Materials Research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michael Müller are:

  • Dmitry Sergeev
  • Elena Yazhenskikh
  • Guixuan Wu
  • Olivier Guillon
  • Florian Lebendig

The main publication venues for their work include:

  • Calphad
  • Fuel
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Fuel Processing Technology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael Müller demonstrate a range of research topics and publication outlets:

  • "Review and characterisation of high-temperature phase change material candidates between 500 C and 700°C" (2021) in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Occurrence and Fate of Natural Estrogens in Swiss Cattle and Pig Slurry" (2020) in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • "Comparison of Na2SO4, K2SO4 and Na2SO4-K2SO4 deposit induced hot corrosion of a β-NiAl coating" (2022) in Corrosion Science
  • "Full assessment of Sida (Sida hermaphrodita) biomass as a solid fuel" (2020) in GCB Bioenergy
  • "Transformation of inorganic matter in poultry litter during fluidised bed gasification" (2021) in Fuel Processing Technology

Best Publications

  • 'Spice' and other herbal blends: harmless incense or cannabinoid designer drugs?

    Volker Auwärter;Sebastian Dresen;Wolfgang Weinmann;Michael Müller

  • Synthesis of C5-dicarboxylic acids from C2-units involving crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase: the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway.

    Tobias J. Erb;Ivan A. Berg;Volker Brecht;Michael Müller

  • A new perspective on thiamine catalysis.

    Martina Pohl;Georg A Sprenger;Michael Müller

  • Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Building Blocks for Statin Side Chains

    Michael Müller;Michael Müller

  • Thiamin-diphosphate-dependent enzymes: new aspects of asymmetric C-C bond formation.

    Martina Pohl;Bettina Lingen;Michael Müller

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of α‐Hydroxy Ketones via Benzaldehyde Lyase‐Catalyzed C−C Bond Formation Reaction

    Ayhan S. Demir;Özge Şeşenoglu;Elif Eren;Birsu Hosrik

  • Highly Regio- and Enantioselective Reduction of 3,5-Dioxocarboxylates

    Michael Wolberg;Werner Hummel;Christian Wandrey;Michael Müller

  • Benzoylformate Decarboxylase from Pseudomonas putida as Stable Catalyst for the Synthesis of Chiral 2‐Hydroxy Ketones

    Hans Iding;Thomas Dünnwald;Lasse Greiner;Andreas Liese

  • Is log P a Convenient Criterion to Guide the Choice of Solvents for Biphasic Enzymatic Reactions

    Murillo Villela Filho;Thomas Stillger;Michael Müller;Andreas Liese

  • Carboxylation mechanism and stereochemistry of crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase, a carboxylating enoyl-thioester reductase

    Tobias J. Erb;Volker Brecht;Georg Fuchs;Michael Müller

  • Enantioselective synthesis of hydroxy ketones through cleavage and formation of acyloin linkage. Enzymatic kinetic resolution via C-C bond cleavage

    Ayhan S. Demir;Ayhan S. Demir;Martina Pohl;Elena Janzen;Michael Müller

  • Direct Reductive Amination of Ketones: Structure and Activity of S-Selective Imine Reductases from Streptomyces.

    Tobias Huber;Lisa Schneider;Andreas Präg;Stefan Gerhardt

  • Catalytic Alkylation Using a Cyclic S-Adenosylmethionine Regeneration System.

    Silja Mordhorst;Jutta Siegrist;Michael Müller;Michael Richter

  • Asymmetric Reductive Amination of Ketones Catalyzed by Imine Reductases

    Dennis Wetzl;Martin Gand;Alfred Ross;Hubertus Müller

  • CC bond formation using ThDP-dependent lyases.

    Michael Müller;Georg A Sprenger;Martina Pohl

  • Enantioselective reduction of carbonyl compounds by whole-cell biotransformation, combining a formate dehydrogenase and a (R)-specific alcohol dehydrogenase

    Marianne Ernst;Björn Kaup;Michael Müller;Stephanie Bringer-Meyer

  • Cytochrome P450-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective phenol coupling of fungal natural products

    Laura S. Mazzaferro;Wolfgang Hüttel;Alexander Fries;Michael Müller

  • Engineering stereoselectivity of ThDP‐dependent enzymes

    Helen C. Hailes;Dörte Rother;Michael Müller;Robert Westphal

  • Alteration of the substrate specificity of benzoylformate decarboxylase from Pseudomonas putida by directed evolution.

    Bettina Lingen;Doris Kolter-Jung;Pascal Dünkelmann;Ralf Feldmann

  • Mutational analysis and reconstituted expression of the biosynthetic genes involved in the formation of 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid, the starter unit of rifamycin biosynthesis in amycolatopsis Mediterranei S699.

    Tin-Wein Yu;Rolf Müller;Michael Müller;Xiaohong Zhang

  • Expanding the Imine Reductase Toolbox by Exploring the Bacterial Protein‐Sequence Space

    Dennis Wetzl;Marco Berrera;Nicolas Sandon;Dan Fishlock

  • Biocatalytic reduction of beta,delta-diketo esters: a highly stereoselective approach to all four stereoisomers of a chlorinated beta,delta-dihydroxy hexanoate.

    Michael Wolberg;Werner Hummel;Michael Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Martina Pohl
Martina Pohl Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jürgen Pleiss
Jürgen Pleiss University of Stuttgart
Werner Hummel
Werner Hummel Bielefeld University
Markus-Christian Amann
Markus-Christian Amann Technical University of Munich
Martin von Bergen
Martin von Bergen Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Matthias Boll
Matthias Boll University of Freiburg
Stefan Heinrich
Stefan Heinrich Hamburg University of Technology
Sankar Bhattacharya
Sankar Bhattacharya Monash University
Martin Nieger
Martin Nieger University of Helsinki
Thomas Kolb
Thomas Kolb Northern Arizona University

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