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Paul Seiler

Paul Seiler

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Chemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
10831
World Ranking
7516
National Ranking
157

Overview

Paul Seiler is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on materials science and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, physical and theoretical chemistry, and civil and structural engineering.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, notably in graphene research and applications, graphene and nanomaterials applications, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, electronic and structural properties of oxides, electrostatics and colloid interactions, as well as concrete and cement materials research.

Frequent collaborators of Paul Seiler include Frank Shaode Ong, Anton Tamtögl, Marcus N. Myers, T. Vickers, and J. Atienza. Their research has been published in several venues such as the XV International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components. eBook of Proceedings, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature Communications, and MATEC Web of Conferences.

Significant papers authored by Paul Seiler include:

  • Understanding water behaviour on 2D material interfaces through single-molecule motion on h-BN and graphene, 2025, Nature Communications
  • A New Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) Mitigation Technology - Part I: Comparing with Li, Ca, Al Salts, and Densified Silica Fume, 2020, XV International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components. eBook of Proceedings
  • How Does Intercalation Affect the Structure and Dynamics of Bilayer Graphene?, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The test method of a new alkali-silica reaction prevention technology, 2025, MATEC Web of Conferences

Best Publications

  • A New Interpretation of the Disordered Crystal Structure of Ferrocene

    P. Seiler;J. D. Dunitz

  • Donor-substituted 1,1,4,4-tetracyanobutadienes (TCBDS): new chromophores with efficient intramolecular charge-transfer interactions by atom-economic synthesis.

    Tsuyoshi Michinobu;Corinne Boudon;Jean‐Paul Gisselbrecht;Paul Seiler

  • A fluorine scan of thrombin inhibitors to map the fluorophilicity/fluorophobicity of an enzyme active site: evidence for C-F...C=O interactions.

    Jacob A. Olsen;David W. Banner;Paul Seiler;Ulrike Obst Sander

  • A new class of organic donor–acceptor molecules with large third-order optical nonlinearities

    Tsuyoshi Michinobu;Joshua C. May;Jin H. Lim;Corinne Boudon

  • A Novel Three-Way Chromophoric Molecular Switch: pH and Light Controllable Switching Cycles.

    Luca Gobbi;Paul Seiler;François Diederich

  • Supramolecular Patterned Surfaces Driven by Cooperative Assembly of C60 and Porphyrins on Metal Substrates

    Davide Bonifazi;Hannes Spillmann;Andreas Kiebele;Michael De Wild

  • Fluorine Interactions at the Thrombin Active Site: Protein Backbone Fragments H ? Cα ? CO Comprise a Favorable C ? F Environment and Interactions of C ? F with Electrophiles

    Jacob A. Olsen;David W. Banner;Paul Seiler;Björn Wagner

  • 1,4,7,10,13,16-Hexaoxacyclooctadecane

    J. D. Dunitz;P. Seiler

  • Organic Super-Acceptors with Efficient Intramolecular Charge-Transfer Interactions by [2+2] Cycloadditions of TCNE, TCNQ, and F4-TCNQ to Donor-Substituted Cyanoalkynes†

    Milan Kivala;Corinne Boudon;Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht;Barbara Enko

  • Crystal structure analyses of 1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctadecane and its complexes with alkali thiocyanates

    J. D. Dunitz;M. Dobler;P. Seiler;R. P. Phizackerley

  • A novel reaction of 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ): charge-transfer chromophores by [2 + 2] cycloaddition with alkynes

    Milan Kivala;Corinne Boudon;Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht;Paul Seiler

  • 1,4,7,10,13,16‐Hexaoxacyclooctadecane: crystal structure at 100 K

    E. Maverick;P. Seiler;W.B. Schweizer;J.D. Dunitz

  • Charge-transfer chromophores by cycloaddition-retro-electrocyclization: multivalent systems and cascade reactions.

    Milan Kivala;Corinne Boudon;Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht;Paul Seiler

  • Hydrated sodium thiocyanate complex of 1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctadecane

    M. Dobler;J. D. Dunitz;P. Seiler

  • Synthesis and Crystal Growth of Stilbazolium Derivatives for Second‐Order Nonlinear Optics

    Zhou Yang;Shanmugatn Aravazhi;Arno Schneider;Paul Seiler

  • Macrocyclic ferrocenyl-bisimidazoline palladacycle dimers as highly active and enantioselective catalysts for the aza-claisen rearrangement of Z-configured N-para-methoxyphenyl trifluoroacetimidates.

    Sascha Jautze;Paul Seiler;René Peters

  • Bis- through Tetrakis-Adducts of C60 by Reversible Tether-Directed Remote Functionalization and systematic investigation of the changes in fullerene properties as a function of degree, pattern, and nature of functionalization

    Francesca Cardullo;Paul Seiler;Lyle Isaacs;Jean-François Nierengarten

  • Tetraethynylethenes: Fully cross-conjugated π-electron chromophores and molecular scaffolds for all-carbon networks and carbon-rich nanomaterials

    John Anthony;Armen M. Boldi;Yves Rubin;Markus Hobi

  • Structure and Reactivity of Five- and Six-Ring N, N-, N, O-, and O, O-acetals: A lesson in allylic 1, 3-strain (A1, 3 strain)

    Dieter Seebach;Bernd Amatsch;René Amstutz;Albert K. Beck

  • Preparation and Structure ofβ-Peptides Consisting of Geminally Disubstitutedβ2,2- andβ3,3-Amino Acids: A Turn Motif forβ-Peptides

    Dieter Seebach;Stefan Abele;Thierry Sifferlen;Martin Hänggi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht
Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht University of Strasbourg
Jack D. Dunitz
Jack D. Dunitz ETH Zurich
Corinne Boudon
Corinne Boudon University of Strasbourg
Maurice Gross
Maurice Gross Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dieter Seebach
Dieter Seebach ETH Zurich
Lyle Isaacs
Lyle Isaacs University of Maryland, College Park
Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso

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