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Rainer Pöttgen is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. Their research spans the field of Materials Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Inorganic Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry.

Their main research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, rare-earth and actinide compounds, inorganic chemistry and materials, iron-based superconductors research, magnetic properties of alloys, and crystal structures and properties.

Frequent collaborators in their work are Maximilian Kai Reimann, Steffen Klenner, Oliver Janka, Jutta Kösters, and Theresa Block.

Rainer Pöttgen has published extensively in several scientific venues. Notably, their most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
  • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • Dalton Transactions

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Rainer Pöttgen include:

  • Bärnighausen Trees - A group-subgroup reference database (2022), published in Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
  • Synthesis and Hydrogenation of Heavy Homologues of Rhodium Carbynes: [(Me3P)2(Ph3P)Rh≡E-Ar*] (E=Sn, Pb) (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Earlier the Better: Structural Analysis and Separation of Lanthanides with Pyrroloquinoline Quinone (2020), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • On the phosphors Na5M(WO4)4 (M = Y, La-Nd, Sm-Lu, Bi) - crystal structures, thermal decomposition, and optical and magnetic properties (2020), Dalton Transactions
  • Cu/Au(111) Surfaces and AuCu Intermetallics for Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 in Ionic Liquid Electrolytes (2024), ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Spin-density-wave anomaly at 140 K in the ternary iron arsenide BaFe 2 As 2

    Marianne Rotter;Marcus Tegel;Dirk Johrendt;Inga Schellenberg

  • The metal flux: a preparative tool for the exploration of intermetallic compounds.

    Mercouri G. Kanatzidis;Rainer Pöttgen;Wolfgang Jeitschko

  • AlB2-related intermetallic compounds – a comprehensive view based on group-subgroup relations

    R.-D. Hoffmann;Rainer Pöttgen

  • Structural and magnetic phase transitions in the ternary iron arsenides SrFe2As2 and EuFe2As2

    Marcus Tegel;Marianne Rotter;Veronika Weiß;Falko M Schappacher

  • Syntheses and Crystal Structures of CaCuGe, CaAuIn, and CaAuSn – Three Different Superstructures of the KHg2 Type

    Dirk Kußmann;Rolf-Dieter Hoffmann;Rainer Pöttgen

  • The stannides YbPtSn and Yb2Pt3Sn5

    R. Pöttgen;A. Lang;R.-D. Hoffmann;B. Künnen

  • Materials with ZrCuSiAs-type Structure

    Rainer Pöttgen;Dirk Johrendt

  • Reversible table-like magnetocaloric effect in Eu4PdMg over a very large temperature span

    Lingwei Li;Oliver Niehaus;Marcel Kersting;Rainer Pöttgen

  • Coloring, Distortions, and Puckering in Selected Intermetallic Structures from the Perspective of Group‐Subgroup Relations

    Rainer Pöttgen

  • Rare earth–transition metal–magnesium compounds—An overview

    Ute Ch. Rodewald;Bernard Chevalier;Rainer Pöttgen

  • Ferromagnetic ordering and half-metallic state of Sn2Co3S2 with the shandite-type structure

    W. Schnelle;A. Leithe-Jasper;H. Rosner;F.M. Schappacher

  • Intermetallic compounds with ordered U3Si2 or Zr3Al2 type structure – crystal chemistry, chemical bonding and physical properties

    Mar'yana Lukachuk;Rainer Pöttgen

  • Equiatomic Intermetallic Europium Compounds: Syntheses, Crystal Chemistry, Chemical Bonding, and Physical Properties

    Rainer Pöttgen;Dirk Johrendt

  • Electronic and Structural Instabilities in GaV4S8 and GaMo4S8

    Regina Pocha;Dirk Johrendt;Rainer Pöttgen

  • Competition of magnetism and superconductivity in underdoped (Ba 1 x K x )Fe 2 As 2

    Marianne Rotter;Marcus Tegel;Inga Schellenberg;Falko M Schappacher

  • Rare earth–transition metal–indides

    Yaroslav M. Kalychak;Vasyl' I. Zaremba;Rainer Pöttgen;Mar'yana Lukachuk

  • Structural relationships, phase stability and bonding of compounds PdSnn (n=2, 3, 4)

    J. Nylén;F.J. Garcı̀a Garcı̀a;B.D. Mosel;R. Pöttgen

  • The antimonide oxides REZnSbO and REMnSbO (RE = Ce, Pr) – An XPS study

    Jacek Gurgul;Matthias T. Rinke;Inga Schellenberg;Rainer Pöttgen

  • Structural chemistry of superconducting pnictides and pnictide oxides with layered structures

    Dirk Johrendt;Hideo Hosono;Rolf-Dieter Hoffmann;Rainer Pöttgen

  • Li ion diffusion in the anode material Li12Si7: ultrafast quasi-1D diffusion and two distinct fast 3D jump processes separately revealed by 7Li NMR relaxometry.

    Alexander Kuhn;Puravankara Sreeraj;Rainer Pöttgen;Hans-Dieter Wiemhöfer

  • Giant low field magnetocaloric effect and field-induced metamagnetic transition in TmZn

    Lingwei Li;Lingwei Li;Ye Yuan;Yikun Zhang;Takahiro Namiki

  • Inorganic Double Helices in Semiconducting SnIP.

    Daniela Pfister;Konrad Schäfer;Claudia Ott;Birgit Gerke

Frequent Co-Authors

Hellmut Eckert
Hellmut Eckert Universidade de São Paulo
Dirk Johrendt
Dirk Johrendt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolfgang Jeitschko
Wolfgang Jeitschko University of Münster
Michael Ruck
Michael Ruck TU Dresden
Wolfgang Schnick
Wolfgang Schnick Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Walter Schnelle
Walter Schnelle Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Hubert Schmidbaur
Hubert Schmidbaur Technical University of Munich
Gerhard Müller
Gerhard Müller University of Göttingen
Claus Feldmann
Claus Feldmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas Jüstel
Thomas Jüstel Münster University of Applied Sciences

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