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2026

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151
Citations
97344
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Robert Schlögl is affiliated with the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions in related subfields such as materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, catalysis, electrical and electronic engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of main topics including catalytic processes in materials science, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalysis and oxidation reactions, electrochemical analysis and applications, advanced chemical physics studies, catalysts for methane reforming, and electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Thomas Lunkenbein, Axel Knop-Gericke, Annette Trunschke, Travis E. Jones, and Frank Girgsdies.

Robert Schlögl has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Catalysis from A to Z
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ChemCatChem

Among recent publications are:

  • Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution, 2020, Nature
  • Methane Pyrolysis for Zero-Emission Hydrogen Production: A Potential Bridge Technology from Fossil Fuels to a Renewable and Sustainable Hydrogen Economy, 2021, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • Is direct seawater splitting economically meaningful?, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Methane Pyrolysis for CO2-Free H2 Production: A Green Process to Overcome Renewable Energies Unsteadiness, 2020, Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Degradation study of a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer under dynamic operation conditions, 2020, Applied Energy

Best Publications

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

    Arne Thomas;Anna Fischer;Frederic Goettmann;Markus Antonietti

  • The Active Site of Methanol Synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Industrial Catalysts

    Malte Behrens;Felix Studt;Igor Kasatkin;Stefanie Kühl

  • Catalytic synthesis of ammonia-a "never-ending story"?

    Robert Schlögl

  • Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Environments – Reaction Mechanisms and Catalysts

    Tobias Reier;Hong Nhan Nong;Detre Teschner;Robert Schlögl

  • Superior storage performance of a Si@SiOx/C nanocomposite as anode material for lithium-ion batteries

    Yong-Sheng Hu;Rezan Demir-Cakan;Maria-Magdalena Titirici;Jens-Oliver Müller

  • The roles of subsurface carbon and hydrogen in palladium-catalyzed alkyne hydrogenation.

    Detre Teschner;János Borsodi;Attila Wootsch;Zsolt Révay

  • Increased Silver Activity for Direct Propylene Epoxidation via Subnanometer Size Effects

    Y. Lei;Y. Lei;Faisal Mehmood;Sungsik Lee;Jeffrey P. Greeley

  • Surface-Modified Carbon Nanotubes Catalyze Oxidative Dehydrogenation of n-Butane

    Jian Zhang;Xi Liu;Raoul Blume;Aihua Zhang

  • Nanostructured carbon and carbon nanocomposites for electrochemical energy storage applications.

    Dang Sheng Su;Robert Schlögl

  • CO oxidation as a prototypical reaction for heterogeneous processes

    Hans-Joachim Freund;Gerard Meijer;Matthias Scheffler;Robert Schlögl

  • Ammonia as a possible element in an energy infrastructure: catalysts for ammonia decomposition

    Ferdi Schüth;Regina Palkovits;Robert Schlögl;Dang Sheng Su

  • Methane Activation by Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Raimund Horn;Robert Schlögl

  • Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution.

    Hong Nhan Nong;Hong Nhan Nong;Lorenz J. Falling;Arno Bergmann;Malte Klingenhof

  • Tuning the acid/base properties of nanocarbons by functionalization via amination

    Rosa Arrigo;Michael Hävecker;Sabine Wrabetz;Raoul Blume

  • Molecular insight in structure and activity of highly efficient, low-Ir Ir-Ni oxide catalysts for electrochemical water splitting (OER)

    Tobias Reier;Zarina Pawolek;Serhiy Cherevko;Michael Bruns

  • Molecular Insight in Structure and Activity of Highly Efficient, Low-Ir Ir–Ni Oxide Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting (OER)

    Tobias Reier;Zarina Pawolek;Serhiy Cherevko;Michael Bruns

  • The Haber–Bosch Process Revisited: On the Real Structure and Stability of “Ammonia Iron” under Working Conditions

    Timur Kandemir;Manfred Erwin Schuster;Anatoliy Senyshyn;Malte Behrens

  • Metal-Free Heterogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Chemistry

    Dang Sheng Su;Jian Zhang;Benjamin Frank;Arne Thomas

  • A unique oxygen ligand environment facilitates water oxidation in hole-doped IrNiOx core–shell electrocatalysts

    Hong Nhan Nong;Hong Nhan Nong;Tobias Reier;Hyung Suk Oh;Manuel Gliech

  • Formation of a ZnO Overlayer in Industrial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Catalysts Induced by Strong Metal–Support Interactions

    Thomas Lunkenbein;Julia Schumann;Malte Behrens;Robert Schlögl

  • Catalytic properties of hierarchical mesoporous zeolites templated with a mixture of small organic ammonium salts and mesoscale cationic polymers.

    Feng-Shou Xiao;Lifeng Wang;Chengyang Yin;Kaifeng Lin

  • Nanocatalysis: Mature Science Revisited or Something Really New?

    Robert Schlögl;Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid

  • CO Oxidation as a Prototypical Reaction for Heterogeneous Processes

    Hans‐Joachim Freund;Gerard Meijer;Matthias Scheffler;Robert Schloegl

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Knop-Gericke
Axel Knop-Gericke Max Planck Society
Michael Hävecker
Michael Hävecker Max Planck Society
Detre Teschner
Detre Teschner Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Annette Trunschke
Annette Trunschke Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Dang Sheng Su
Dang Sheng Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frank Girgsdies
Frank Girgsdies Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Marc Georg Willinger
Marc Georg Willinger Technical University of Munich
Malte Behrens
Malte Behrens University of Duisburg-Essen
Thomas Lunkenbein
Thomas Lunkenbein Max Planck Society
Martin Muhler
Martin Muhler Ruhr University Bochum

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