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Sigurd Höger

Sigurd Höger

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Chemistry

D-Index
43
Citations
5967
World Ranking
17311
National Ranking
1256

Overview

Sigurd Höger is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany, contributing extensively to the fields of Engineering, Materials Science, and Chemistry. Their work spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

Sigurd Höger has published in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • ChemPlusChem
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg)

Some of the recent papers by Höger include:

  • "Picosecond time-resolved photon antibunching measures nanoscale exciton motion and the true number of chromophores," 2021, University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg)
  • "Nanoscale π-conjugated ladders," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Condensation of pyrylium salts with mixed anhydrides: aryl ethers, aryl amines and sterically congested aromatics," 2021, Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • "Nanopatterns of molecular spoked wheels as giant homologues of benzene tricarboxylic acids," 2021, Chemical Science
  • "Vibrations Responsible for Luminescence from HJ-Aggregates of Conjugated Polymers Identified by Cryogenic Spectroscopy of Single Nanoparticles," 2022, ACS Nano

Frequently collaborating authors include:

  • Stefan-S. Jester
  • Tristan J. Keller
  • Stefan Grimme
  • John M. Lupton
  • Joshua Bahr

Best Publications

  • Shape-persistent macrocycles: from molecules to materials.

    Sigurd Höger

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Monodisperse Oligofluorenes

    Jungho Jo;Chunyan Chi;Sigurd Höger;Gerhard Wegner

  • Synthesis, aggregation, and adsorption phenomena of shape-persistent macrocycles with extraannular polyalkyl substituents.

    Sigurd Höger;Klaus Bonrad;Ahmed Mourran;Uwe Beginn

  • Highly efficient methods for the preparation of shape‐persistent macrocyclics

    Sigurd Höger

  • 2D Supramolecular Structures of a Shape-Persistent Macrocycle and Co-deposition with Fullerene on HOPG

    Ge-Bo Pan;Xiao-Hong Cheng;Sigurd Höger;Werner Freyland

  • Metal-Free OLED Triplet Emitters by Side-Stepping Kasha's Rule

    Debangshu Chaudhuri;Eva Sigmund;Annemarie Meyer;Lisa Röck

  • Shape-Persistent Phenylene-Acetylene Macrocycles: Large Rings—Low Yield?

    Sigurd Höger

  • Switching between H- and J-type electronic coupling in single conjugated polymer aggregates.

    Theresa Eder;Thomas Stangl;Max Gmelch;Klaas Remmerssen

  • Shape-persistent macrocycles with intraannular polar groups: synthesis, liquid crystallinity, and 2D organization.

    Matthias Fischer;Günter Lieser;Almut Rapp;Ingo Schnell

  • Shape-persistent macrocycles with intraannular alkyl groups: some structural limits of discotic liquid crystals with an inverted structure

    Sigurd Höger;Jill Weber;Andreas Leppert;Volker Enkelmann

  • Improved efficiency in green polymer light-emitting diodes with air-stable electrodes

    C. Zhang;S. Höger;K. Pakbaz;F. Wudl

  • 2D assembly of metallacycles on HOPG by shape-persistent macrocycle templates.

    Ting Chen;Ge Bo Pan;Henning Wettach;Martin Fritzsche

  • High-yield macrocyclization via Glaser coupling of temporary covalent templated bisacetylenes

    Sigurd Höger;and Anne-Désirée Meckenstock;Heike Pellen

  • Fluctuating exciton localization in giant π -conjugated spoked-wheel macrocycles

    A. Vikas Aggarwal;Alexander Thiessen;Alissa Idelson;Daniel Kalle

  • Exciton Accumulation in π-Conjugated Wires Encapsulated by Light-Harvesting Macrocycles†

    Klaus Becker;Pavlos G. Lagoudakis;Pavlos G. Lagoudakis;Gerald Gaefke;Sigurd Höger

  • Solvent triggering between conformational states in amphiphilic shape-persistent macrocycles

    Sigurd Höger;Donald L. Morrison;Volker Enkelmann

  • Proton-Transfer-Dependent Reversible Phase Changes in the 4,4′-Bipyridinium Salt of Squaric Acid†

    Manfred T. Reetz;Sigurd Höger;Klaus Harms

  • Alkyl-substituted shape-persistent macrocycles: The first discotic liquid crystal composed of a rigid periphery and a flexible core

    Sigurd Höger;Volker Enkelmann;Klaus Bonrad;Carsten Tschierske

  • Yellow luminescent diodes utilizing poly(2,5-bis(cholestanoxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene)

    C. Zhang;S. Höger;K. Pakbaz;F. Wudl

  • Improved efficiency in polymer light-emitting diodes using air-stable electrodes

    S. Aratani;C. Zhang;K. Pakbaz;S. Höger

  • Coil-ring-coil block copolymers as building blocks for supramolecular hollow cylindrical brushes

    Silvia Rosselli;Anne‐Désirée D. Ramminger;Thomas Wagner;Beate Silier

  • Empty Helical Nanochannels with Adjustable Order from Low‐Symmetry Macrocycles

    Martin Fritzsche;Anne Bohle;Dmytro Dudenko;Ute Baumeister

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Lupton
John M. Lupton University of Regensburg
Volker Enkelmann
Volker Enkelmann Max Planck Society
Stefan Grimme
Stefan Grimme University of Bonn
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Gregor Schnakenburg
Gregor Schnakenburg University of Bonn
Roberto Lazzaroni
Roberto Lazzaroni University of Mons
Thomas Wagner
Thomas Wagner Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Alexander Colsmann
Alexander Colsmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Uli Lemmer
Uli Lemmer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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