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2022

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Overview

Thomas Bein is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with specific attention to materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Their body of work also spans inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and topics related to renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics that characterize Thomas Bein's research include:

  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Thomas Bein has multiple frequent co-authors, reflecting collaborative research efforts in their fields of study. These include:

  • Dana D. Medina (23 joint publications)
  • Achim Hartschuh (22 joint publications)
  • Roman Guntermann (19 joint publications)
  • Markus Döblinger (18 joint publications)
  • Vladimir Dyakonov (14 joint publications)

Their work has appeared widely across several publication venues. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (11 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (10 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (9 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (9 publications)
  • Advanced Functional Materials (5 publications)

Selected recent papers by Thomas Bein include:

  • "Optoelectronic processes in covalent organic frameworks," 2020, published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Fast-Switching Vis-IR Electrochromic Covalent Organic Frameworks," 2021, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as pH-Responsive Carrier for the Immune-Activating Drug Resiquimod Enhance the Local Immune Response in Mice," 2021, published in ACS Nano
  • "Roadmap on organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite semiconductors and devices," 2021, published in APL Materials
  • "Interpretation of photocurrent transients at semiconductor electrodes: Effects of band-edge unpinning," 2020, published in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Bright light-emitting diodes based on organometal halide perovskite

    Zhi-Kuang Tan;Reza Saberi Moghaddam;May Ling Lai;Pablo Docampo

  • Conducting Polyaniline Filaments in a Mesoporous Channel Host

    Chun Guey Wu;Thomas Bein

  • Reversible Hydration of CH3NH3PbI3 in Films, Single Crystals, and Solar Cells

    Aurélien M. A. Leguy;Yinghong Hu;Mariano Campoy-Quiles;M. Isabel Alonso

  • Covalent Organic Frameworks: Structures, Synthesis, and Applications

    Maria S. Lohse;Thomas Bein

  • "Coulomb Staircase" at Room Temperature in a Self-Assembled Molecular Nanostructure

    Ronald P. Andres;Thomas Bein;Matt Dorogi;Sue Feng

  • Spherical Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Nanoparticles with High Porosity for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

    Jörg Schuster;Guang He;Benjamin Mandlmeier;Taeeun Yim

  • Inclusion Chemistry in Periodic Mesoporous Hosts

    Karin Moller;Thomas Bein

  • Multifunctional Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as a Universal Platform for Drug Delivery

    Christian Argyo;Veronika Weiss;Christoph Bräuchle;Thomas Bein

  • Mechanism of Zeolite A Nanocrystal Growth from Colloids at Room Temperature

    Svetlana Mintova;Norman H. Olson;Valentin Valtchev;Thomas Bein

  • Highly stable, phase pure Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskite thin films for optoelectronic applications

    Enrico Greul;Michiel L. Petrus;Andreas Binek;Pablo Docampo

  • Mesoporosity – a new dimension for zeolites

    Karin Möller;Thomas Bein

  • Stabilization of the Trigonal High-Temperature Phase of Formamidinium Lead Iodide.

    Andreas Binek;Fabian C. Hanusch;Pablo Docampo;Thomas Bein

  • Synthesis and Applications of Molecular Sieve Layers and Membranes

    Thomas Bein

  • The Structure and Optical Properties of CdS Superclusters in Zeolite Hosts

    Norman Herron;Ying Wang;Mike M. Eddy;Galen D. Stucky

  • Oriented Growth of the Metal Organic Framework Cu3(BTC)2(H2O)3·xH2O Tunable with Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Enrica Biemmi;and Camilla Scherb;Thomas Bein

  • Blue-Green Color Tunable Solution Processable Organolead Chloride-Bromide Mixed Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications

    Aditya Sadhanala;Shahab Ahmad;Baodan Zhao;Nadja Giesbrecht

  • Conducting carbon wires in ordered, nanometer-sized channels

    Chun Guey Wu;Thomas Bein

  • A Photoconductive Thienothiophene-Based Covalent Organic Framework Showing Charge Transfer Towards Included Fullerene

    Mirjam Dogru;Matthias Handloser;Florian Auras;Thomas Kunz

  • Iron-Doped Nickel Oxide Nanocrystals as Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting

    Ksenia Fominykh;Petko Chernev;Ivelina Zaharieva;Johannes Sicklinger

  • Molecular docking sites designed for the generation of highly crystalline covalent organic frameworks

    Laura Ascherl;Torben Sick;Johannes T. Margraf;Saul H. Lapidus

  • Optoelectronic processes in covalent organic frameworks

    Niklas Keller;Thomas Bein

  • Colloidal Suspensions of Nanometer-Sized Mesoporous Silica

    Karin Möller;Johannes Kobler;Thomas Bein

Frequent Co-Authors

Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing
Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing Forschungszentrum Jülich
Pablo Docampo
Pablo Docampo University of Glasgow
Markus Döblinger
Markus Döblinger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christoph Bräuchle
Christoph Bräuchle Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hans J. Schlitt
Hans J. Schlitt University of Regensburg
Valentina Alice Cauda
Valentina Alice Cauda Polytechnic University of Turin
Christina Scheu
Christina Scheu Max Planck Society
Achim Hartschuh
Achim Hartschuh Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Svetlana Mintova
Svetlana Mintova Université de Caen Normandie

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