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Thomas F. Fässler is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with a specialization in materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and aspects of electrical and electronic engineering. The scientist's work extends to organic chemistry and industrial and manufacturing engineering as well.

Their research covers several main topics including:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Inorganic chemistry and materials
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds
  • Advanced battery materials and technologies
  • Advancements in battery materials
  • Chemical synthesis and characterization

Thomas F. Fässler has published extensively in numerous scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Fässler are:

  • "Evolving Highly Active Oxidic Iron(III) Phase from Corrosion of Intermetallic Iron Silicide to Master Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation and Selective Oxygenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural" (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • "Modifying the Properties of Fast Lithium-Ion Conductors-The Lithium Phosphidotetrelates Li14SiP6, Li14GeP6, and Li14SnP6" (2020, Chemistry of Materials)
  • "Boranyl-Functionalized [Ge9] Clusters: Providing the Idea of Intramolecular Ge/B Frustrated Lewis Pairs" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Intermetallic phases meet intermetalloid clusters" (2021, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • "Mesoporous GeOx/Ge/C as a Highly Reversible Anode Material with High Specific Capacity for Lithium-Ion Batteries" (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Wilhelm Klein, Gabriele Raudaschl-Sieber, Leo van Wüllen, Holger Kirchhain, and Tassilo M. F. Restle. The number of joint publications with these colleagues ranges from over forty to more than one hundred, indicating ongoing partnerships in research projects.

Best Publications

  • ELF: The Electron Localization Function

    Andreas Savin;Reinhard Nesper;Steffen Wengert;Thomas F. Fässler

  • Zintl ions, cage compounds, and intermetalloid clusters of Group 14 and Group 15 elements.

    Sandra Scharfe;Florian Kraus;Saskia Stegmaier;Annette Schier

  • The renaissance of homoatomic nine-atom polyhedra of the heavier carbon-group elements Si–Pb

    Thomas Friedrich Fässler

  • Endohedral zintl ions: intermetalloid clusters.

    Thomas F. Fässler;Stephan D. Hoffmann

  • Die Elektronenlokalisierungsfunktion ELF

    Andreas Savin;Reinhard Nesper;Steffen Wengert;Thomas F. Fässler

  • [Co@Ge10]3−: An Intermetalloid Cluster with Archimedean Pentagonal Prismatic Structure

    Jian-Qiang Wang;Saskia Stegmaier;Thomas F. Fässler

  • Topographical Analyses of Homonuclear Multiple Bonds between Main Group Elements

    H. Grützmacher;Thomas Friedrich Fässler

  • [Cu@Sn9]3− and [Cu@Pb9]3−: Intermetalloid Clusters with Endohedral Cu Atoms in Spherical Environments

    Sandra Scharfe;Thomas F. Fässler;Saskia Stegmaier;Stephan D. Hoffmann

  • Step-by-step synthesis of the endohedral stannaspherene [Ir@Sn12]3- via the capped cluster anion [Sn9Ir(cod)]3-.

    Jian-Qiang Wang;Saskia Stegmaier;Bernhard Wahl;Thomas F. Fässler

  • Zintl‐Ionen, Käfigverbindungen und intermetalloide Cluster der Elemente der 14. und 15. Gruppe

    Sandra Scharfe;Florian Kraus;Saskia Stegmaier;Annette Schier

  • Structural principles of semiconducting Group 14 clathrate frameworks.

    Antti J. Karttunen;Thomas F. Fässler;Mikko Linnolahti;Tapani A. Pakkanen

  • THE FORMATION OF HETEROLEPTIC CARBENE HOMOLOGUES BY LIGAND EXCHANGE : SYNTHESIS OF THE FIRST PLUMBANEDIYL DIMER

    Karl W. Klinkhammer;Thomas F. Fässler;Hansjörg Grützmacher

  • [Au3Ge45]9- --a binary anion containing a {Ge45} cluster.

    Annette Spiekermann;Stephan D. Hoffmann;Thomas F. Fässler;Ingo Krossing

  • A bronze matryoshka: the discrete intermetalloid cluster [Sn@Cu12@Sn20](12-) in the ternary phases A12Cu12Sn21 (A = Na, K).

    Saskia Stegmaier;Thomas F. Fässler

  • Evolving Highly Active Oxidic Iron(III) Phase from Corrosion of Intermetallic Iron Silicide to Master Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation and Selective Oxygenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural

    J. Niklas Hausmann;Rodrigo Beltrán‐Suito;Stefan Mebs;Viktor Hlukhyy

  • Oxidative Coupling of Ge94‐ Zintl Anions ‐ Hexagonal Rod Packing of Linear [Ge9=Ge9=Ge9=Ge9]8‐

    Li Yong;Stephan D. Hoffmann;Thomas F. Fässler

  • (1)[HgGe(9)](2-)--a polymer with zintl ions as building blocks covalently linked by heteroatoms.

    Anke Nienhaus;Ralf Hauptmann;Thomas F Fässler

  • The Zintl Ion [Pb10]2-: a rare example of a homoatomic closo cluster.

    Annette Spiekermann;Stephan D. Hoffmann;Thomas F. Fässler

  • Ordering of Vacancies in Type-I Tin Clathrate: Superstructure of Rb8Sn44□2

    Franck Dubois;Thomas F. Fässler

  • The Controlled Oxidative Coupling of Ge94− Zintl Anions to a Linear Trimer [Ge9=Ge9=Ge9]6−

    Li Yong;Stephan D. Hoffmann;Thomas F. Fässler

  • Rapid Crystallization and Kinetic Freezing of Site-Disorder in the Lithium Superionic Argyrodite Li6PS5Br

    Ajay Gautam;Marcel Sadowski;Nils Prinz;Henrik Eickhoff

  • Low Dimensional Arrangements of the Zintl Ion [Ge9‐Ge9]6— and Chemical Bonding in [Ge6]2—, [Ge9‐Ge9]6—, and ∞1{[Ge9]}2—

    Ralf Hauptmann;Thomas F. Fässler

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert A. Gasteiger
Hubert A. Gasteiger Technical University of Munich
Bernhard Rieger
Bernhard Rieger Technical University of Munich
Paolo Lugli
Paolo Lugli Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Peter Müller-Buschbaum
Peter Müller-Buschbaum Technical University of Munich
Jonathan G. C. Veinot
Jonathan G. C. Veinot University of Alberta
Peter Claus
Peter Claus Technical University of Darmstadt
Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing
Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing Forschungszentrum Jülich
Wolfgang Scherer
Wolfgang Scherer Augsburg College
Wolfgang G. Zeier
Wolfgang G. Zeier University of Münster
Roland A. Fischer
Roland A. Fischer Technical University of Munich

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