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Yuri Grin is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Germany. Their research primarily centers on materials science and physics, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry and condensed matter physics. Their work spans inorganic chemistry, electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's research topics encompass rare-earth and actinide compounds, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, crystallization and solubility studies, inorganic chemistry and materials, iron-based superconductors research, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, and crystal structures and properties.

Yuri Grin has contributed to numerous publications in several frequent venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Dalton Transactions

The scientist has collaborated extensively with various co-authors, most notably Ulrich Burkhardt, Yurii Prots, Marcus Schmidt, Mitja Krnel, and Ulrich Schwarz, reflecting a consistent research partnership across multiple projects.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Half-Heusler-like compounds with wide continuous compositions and tunable p- to n-type semiconducting thermoelectrics, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Discovery of high-performance thermoelectric copper chalcogenide using modified diffusion-couple high-throughput synthesis and automated histogram analysis technique, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Absolute Structure from Scanning Electron Microscopy, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Unveiling the origins of low lattice thermal conductivity in 122-phase Zintl compounds, 2021, Materials Today Physics
  • Molybdenum Oxides MoOx: Spark-Plasma Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties at Elevated Temperature, 2020, Chemistry of Materials

Best Publications

  • Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP

    Chandra Shekhar;Ajaya K. Nayak;Yan Sun;Marcus Schmidt

  • WinCSD: software package for crystallographic calculations (Version 4)

    Lev Akselrud;Yuri Grin

  • Pd−Ga Intermetallic Compounds as Highly Selective Semihydrogenation Catalysts

    Marc Armbrüster;Kirill Kovnir;Malte Behrens;Detre Teschner

  • Room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor.

    Xun Shi;Hongyi Chen;Hongyi Chen;Feng Hao;Ruiheng Liu

  • A guest-free germanium clathrate

    Arnold M. Guloy;Reiner Ramlau;Zhongjia Tang;Walter Schnelle

  • Al13Fe4 as a low-cost alternative for palladium in heterogeneous hydrogenation

    Marc Armbrüster;Kirill Kovnir;Matthias Friedrich;Detre Teschner

  • Palladium-Gallium Intermetallic Compounds for the Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene: Part II: Surface Characterization and Catalytic Performance

    Jürgen Osswald;Kirill Kovnir;Marc Armbrüster;Rainer Giedigkeit

  • Charge Decomposition Analysis of the Electron Localizability Indicator: A Bridge between the Orbital and Direct Space Representation of the Chemical Bond

    Frank R. Wagner;Viktor Bezugly;Miroslav Kohout;Yuri Grin

  • Palladium–gallium intermetallic compounds for the selective hydrogenation of acetylene: Part I: Preparation and structural investigation under reaction conditions

    Jürgen Osswald;Rainer Giedigkeit;Rolf E. Jentoft;Marc Armbrüster

  • Electron localization function for transition-metal compounds

    Miroslav Kohout;Frank Richard Wagner;Yuri Grin

  • Structural, transport, magnetic, and thermal properties of Eu 8 Ga 16 Ge 30

    S. Paschen;W. Carrillo-Cabrera;A. Bentien;V. H. Tran

  • How to Control the Selectivity of Palladium‐based Catalysts in Hydrogenation Reactions: The Role of Subsurface Chemistry

    Marc Armbrüster;Malte Behrens;Fabrizio Cinquini;Karin Föttinger

  • Intermetallic compounds in heterogeneous catalysis?a quickly developing field

    Marc Armbrüster;Robert Schlögl;Yuri Grin

  • A new approach to well-defined, stable and site-isolated catalysts

    Kirill Kovnir;Marc Armbrüster;Marc Armbrüster;Detre Teschner;Tzvetomir V. Venkov

  • Synthesis and high thermoelectric efficiency of Zintl phase YbCd2−xZnxSb2

    Xiao-Jun Wang;Mei-Bo Tang;Hao-Hong Chen;Xin-Xin Yang

  • Electron localizability indicator for correlated wavefunctions. I. Parallel-spin pairs

    Miroslav Kohout;Katarzyna Pernal;Frank Richard Wagner;Yuri Grin

  • A new type of thermoelectric material, EuZn2Sb2.

    Hui Zhang;Jing-Tai Zhao;Yu. Grin;Xiao-Jun Wang

  • Atomic Shells From the Electron Localizability in Momentum Space

    M. Kohout;F. R. Wagner;Y. Grin

  • In situ Surface Characterization of the Intermetallic Compound PdGa – A Highly Selective Hydrogenation Catalyst

    K. Kovnir;M. Armbrüster;D. Teschner;T.V. Venkov

  • Binary alkali metal compounds with the Zintl anions [Ge9]4- and [Sn9]4-

    h. c. H. G. Von Schnering;M. Baitinger;U. Bolle;W. Carrillo-Cabrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Schnelle
Walter Schnelle Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Ulrich S. Schwarz
Ulrich S. Schwarz Heidelberg University
Marc Armbrüster
Marc Armbrüster Chemnitz University of Technology
Kirill Kovnir
Kirill Kovnir Iowa State University
Hans Georg von Schnering
Hans Georg von Schnering Max Planck Society
Detre Teschner
Detre Teschner Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Jing-Tai Zhao
Jing-Tai Zhao Guilin University of Electronic Technology
Paul Simon
Paul Simon Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Frank Steglich
Frank Steglich Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Kunio Yubuta
Kunio Yubuta Tohoku University

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