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From September 5 to September 8 the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2023 (EESA 2023) took place in Erlangen. The school was organized by Prof. Matthias Thommes (Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Prof. Stefano Brandani (University of Edinburgh).

Simon Eder, Jakob Söllner, Carola Schlumberger and Markus Terlinden presented their current research results at the 34. German zeolite conference in Vienna

Prof. Matthias Thommes (Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Prof. Stefano Brandani (University of Edinburgh) are pleased to invite you to the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2023, which will take place from September 5 – 8, 2023 in Erlangen (Germany).

The ProcessNet Annual Meeting Adsorption took place on November 7 in Duisburg, Germany. Simon Eder talked about his current research results on “Aspects of Gas Storage: Effect of Confinement on Supercritical Adsorption Behavior” (authors: Simon Eder, Matthias Thommes). Carola Schlumberger presented ...

The Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT) (under the leadership of Carola Schlumberger and Prof. Matthias Thommes), the CRC 1411 Design of Particulate Products and the ProcessNet research group Adsorption organized a PhD Seminar Adsorption from September 29 – 30, 2022 in Erlangen (Ger...

From 6th September to 9th September 2022 the Edinburgh-Erlangen School of Adsorption (EESA) will take place at the University of Edinburgh. The school is organized by Prof. Matthias Thommes and Prof. Stefano Brandani.

From May 22 – May 27 2022, the Fundamentals of Adsorption  (FOA) took place in Denver, Colorado, USA. Prof. Matthias Thommes, Simon Eder and Carola Schlumberger presented current research results of the group Adsorption and Nanoporous Materials Characterization.

H2 leakage detection is a crucial concern, which is necessary to ensure a safety environment in a green and sustainable hydrogen economy. Dr. Carlos Cuadrado Collados and Prof. Matthias Thommes in collaboration with Prof. Mandel and his colleagues (Prof. Libuda, Prof. Zahn, Prof. Görling) from the D...

Prof. Matthias Thommes and Dr. Carlos Cuadrado Collados were involved in a scientific collaboration with the groups of Prof. Karl Mandel and Prof. Julien Bachmann from the Department of Chemistry. The results of this collaboration were recently published in the high impact journal Small Methods.

Prof. Thommes is among the top 2 percent of  the most cited researchers according to the “Stanford list” based on the Scopus data base. Within this group he is one of only 8 scientists of the FAU who are listed  among the worldwide top 50 scientists in their research area. More information can be fo...

Prof. Thommes delivered (in-person) on Dec. 7 a seminar invited by the GDCh (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) Kolloqium at the Technical University Darmstadt with the title “Insights into the Adsorption and Phase Behaviour of Fluids in Nanoporous Materials“.

Prof. Matthias Thommes delivered (via ZOOM) an invited lecture in the plenary session of the area  “Adsorption and Ion Exchange, Separation Division" entitled:  "Adsorption and phase behaviour of CO2 and CH4 in hierarchically organized nanoporous materials over a wide range of temperatures and press...

The 13th Europrean Congress of Chemical Engineering took place from September 20 to 23, 2021. The Institute of Separation Science and Technology was represented at this virtual conference with two presentations. Carola Schlumberger delivered the lecture „Combining Novel Methodologies based on NMR Re...

Malte Kaspereit co-authored a paper with Hoang Nguyen (now at Northumbria University, Newcastle/UK) and Tuomo Sainio (LUT – Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland) that covers an experimental-theoretical study on the production of oligosaccharides from natural sources.

Prof. Thommes is invited to give a plenary lecture at the IS2M Annual Meeting, Mulhouse (France), which will be held online May 26-28, 2021. This year the theme is: "Adsorption in Porous Solids : From the Fundamentals to Pollutants' Adsorption and Energy's Applications”

Prof. Matthias Thommes gave a Webinar on "Characterization of Porous Materials" on May 8th, 2020. The Webinar is part of a series of adsorption-themed webinars organized by the International Adsorption Society.

The Institute of Separation Science and Technology organized an excursion to the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research e.V. (ZAE Bayern) on December, 19th. Students of the Department CBI had the opportunity to learn about research on energy storage and energy efficiency, e.g. in the area of Na...

The Edinburgh-Erlangen School of Adsorption (EESA) is organized by Prof. Matthias Thommes and Prof. Stefano Brandani. The School is aimed to PhD students, Researchers and Industrialists willing to gain a deeper insight of the fundamental aspects of adsorption science and engineering.

Prof. Krista Walton (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)  gave a lecture about "Challenges in Developing Materials for Large-Scale Energy Applicatons" on November, 19th.

Prof. Thommes was Keynote speaker at the Okinawa Colloids 2019 in Japan. During his lecture he talked about recent advances in textural characterization of nanoporous materials.

Johannes Schmölder co-chaired the first CADET tutorial and user workshop, which took place at the Forschungszentrum Jülich from October 23-25.

 

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April 2023: New paper published: D. H. Panduro Vela, C. Schlumberger, M. Thommes, A. Bück, “Spray Printing of Porous Substrates from Nanosuspensions“, Processes 2023, 11(4), 1143

March 2023: Jakob Söllner presented his current research results on “A novel pore network model for advanced physisorption characterization” (J. Söllner, M. Thommes) at the  ProcessNet Annual Meeting Adsorption in Frankfurt, Germany.

March 2023: New paper published: C. Schlumberger, L. Sandner, A. Michalowski, M. Thommes, “Reliable Surface Area Assessment of Wet and Dry Nonporous and Nanoporous Particles: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry and Gas Physisorption“, Langmuir 2023, 39, 13, 4611–4621

March 2023: New paper published: U. Sultan, A. Götz, C. Schlumberger, …, M. Thommes, E. Spiecker, B. Apeleo Zubiri, A. Inayat, N. Vogel, “From Meso to Macro: Controlling Hierarchical Porosity in Supraparticle Powders”, Small 2023, 2300241

November 2022: New paper published: L. Gromotka, M. J. Uttinger, C. Schlumberger, M. Thommes, W. Peukert , “Classification and characterization of multimodal nanoparticle size distributions by size-exclusion chromatography”, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 17354-17364

August 2022: New paper published: M. Schörner, S. Kämmerle, D. Wisser, B. Baier, M. Hartmann, M. Thommes, R. Franke, M. Haumann, “Influence of support texture and reaction conditions on the accumulation and activity in the gas-phase aldol condensation of n-pentanal on porous silica“, React. Chem. Eng. 2022, 7, 2445-2459

August 2022: New paper published: R. Balderas-Xicohténcatl, H. Lin, C. Lurz, L. Daemen, Y.g Cheng, K. Cychosz Struckhoff, R. Guillet-Nicolas, G. Schütz, T. Heine, A. J Ramirez-Cuesta, M. Thommes, M. Hirscher , “Formation of a super-dense hydrogen monolayer on mesoporous silica“, Nature Chemistry 14, 1319–1324 (2022)

May 2022: New paper published: J. Reichstein, S. Schötz, M. Macht, S. Maisel, N. Stockinger, C. Cuadrado Collados, K. Schubert, D. Blaumeiser, S. Wintzheimer, A. Görling, M. Thommes, D. Zahn, J. Libuda, T. Bauer, K. Mandel , “Supraparticles for Bare-Eye H2 Indication and Monitoring: Design, Working Principle, and Molecular Mobility”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 22/2022

February 2022: New paper published: J. Reichstein, S. Schötz, M. Macht, S. Maisel, N. Stockinger, C. Cuadrado Collados, K. Schubert, D. Blaumeiser, S. Wintzheimer, A. Görling, M. Thommes, D. Zahn, J. Libuda, T. Bauer, K. Mandel , “Supraparticles for Bare-Eye H2 Indication and Monitoring: Design, Working Principle, and Molecular Mobility“, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, 32, 2112379

January 2022: New paper published: S. Müssig, V. M. Koch, C. Cuadrado Collados, J. Bachmann, M. Thommes, M. K. S. Barr, K. Mandel , “Spray-Drying and Atomic Layer Deposition: Complementary Tools toward Fully Orthogonal Control of Bulk Composition and Surface Identity of Multifunctional Supraparticles”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, 32, 2112379

November 2021: New paper published: C. Schlumberger, C. Scherdel, M. Kriesten, P. Leicht, A. Keilbach, H. Ehmann, P. Kotnik, G. Reichenauer, M. Thommes, “Reliable surface area determination of powders and meso/macroporous materials: Small-angle X-ray scattering and gas physisorption”, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Volume 329, 2022

November 2021: New paper published: S. Müssig, V.M. Koch, C. Collados Cuadrado, J. Bachmann, M. Thommes, M.K.S. Barr, K. Mandel, Spray-Drying and Atomic Layer Deposition: Complementary Tools toward Fully Orthogonal Control of Bulk Composition and Surface Identity of Multifunctional Supraparticles, Small Methods. 2101296.

November 2021: New paper published: M. Schörner, P. Rothgängel, K. Mitländer, D. Wisser, M. Thommes, M. Haumann, “Gas-Phase Hydroformylation Using Supported Ionic Liquid Phase (SILP) Catalysts – Influence of Support Texture on Effective Kinetics” ChemCatChem 2021, 13, 4192.

July 2021: New paper published: Y. Sun, R.F. DeJaco, Z. Li, D. Tang, S. Glante, D.S. Sholl, C.M. Colina, R.Q. Snurr, M. Thommes, M. Hartmann, J.I. Siepmann, Fingerprinting diverse nanoporous materials for optimal hydrogen storage conditions using meta-learning, Science Advances. 7 eabg3983.

July 2021: Prof. Thommes co-edited a Special Issue of the journal Molecuar Physics in Memory of Gerhard Findenegg: M. Schoen, R. Evans, K.E. Gubbins, J.P. Rabe, M. Thommes, G. Jackson, Gerhard Findenegg (1938–2019), Molecular Physics. 119 (2021) e1953272.

June 2021: Prof Thommes deliverd an invited Seminar (via ZOOM) at IBS Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea, 10 June

April 2021: Prof. Thommes co-authored a major review concerning the state-of the art of the characterization of thin films, with a focus on Metal-Organic–Framework (MOF) materials. This work is the reflection of a scientific collaboration between various European groups, led by Prof. Ameloot from the KU Leuven, Belgian.
T. Stassin, …, D. De Vos, D. Grosso, M. Thommes, R. Ameloot, “Porosimetry for thin films of metal-organic frameworks: Spectrosocpy and Adsorption-Based Methods” (review article); Adv. Mater. (2021), 2006993

March 2021: Carola Schlumberger presented her current research results about “Combining Novel Methodologies based on NMR Relaxometry and Gas Adsorption for Reliable Surface Area Assessment of Nanoporous Materials” (C. Schlumberger, U. Schmidt, M. Thommes) at the 32nd Deutsche Zeolith-Tagung.

February 2021: New review article , co-authored by Prof. Thommes: M. Hartmann, M. Thommes and W. Schwieger (inv. Review), Hierarchically-Ordered Zeolites: A Critical Assessment, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 8, 2001841   

January 2021: New review article: M. Thommes, C. Schlumberger, “Characterization of Nanoporous Materials”, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vol. 12, 2021

January 2021: New tutorial review: C. Schlumberger, M. Thommes, “Characterization of Hierarchically Ordered Porous Materials by Physisorption and Mercury Porosimetry – A Tutorial Review”,  Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 8, 2002181

January 2021: New paper published: J. Castro-Gutierrez, E. de Olivereira Jardim, R. Luan, S. Canevesi, J. Silvestre-Albero, M. Kriesten, M. Thommes, A. Celzard, V. Fierro, “Molecular sieving of linear and branched C6 alkanes by tannin-derived carbons” Carbon, 174, 413

January 2021: New paper published: S. Dantas, K.A. Cychosz, M.Thommes*, A.V. Neimark, “Pore size characterization of micro-mesoporous carbons using CO2 adsorption” Carbon 173 (2021) p. 842

September 2020: New paper published: S. Kube, K. Turke, R. Ellinghaus, D. Wallacher, M. Thommes, B. Smarsly, “Pore size gradient effect in monolithic silica mesopore networks revealed by in-situ-SAXS-physisorption”,  Langmuir, (2020) (DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02183)

September 2020: New paper published: A. Svidrytski, D. Hlushkou, M. Thommes, P. Monson, U. Tallarek, “Modelling the Impact of Mesoporous Silica Microstructure on the Adsorption Hysteresis Loop”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07571)

July 2020: New paper published: H.G.T Nguyen, C.M. Sims, B. Toman,J. Horn, R.D van Zee, M Thommes et al., ”A References High-Pressure CH4 Adsorption Isotherm for Zeolite Y: “ Results of an Interlaboratory Study” , Adsorption, (DOI: 10.1007/s10450-018-9958-x)

July 2020: New paper published by Prof. Thommes:  “Characterization of Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Storage and Compression“, Journal of Carbon Research, authors: G Sdanghi, RLS Canevesi, A Celzard, M Thommes, V Fierro (DOI: 10.3390/c6030046)

July 2020: Prof. Thommes published a new paper on “Exploring the confinement of polymer nanolayers into ordered mesoporous silica using advanced gas physisorption”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.05.103)

July 2020: Prof. Thommes is Guest Editor of a Special Issue entitled “Characterization of Porous Materials: From Angstroms to Millimeters”, which was just published in the journal Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, i.e. A.V Neimark, M. Thommes, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 304. 110305 (2020)

April 2020: New paper published by Prof. Thommes: “On the Universality of Capillary Condensation and Adsorption Hysteresis Phenomena in Ordered and Crystalline Mesoporous Materials”, Advanced Materials Interfaces (DOI: 10.1002/admi.202000184)

April 2021: Prof. Thommes co-authored a major review concerning the state-of the art of the characterization of thin films, with a focus on Metal-Organic–Framework (MOF) materials. This work is the reflection of a scientific collaboration between various European groups, led by Prof. Ameloot from the KU Leuven, Belgian.
T. Stassin, …, D. De Vos, D. Grosso, M. Thommes, R. Ameloot, “Porosimetry for thin films of metal-organic frameworks: Spectrosocpy and Adsorption-Based Methods” (review article); Adv. Mater. (2021), 2006993

March 2021: Carola Schlumberger presented her current research results about “Combining Novel Methodologies based on NMR Relaxometry and Gas Adsorption for Reliable Surface Area Assessment of Nanoporous Materials” (C. Schlumberger, U. Schmidt, M. Thommes) at the 32nd Deutsche Zeolith-Tagung.

February 2021: New review article , co-authored by Prof. Thommes: M. Hartmann, M. Thommes and W. Schwieger (inv. Review), Hierarchically-Ordered Zeolites: A Critical Assessment, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 8, 2001841   

January 2021: New review article: M. Thommes, C. Schlumberger, “Characterization of Nanoporous Materials”, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vol. 12, accepted (2021)

January 2021: New tutorial review: C. Schlumberger, M. Thommes, “Characterization of Hierarchically Ordered Porous Materials by Physisorption and Mercury Porosimetry – A Tutorial Review”,  Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 8, 2002181

January 2021: New paper published: J. Castro-Gutierrez, E. de Olivereira Jardim, R. Luan, S. Canevesi, J. Silvestre-Albero, M. Kriesten, M. Thommes, A. Celzard, V. Fierro, “Molecular sieving of linear and branched C6 alkanes by tannin-derived carbons” Carbon, 174, 413

January 2021: New paper published: S. Dantas, K.A. Cychosz, M.Thommes*, A.V. Neimark, “Pore size characterization of micro-mesoporous carbons using CO2 adsorption” Carbon 173 (2021) p. 842

September 2020: New paper accepted: S. Kube, K. Turke, R. Ellinghaus, D. Wallacher, M. Thommes, B. Smarsly, “Pore size gradient effect in monolithic silica mesopore networks revealed by in-situ-SAXS-physisorption”,  Langmuir, accepted (2020) (DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02183)

September 2020: New paper published: A. Svidrytski, D. Hlushkou, M. Thommes, P. Monson, U. Tallarek, “Modelling the Impact of Mesoporous Silica Microstructure on the Adsorption Hysteresis Loop”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07571)

July 2020: New paper published: H.G.T Nguyen, C.M. Sims, B. Toman,J. Horn, R.D van Zee, M Thommes et al., ”A References High-Pressure CH4 Adsorption Isotherm for Zeolite Y: “ Results of an Interlaboratory Study” , Adsorption, (DOI: 10.1007/s10450-018-9958-x)

July 2020: New paper published by Prof. Thommes:  “Characterization of Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Storage and Compression“, Journal of Carbon Research, authors: G Sdanghi, RLS Canevesi, A Celzard, M Thommes, V Fierro (DOI: 10.3390/c6030046)

July 2020: Prof. Thommes published a new paper on “Exploring the confinement of polymer nanolayers into ordered mesoporous silica using advanced gas physisorption”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.05.103)

July 2020: Prof. Thommes is Guest Editor of a Special Issue entitled “Characterization of Porous Materials: From Angstroms to Millimeters”, which was just published in the journal Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, i.e. A.V Neimark, M. Thommes, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 304. 110305 (2020)

April 2020: New paper published by Prof. Thommes: “On the Universality of Capillary Condensation and Adsorption Hysteresis Phenomena in Ordered and Crystalline Mesoporous Materials”, Advanced Materials Interfaces (DOI: 10.1002/admi.202000184)

February 2020: Prof. Thommes was an invited lecturer at the Workshop “Gas Physisorption for the Advanced Characterization of Nanopores” at the Montan University Leoben (Austria).

February 2020: Carola Schlumberger won the Best Poster Award at the Annual meeting of ProcessNet research group Adsorption with her poster on “Adsorption and nanoporous materials characterization in the liquid phase: Novel methodologies based on NMR relaxometry and conductivity measurements” (authors: Carola Schlumberger, Leon Fischer, Martin Kriesten and Prof. Matthias Thommes).

November 2019: Prof. Thommes gave a talk about „Textural Characterization of Shale Nanostructure“ at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando.

November 2019: Thomas Linder and Peter Leicht won the best poster award at the CBI Symposium with their poster about „Fluid Dynamic Investigations using X-Ray Computed Tomography“

September 2019: Prof. Thommes was an invited lecturer at the 1st International Adsorption School, 9-13 September 2019, Spetses, Greece.

August 2019: New paper published by Prof. Thommes, entitled “Phase Behavior and Capillary Condensation Hysteresis of Carbon Dioxide in Mesopores”, Authors: S. Dantas, K. Cychosz Struckhoff, M. Thommes and A. Neimark. This work reflects a collaboration with Rutgers University, NJ, USA.

July 2019: Prof. Thommes was invited to visit and lecture at the Consortium für elektrochemische Industrie, Wacker AG, Munich.

June 2019: Prof.Thommes co-authors a just published paper in the journal Carbon: “Comparing pore structure models of Nanoporous carbons obtained from small angel X-ray scattering and gas adsorption”, C Prehal, S. Grätz, B. Krüner, M. Thommes, L. Borchard, V. Presser, O. Paris, Carbon 152 (2019, 416). This work reflects a collaboration between the University  Erlangen-Nürnberg,  Graz University of Technology, Montanuniversity  Loeben, Technical Universiy of Dresden and  the  Saarland University Saarbrücken.

June 2019: New paper published by Prof. Kaspereit and co-workers on Quantitative Evaluation of Fullerene Separation by Liquid Chromatography. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b03247)

June 2019: New paper published by Liudmila Mokrushina on Modeling of Solid–Liquid Equilibria in Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Parameter Study. (DOI:10.3390/molecules24122334)

June 2019: Jürgen Vargas Schmitz, former co-worker in the group of Prof. Kaspereit, develops in his recent paper a method that allows developing efficiently corresponding process models for gas adsorption processes. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2019.02.004)

June 2019: New paper published by Benjamin Reif, co-worker in the group of Prof. Kapspereit, on Evaluation of a method for micro-defect sealing in ZSM-5 zeolite membranes by chemical vapor deposition of carbon. (DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2019.03.017)

June 2019: Prof. Thommes gave on 21 June 2019 an invited seminar at the prestigious Laboratoire MADIREL, Aix-Marseille Université CNRS,  Marseille

June 2019: The University of Edinburgh, U.K has extended the Honorary status of Visiting Professor to Prof. Matthias Thommes until April 30, 2022.

June 2019: Prof. Thommes was elected into the Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society (IAS). His term will start at July 1, 2019 and will be for seven years.