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Frank Girgsdies
Researcher at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Publications - 182
Citations - 9795
Frank Girgsdies is an academic researcher from Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Crystal structure. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 178 publications receiving 8084 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank Girgsdies include Technical University of Berlin & Max Planck Society.
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The Active Site of Methanol Synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Industrial Catalysts
Malte Behrens,Felix Studt,Igor Kasatkin,Stefanie Kühl,Michael Hävecker,Frank Abild-Pedersen,Stefan Zander,Frank Girgsdies,Patrick Kurr,Benjamin-Louis Kniep,Michael Tovar,Richard W. Fischer,Jens K. Nørskov,Jens K. Nørskov,Robert Schlögl +14 more
TL;DR: This work shows how to identify the crucial atomic structure motif for the industrial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 methanol synthesis catalyst by using a combination of experimental evidence from bulk, surface-sensitive, and imaging methods collected on real high-performance catalytic systems in combination with density functional theory calculations.
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Analysis of the structure and chemical properties of some commercial carbon nanostructures
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier,Dirk Rosenthal,Thomas Willum Hansen,Christian Hess,Manfred Erwin Schuster,Raoul Blume,Frank Girgsdies,Norbert Pfänder,Olaf Timpe,Dang Sheng Su,Robert Schlögl +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an extensive characterization of a representative set of commercially available carbon nanomaterials, and the observations are of importance for subsequent use in catalysis where the presence of impurities or defects in the nanostructure can dramatically modify the activity of the catalytic material.
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Al13Fe4 as a low-cost alternative for palladium in heterogeneous hydrogenation
Marc Armbrüster,Kirill Kovnir,Matthias Friedrich,Detre Teschner,Gregor Wowsnick,M. Hahne,Peter Gille,László Szentmiklósi,Michael Feuerbacher,Marc Heggen,Frank Girgsdies,Dirk Rosenthal,Robert Schlögl,Yuri Grin +13 more
TL;DR: This work has identified the low-cost and environmentally benign intermetallic compound Al(13)Fe(4) as an active and selective semi-hydrogenation catalyst, which might prove applicable to a wide range of heterogeneously catalysed reactions.
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Free-atom-like d states in single-atom alloy catalysts
Mark T. Greiner,Mark T. Greiner,Travis E. Jones,Sebastian Beeg,Sebastian Beeg,Leon Zwiener,Michael Scherzer,Frank Girgsdies,Simone Piccinin,Marc Armbrüster,Axel Knop-Gericke,Robert Schlögl,Robert Schlögl +12 more
TL;DR: An emergent electronic structure in single-atom alloys is shown, whereby weak wavefunction mixing between minority and majority elements results in a free-atom-like electronic structure on the minority element that affords unique adsorption properties important for catalysis.
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The electronic structure of iridium and its oxides
Verena Pfeifer,Verena Pfeifer,Travis E. Jones,Juan J. Velasco Vélez,Juan J. Velasco Vélez,Cyriac Massué,Cyriac Massué,Rosa Arrigo,Detre Teschner,Frank Girgsdies,Michael Scherzer,Michael Scherzer,Mark T. Greiner,Jasmin Allan,Maike Hashagen,Gisela Weinberg,Simone Piccinin,Michael Hävecker,Michael Hävecker,Axel Knop-Gericke,Robert Schlögl,Robert Schlögl +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the electronic structure of iridium oxide was investigated using synchrotron-based X-ray photoemission and absorption spectroscopies with theoretical calculations.