Scientist at Quantachrome, Dr. Matthias Thommes, Selected Synergistic Activities, Honors, Highlights























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Scientist at Quantachrome

Dr. Matthias Thommes

Selected Synergistic Activities, Honors, Highlights

Recent Honors

2011	Co-Chairman (together with Marc-Oliver Coppens, Alexander Neimark, Douglas Ruthven) of the Diffusion Fundamentals Conference in Troy, New York.
2010	Chairman of IUPAC Taskgroup: Physisorption of Gases, with Special Reference to the Evaluation of Surface Area and Pore Size Distributions.
2009	Vice-Chairman of the 5th Intenational Workshop on Characterization of Porous Materials: From Angstroem to Millimeters, Rutgers univeristy, June 24-24, 2009, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
2008	Keynoyte/Plenary Lecture at 8th International Symposium on the Characterisation of Porous Solids (COPS) Edinburgh in 2008.
2007	Elected to the Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society (IAS).
2006	Elected to the council of the International Mesostructured Material Association (IMMA).
2006	Invited Guest Editor for Special Issue, "Analysis of Meso- and Macroporous Systems", Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Vol. 23, 7 (2006).
2004	Appointed to Advisory Board of the journal Particle & Particle Systems Characterization.
2004	Co-Chairman of 1st Internationla Workshop on Macro/Mesopore Analysis: Mercury Porosimetry and Alternative Liquid Penetration Techniques, Aiz en Provence, 3-31 may 2005.
2004	Invited Guest Editor for Special Issue, "Characterization of Porous Systems", Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 21, No. 2, August (2004).
1996	European Space Agency (ESA) Microgravity-Research Fellowship.

Activities in Professional Organisations

International Organization for Standardization (ISO),since 2005 acting as the Convener of Working Group 3: Surface Area and Porosity, Committee ISO TC-24/SC4

ASTM International, active on committees C-28.03 since 2008 Chair of Committee (Physical Properties of Ceramics).

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Separations Division, Chairman of Characterization of Adsorbent Sessions for many Annual AIChE Meetings

International Adsorption Society (IAS), since 2007, Member of the Board of Directors

International Mesostructured Material Association (200(IMMA)

International Union for Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Appointed Taskgroup Member, Project: Liquid intrusion and alternative methods for the characterizations of macroporous solids.

Member of International Advisory Committees on many Conferences, including:

FOA12 FOA 10 - 10th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption May 23-28th, 2010;

Sixth International Symposium on Surface Heterogeneity in Adsorption and Catalysis, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland 2009

International Mesostructured Materials Symposium (IMMS), Namur, Belgian, Sept,. 2008,

9th Fundamentals of Adsorption Conference (FOA9), Taormina, Italy, 2007;

4th International TRI/Princeton Workshop on Characterization of Porous Materials, Princeton, NJ, June 21-23, 2006;

Sixth International Symposium on Surface Heterogeneity in Adsorption and Catalysis, Aug. 28 - Sept. 2, 2006 in Zakopane, Poland; Novel Porous Materials for Emerging Applications

3rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore, July 3-8, 2005;

Fifth International Symposium on Surface Heterogeneity in Adsorption and Catalysis on Solids, Gdansk, Poland, Aug 28-Sept. 3, 2004

Oral Paper

ICACC 12-
Dr Matthias Thommes, will be presenting at the ICACC 12, the following oral papers entitled: "Structure and Properties of Porous Ceramics I", Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 10:10 AM - 12:10 PM; Coquina Salon C (Hilton)

Quantachrome Applications Scientist, Dr. Katie Cychosz, will also be presenting the following oral paper entitled:"Chemistry, Processing and Microstructure",
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM; Coquina Salon A (Hilton)

Dr. Matthias Thommes is co-author of the following oral paper entitled:"Chemistry, Processing and Microstructure", Thursday, January 26, 2012, 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM; Coquina Salon A (Hilton)

New IUPAC Task Group

new IUPAC Task Group - Physisorption of Gases, with Special Reference to the Evaluation of Surface Area and Pore Size Distribution. For more details...

Just Published

A. Silvestre-Albero, M. Goncalves, T. Itoh, K. Kaneko, M. Endo, M. Thommes, F. Rodriguez-Reinoso, J. Silvestre- Albero,“Well- defined mesoporosity on lignocellulosic-derived activated carbons” Carbon 50 (2012).

Jean Rouquerol, Gino Baron, Renaud Denoyel, Herbert Giesche, Johan Groen, Peter Klobes, Pierre Levitz, Alexander Neimark, Sean Rigby, Romas Skudas, Kenneth Sing, Matthias Thommes, and Klaus Unger, Liquid Intrusion and alternative methods for the characterization of macroporous materials, Pure Appl. Chem, Publication Date (Web): 12 December 2011. This IUPAC paper can be downloaded for free.

J. Silvestre-Albero, A. SilvestreoAlbero, F. Rodriguez-Reinoso, M. Thommes,Physical characterization of activated carbons with narrow microporosity by nitrogen (77.4K), carbon dioxide(273K), argon (87.3K) adsorption in combination with immersion calorimetry Carbon, in press, 2011 (doi:10.1016/j.carbon. 2011.09.005)

G. Gor, M. Thommes, K.A Cychosz, A.V. Neimark, Quenched Solid Density Functional Theory Method for Characterization of Mesoporous Carbons by Nitrogen Adsorption: accepted, in press, Carbon (2011)

R. Skudas, M. Thommes, K.K. Unger, Characterization of the Pore Structure of Monolithic Silicas, In” Monolithic Silicas in Separation Science: Concepts, Syntheses, Characterization, Modeling and Applications”, chapter 4, Editor(s): Klaus K. Unger, Nobuo Tanaka, Egidijus Machtejevas, First Edition 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA

A microporous copper metal-organic framework with high H₂and CO₂adsorption capacity at ambient pressure: D. Laessig, J. Lincke, J. Moellmer, C. Reichenbach, A. Moeller, R. Glaeser, G. Kalies, K. A. Cychsoz, M. Thommes, R. Staudt, and H. Krautscheid, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50 (2011), 50, 1-6

Co₂-Filling Capacity and Selectivity of Carbon Nanopores: Synthesis , Texture, and Pore-Size Distribution from Quenched-Solid Density Functional Theory(QSDFT): Xin Hu, M. Radosz, K.A. Cychosz, and M. Thommes, Environmental Science & Technology 45, (2011) 7068

Unusual adsorption behavior of highly flexible copper-based MOF:C. Reichenbach, G. Kalies, J. Lincke, D. Laessig, H. Krautscheid, J. Moellmer, M. Thommes, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 142 (2011) 592

Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Produced by Activation of Graphene:Yanwu Zhu, Shanthi Murali, Meryl D. Stoller, K. J. Ganesh, Weiwei Cai, Paulo J. Ferreira, Adam Pirkle, Robert M. Wallace, Katie A. Cychosz, Matthias Thommes, Dong Su, Eric A. Stach and Rodney S. Ruoff, DOI: 10.1126 /Science 1200770, 12 May 2011.For more info.

Assessing surface chemistry and pore structure of active carbons by a combination of physisorption (H2o,Ar,N2,CO2), and TPD-MS, M. Thommes, C. Morlay, R. Ahmad, J.P. Joly, Adsorption. 17 (2011) 633. For more info.

Pore analysis of obliquetly deposited nanostructures by krypton gas adsorption at 87 K, Kathleen M. Krause, Matthias Thommes, Michael J. Brett: Kathleen M. Krause, Matthias Thommes, Michael J. Brett, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 143(1), 166-173 (2011). For more info.

Direct synthesis of plugged SBA-15 type mesoporous silica using alcoholamines, Byung-Hoon Min, Eun-Young Jeong, Matthias Thommes, and Sang Eon Park, Chemical Communications(ChemComm), (2011), DOI: 10.1039/c1cc10420a For more info.

Development of gas diffusion layer using water based carbon slurry for proton exchange membrane fuel cells: J.F. Lin, X. Liu, A. Adame, R. Villacorta, J.Wertz, R. Ahmad, M. Thommes, A.M. Kannan, Electrochimica Acta, 56 (2011) 1591, For more info.

Physical Adsorption Characterization of Nanoporous materials (invited review): Matthias Thommes, Chemie Ingenieur Techni, 82, 1056-1073 (2010), Free download.