| Dr. Thommes (Quantachrome's Director of Applied Science) is a renowned researcher in the area of adsorption and characterization of nanoporous materials. |
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Dr. Thommes received his Doctorate in Physical Chemistry with Prof. G.H. Findenegg at Ruhr University Bochum (1989-1991) and Technical University Berlin (1992/93), Topic: Pore condensation and critical-point shift of a fluid in controlled-pore glass). From 1992- 1995 Dr. Thommes was a Research Associate at the Iwan-N.-Stranski Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University Berlin and Project Scientist for a microgravity experiment on critical adsorption which was carried out on the EURECA mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). From 1996 to 1997, he was an ESA fellow and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. It was in 1998 that Dr. Thommes joined Quantachrome, first as the Head of Application Department at Quantachrome GmbH in Germany, and then in 2001 as Director of Applied Science at the Quantachrome Headquarters in Boynton Beach, Florida, USA. |
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Dr. Thommes has authored and co-authored numerous scientific / technical
publications (more than 80) including a monograph and invited book chapters
on the characterization of porous materials and powders. Since 2001 he has
given more than 100 presentations, invited talks, and keynote lectures at
prestigious international scientific conferences and universities all over
the world. Dr. Thommes is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society (IAS), a Council Member of the International Mesotructured Materials Association
(IMMA), and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. He has been a member of International Advisory Committees on many conferences, and acted as the Co-Chairman for the 1st International Workshop on " Macro/Mesopore Analysis: Mercury Porosimetry and Alternative Liquid Penetration Techniques ( Aix en Provence, France, 30- 31 May, 2005). Recently, he served also as Vice-Chairman for the "5th International Workshop on the Characterization of Porous Materials : From Angstroem to Millimeters" which was held on June 22- 24 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA . Dr. Thommes is also active in committees of the International Standard Organisation (ISO), where he serves as a Convenor for a working group on Surface Area and Porosity (ISO TC24/SC4, WG3), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), where Dr. Thommes is Chairman of committee C28.03, Physical Properties of Ceramics, as well as IUPAC (International Union for Pure & Applied Chemistry).
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Talks
IZC & IMMS - July 4 - 9, Italy: Dr. M. Thommes will give a talk entitled:"Advanced Characterization of Pore Structure and Surface Chemistry of Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Materials (PMO) and Ordered Micro-Mesoporous Carbons (CMK) by Water, Nitrogen and Argon Adsorption" AUTHORS: Matthias Thommes, Juergen Morell and Michael Froeba.
Carbon 2010 - July 11 - 16, South Carolina: Dr. M. Thommes will give a talk entitled: "Advanced Physical Adsorption Characterization of Nanoporous Carbons: Assessing Surface (Chemistry) Properties and Pore Structure by a Combination of Water, Argon/Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide Adsorption",
Authors: Matthias Thommes, Catherine Morlay ,Zheling Zhang Riaz Ahmad , and Jean-Pierre Joly, and reflects work performed in a colloboration between Quantachrome Instruments (USA) and the University de Leon, CNRS-IRCELYON, Lyon ( France).
MOF2010 - September 5 - 8, France: Dr. M. Thommes will give a talk entitled:
"Adsorption Behavior and Textural Characterization of Novel Open Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)", authored by J. Moellmer, C.Thibault, R. Luebke, A. Cairns, F. Nour, M. Eddaoudi, R. Staudt, and M. Thommes
and reflects work performed in a colloboration between Quantachrome (USA), Instiute for Nonclassical Chemsitry (Leipzig, Germany), Univeristy of South Florida (USA), and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi_Arabia).
Just Published
Probing Adsorption, Pore Condensation, and Hysteresis Behavior of Pure Fluids in Three-Dimensional Cubic Mesoporous KIT-6 Silica:
F. Kleitz*, F. Berube. R. Guillet-Nicolas, C.-M. Yang, and
M. Thommes*, J.Phys.Chem. C 2010, 114, 9344 - 9355, For more info.
Cavitation in Metastable Liquid Nitrogen Confined to Nanoscale Pores:Christopher J. Rasmussen, Aleksey Vishnyakov, Matthias Thommes, Bernd M. Smarsly, Freddy Kleitz and Alexander V. Neimark, Langmuir (2010), DOI: 10.1021/la100268q, For more info.
Seismolectric effect: A non-isochoric streaming current. 1. Experiment : Andrei S. Dukhin, Philip J. Goetz and Matthias Thommes, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2010), DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2010.02.010, For more info.
Effect of carbon paper substrate of the gas diffusion layer on the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell: J.F. Lin, J. Wertzb, R. Ahmad, M. Thommes and A.M. Kannan, Electrochimica Acta, 55 (2010) 2748-2751, For more info.
Transition metal-alumina/silcia supermicroporous composites with tunable porosity: Boris G. Shpeizer, Vladimir I. Bakhmoutov, Paul Zhang, Andrey V. Prosvirin, Kim R. Dunbar, Matthias Thommes and Abraham Clearfield, Collois and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 357 (2010) 105-115, For more info.
Insights on Adsorption Characterization of Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Benchmark Study on the Novel soc-MOF: J. Moellmer, E.B. Celer, R. Luebke, A. Cairns, R. Staudt, M. Eddaoudi , and M. Thommes, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 129, 345 (2010), For more info.
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