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Dr. Thommes (Quantachrome's Director of Applied Science) is a renowned researcher in the area of adsorption and characterization of nanoporous materials. Dr. Thommes received his Doctorate in Physical Chemistry in 1993 at the Technical University Berlin (1992/93).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 fora 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. In 1998 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 90) in highly reputated journals (incl. Science) , invited reviews/book chapter, as well as a monograph on the Characterization of Porous Solids and Powders.
Since 2001 he has given more than 100 presentations, incl. invited plenary 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, 2006-2010), and a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Particle & Particle Systems Characterization.
Dr. Thommes is the Chairman of the new IUPAC (International Union for Pure and
Applied Chemistry) Task Group – “Physisorption of Gases, with Special Reference to the
Evaluation of Surface Area and Pore Size Distributions” and is task group member of
the IUPAC Task group on “Liquid intrusion and alternative methods for the
characterization of macroporous solids”. He is convenor of the International Standard
Organization (ISO) working group on Surface Area and Porosity (ISO/TC 24/WG3).
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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 H2 and CO2 adsorption 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. |
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