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Dr. Manfred Wagner

project leader, graphite group / NMR spectroscopy


Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Ackermannweg 10
D-55128 Mainz, Germany
(+49) 6131-379-290 (phone)
(+49) 6131-379-100 (fax)
wagnerm@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

research topics

  1. Functional pi-conjugated molecules (NMR characterization):  polycyclic
    aromatic hydrocarbons, heteroatom-containing nanographenes and macrocycles

  2. High Resolution NMR Spectroscopy: hydrodynamic radius,
    copolymerisation characterization, one- and two- dimensional NMR, high-
    and low-temperature measurements, heteronuclear NMR, investigation,
    LC-NMR investigations

Group members

Dr. Zhen-Yu Juang 
Post Doc

  • CVD synthesis of large-area graphene
  • Graphene-based nanostructure
contact : juang@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Feb. 2011

Dr. Yenny Hernandez
Post Doc

  • Liquid phase dispersion of graphene

contact : hernande@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from May 2009~

(1) Shuping Pang, Jan M. Englert, Hoi Nok Tsao, Yenny Hernandez, Andreas Hirsch, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Mullen. Advanced Materials 2010, 22, 5374.
(2) Shuping Pang, Yenny Hernandez, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Mullen. Advanced Materials 2011, Online

Dr. Ryota Kabe
Post-Doc

  • Synthesis of HBC derivatives and their suparmolecular applications

  • Synthesis of non-planar pi-conjugated materials for organic devices

contact: kabe@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from April 2011~

Dr. Zhongshuai Wu
Post-Doc

  • Design and synthesis of novel graphene-based materials as advanced energy electrodes for high performance lithium ion batteries,supercapacitors and fuel cells


contact : nishiuch@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Apr. 2010~

Dr. Rongjin Li
Post-Doc

  • Controlled exfoliation of graphene and graphene-based electronic devices
  • Synthesis and application of 2D caborn nanomaterials

contact: lir@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from July 2011~

Dr. Tomohiko Nishiuchi
Post-Doc

  • Synthesis of non-planar pi-conjugated systems
    Carbazole-based macrocycles


contact : nishiuch@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Apr. 2010~

 

 

Lena Arnold
PhD student

  • Synthesis of nitrogen and sulfur rich large aromatic molecules


contact : arnold@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Feb. 2009~

Dirk Beckmann
PhD student

"Materials Processing and Organic Electronics"

  • Single Molecules, Oligomers and Polymers for Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics
  • Organic Field-Effect Transistors
  • Modern Methods of Polymer Processing and Analytic

Publications:
(1) Gao, P.; Beckmann, D.; Tsao, H. N.; Feng, X. L.; Enkelmann, V.; Pisula, W.; Mullen, K., Chemical Communications. 2008, (13), 1548-1550.
(2) Gao, P.; Beckmann, D.; Tsao, H. N.; Feng, X. L.; Enkelmann, V.; Pisula, W.; Mullen, K. Advanced Materials. 2009, 21, 213-216.
(3) Rieger, R.; Beckmann, D.; Pisula, W.; Stefen, W.; Kastler, M.; Mullen, K. Advanced Materials. 2009, online.


contact : beckmann@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Jul. 2007~

Akimitsu Narita
PhD student

  • synthesis of n-type semiconductor materials based on 
    hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene and studies on their opto-electronic and self-assembly properties


contact : narita@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Apr. 2010~

Qi Su
PhD student

  • functionalization of graphene
  • design the synthesis of new type molecular catalysts

Publications:
(1) Su, Q.; Pang, S. P.; Alijani, V.; Li, C.; Feng, X. L.; Mullen, K. Advanced Materials. 2009, 21, 3191.
(2) Metal-free Quinone Oligomer as an Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst. Zhang, J.; Wang, X.; Su, Q.; Zhi, L. J.; Thomas, A.; Feng, X. L.; Su, D. S.; Schlogl, R.; Mullen, K. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009, 131, 11296-11297.



contact : suqi@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Sep. 2007~

Bo Yang
PhD student

  • Synthesis of nanographene and hydrogenated graphene for molecular electronics

contact : yang@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Apr. 2011~

Wei Wei 
PhD student

  • Graphene based materials for lithium / lithium-ion batteries

contact : wei@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from June 2011~

Junzhi Liu
PhD student

  • Direct synthesis of graphene nanoribbons

contact : liuj@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from July 2011~

Reinhard Berger
PhD student

Khaled Parvez
PhD student

 

contact : parvez@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
start from Sep. 2010~

 

publications

L. Arnold, H. Norouzi-Arasi, M. Wagner, V. Enkelmann, K. Mullen
A porphyrin-related macrocycle from carbazole and pyridine building blocks: synthesis and metal coordination.
Chemical Communications.  47(3), 970-972  (2011)

M. Maier, N. Kotman, C. Friedrichs, J. Andrieu, M. Wagner, R. Graf, W. S. L. Strauss, V. Mailander, C. K. Weiss, K. Landfester
Highly Site Specific, Protease Cleavable, Hydrophobic Peptide-Polymer Nanoparticles.
Macromolecules.  44(16), 6258-6267  (2011)

K. Mpoukouvalas, D. Turp, M. Wagner, K. Mullen, H.-J. Butt, G. Floudas
Dissociation and Charge Transport in Salts of Dendronized Ions in Solvents of Low Polarity.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B.  115(19), 5801-5806  (2011)

Pfisterer, K. Eisele, X. Chen, M. Wagner, K. Mullen, T. Weil
Bioactive Unnatural Somatostatin Analogues through Bioorthogonal Iodo- and Ethynyl-Disulfide Intercalators.
Chemistry-A European Journal.  17(35), 9697-9707  (2011)

 

C. Prasse, M. Wagner, R. Schulz, T. A. Ternes
Biotransformation of the Antiviral Drugs Acyclovir and Penciclovir in Activated Sludge Treatment.
Environmental Science & Technology.  45(7), 2761-2769  (2011)

 

D. Turp, M. Wagner, V. Enkelmann, K. Mullen
Synthesis of Nanometer-Sized, Rigid, and Hydrophobic Anions.
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition.  50(21), 4962-4965  (2011)

 

C. R. van den Brom, N. Vogel, C. P. Hauser, S. Goerres, M. Wagner, K. Landfester, C. K. Weiss
Interfacial Activity of Metal beta-Diketonato Complexes: In Situ Generation of Amphiphiles by Water Coordination.
Langmuir.  27(13), 8044-8053  (2011)


A. Wick, M. Wagner, T. A. Ternes

Elucidation of the Transformation Pathway of the Opium Alkaloid Codeine in Biological Wastewater Treatment.
Environmental Science & Technology.  45(8), 3374-3385  (2011)

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