Sebastian Polarz

Structure-Property-Function Relationships in Nanoscale Oxide Sensors : a Case Study Based on Zinc Oxide (2007)

Polarz, Sebastian, Roy, Abhijit, Lehmann, Michael, Driess, Matthias, Kruis, Frank Einar, Hoffmann, Andreas, ...

Chemical sensing on oxide sensors is a complex phenomenon involving catalytic activity as well as electronic properties. Thus, the properties of oxide sensors are highly sensitive towards structural...

Preparation of high-surface-area zinc oxide with ordered porosity, different pore sizes, and nanocrystalline walls (2007)

Polarz, Sebastian, Orlov, Andrey V., Schüth, Ferdi, Lu, An-Hui

Transition-metal-oxide materials possessing ordered mesoporosity have recently attracted significant research interest due to their numerous potential applications. Among them, ordered mesoporous...

Organometallics Meet Colloid Chemistry : A Case Study in Three Phases Based on Molecular Carbonyl Precursors Containing Zinc and Manganese (2007)

Orlov, Andrey V., Roy, Abhijit, Lehmann, Michael, Driess, Matthias, Polarz, Sebastian

Two organometallic compounds containing zinc and manganese in different ratios are used as single-source precursors for the preparation of various new, bimetallic oxide materials with nanoscaled...

Cu/ZnO aggregates in siliceous mesoporous matrices : development of a new model methanol synthesis catalyst (2006)

Polarz, Sebastian, Tkachenko, Olga P., Klementiev, Konstantin V., Bandyopadhyay, Mahuya, Khodeir, Lamma, ...

Copper and zinc were introduced into mesoporous siliceous matrices with the goal of obtaining model methanol synthesis catalysts with intense interaction between copper and the ZnO promoter. The...

Chemical vapor synthesis of size-selected zinc oxide nanoparticles (2005)

Polarz, Sebastian, Roy, Abhijit, Merz, Michael, Halm, Simon, Schröder, Detlef, Schneider, Lars, ...

ZnO can be regarded as one of the most important metal oxide semiconductors for future applications. Similar to silicon in microelectronics, it is not only important to obtain nanoscale building...

Consecutive fragmentations of the cubane-like zinc cluster [CH3Zn(O-i-C3H7)]4 upon electron ionization (2005)

Schröder, Detlef, Schwarz, Helmut, Polarz, Sebastian, Driess, Matthias

The sequential dissociations of the tetranuclear zinc cluster-ion [(CH3)3Zn4(O-i-C3H7)4]+ obtained by dissociative electron ionization of neutral [(CH3)Zn(O-i-C3H7)]4 are investigated by tandem mass...

Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles with Defects (2005)

Ischenko, Vladislav, Polarz, Sebastian, Grote, Dirk, Stavarache, Victorina, Fink, Karin, Driess, Matthias

Zinc oxide in the form of nanoscale materials can be regarded as one of the most important semiconductor oxides at present. However, the question of how chemical defects influence the properties of...

Mesosynthesis of ZnO-Silica Composites for Methanol Nanocatalysis (2005)

Polarz, Sebastian, Neues, F., Grünert, Wolfgang, Khodeir, Lamma

Methanol catalysis meets chemistry under confined conditions. Methanol is regarded as one of the most important future energy sources. ZnO/Cu composite materials are very effective in heterogeneous...

First preparation of nanocrystalline zinc silicate by chemical vapor synthesis using an organometallic single-source precursor (2004)

Roy, Abhijit, Polarz, Sebastian, Rabe, Stefan, Rellinghaus, Bernd, Zähres, Horst, Kruis, Frank E., ...

A method is presented to prepare nanocrystalline α-Zn2SiO4 with the smallest crystal size reported so far for this system. Our approach combines the advantages of organometallic single-source...

Mixed Micellar Phases of Nonmiscible Surfactants : Mesoporous Silica with Bimodal Pore Size Distribution via the Nanocasting Process (2004)

Groenewolt, Matthijs, Antonietti, Markus, Polarz, Sebastian

Highly organized mesoporous silica monoliths were reproducibly prepared by nanocasting mixtures of fluorinated nonionic surfactants and micelles of two hydrocarbon block copolymers. It is the special...

Solventless Acid-Free Sythesis of Mesostructured Titania : Nanovessels for Metal Complexes and Metal Nanoclusters (2003)

Dag, Ömer, Soten, Ivana, Çelik, Özgür, Polarz, Sebastian, Coombs, Neil, Ozin, Geoffrey A.

A new highly reproducible method to obtain mesostructured titania materials is introduced in this contribution. The meso-structured titania is obtained by employing self-assembled structures of...

Influence of Spatial Restrictions on Equilibrium Reactions : A Case Study about theExcimer Formation of Pyrene (2003)

Thomas, Arne, Polarz, Sebastian, Antonietti, Markus

(Chemical) processes under spatial confinements are important for a number of areas, as for instance in catalysis (chemistry) or enzymatic reactions (biology). The role of the spatial restriction...

Redox Behavior of Nanostructured Molybdenum Oxide-Mesoporous Silica Hybrid Materials (2003)

Hornebecq, Virginie, Mastai, Yitzhak, Antonietti, Markus, Polarz, Sebastian

Encapsulation of molybdenum oxide MoO3 into ordered mesoporous silica materials is demonstrated using different synthetic routes. Either supramolecular polyoxometalates of the “Müller type” or Na...

Porous materials via nanocasting procedures : innovative materials and learning about soft-matter organization (2002)

Polarz, Sebastian, Antonietti, Markus

Nanocasting, the 3D-transformation of self-assembled organic nanostructures into hollow inorganic replicas under preservation of fine structural details has recently turned out to be a versatile...

Silica-carbon nanocomposites : a new concept for the design of solar absorbers (2002)

Mastai, Yitzhak, Polarz, Sebastian, Antonietti, Markus

To create materials that are composites or hybrids structured on the nanometer scale or the meso-domain, respectively, is one of the major tasks in modern materials science. In this paper, we...

Nanoporous materials (2002)

Polarz, Sebastian, Smarsly, Bernd

The current review article attempts to cover the Ž eld of nanoporous materials, thereby materials with voids of the order of 1 nm to 100 nm or even larger. Concepts, that have an effect on a...

Hierachical porous carbon structures from cellulose acetate fibers (2002)

Polarz, Sebastian, Smarsly, Bernd, Schattka, Jan H.

This study describes the transformation of cellulose acetate filters into porous carbon structures by a facile, direct process. Filters from cigarettes were used as the source for cellulose acetate...

Cyclodextrin-based porous silica materials as in situ chemical “Nanoreactors” for the preparation of variable metal-silica hybrids (2001)

Han, Bao-Hang, Polarz, Sebastian, Antonietti, Markus

Inclusion complexs of cyclodextrins with organometallic coordination compounds of Pd, Pt, Rh, Fe, Ni, and Ru have been used to produce porous metal-silica hybrid materials. The cyclodextrins are...

Preparation of Porous Silica Materials via Sol-Gel Nanocasting of Nonionic Surfactants : A Mechanistic Study on the Self-Aggregation of Amphiphiles for the Precise Prediction of the Mesopore Size (2001)

Smarsly, Bernd, Polarz, Sebastian, Antonietti, Markus

Sol-gel nanocasting is used to imprint the soft-matter structures of lyotropic phases of nonionic n-alkylpoly(ethylene oxide) amphiphiles (“CxEy”) into solid porous silica. Small angle X-ray...