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  1. Is Bigger Always Better? Why Large Clay Crystals May Wreck Their Potential for Barrier Coatings

    Article • ACS Applied Polymer Materials, January 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  2. Nanoporous Organically Pillared Layered Silicates for CO 2 Capture

    Article • ACS Applied Nano Materials, November 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  3. Tuning the Dielectric Properties of Individual Clay Nanosheets by Interlayer Composition: Toward Nano‐Electret Materials

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, July 2025, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  4. Stiff and self-healing hydrogels by polymer entanglements in co-planar nanoconfinement

    Article • Nature Materials, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  5. Ultrathin Ti-Deficient TiO2 Nanosheets with Pt Single Atoms Enable Efficient Photocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  6. Tunable mechanical properties and phase transitions in nanoconfined polyzwitterionic UCST hydrogels

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  7. Liquid-Crystalline Photonic Sandwich: Electroresponsive Colloids of Clay Nanosheets Loading Photofunctional Dyes

    Article • Langmuir, August 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  8. Reversible Snapping of Constrained Anisotropic Hydrogels Upon Light Stimulations

    Article • Advanced Science, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  9. Real-Time Monitoring of Adsorption-Induced Scrolling of Colloidal Inorganic Nanosheets

    Article • Langmuir, April 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  10. Quantitative Scrolling into Microporous Nanotubes of the Hydrous Layered Silicate Ilerite

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, February 2024, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  11. Animating hydrogel knotbots with topology-invoked self-regulation

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  12. Forceless spontaneous delamination of high-aspect ratio fluorohectorite into monolayer nanosheets in chloroform

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  13. High‐Performance, Flame‐Retardant, Binder‐Free Li‐Hectorite‐Polybenzimidazole Fiber Separator for Li‐Ion Batteries

    Article • Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, December 2023, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  14. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon radical anions stabilized by a sodium diglyme cation complex

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, November 2023, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  15. Spraying Transparent Nanoglass Coatings for Food Packaging

    Article • ACS Applied Nano Materials, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  16. Gentle, Spontaneous Delamination of Layered Titanate Yielding New Types of Lithium Titanate Nanosheets

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  17. Green and scalable processing of water‐soluble, biodegradable polymer/clay barrier films

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  18. Osmotically Delaminated Silicate Nanosheet‐Coated NCM for Ultra‐Stable Li+ Storage and Chemical Stability Toward Long‐Term Air Exposure

    Article • Small, June 2023, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  19. Stretchable Clay Nanocomposite Barrier Film for Flexible Packaging

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, May 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  20. Fabricating defogging metasurfaces via a water-based colloidal route

    Article • Materials Horizons, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  21. Fabrication of Bragg stack films of clay nanosheets and polycations via co-polymerization of intercalated monomers and functional interlayer cations

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  22. Gas Barriers from In Situ Polymerized Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate Clay Nanocomposites for Food Packaging

    Article • ACS Applied Polymer Materials, December 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  23. Do Aqueous Suspensions of Smectite Clays Form a Smectic Liquid-Crystalline Phase?

    Article • Langmuir, November 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  24. Repulsive Osmotic Delamination: 1D Dissolution of 2D Materials

    Article • Advanced Materials Technologies, November 2022, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  25. Disentangling the Orientations of Spectrally Overlapping Transition Dipoles in Dense Dye Layers

    Article • Nano Letters, September 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  26. Stretchable and Fast Composting Polyester Films with High-Performance Oxygen Barrier

    Article • ACS Applied Polymer Materials, August 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  27. Delamination by Repulsive Osmotic Swelling of Synthetic Na-Hectorite with Variable Charge in Binary Dimethyl Sulfoxide–Water Mixtures

    Article • Langmuir, July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  28. Magneto‐Orientation of Magnetic Double Stacks for Patterned Anisotropic Hydrogels with Multiple Responses and Modulable Motions

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2022, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  29. Magneto‐Orientation of Magnetic Double Stacks for Patterned Anisotropic Hydrogels with Multiple Responses and Modulable Motions

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2022, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  30. Nematic suspension of a microporous layered silicate obtained by forceless spontaneous delamination via repulsive osmotic swelling for casting high-barrier all-inorganic films

    Article • Science Advances, May 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Josef Breu

  31. Nanoscale-Structured Hybrid Bragg Stacks with Orientation- and Composition-Dependent Mechanical and Thermal Transport Properties: Implications for Nacre Mimetics and Heat Management Applications

    Article • ACS Applied Nano Materials, March 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  32. Enhancing Hydrogen Storage Capacity of Pd Nanoparticles by Sandwiching between Inorganic Nanosheets

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, February 2022, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  33. Bright, noniridescent structural coloration from clay mineral nanosheet suspensions

    Article • Science Advances, January 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Josef Breu

  34. Realizing shape and size control for the synthesis of coordination polymer nanoparticles templated by diblock copolymer micelles

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  35. Spontaneous delamination of affordable natural vermiculite as a high barrier filler for biodegradable food packaging

    Article • Materials Advances, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  36. Patterned Electrode Assisted One‐Step Fabrication of Biomimetic Morphing Hydrogels with Sophisticated Anisotropic Structures

    Article • Advanced Science, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  37. Shear orientation of nematic phases of clay nanosheets: processing of barrier coatings

    Article • Journal of Coatings Technology and Research, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  38. Disorder–Order Transition—Improving the Moisture Sensitivity of Waterborne Nanocomposite Barriers

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, September 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  39. The Effect of Interlayer Anion Grafting on Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis: A Comparative Study of Ni‐ and Co‐Based Brucite‐Type Layered Hydroxides, Layered Double Hydroxides and Hydroxynitrate Salts

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  40. Sandwich‐Like Encapsulation of a Highly Luminescent Copper(I) Complex

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  41. Large Tg Shift in Hybrid Bragg Stacks through Interfacial Slowdown

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  42. Enhancing the Catalytic Activity of Palladium Nanoparticles via Sandwich-Like Confinement by Thin Titanate Nanosheets

    Article • ACS Catalysis, February 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  43. Nanoparticles Supported on Sub‐Nanometer Oxide Films: Scaling Model Systems to Bulk Materials

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  44. Nanopartikel auf subnanometer dünnen oxidischen Filmen: Skalierung von Modellsystemen

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  45. Colloidally stable, magnetoresponsive liquid crystals based on clay nanosheets

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  46. Sustainable oxygen evolution catalysis – electrochemical generation of mössbauerite via corrosion engineering of steel

    Article • Materials Advances, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  47. Unmodified Clay Nanosheets at the Air–Water Interface

    Article • Langmuir, December 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  48. Osmotic Delamination: A Forceless Alternative for the Production of Nanosheets Now in Highly Polar and Aprotic Solvents

    Article • Langmuir, December 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  49. Structural and mechanical impact of synthetic clay in composite foams made via high‐internal phase emulsions

    Article • Polymer Composites, October 2020, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  50. Distributed Electric Field Induces Orientations of Nanosheets to Prepare Hydrogels with Elaborate Ordered Structures and Programmed Deformations

    Article • Advanced Materials, October 2020, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  51. Light-steered locomotion of muscle-like hydrogel by self-coordinated shape change and friction modulation

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  52. Diammonium-Pillared MOPS with Dynamic CO2 Selectivity

    Article • Cell Reports Physical Science, October 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  53. Terrestrial solar radiation driven photodecomposition of ciprofloxacin in clinical wastewater applying mesostructured iron(III) oxide

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  54. Encapsulation of Fragrance in Aqueous Emulsions by Delaminated Synthetic Hectorite

    Article • Langmuir, September 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  55. Rapid Low-Dimensional Li+ Ion Hopping Processes in Synthetic Hectorite-Type Li0.5[Mg2.5Li0.5]Si4O10F2

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, August 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Paul Heitjans, Professor Josef Breu

  56. Impact of Ultraconfinement on Composite Barriers

    Article • ACS Applied Polymer Materials, June 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  57. Influence of Particle Size on Toughening Mechanisms of Layered Silicates in CFRP

    Article • Materials, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Josef Breu

  58. Lightweight Ultra-High-Barrier Liners for Helium and Hydrogen

    Article • ACS Nano, May 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  59. High Temperature Stable Maghemite Nanoparticles Sandwiched between Hectorite Nanosheets

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  60. Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Spray-Coated Single-Phase Two-Dimensional Materials: Synthetic Clay Versus Graphene Oxide

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, March 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  61. Osmotic Swelling of Sodium Hectorite in Ternary Solvent Mixtures: Nematic Liquid Crystals in Hydrophobic Media

    Article • Langmuir, March 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  62. A Novel Synthesis Yielding Macroporous CaFe2O4 Sponges for Solar Energy Conversion

    Article • Solar RRL, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  63. Visualizing Transparent 2D Sheets by Fluorescence Quenching Microscopy

    Article • Small Methods, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  64. Digital Programming Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystalline Hybrid Hydrogel by Shearing Microlithography

    Article • ACS Nano, January 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  65. Investigation of flame retarded polypropylene by high-speed planar laser-induced fluorescence of OH radicals combined with a thermal decomposition analysis

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  66. Tunable Thermoelastic Anisotropy in Hybrid Bragg Stacks with Extreme Polymer Confinement

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  67. Giant Multistep Crystalline vs. Osmotic Swelling of Synthetic Hectorite in Aqueous Acetonitrile

    Article • Clays and Clay Minerals, December 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Josef Breu

  68. Structure Determination of the Oxygen Evolution Catalyst Mössbauerite

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, September 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  69. Mössbauerite as Iron-Only Layered Oxyhydroxide Catalyst for WO3 Photoanodes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  70. Structure of Na3[Al(L-Lactate)3]2·6H2O Crystallized from Lohtragon AL 250—A Commercial Cement Adjuvant

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  71. Thermal expansion of clay polymer nanocomposites as a function of aspect ratio and filler content

    Article • Polymer, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  72. Gradient-Structured Nonflammable Flexible Polymer Membranes

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, February 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  73. Determination of the charge of Al13 Keggin oligocations intercalated into synthetic hectorite

    Article • Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Josef Breu

  74. Amphiphilic iron(ii) spin crossover coordination polymers: crystal structures and phase transition properties

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  75. Electrostatic attraction of nanoobjects – a versatile strategy towards mesostructured transition metal compounds

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  76. Microporous Organically Pillared Layered Silicates (MOPS): A Versatile Class of Functional Porous Materials

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, November 2018, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  77. High-Barrier, Biodegradable Food Packaging

    Article • Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  78. Onset of Osmotic Swelling in Highly Charged Clay Minerals

    Article • Langmuir, June 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  79. Oxygen Evolution Catalysis with Mössbauerite-A Trivalent Iron-Only Layered Double Hydroxide

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, May 2018, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  80. Parallel and Perpendicular Alignment of Anisotropic Particles in Free Liquid Microjets and Emerging Microdroplets

    Article • Langmuir, March 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  81. Pushing the Boundaries of Interfacial Sensitivity in Graphene FET Sensors: Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Strongly Increase the Debye Screening Length

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  82. Layer charge robust delamination of organo-clays

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  83. Strategies for the selective loading of patchy worm-like micelles with functional nanoparticles

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  84. Purely Physisorption-Based CO-Selective Gate-Opening in Microporous Organically Pillared Layered Silicates

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  85. Purely Physisorption-Based CO-Selective Gate-Opening in Microporous Organically Pillared Layered Silicates

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  86. Mesostructured ZnO/Au nanoparticle composites with enhanced photocatalytic activity

    Article • Polymer, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  87. Large Scale Self-Assembly of Smectic Nanocomposite Films by Doctor Blading versus Spray Coating: Impact of Crystal Quality on Barrier Properties

    Article • Macromolecules, May 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  88. Two-Step Delamination of Highly Charged, Vermiculite-like Layered Silicates via Ordered Heterostructures

    Article • Langmuir, May 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  89. Clinical wastewater treatment: Photochemical removal of an anionic antibiotic (ciprofloxacin) by mesostructured high aspect ratio ZnO nanotubes

    Article • Applied Catalysis B Environment and Energy, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  90. Systematic evaluation of different types of graphene oxide in respect to variations in their in-plane modulus

    Article • Carbon, April 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  91. Constant Volume Gate-Opening by Freezing Rotational Dynamics in Microporous Organically Pillared Layered Silicates

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  92. Template Removal via Boudouard Equilibrium Allows for Synthesis of Mesostructured Molybdenum Compounds

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2017, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  93. Fundamental theoretical and practical investigations of the polymorph formation of small amphiphilic molecules, their co-crystals and salts

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Josef Breu

  94. Sub-micron pore size tailoring for efficient chiral discrimination

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  95. In-Depth Insights into the Key Steps of Delamination of Charged 2D Nanomaterials

    Article • Langmuir, October 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  96. Structural Insights into Water-Based Spider Silk Protein–Nanoclay Composites with Excellent Gas and Water Vapor Barrier Properties

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, September 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  97. Increasing time of ignition for PS-clay nanocomposites filled with [Fe(bpy)3]2+-modified hectorite

    Article • Polymer Degradation and Stability, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  98. Controlled Exfoliation of Layered Silicate Heterostructures into Bilayers and Their Conversion into Giant Janus Platelets

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, May 2016, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  99. Superior flame retardant by combining high aspect ratio layered double hydroxide and graphene oxide

    Article • Polymer, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  100. Behind Crime Scenes: The Crystal Structure of Commercial Luminol

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, April 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  101. Microphase separation upon crystallization of small amphiphilic molecules: ‘low’ temperature form II of sodium benzoate (E 211)

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  102. Synthesis of [Fe(L)(bipy)]nspin crossover nanoparticles using blockcopolymer micelles

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  103. Preparation of microcellular low-density PMMA nanocomposite foams: Influence of different fillers on the mechanical, rheological and cell morphological properties

    Article • Composites Science and Technology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  104. Applying the flame retardant LDH as a Trojan horse for molecular flame retardants

    Article • Applied Clay Science, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  105. Selective Template Removal by Thermal Depolymerization to Obtain Mesostructured Molybdenum Oxycarbide

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  106. Tunable Exfoliation of Synthetic Clays

    Article • Annual Review of Materials Science, July 2015, Annual Reviews

    Mr Matthias Stöter, Professor Josef Breu

  107. Transfer batch blending, an innovative solvent/solid assisted method for melt compounding to achieve good dispersion quality for polymer–clay-nanocomposites

    Article • Composites Science and Technology, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  108. Analyzing the influence of particle size and stiffness state of the nanofiller on the mechanical properties of epoxy/clay nanocomposites using a novel shear-stiff nano-mica

    Article • Journal of Materials Science, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  109. Gas-phase Preparation of SO3-Graphite: Host-Exchange and Exfoliation

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, May 2015, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  110. Ultralight, Soft Polymer Sponges by Self-Assembly of Short Electrospun Fibers in Colloidal Dispersions

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  111. Encapsulation of Functional Organic Compounds in Nanoglass for Optically Anisotropic Coatings

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  112. The Same at a First Glance: The Diffractogram of a New Polymorph of Anhydrous Sodium Luminolate Almost Perfectly Resembles the Diffraction Trace of an Already Known Polymorph

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  113. Evaluierung von Struktur-Eigenschaftsbeziehungen in PMMA-Nanokompositen auf Basis einer neuen Generation an Schichtsilikaten

    Article • Zeitschrift Kunststofftechnik, January 2015, Carl Hanser Verlag

    Professor Josef Breu

  114. Switching-On Quantum Size Effects in Silicon Nanocrystals

    Article • Advanced Materials, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  115. Facile and scalable one-step production of organically modified graphene oxide by a two-phase extraction

    Article • Carbon, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  116. Quasi-epitaxial Growth of [Ru(bpy)3]2+by Confinement in Clay Nanoplatelets Yields Polarized Emission

    Article • Small, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  117. Tris(2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazin-1-ium) Dihydrogenphosphate Monohydrogenphosphate Tetrahydrate

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  118. Ordered Heterostructures of Two Strictly Alternating Types of Nanoreactors

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  119. On the importance of specific interface area in clay nanocomposites of PMMA filled with synthetic nano-mica

    Article • Polymer, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  120. Towards completely miscible PMMA nanocomposites reinforced by shear-stiff, nano-mica

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  121. CO2gas barrier properties in polymer nanocomposite coatings containing Li-hectorite clays

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  122. Facile large-scale synthetic route to monodisperse ZnO nanocrystals

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  123. Modification of kaolinite by Grafting of siderophilic ligands to the external octahedral surface

    Article • Applied Clay Science, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  124. Relative Humidity-Induced Reversible Hydration of Sulfate-Intercalated Layered Double Hydroxides

    Article • Clays and Clay Minerals, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  125. The Largely Unknown Class of Microporous Hybrid Materials: Clays Pillared by Molecules

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  126. BaFe1-xTaxO3-δ – A material for temperature independent resistive oxygen sensors

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  127. Smectite fluorination and its impact on interlayer water content and structure: A way to fine tune the hydrophilicity of clay surfaces?

    Article • Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  128. Microphase Separation with Small Amphiphilic Molecules: Crystal Structure of Preservatives Sodium Benzoate (E 211) and Potassium Benzoate (E 212)

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  129. Transition metals in micas: synthesis and characterization of Co-rich Cs-tainiolite

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, September 2013, Schweizerbart

    Professor Josef Breu

  130. Synthesis and reversible hydration behavior of the thiosulfate intercalated layered double hydroxide of Zn and Al

    Article • Journal of Solid State Chemistry, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  131. Anisotropy of Water Dynamics in Clays: Insights from Molecular Simulations for Experimental QENS Analysis

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  132. In-Plane Modulus of Singular 2:1 Clay Lamellae Applying a Simple Wrinkling Technique

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, June 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  133. Clay-Based Nanocomposite Coating for Flexible Optoelectronics Applying Commercial Polymers

    Article • ACS Nano, April 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  134. Pressure-Induced Water Insertion in Synthetic Clays

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  135. Hybrid Janus particles based on polymer-modified kaolinite

    Article • Polymer, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  136. Synthesis and single crystal structure refinement of the one-layer hydrate of sodium brittle mica

    Article • Journal of Solid State Chemistry, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  137. Nanoplatelets of Sodium Hectorite Showing Aspect Ratios of ≈20 000 and Superior Purity

    Article • Langmuir, January 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  138. Influence of Cation Size on the Co-crystallisation of Benzoic Acid with Different Benzoates

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  139. Porosity of Pillared Clays Studied by Hyperpolarized129Xe NMR Spectroscopy and Xe Adsorption Isotherms

    Article • Langmuir, January 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  140. Hierarchically porous tungsten oxidenanotubes with crystalline walls made of the metastable orthorhombic polymorph

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  141. Towards mesoporous Keggin-type polyoxometalates – systematic study on organic template removal

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  142. Space-Resolved In-Plane Moduli of Graphene Oxide and Chemically Derived Graphene Applying a Simple Wrinkling Procedure

    Article • Advanced Materials, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  143. Access to Ordered Porous Molybdenum Oxycarbide/Carbon Nanocomposites

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  144. Completely Miscible Polyethylene Nanocomposites

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  145. Thermoanalytical Evidence of Metastable Molecular Defects in Form I of Benzamide

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, October 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  146. Tailoring the Pore Sizes of Microporous Pillared Interlayered Clays through Layer Charge Reduction

    Article • Langmuir, October 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  147. A simple approach for producing high aspect ratio fluorohectorite nanoplatelets utilizing a stirred media mill (ball mill)

    Article • Clay Minerals, September 2012, Mineralogical Society

    Professor Josef Breu

  148. Template-Directed Mild Synthesis of Anatase Hybrid Nanotubes within Cylindrical Core–Shell–Corona Polymer Brushes

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  149. Packing of Cylindrical Keggin-Type Polyoxometalate Hybrid Micelles as a Function of Aspect Ratio

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, August 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Josef Breu

  150. Direct Synthesis of Inverse Hexagonally Ordered Diblock Copolymer/Polyoxometalate Nanocomposite Films

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  151. Impact of large aspect ratio, shear-stiff, mica-like clay on mechanical behaviour of PMMA/clay nanocomposites

    Article • Polymer, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  152. A Facile Polymer Templating Route Toward High-Aspect-Ratio Crystalline Titania Nanostructures

    Article • Small, May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  153. Template-Directed Synthesis of Silica Nanowires and Nanotubes from Cylindrical Core–Shell Polymer Brushes

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, May 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  154. UV-Cured, Flexible, and Transparent Nanocomposite Coating with Remarkable Oxygen Barrier

    Article • Advanced Materials, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  155. Catalytic activity of nanoalloys from gold and palladium

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  156. Polymorphism in co-crystals: a metastable form of the ionic co-crystal 2 HBz·1 NaBz crystallised by flash evaporation

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  157. Co-crystallisation of benzoic acid with sodium benzoate: the significance of stoichiometry

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  158. Single crystal structure refinement of one- and two-layer hydrates of sodium fluorohectorite

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  159. How to maximize the aspect ratio of clay nanoplatelets

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  160. Significance of Aspect Ratio on Efficiency of Layered Double Hydroxide Flame Retardants

    Article • January 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  161. Large-Scale, Low-Cost Fabrication of Janus-Type Emulsifiers by Selective Decoration of Natural Kaolinite Platelets

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2011, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  162. Complexing agent assisted synthesis of high aspect ratio Fe3+/Mg2+ layered double hydroxides

    Article • Applied Clay Science, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  163. A new polymorph (IV) of benzamide: Structural characterization and mechanism of the I↔IV phase transition

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  164. Covalent Grafting to μ-Hydroxy-Capped Surfaces? A Kaolinite Case Study

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  165. Intumescent-like behavior of polystyrene synthetic clay nanocomposites

    Article • Polymer, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  166. Water Dynamics in Hectorite Clays: Infuence of Temperature Studied by Coupling Neutron Spin Echo and Molecular Dynamics

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, April 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  167. Shear stiff, surface modified, mica-like nanoplatelets: a novel filler for polymer nanocomposites

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  168. Homogeneous Precipitation by Formamide Hydrolysis: Synthesis, Reversible Hydration, and Aqueous Exfoliation of the Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) of Ni and Al

    Article • Langmuir, October 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  169. Barrier Properties of Synthetic Clay with a Kilo-Aspect Ratio

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  170. Formation of Ultrathin Birnessite-Type Nanoparticles Immobilized on Spherical Polyelectrolyte Brushes†

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, May 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  171. Improvement of thermal and mechanical properties of a phenolic resin nanocomposite byin situformation of silsesquioxanes from a molecular precursor

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  172. Composites of Metal Nanoparticles and TiO2Immobilized in Spherical Polyelectrolyte Brushes

    Article • Langmuir, March 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  173. Large scale melt synthesis in an open crucible of Na-fluorohectorite with superb charge homogeneity and particle size

    Article • Applied Clay Science, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  174. Microporous PILCs — Synthesis, pillaring mechanism and selective cation exchange

    Article • Applied Clay Science, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  175. ORMOCERs (organic–inorganic hybrid copolymers)-zeolite Beta (BEA) nanocomposite membranes for gas separation applications

    Article • Journal of Membrane Science, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  176. Tailoring Shear-Stiff, Mica-like Nanoplatelets

    Article • ACS Nano, January 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  177. Facile Scalable Synthesis of Rectorites

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, January 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  178. Deformation Measurements on Thin Clay Tactoids

    Article • Small, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  179. Towards a tunable pore size utilizing oxidative pillaring of the mica ferrous tainiolite

    Article • Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  180. Shaping Colloidal Rutile into Thermally Stable and Porous Mesoscopic Titania Balls

    Article • Small, June 2009, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  181. Wöhler and Liebig Revisited: 176 Years of Polymorphism in Benzamide - and the Story Still Continues!†

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, May 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  182. Melt Synthesis and Characterization of Synthetic Mn-Rich Tainiolite

    Article • Clays and Clay Minerals, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  183. Well-Defined Crystalline TiO2Nanoparticles Generated and Immobilized on a Colloidal Nanoreactor

    Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, March 2009, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  184. Single Nanocrystals of Platinum Prepared by Partial Dissolution of Au-Pt Nanoalloys

    Article • Science, January 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Josef Breu

  185. The crystal structure of the API Montelukast

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  186. Structure elucidation of cyameluric acid by combining solid-state NMR spectroscopy, molecular modeling and direct-space methods

    Article • Journal of Molecular Structure, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu, Edwin Kroke

  187. Crystal structure prediction could have helped the experimentalists with polymorphism in benzamide

    Article • Molecular Simulation, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Josef Breu

  188. Water diffusion in a synthetic hectorite by neutron scattering—beyond the isotropic translational model

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, February 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Josef Breu

  189. A Route to Microporous Materials through Oxidative Pillaring of Micas

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  190. Core-crosslinked block copolymernanorods as templates for grafting [SiMo12O40]4–Keggin ions

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  191. Realisation of truly microporous pillared clays

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  192. Water Diffusion in a Synthetic Hectorite Clay Studied by Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, November 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  193. Synthesis, Structure, and Electric Conductivity of Ferrous Tainiolite and Its Oxidative Conversion into Coarse-Grained Swellable Smectite

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, October 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  194. Polymorphism in Benzamide: Solving a 175-Year-Old Riddle

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  195. In Situ Formation of Ag Nanoparticles in Spherical Polyacrylic Acid Brushes by UV Irradiation

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, May 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  196. Crystal Structure offac−Ir(ppy)3and Emission Properties under Ambient Conditions and at High Pressure†

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, April 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  197. Single crystal structure refinement of tetramethylammonium-hectorite

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Professor Josef Breu

  198. Chiral Recognition among Tris(diimine)-metal Complexes. 9. Crystal Structure Prediction for the Chiral Molecular Salt [Ru(bpy)3](PF6)2

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, November 2004, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  199. Synthese von dreidimensional geordneten Einlagerungsverbindungen des Hectorits

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  200. Fehlordnung bei Smectiten in Abhängigkeit vom Zwischenschichtkation

    Article • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, March 2003, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  201. Nucleation-Controlled Crystallization of a New, Spontaneously Resolved Solvate of [Ru(bpy)3](PF6)2 and its Desolvation Reaction

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, October 2002, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  202. Arene–arene stacking in the revised structure of 2,2′-bipyridinium hexafluorophosphate

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, April 2002, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Josef Breu

  203. Charge Homogeneity in Synthetic Fluorohectorite

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, November 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  204. Two-dimensional diffraction from enantiopure and racemic monolayers of [Ru(bpy)3]2+ intercalated into synthetic fluorohectorite

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2001, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  205. Crystal Engineering as a Tool for Directed Radiationless Energy Transfer in Layered {Λ-[Ru(bpy)3]Δ-[Os(bpy)3]}(PF6)4

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  206. Absolute configuration of (−)-4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-4-(2-pyridyl)butanoic acid: essential information to determine crucial steric features of arpromidine-type histamine H2receptor agonists

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, February 2000, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Josef Breu

  207. Atomistic computer modeling of [Ru(bpy)3]2+ and [Ru(phen)3]2+ intercalated into low charged smectites †

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions, January 1999, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Josef Breu

  208. Enantioselective catalysis

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, February 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  209. Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence and Proton-Dependent Switching of Fluorescence: Functionalized Difluoroboradiaza-s-indacenes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, July 1997, Wiley

    Professor Josef Breu

  210. Arene–Arene Stacking incis-Bis[2-(2-thienyl-C3)pyridine-N]platinum(II)

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, May 1997, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Josef Breu

  211. Studies on AB2-type intermetallic compounds, IV. High-pressure synthesis and crystal structure of scandium dizinc ScZn2

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, October 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  212. 3,4-diazanorcaradiene als Vorstufen neuer stabiler Azomethinylide

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, March 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  213. Umlagerungen von 2,5-diarylsubstituierten dicyano[7,7-dimethyl-3,4-diazabicyclo[4.1.0]hept-2,4-dien-3-ium-3-yl]methaniden 3 in protischen solventien

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, March 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  214. Chiral Recognition Among Tris(diimine)-Metal Complexes. 4. Atomistic Computer Modeling of a Monolayer of [Ru(bpy)3]2+ Intercalated into a Smectite Clay

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, August 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Josef Breu

  215. Chirale Erkennung bei Trisdiimin -Metallkomplexen: 1. Strukturen von Tris-(3,3?-bi-1,2,4-triazin)eisen(II)-Komplexen

    Article • Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, February 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  216. Chirale Erkennung bei Trisdiimin -Metallkomplexen: 2. Sind Tonminerale prochirale Adsorbentien?

    Article • Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, February 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  217. Chirale Erkennung bei Trisdiimin-Metallkomplexen: 3. Adsorption von Tris-(3,3?-bi-1,2,4-triazin)eisen(II)-Komplexen an Montmorillonit

    Article • Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, February 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Josef Breu

  218. Oxidation state of iron at the interface of composite basal lining systems

    Article • Applied Clay Science, September 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Josef Breu

  219. Structure of 5,5',6,6'-tetraphenyl-3,3'-bi-1,2,4-triazine

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, August 1993, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Josef Breu