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Dr. Christoph Bannwarth, a former PhD student of Prof. Stefan Grimme, will be honored with the CIC Advancement Award for Computational Chemistry 2019.
The article Strong Microheterogeneity in Novel Deep Eutectic Solvents by Vahideh Alizadeh, David Geller, Dr. Friedrich Malberg, Dr. Pablo B. Sánchez, Prof. Agilio Padua, and Prof. Barbara Kirchner has been selected as Cover Feature of Issue 14/2019 of ChemPhysChem.
Prof. Barbara Kirchner will be honored with the Lynden-Bell Award 2019. The price is awarded in "recognition of a working life trajectory in ionic liquids".
"How much plastic is too much for us?" Dr. Oldamur Hollóczki published a newspaper article which deals with the environmental problems caused by plastic in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Link to the article "Wieviel Plastik ist zu viel für uns?" on www.faz.net
The article Simplifed DFT methods for consistent structures and energies of large systems by Eike Caldeweyher and Jan Gerit Brandenburg was chosen as January 2019 Psi-k Highlight.
The J. Chem. Eng. Data article A Cluster Approach for Activity Coefficients: General Theory and Implementation by Johannes Ingenmey, Jan Blasius, Gwydyon Marchelli, Alexander Riegel and Prof. Barbara Kirchner has been selected as open acces ACS Editors' Choice article.
Prof. Stefan Grimme is a "Highly Cited Researcher“: Clarivate Analytics identified Stefan Grimme as a member of "an elite group recognized for exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science." The analyzed period covers the decade 2006-2016. With Prof. Frank Neese (Professor in Bonn from 2006-2011, now Honorary Professor) there is another theoretician from Bonn on this list.
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The article Spontaneous Substitutions at Phosphorus Trihalides in Imidazolium Halide Ionic Liquids: Grotthuss Diffusion of Anions? by Dr. Oldamur Hollóczki et. al. has been chosen as inside front cover of Chemistry - A European Journal.
Prof. Sigrid Peyerimhoff was awarded the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Medal 2018 by the Association of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, GDNÄ).
The article (L. Goerigk, A. Hansen, C. Bauer, S. Ehrlich, A. Najibi, S. Grimme, A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions, Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys. (2017), 19, 32184-32215. DOI: 10.1039/c7cp04913g) by Lars Goerigk, Andreas Hansen, Stefan Grimme and co-workers indicated as hot paper received enough citations in March/April 2018 to place it in the top 0.1% of papers in the academic field of Chemistry.
Dr. Friedrich Malberg earned a certificate for professional teaching expertise for universities (NRW-Zertifikat "Professionelle Lehrkompetenz für die Hochschule") for his project Path to Math - Das Integral der Notwendigkeit vom 1. Semester bis zum Bachelor über die Zeit ist gleich Spaß.
Dr. Andreas Hansen and Prof. Stefan Grimme together with scientists from the Universities of Siegen, Soochov (China), Beijing (China), Buffalo (USA), Texas at El Paso (USA), and the IWF (Dresden) discovered a new diuranium carbide cluster (U=C=U) that has been stabilized and encapsulated in an Ih(7)-C80 nanocontainer. The article in Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05210-8 is online and open access.
The article How to Harvest Grotthuss Diffusion in Protic Ionic Liquid Electrolyte Systems by Johannes Ingenmey, Sascha Gehrke and Prof. Barbara Kirchner has been selected as inside front cover of Issue 12/2018 of ChemSusChem.
Ménage à trois of molecules: Dr. Oldamur Hollóczki and Sascha Gehrke propose in Chem. Eur. J. (Link to the article) a new intermediate in N-heterocyclic carbene organo-catalysis.
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