Richard Dronskowski

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Richard Dronskowski (born November 11, 1961 in Brilon ) is a German chemist and physicist . He holds the chair for solid-state and quantum chemistry at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

After graduating from high school in Datteln , he studied chemistry and physics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . The diploma theses dealt with “The crystal structure of Mn 2 O 7 ” (1987) and “Calculations for the electronic structure of tip-linked M 6 X 8 clusters” (1989). After the dissertation on “Condensed clusters in oxides and arsenides of molybdenum”, which was written by Arndt Simon at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, he received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Stuttgart . Between 1991 and 1992 he worked as a visiting scientist at Cornell University with Roald Hoffmann , then as a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and at the same time as a lecturer at the University of Dortmund . The habilitation on "Preparative, crystallographic, electron-theoretical and magnetic investigations on bromides of monovalent indium" and the appointment as a private lecturer took place in Dortmund in 1995.

After his appointment, he accepted the Chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry in 1997 as Director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen , which was renamed the Chair of Solid State and Quantum Chemistry in 2006. In the meantime, he was visiting professor for quantum theoretical materials chemistry at Tōhoku University in Sendai in 2004 .

In his research he deals with the preparative solid state chemistry (carbodiimides, nitrides, guanidinates, intermetallic phases, metastable solids, structural research), with the quantum chemistry of the solid state (electronic structure, chemical bond, magnetism, modeling, phase prediction, thermochemistry) and with neutron diffraction.

Awards

Memberships

Further activities

Dronskowski plays the clarinet in the Collegium Musicum of the RWTH Aachen .

Publications (selection)

  • R. Dronskowski, PE Blöchl, Crystal Orbital Hamilton Populations (COHP). Energy-Resolved Visualization of Chemical Bonding in Solids Based on Density-Functional Calculations , J. Phys. Chem. 1993 , 97 , 8617.
  • R. Dronskowski, Synthesis, Structure, and Decay of In 4 Br 7 , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1995 , 34 , 1126.
  • GA Landrum, R. Dronskowski, The Orbital Origins of Magnetism: From Atoms to Molecules to Ferromagnetic Alloys , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000 , 39 , 1560.
  • R. Dronskowski, K. Korczak, H. Lueken, W. Jung, Chemically Tuning between Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism by Combining Theory and Synthesis in Iron / Manganese Rhodium Borides , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002 , 41 , 2528.
  • J. von Appen, R. Dronskowski, Predicting new ferromagnetic nitrides from electronic structure theory: IrFe 3 N and RhFe 3 N , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005 , 43 , 1205.
  • X. Liu, M. Krott, P. Müller, C. Hu, H. Lueken, R. Dronskowski, Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Properties of MnNCN, the First Carbodiimide of a Magnetic Transition Metal , Inorg. Chem. 2005 , 44 , 3001.
  • R. Dronskowski, Computational Chemistry of Solid State Materials , Wiley-VCH 2005
  • J. von Appen, M.-W. Lumey, R. Dronskowski, Mysterious Platinum Nitride , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006 , 45 , 4365.
  • M. Wuttig , D. Lüsebrink, D. Wamwangi, W. Wełnic, M. Gilleßen, R. Dronskowski, The role of vacancies and local distortions in the design of new phase-change materials , Nature Mater. 2007 , 6 , 122.
  • BPT Fokwa, H. Lueken, R. Dronskowski, Rational synthetic tuning between itinerant antiferromagnetism and ferromagnetism in the complex boride series Sc 2 FeRu 5 – n Rh n B 2 (0 ≤ n ≤ 5) , Chem. Eur. J. 2007 , 13 , 6040.
  • X. Tang, H. Xiang, X. Liu, M. Speldrich, R. Dronskowski, A Ferromagnetic Carbodiimide: Cr 2 (NCN) 3 , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010 , 49 , 4738.
  • RP Stoffel, C. Wessel, M.-W. Lumey, R. Dronskowski, Ab Initio Thermochemistry of Solid-State Materials , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010 , 49 , 5242.
  • VL Deringer, AL Tchougréeff, R. Dronskowski, Crystal Orbital Hamilton Population (COHP) Analysis as Projected from Plane-Wave Basis Sets, J. Phys. Chem. A 2011 , 115 , 5461.
  • PK Sawinski, M. Meven, U. Englert, R. Dronskowski, Single-crystal neutron diffraction study on guanidine, CN 3 H 5 , Cryst. Growth and Design 2013 , 13 , 1730.
  • VL Deringer, RP Stoffel, A. Togo, B. Eck, M. Meven, R. Dronskowski, Ab initio ORTEP drawings: a case study of N-based molecular crystals with different chemical nature , CrystEngComm 2014 , 16 , 10907.
  • R. Missong, J. George, A. Houben, R. Dronskowski, Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of SrC (NH) 3 , a Nitrogen-based Carbonate Analogue with the Trinacria Motif, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015 , 54 , 12171.
  • X. Liu, J. George, S. Maintz, R. Dronskowski, β-CuN 3 : The Overlooked Ground-State Polymorph of Copper Azide with Heterographene-Like Layers, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015 , 54 , 1954.
  • P. Jacobs, A. Houben, W. Schweika, AL Tchougréeff, R. Dronskowski, A Rietveld refinement method for angular- and wavelength-dispersive neutron time-of-flight powder-diffraction data, J. Appl. Crystallogr. 2015 , 48 , 1627.
  • MT Sougrati, A. Darwiche, X. Liu, A. Mahmoud, RP Hermann, S. Jouen, L. Monconduit, R. Dronskowski, L. Stievano, Transition-metal carbodiimides as Molecular Negative Electrode Materials for Lithium- and Sodium-Ion Batteries with Excellent Cycling Performances, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016 , 55 , 5090.
  • S. Maintz, VL Deringer, AL Tchougréeff, R. Dronskowski, LOBSTER: A Tool to Extract Chemical Bonding from Plane-Wave Based DFT, J. Comput. Chem. 2016 , 37 , 1030.
  • R. Dronskowski, S. Kikkawa, A. Stein (Eds.): Handbook of Solid State Chemistry (in six volumes), Wiley-VCH (2017).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement on the RWTH Aachen website, accessed on July 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ RWTH Innovation Award honors diverse ideas , accessed on September 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dronskowski, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, chemist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Brilon