Bettina Lotsch
German chemist
Bettina Valeska Lotsch (born 7 September 1977 in Frankenthal (Pfalz)) is a German chemist.[ 1] [ 2] She is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.
Life
Lotsch studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and graduated in 2000.[ 1] In 2006, she completed her dissertation in the group of Wolfgang Schnick [de ] at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich .[ 1] From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of G. A. Ozin at the University of Toronto .[ 1] From 2009 to the beginning of 2017, she was an assistant professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ,[ 1] as well as an independent group leader for the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research .[ 1] In 2017, she became Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich .[ 1]
Research
Her research focuses on rational materials synthesis at the interface of solid-state chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanochemistry.[ 1] Materials of her research interest are:[ 1]
New materials for energy conversion and storage (e.g., porous frameworks, lithium solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries)[ 1]
Photonic nanostructures for optical sensing[ 1]
2D nanosheet materials and artificial heterostructures[ 1]
Selected publications
Lau, Vincent Wing-hei; Klose, Daniel; Kasap, Hatice; Podjaski, Filip; Pignié, Marie-Claire; Reisner, Erwin; Jeschke, Gunnar; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2017). "Dark Photocatalysis: Storage of Solar Energy in Carbon Nitride for Time-Delayed Hydrogen Generation" . Angewandte Chemie International Edition . 56 (2): 510– 514. doi :10.1002/anie.201608553 . ISSN 1521-3773 . PMC 6680103 . PMID 27930846 .
Lotsch, Bettina V.; Blum, Volker; Senker, Jürgen; Duppel, Viola; Mesch, Maria B.; Weinberger, Simon; Botari, Tiago; Moudrakovski, Igor; Lau, Vincent Wing-hei (8 July 2016). "Rational design of carbon nitride photocatalysts by identification of cyanamide defects as catalytically relevant sites" . Nature Communications . 7 : 12165. Bibcode :2016NatCo...712165L . doi :10.1038/ncomms12165 . ISSN 2041-1723 . PMC 4941108 . PMID 27387536 .
Ast, Christian R.; Lotsch, Bettina V.; Parkin, Stuart S. P.; Duppel, Viola; Dmitry Marchenko; Varykhalov, Andrei; Topp, Andreas; Straßer, Carola; Ali, Mazhar N. (31 May 2016). "Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS" . Nature Communications . 7 : 11696. arXiv :1509.00861 . Bibcode :2016NatCo...711696S . doi :10.1038/ncomms11696 . ISSN 2041-1723 . PMC 4895020 . PMID 27241624 .
Lotsch, Bettina V.; Ochsenfeld, Christian; Podjaski, Filip; Savasci, Gökcen; Stegbauer, Linus; Haase, Frederik; Vyas, Vijay S. (30 September 2015). "A tunable azine covalent organic framework platform for visible light-induced hydrogen generation" . Nature Communications . 6 : 8508. Bibcode :2015NatCo...6.8508V . doi :10.1038/ncomms9508 . ISSN 2041-1723 . PMC 4598847 . PMID 26419805 .
Szendrei, Katalin; Ganter, Pirmin; Sànchez-Sobrado, Olalla; Eger, Roland; Kuhn, Alexander; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2015). "Touchless Optical Finger Motion Tracking Based on 2D Nanosheets with Giant Moisture Responsiveness". Advanced Materials . 27 (41): 6341– 6348. Bibcode :2015AdM....27.6341S . doi :10.1002/adma.201503463 . ISSN 1521-4095 . PMID 26394013 . S2CID 5916526 .
Lotsch, B. V.; Senker, J.; Mesch, M. B.; Hug, S.; Schwinghammer, K. (28 October 2015). "Phenyl-triazine oligomers for light-driven hydrogen evolution" . Energy & Environmental Science . 8 (11): 3345– 3353. doi :10.1039/C5EE02574E . ISSN 1754-5706 .
Lau, Vincent Wing-hei; Mesch, Maria B.; Duppel, Viola; Blum, Volker; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (28 January 2015). "Low-Molecular-Weight Carbon Nitrides for Solar Hydrogen Evolution" (PDF) . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 137 (3): 1064– 1072. doi :10.1021/ja511802c . ISSN 0002-7863 . PMID 25537611 .
Schwinghammer, Katharina; Mesch, Maria B.; Duppel, Viola; Ziegler, Christian; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (5 February 2014). "Crystalline Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Improved Visible-Light Hydrogen Evolution". Journal of the American Chemical Society . 136 (5): 1730– 1733. doi :10.1021/ja411321s . ISSN 0002-7863 . PMID 24432762 .
Lotsch, Bettina V.; Schwinghammer, Katharina; Stegbauer, Linus (3 June 2014). "A hydrazone-based covalent organic framework for photocatalytic hydrogen production". Chemical Science . 5 (7): 2789– 2793. arXiv :1401.3656 . Bibcode :2014arXiv1401.3656S . doi :10.1039/C4SC00016A . ISSN 2041-6539 . S2CID 37487748 .
Schwinghammer, Katharina; Tuffy, Brian; Mesch, Maria B.; Wirnhier, Eva; Martineau, Charlotte; Taulelle, Francis; Schnick, Wolfgang; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2013). "Triazine-based Carbon Nitrides for Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution". Angewandte Chemie International Edition . 52 (9): 2435– 2439. doi :10.1002/anie.201206817 . ISSN 1521-3773 . PMID 23341324 .
Awards
EU-40 Materials Prize, European Materials Research Society (EMRS), 2017[ 3] [ 4]
Young Elite – the Top 40 under 40 in Economy, Politics, and Society, 2015 and 2016[ 5] [ 6]
ERC Starting Grant, 2014[ 1]
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC ), 2014[ 1]
Fast Track Scholarship, Robert Bosch Foundation, 2008–2010[ 1] [ 7]
E.ON Culture Prize, 2007[ 1] [ 7]
Feodor Lynen Postdoc Scholarship (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), 2007[ 1] [ 7]
Dissertation award (Stiftungspreis), LMU Munich, 2007[ 1]
PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 2004[ 1]
PhD scholarship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI), 2003[ 1]
Faculty Prize (best diploma), 2002[ 1]
Herbert-Marcinek Prize (best preliminary diploma), 2000[ 1]
Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 1997[ 1]
Scholarship of the Stiftung Maximilianeum, 1997[ 1]
References
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