Hermann Gies

Materials/Devices

Hermann Gies

Specially Appointed Professor

Materials synthesisMaterials characterizationSurfaces and interfaces

Research Projects

  • Rationalizing synthesis of zeolites using organic structure directors

  • Solving and refining crystal structures from diffration data sets of limited resolution

  • Solving and refining the structure of adsorbates on calcite, apatite, and zincoxide surfaces using GIXRD data sets

1989 - 2018

Chair in crystallography at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, FRG
1989 - 2013

Member of the structure commission of the IZA
2005 - 2018

Member of INCOE, an International Network of Centres of Excellence: DICP, Dalian, China; RU Bochum, Germany; KU Leuven, Belgium; Tokyo Tech, Japan; Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; BASF Ludwigshafen, Germany
2018 -

Specially Appointed Professor, IIR Nanospace Catalysis Unit, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2013

George T. Piercy distinguished visiting Professor award, University of Minnesota, USA(2013)
2014 - 2016

State High-end Expert at PKU, Beijing China(2014-2016)
2018

Will-Kleber-Gedenkmünze of the association of german crystallographers (DGK) for excellence in research(2018)
1985

Gies, H.: Clathrate mit SiO2 Wirstsstrukturen: Clathrasile. Nachr. Chem. Tech. Lab. 33, 387-392(1985)
1989

Fyfe, C.A., H. Gies, Y. Feng, G.T. Kokotailo: Natural abundance 29Si 2D NMR determination of the 3-dimensional lattice connectivites in zeolites and the direct observation of 29Si-O-29Si couplings in the solid state. Nature 341,223-225(1989)
1992

Gies, H., Marler, B.: The structure controlling role of organic templates for the synthesis of porosils in the system SiO2/Template/H2O. Zeolites 12, 42-49(1992)
1997

S. Vortmann, H. Gies, J. Rius: Ab initio structure solution from X-ray powder data at moderate resolution: The crystal structure of a microporous layer silicate. J. Phys. Chem. 101, 1292-1297(1997)
2006

U. Magdans, H. Gies, X. Torelles, J. Rius: Investigation of the (104) cleavage surface of calcite under dry and humid conditions with GIXRD techniques. Eur. J. Mineral. 18, 83–92 (2006)
M. Bandyophadhyay, O. Korsak, M.W.E. Van den Berg, W. Grünert, A. Birkner, W. Li, F. Schüth, H. Gies: Gold nano-particles in mesoporous MCM-48 as active CO-oxidation catalyst. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 89, 158 – 163(2006)
2012

Markus Reichinger, Wolfgang Schmidt, Vaishali V. Narkhede, Weiping Zhang, Hermann Gies, Wolfgang Grünert: Ordered mesoporous materials with MFI structured microporous walls – Synthesis and proof of wall microporosity. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 164, 21-31(2012)