Christian Baerlocher

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
89 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Christian Baerlocher is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Baerlocher has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Materials Chemistry, 62 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 33 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christian Baerlocher's work include Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (54 papers), X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (42 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Characterization (33 papers). Christian Baerlocher is often cited by papers focused on Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (54 papers), X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (42 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Characterization (33 papers). Christian Baerlocher collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. Christian Baerlocher's co-authors include Lynne B. McCusker, H. Kessler, M. A. Estermann, A. Merrouche, Stef Smeets, Dan Xie, Stacey I. Zones, Avelino Corma, Marı́a-José Dı́az-Cabañas and Miguel Á. Camblor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Christian Baerlocher

86 papers receiving 4.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A synthetic gallophosphate molecular sieve with a 20-tetrahedral-atom pore opening

1991 638 citations Lynne B. McCusker, Christian Baerlocher et al. Nature profile →
A two-dimensional zeolitic imidazolate framework with a cushion-shaped cavity for CO2 adsorption

2013 600 citations Rizhi Chen, Jianfeng Yao et al. Chemical Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Baerlocher Switzerland	32	2.8k	2.7k	983	580	331	89	4.1k
Bernd Marler Germany	34	2.5k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	850 0.9×	636 1.1×	260 0.8×	116	3.8k
Dewi W. Lewis United Kingdom	31	2.7k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	666 0.7×	283 0.5×	295 0.9×	86	4.1k
Damodara M. Poojary United States	37	2.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	2.2k 2.2×	419 0.7×	174 0.5×	73	3.9k
G. Férey France	36	4.4k 1.6×	3.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	1.7k 2.9×	372 1.1×	131	5.5k
Christophe Volkringer France	45	5.7k 2.0×	4.7k 1.7×	653 0.7×	1.0k 1.8×	507 1.5×	119	6.5k
Martin P. Attfield United Kingdom	34	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	524 0.5×	538 0.9×	1.1k 3.2×	94	3.8k
Takuji Ikeda Japan	33	1.5k 0.5×	2.9k 1.1×	568 0.6×	1.3k 2.2×	478 1.4×	160	4.6k
Thurman E. Gier United States	27	2.3k 0.8×	3.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 2.3×	98 0.3×	57	4.4k
Lucy M. Bull United States	22	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	491 0.5×	313 0.5×	150 0.5×	40	2.9k
Mohamed Haouas France	47	4.8k 1.7×	4.6k 1.7×	777 0.8×	736 1.3×	613 1.9×	171	6.6k

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Schroeder, Christian, Arno P. M. Kentgens, Lynne B. McCusker, et al.. (2025). Preferred Al Locations in the Framework Structure of the Zeolite SSZ-82. Crystal Growth & Design. 25(4). 1190–1201.

McCusker, Lynne B., Bernd Marler, Christian Baerlocher, Youngkyu Park, & Hermann Gies. (2025). Crystal Structure of ZSM-48: A 40 Year-Old Puzzle Resolved. Crystal Growth & Design. 25(5). 1605–1613. 1 indexed citations

Marler, Bernd, Christian Baerlocher, Lynne B. McCusker, & Hermann Gies. (2023). Synthesis and Structure of RUB-58: An Almost Ordered, Highly Crystalline Member of the ZSM-48 Family of Zeolites. Crystal Growth & Design. 23(4). 2770–2781. 5 indexed citations

Berkson, Zachariah J., Ming‐Feng Hsieh, Stef Smeets, et al.. (2019). Preferential Siting of Aluminum Heteroatoms in the Zeolite Catalyst Al‐SSZ‐70. Angewandte Chemie. 131(19). 6321–6325. 9 indexed citations

Pinar, Ana B., Lynne B. McCusker, Christian Baerlocher, et al.. (2015). Synthesis and structural characterization of Zn-containing DAF-1. New Journal of Chemistry. 40(5). 4160–4166. 4 indexed citations

Dejoie, Catherine, Stef Smeets, Christian Baerlocher, et al.. (2015). Serial snapshot crystallography for materials science with SwissFEL. IUCrJ. 2(3). 361–370. 15 indexed citations

Smeets, Stef, Dan Xie, Christian Baerlocher, et al.. (2014). High‐Silica Zeolite SSZ‐61 with Dumbbell‐Shaped Extra‐Large‐Pore Channels. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(39). 10398–10402. 50 indexed citations

Majano, Gérardo, et al.. (2014). Metal–Organic Frameworks: Solvent‐Mediated Reconstruction of the Metal–Organic Framework HKUST‐1 (Cu₃(BTC)₂) (Adv. Funct. Mater. 25/2014). Advanced Functional Materials. 24(25). 3837–3837. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Rizhi, Jianfeng Yao, Qinfen Gu, et al.. (2013). A two-dimensional zeolitic imidazolate framework with a cushion-shaped cavity for CO2 adsorption. Chemical Communications. 49(82). 9500–9500. 600 indexed citations breakdown →

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McCusker, Lynne B., et al.. (2013). Guidelines for solving structures of polycrystalline materials using charge flipping. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 69(a1). s292–s293. 2 indexed citations

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Baerlocher, Christian, Thomas Weber, Lynne B. McCusker, Lukáš Palatinus, & Stacey I. Zones. (2011). Unraveling the Perplexing Structure of the Zeolite SSZ-57. Science. 333(6046). 1134–1137. 72 indexed citations

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McCusker, Lynne B. & Christian Baerlocher. (2009). Using electron microscopy to complement X-ray powder diffraction data to solve complex crystal structures. Chemical Communications. 1439–1439. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Yi, Jihong Yu, Ruren Xu, Christian Baerlocher, & Lynne B. McCusker. (2008). Combining Structure Modeling and Electron Microscopy to Determine Complex Zeolite Framework Structures. Angewandte Chemie. 120(23). 4473–4477. 3 indexed citations

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Baerlocher, Christian, Dan Xie, Lynne B. McCusker, et al.. (2008). Ordered silicon vacancies in the framework structure of the zeolite catalyst SSZ-74. Nature Materials. 7(8). 631–635. 139 indexed citations

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Baerlocher, Christian, et al.. (2007). Synthesis and structure analysis of the layer silicate DLM-2. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 105(1-2). 75–81. 11 indexed citations

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Gramm, Fabian, Christian Baerlocher, Lynne B. McCusker, et al.. (2006). Complex zeolite structure solved by combining powder diffraction and electron microscopy. Nature. 444(7115). 79–81. 155 indexed citations

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Marichal, Claire, Joël Patarin, J.L. Jordá, et al.. (2005). Synthesis and structure of Mu-33, a new layered aluminophosphate. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 90(1-3). 5–15. 9 indexed citations

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Tuel, A., Chantal Lorentz, Völker Gramlich, & Christian Baerlocher. (2005). AlPO-ERI, an aluminophosphate with the ERI framework topology: characterization and structure of the as-made and calcined rehydrated forms. Comptes Rendus Chimie. 8(3-4). 531–540. 20 indexed citations

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Baerlocher, Christian, et al.. (2004). Exploiting texture to estimate the relative intensities of overlapping reflections. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials. 219(12). 803–812. 16 indexed citations

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McCusker, Lynne B., et al.. (2001). Solving Complex Zeolite Structures from Powder Diffraction Data. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 55(6). 497–497. 10 indexed citations

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