Josef Breu

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
273 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Josef Breu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Josef Breu has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Materials Chemistry, 54 papers in Biomaterials and 47 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Josef Breu's work include Clay minerals and soil interactions (32 papers), Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications (31 papers) and Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (29 papers). Josef Breu is often cited by papers focused on Clay minerals and soil interactions (32 papers), Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications (31 papers) and Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (29 papers). Josef Breu collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and France. Josef Breu's co-authors include Michael W. Möller, Thomas Lunkenbein, Hussein Kalo, Daniel A. Kunz, Jürgen Senker, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Matthias Ballauff, Matthias Daab, Marc Schrinner and Jürgen Thun and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Josef Breu

265 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Animating hydrogel knotbots with topology-invoked self-regulation

2024 61 citations Qing Zhu, Weixuan Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Stiff and self-healing hydrogels by polymer entanglements in co-planar nanoconfinement

2025 49 citations Olena Khoruzhenko, Josef Breu et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Tuning the Dielectric Properties of Individual Clay Nanosheets by Interlayer Composition: Toward Nano‐Electret Materials 2025 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), Matthias Stöter, Bernhard Biersack, Rainer Schobert, Josef Breu, Georg Papastavrou	0
2	Ultrathin Ti-Deficient TiO₂ Nanosheets with Pt Single Atoms Enable Efficient Photocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia 2025 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), Gihoon Cha, Hyesung Kim, Johannes Will, Xin Zhou, Erdmann Spiecker, Josef Breu, Patrik Schmuki	18
3	Animating hydrogel knotbots with topology-invoked self-regulation breakdown → 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Qing Zhu, Weixuan Liu, Olena Khoruzhenko, Josef Breu, Wei Hong, (unknown), Zi Liang Wu	61
4	Real-Time Monitoring of Adsorption-Induced Scrolling of Colloidal Inorganic Nanosheets 2024 ·Langmuir ·T. Harada, Yasutaka Suzuki, Teruyuki Nakato, Josef Breu, Jun Kawamata	0
5	Liquid-Crystalline Photonic Sandwich: Electroresponsive Colloids of Clay Nanosheets Loading Photofunctional Dyes 2024 ·Langmuir ·Teruyuki Nakato, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, T. Harada, (unknown), Emiko Mouri, Seiji Tani, Yasutaka Suzuki, Hirokatsu Miyata, Josef Breu, Jun Kawamata	1
6	Quantitative Scrolling into Microporous Nanotubes of the Hydrous Layered Silicate Ilerite 2024 ·Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ulrich Mansfeld, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Jürgen Senker, Josef Breu	0
7	Intercalation of CO₂ Selected by Type of Interlayer Cation in Dried Synthetic Hectorite 2023 ·Langmuir ·(unknown), (unknown), Dirk Wallacher, (unknown), Leide P. Cavalcanti, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), R. Droppa, Kenneth D. Knudsen, Caetano R. Miranda, Josef Breu, Jon Otto Fossum	6
8	New Functional Polymer Materials via Click Chemistry-Based Modification of Cellulose Acetate 2023 ·ACS Omega ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), A. Weidinger, Glauco Battagliarin, Holger Ruckdäschel, Rainer Schobert, Josef Breu, Bernhard Biersack	9
9	Gentle, Spontaneous Delamination of Layered Titanate Yielding New Types of Lithium Titanate Nanosheets 2023 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Gihoon Cha, (unknown), (unknown), Sabine Rosenfeldt, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Renée Siegel, Daniel Friedrich, Wolfgang Bensch, Jürgen Senker, Nobuyuki Sakai, Takayoshi Sasaki, Josef Breu	6
10	Osmotically Delaminated Silicate Nanosheet‐Coated NCM for Ultra‐Stable Li⁺ Storage and Chemical Stability Toward Long‐Term Air Exposure 2023 ·Small ·(unknown), (unknown), Gihoon Cha, (unknown), (unknown), Daniel Friedrich, Michael A. Danzer, Jun Young Cheong, Josef Breu	7
11	Do Aqueous Suspensions of Smectite Clays Form a Smectic Liquid-Crystalline Phase? 2022 ·Langmuir ·(unknown), H. H. Wensink, I. Dozov, Thomas Bizien, Laurent J. Michot, Jean‐Christophe P. Gabriel, Josef Breu, Patrick Davidson	8
12	Bright, noniridescent structural coloration from clay mineral nanosheet suspensions 2022 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), Daniel Wagner, (unknown), Georg Papastavrou, Leander Michels, Josef Breu, Jon Otto Fossum	23
13	Colloidally stable, magnetoresponsive liquid crystals based on clay nanosheets 2021 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Olena Khoruzhenko, Daniel R. Wagner, (unknown), Martin Dulle, Stephan Förster, Sabine Rosenfeldt, (unknown), (unknown), Georg Papastavrou, Wolfgang Bensch, Josef Breu	5
14	CO₂ Adsorption Enhanced by Tuning the Layer Charge in a Clay Mineral 2021 ·Langmuir ·(unknown), (unknown), Dirk Wallacher, (unknown), Leide P. Cavalcanti, (unknown), Matthias Daab, (unknown), Sven Grätz, Fabiano Yokaichiya, Kenneth D. Knudsen, Caetano R. Miranda, Josef Breu, Jon Otto Fossum	18
15	Enhancing the Catalytic Activity of Palladium Nanoparticles via Sandwich-Like Confinement by Thin Titanate Nanosheets 2021 ·ACS Catalysis ·(unknown), Daniel R. Wagner, Thomas Götsch, Takayuki Kikuchi, Jutta Kröhnert, Annette Trunschke, Thomas Lunkenbein, Takayoshi Sasaki, Josef Breu	21
16	CO₂ Capture by Nickel Hydroxide Interstratified in the Nanolayered Space of a Synthetic Clay Mineral 2020 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·(unknown), (unknown), Leide P. Cavalcanti, (unknown), (unknown), Svemir Rudić, Dirk Wallacher, (unknown), Kenneth D. Knudsen, Caetano R. Miranda, Josef Breu, Heloisa N. Bordallo, Jon Otto Fossum	17
17	Unmodified Clay Nanosheets at the Air–Water Interface 2020 ·Langmuir ·(unknown), Antônio A. Malfatti-Gasperini, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Daniel R. Wagner, Kenneth D. Knudsen, Koiti Araki, Rafael G. Oliveira, Josef Breu, Leide P. Cavalcanti, Jon Otto Fossum	7
18	Strategies for the selective loading of patchy worm-like micelles with functional nanoparticles 2018 ·Nanoscale ·Judith Schöbel, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Marc C. A. Stuart, Josef Breu, Stephan Förster, Andreas Greiner, Matthias Karg, Holger Schmalz	30
19	Smectite fluorination and its impact on interlayer water content and structure: A way to fine tune the hydrophilicity of clay surfaces? 2013 ·Microporous and Mesoporous Materials ·Baptiste Dazas, Bruno Lanson, Josef Breu, Jean-Lοuis Robert, M. Pelletier, Eric Ferrage	51
20	Chiral recognition among trisdiimine-metal complexes, Part 4. Atomistic computer modeling of [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) and [Ru(phen)(3)](2+) intercalated into low charged smectites 1999 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Josef Breu, (unknown), C. Richard A. Catlow	3

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