Dr. Reinhard Berger
Dr. Reinhard Berger
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsbereich Verfahrenstechnik
Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Senior Lecturer and Head of Laboratory of Process Engineering
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Dr. rer. nat. / Organic Chemistry
Max Planck Institute for Poylmer Research Mainz
10 / 2010 - 02 / 2015 - Dipl. Chem. / Chemistry
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
10 / 2005 - 09 / 2010
Network
Membership of networks
ORCID digital identifier
Awards
Fellowship of the German Chemical Industry (VCI Fond Stipendium)
German Chemical Industry
03 / 2010
Social media
Projects
- Innovative electrolysis system for Direct Ocean Carbon Capture / Project leader / completed
- Measure heat of complex gas-liquid reaction of a in trickle-bed reactor / Project leader / completed
- More Sustainable Production of 2-Ethylhexanol / Project leader / completed
- Sustainable production of new green monomers / Project leader / completed
- Scaling up Bio-based Production of High-Purity Acetic Acid / Project leader / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Li, J. et al. (2025) 'Topological classification of cycloadditions occurring on-surface and in the solid-state', Communications Chemistry, 8(388). doi: 10.1038/s42004-025-01701-0.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Berger, R. (2025) 'Advancing chemical waste reduction and recycling through formulation science', in 17th Freiburger Symposium, Fribourg, Switzerland, 3-4 April 2025.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Rütti, D. P. and Berger, R. (2026) 'Netto-Null erreichen : Dekarbonisierung, Technologien und Kosten', in 14. Swiss Green Economy Symposium, Winterthur, Schweiz, 1.-4. September 2026.
- Berger, R. and Gensle, N. (2026) 'Chemical solvent waste reduction', in 11. F&E Konferenz, Zürich, Schweiz, 29. Januar 2026.
- Berger, R. and Javet, C. (2025) 'More sustainable production of 2-ethylhexanol and new green monomers', in Innobooster Plastics for Zero Emission Annual Networking Conference, 18 November 2025.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Termini of bottom-up fabricated graphene nanoribbons
- Graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions
- Nanographenes and Graphene Nanoribbons with Zigzag-Edged Structures
- π-Extended and curved antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons
- Monitoring the on-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons by mass spectrometry
- Sulfur-doped graphene nanoribbons with a sequence of distinct band gaps
- On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons through solution-processing of monomers
- Probing optical excitations in chevron-like armchair graphene nanoribbons
- Toward a molecular design of porous carbon materials
- Exploration of pyrazine-embedded antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons generated by solution and on-surface azomethine ylide homocoupling
- Cationic nitrogen‐doped helical nanographenes
- On-surface growth dynamics of graphene nanoribbons: the role of halogen functionalization
- Toward Full Zigzag-Edged Nanographenes: peri-Tetracene and Its Corresponding Circumanthracene
- Pyrene-Fused s-Indacene
- The mechanochemical Scholl reaction–a solvent-free and versatile graphitization tool
- Exploration of Thiazolo[5,4‐d]thiazole Linkages in Conjugated Porous Organic Polymers for Chemoselective Molecular Sieving
- Tailoring bond topologies in open-shell graphene nanostructures
- A Nitrogen‐Rich 2D sp2‐Carbon‐Linked Conjugated Polymer Framework as a High‐Performance Cathode for Lithium‐Ion Batteries
- Helical Ullazine‐Quinoxaline‐Based Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
- Graphene Nanoribbons Derived from Zigzag Edge-Encased Poly(para-2,9-dibenzo[bc,kl]coronenylene) Polymer Chains
- NBN-embedded polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons containing pentagonal and heptagonal rings
- Surface-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbons for Room Temperature Switching Devices: Substrate Transfer and ex Situ Characterization
- Wave-shaped polycyclic hydrocarbons with controlled aromaticity
- On-surface synthesis of nitrogen-doped nanographenes with 5–7 membered rings
- Fully sp2‐Carbon‐Linked Crystalline Two‐Dimensional Conjugated Polymers: Insight into 2D Poly (phenylenecyanovinylene) Formation and its Optoelectronic Properties
- On-surface synthesis of a nonplanar porous nanographene
- Nonlinear optical switching in regioregular porphyrin covalent organic frameworks
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons containing a pyrrolopyridazine core
- Synthesis and characterization of π-extended triangulene
- A crystalline, 2D polyarylimide cathode for ultrastable and ultrafast Li storage
- Open-shell nonbenzenoid nanographenes containing two pairs of pentagonal and heptagonal rings
- Topological frustration induces unconventional magnetism in a nanographene
- Dipyrene-Fused Dicyclopenta[a,f]naphthalenes
- Topological defect-induced magnetism in a nanographene
- Polycyclic aromatic chains on metals and insulating layers by repetitive [3+ 2] cycloadditions
- Production and processing of graphene and related materials
- Force-activated isomerization of a single molecule
- On‐Surface Synthesis of NBN‐Doped Zigzag‐Edged Graphene Nanoribbons
- On-surface synthesis of non-benzenoid nanographenes by oxidative ring-closure and ring-rearrangement reactions
- Collective all‐carbon magnetism in triangulene dimers
- On‐surface synthesis of cumulene‐containing polymers via two‐step dehalogenative homocoupling of dibromomethylene‐functionalized tribenzoazulene
- Synthesis of Vinylene‐Linked Two‐Dimensional Conjugated Polymers via the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons Reaction
- Thermal spin-crossover and temperature-dependent zero-field splitting in magnetic nanographene chains