PD Dr. Dominik Brühwiler

PD Dr. Dominik Brühwiler

ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Centre for Analytical Chemistry
Einsiedlerstrasse 31
8820 Wädenswil

+41 58 934 55 43
dominik.bruehwiler@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

Head of Polymer Chemistry

Experience

Member of the Open Science Commission
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
07 / 2026 - today
Member of the National Research Council
Swiss National Science Foundation
01 / 2020 - today
Dozent
ZHAW
08 / 2011 - today
Privatdozent
University of Zurich
02 / 2011 - today
Member of the Sounding Board on Open Research Data
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
09 / 2022 - 07 / 2026
Senior Researcher
University of Zurich
12 / 2004 - 07 / 2011
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Bern
01 / 2003 - 11 / 2004
Postdoctoral Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
09 / 2001 - 12 / 2002

Education and Continuing education

Education

Habilitation / Venia Legendi / Chemistry
University of Zurich
12 / 2004 - 02 / 2011
PhD / Chemistry
University of Bern
03 / 1997 - 03 / 2001
lic. phil. nat. / Chemistry
University of Bern
09 / 1992 - 02 / 1997

Network

Membership of networks

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9284-5144

Social media

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Maradan, L. F. et al. (2026) 'Synthesis of mesoporous calcium-containing silica particles by pseudomorphic transformation', Dalton Transactions, 55(38), pp. 13936–13943. doi: 10.1039/d6dt01762b.
Lustenberger, S. and Brühwiler, D. (2024) 'Sealing of zeolite L channels with ethoxysilanes : influence of molecular structure and thermal treatment', ChemistrySelect, 9(16), p. e202305048. doi: 10.1002/slct.202305048.
Walther, F. and Brühwiler, D. (2024) 'Investigation of silica particle growth by incorporation of a pyrene fluorescent probe', Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 685(133234). doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2024.133234.
Bützer, P. et al. (2024) 'Quinacridones as a building block for sustainable gliding layers on ice and snow', Materials, 17(14), p. 3543. doi: 10.3390/ma17143543.
Calzaferri, G. and Brühwiler, D. (2024) 'A unified description of ion exchange and complete adsorption isotherms, including cluster growth and cavity filling', Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 377(113223). doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2024.113223.
Walther, F. et al. (2024) 'The synthesis of a large stokes-shift dye and intercalation into the nanochannels of zeolite L', Materials, 17(22), p. 5669. doi: 10.3390/ma17225669.
Calzaferri, G. et al. (2023) 'Multiple equilibria description of type H1 hysteresis in gas sorption isotherms of mesoporous materials', Materials Chemistry and Physics, 296(127121). doi: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.127121.
Calzaferri, G., Gallagher, S. H. and Brühwiler, D. (2022) 'Multiple equilibria describe the complete adsorption isotherms of nonporous, microporous, and mesoporous adsorbents', Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 330(111563). doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2021.111563.
Bützer, P. et al. (2022) 'Indigo : a new tribological substance class for non-toxic and ecological gliding surfaces on ice, snow, and water', Materials, 15(3), p. 883. doi: 10.3390/ma15030883.
Gallagher, S. H. et al. (2021) 'Silica particles with fluorescein-labelled cores for evaluating accessibility through fluorescence quenching by copper', Nanoscale Advances, 3(22), pp. 6459–6467. doi: 10.1039/D1NA00599E.
Calzaferri, G., Gallagher, S. and Brühwiler, D. (2021) 'Entropy in multiple equilibria : argon and nitrogen adsorption isotherms of nonporous, microporous, and mesoporous materials', Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 312(110744). doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2020.110744.
David, R. O. et al. (2020) 'The role of contact angle and pore width on pore condensation and freezing', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(15), pp. 9419–9440. doi: 10.5194/acp-20-9419-2020.
Gallagher, S. et al. (2020) 'Hollow silica cubes with customizable porosity', Materials, 13(11), p. 2474. doi: 10.3390/ma13112474.
Wuillemin, M. A. et al. (2019) 'Towards 99mTc- and Re-based multifunctional silica platforms for theranostic applications', Inorganics, 7(11), p. 134. doi: 10.3390/inorganics7110134.
David, R. O. et al. (2019) 'Pore condensation and freezing is responsible for ice formation below water saturation for porous particles', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(17), pp. 8184–8189. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1813647116.
Häne, J. et al. (2019) 'Real-time inline monitoring of zeolite synthesis by Photon Density Wave spectroscopy', Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 288(109580). doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2019.109580.
Reber, M., Zucchetto, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2018) 'Synthesis of advanced mesoporous materials by partial pseudomorphic transformation', Chimia, 72(3), pp. 158–159. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2017.158.
Zucchetto, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2018) 'Strategies for localizing multiple functional groups in mesoporous silica particles through a one-pot synthesis', Chemistry of Materials, 30(20), pp. 7280–7286. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03603.
Zucchetto, N. et al. (2018) 'The structure of mesoporous silica obtained by pseudomorphic transformation of SBA-15 and SBA-16', Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 257, pp. 232–240. doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2017.08.046.
Woodtli, P. et al. (2018) 'Indigo in the nanochannels of zeolite L : towards a new type of colorant', Dyes and Pigments, 2018(149), pp. 456–461. doi: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.10.029.
Cao, P. et al. (2016) 'Supramolecular organization of dye molecules in zeolite L channels : synthesis, properties, and composite materials', Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(12), pp. 4046–4060. doi: 10.1002/chem.201504404.
Zucchetto, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2016) 'Functionalization of arrays of silica nanochannels by post-condensation', Dalton Transactions, 45(36), pp. 14363–14369. doi: 10.1039/C6DT02033J.
Widmer, S. et al. (2015) 'Incorporation of a FRET dye pair into mesoporous materials : a comparison of fluorescence spectra, FRET activity and dye accessibility', The Analyst, 140(15), pp. 5324–5334. doi: 10.1039/C5AN00850F.
Zucchetto, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2015) 'Tuning the aspect ratio of arrays of silica nanochannels', RSC Advances, 5(91), pp. 74638–74644. doi: 10.1039/C5RA16913E.
Reber, M. and Brühwiler, D. (2015) 'Bimodal mesoporous silica with bottleneck pores', Dalton Transactions, 44(41), pp. 17960–17967. doi: 10.1039/C5DT03082J.
Reber, M. and Brühwiler, D. (2015) 'Mesoporous hybrid materials by simultaneous pseudomorphic transformation and functionalization of silica microspheres', Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, 32(2), pp. 243–250. doi: 10.1002/ppsc.201400150.
Devaux, A. et al. (2014) 'Efficient and robust host-guest antenna composite for light harvesting', Chemistry of Materials, 26(23), pp. 6878–6885. doi: 10.1021/cm503761q.
Wuillemin, M. A. et al. (2014) 'A novel 99mTc labelling strategy for the development of silica based particles for medical applications', Dalton Transactions, 43(11), pp. 4260–4263. doi: 10.1039/C3DT53019A.
Devaux, A. et al. (2013) 'Self-absorption and luminescence quantum yields of dye-zeolite L composites', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(44), pp. 23034–23047. doi: 10.1021/jp408556g.
Riedl, W. et al. (2013) 'Energy-related chemical research at the universities of applied sciences', Chimia, 67(7-8), pp. 611–613. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2013.611.
Fois, E. et al. (2013) 'Host-guest interactions and orientation of dyes in the one-dimensional channels of zeolite L', Langmuir, 29(29), pp. 9188–9198. doi: 10.1021/la400579w.
Gartmann, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2011) 'Correlation of nitrogen sorption and confocal laser scanning microscopy for the analysis of amino group distributions on mesoporous silica', Materials, 4(6), pp. 1096–1103. doi: 10.3390/ma4061096.
López-Duarte, I. et al. (2011) 'On the significance of the anchoring group in the design of antenna materials based on phthalocyanine stopcocks and zeolite L', Chemistry - A European Journal, 17(6), pp. 1855–1862. doi: 10.1002/chem.201002210.
Gartmann, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2011) 'Functional group distributions on mesoporous silica', Chimia, 65(4), pp. 250–252. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2011.250.
Ince, M. et al. (2011) 'Synthesis of subphthalocyanines as probes for the accessibility of silica nanochannels', Organic Letters, 13(18), pp. 4918–4921. doi: 10.1021/ol2019983.
Calzaferri, G. et al. (2011) 'Designing dye-nanochannel antenna hybrid materials for light harvesting, transport and trapping', ChemPhysChem, 12(3), pp. 580–594. doi: 10.1002/cphc.201000947.
Ma, Y. et al. (2011) 'Microspectroscopic analysis of green fluorescent proteins infiltrated into mesoporous silica nanochannels', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 356(1), pp. 123–130. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.12.082.
Bauer, C. et al. (2011) 'Self-organized patterns of microparticles in polymer films', Thin Solid Films, 519(11), pp. 3674–3678. doi: 10.1016/j.tsf.2011.01.253.
Ritter, H., Ramm, J. H. and Brühwiler, D. (2010) 'Influence of the structural properties of mesoporous silica on the adsorption of guest molecules', Materials, 3(8), pp. 4500–4509. doi: 10.3390/ma3084500.
Calzaferri, G. et al. (2010) 'Surprising properties of a furo-furanone', Chemistry - A European Journal, 16(37), pp. 11289–11299. doi: 10.1002/chem.201000728.
Gasecka, A. et al. (2010) 'Probing molecular order in zeolite L inclusion compounds using two-photon fluorescence polarimetric microscopy', The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114(12), pp. 4192–4198. doi: 10.1021/jp9116529.
Brühwiler, D. (2010) 'Postsynthetic functionalization of mesoporous silica', Nanoscale, 2(6), pp. 887–892. doi: 10.1039/c0nr00039f.
Gartmann, N. et al. (2010) 'The effect of water on the functionalization of mesoporous silica with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 1(1), pp. 379–382. doi: 10.1021/jz9002795.
Ramm, J. H., Gartmann, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2010) 'Direct synthesis and fluorescent imaging of bifunctionalized mesoporous iodopropyl-silica', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 345(2), pp. 200–205. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.01.070.
Dienel, T. et al. (2010) 'Spectral-based analysis of thin film luminescent solar concentrators', Solar Energy, 84(8), pp. 1366–1369. doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.04.015.
Brühwiler, D. et al. (2009) 'Nanochannels for supramolecular organization of luminescent guests', Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19(43), pp. 8040–8067. doi: 10.1039/B907308F.
Ritter, H. and Brühwiler, D. (2009) 'Accessibility of amino groups in postsynthetically modified mesoporous silica', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113(24), pp. 10667–10674. doi: 10.1021/jp901983j.
Brühwiler, D. et al. (2009) 'Functionalized silicate nanochannels : towards applications in drug delivery and solar energy conversion', Chimia, 63(1-2), pp. 8–13. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2009.8.
Ritter, H. et al. (2009) 'A comparative study of the functionalization of mesoporous silica MCM-41 by deposition of 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane from toluene and from the vapor phase', Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 121(1-3), pp. 79–83. doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2009.01.006.
Gartmann, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2009) 'Kontrolle und Visualisierung der Verteilung funktioneller Gruppen auf mesoporösem Siliciumdioxid', Angewandte Chemie, 121(34), pp. 6472–6475. doi: 10.1002/ange.200902436.
Gartmann, N. and Brühwiler, D. (2009) 'Controlling and imaging the functional-group distribution on mesoporous silica', Angewandte Chemie: International Edition, 48(34), pp. 6354–6356. doi: 10.1002/anie.200902436.
Dieu, L.-Q. et al. (2008) 'Novel phthalocyanine based stopcock for zeolite L', Chemical Communications, 2008(10), pp. 1187–1189. doi: 10.1039/B714995F.
Calzaferri, G., Li, H. and Brühwiler, D. (2008) 'Dye-modified nanochannel materials for photoelectronic and optical devices', Chemistry - A European Journal, 14(25), pp. 7442–7449. doi: 10.1002/chem.200800811.
Brühwiler, D., Dieu, L.-Q. and Calzaferri, G. (2007) 'Nanochannel materials for quantum solar energy conversion devices', Chimia, 61(12), pp. 820–822. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2007.820.
Salmio, H. and Brühwiler, D. (2007) 'Distribution of amino groups on a mesoporous silica surface after submonolayer deposition of aminopropylsilanes from an anhydrous liquid phase', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111(2), pp. 923–929. doi: 10.1021/jp0651440.
Devaux, A. et al. (2007) 'Nanochannels for supramolecular organisation of dyes', Chimia, 61(10), pp. 626–630. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2007.626.
Calzaferri, G. et al. (2006) 'Light-harvesting host–guest antenna materials for quantum solar energy conversion devices', Comptes Rendus Chimie, 9(2), pp. 214–225. doi: 10.1016/j.crci.2005.03.026.
Yunus, S. et al. (2006) 'Hexagonal network organization of dye-loaded zeolite L crystals by surface-tension driven autoassembly', Advanced Functional Materials, 16(17), pp. 2213–2217. doi: 10.1002/adfm.200600255.
Brühwiler, D. and Calzaferri, G. (2005) 'Selective functionalization of the external surface of zeolite L', Comptes Rendus Chimie, 8(3-4), pp. 391–398. doi: 10.1016/j.crci.2004.11.008.
Ban, T., Brühwiler, D. and Calzaferri, G. (2004) 'Selective modification of the channel entrances of zeolite L with triethoxysilylated coumarin', The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(42), pp. 16348–16352. doi: 10.1021/jp048516i.
Brühwiler, D. and Calzaferri, G. (2004) 'Molecular sieves as host materials for supramolecular organization', Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 72(1-3), pp. 1–23. doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2004.03.027.
Zabala Ruiz, A. et al. (2004) 'Synthesis of zeolite L : tuning size and morphology', Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, 136(1), pp. 77–89. doi: 10.1007/s00706-004-0253-z.
Leiggener, C., Brühwiler, D. and Calzaferri, G. (2003) 'Luminescence properties of Ag2S and Ag4S2 in zeolite A', Journal of Materials Chemistry, 13(8), pp. 1969–1977. doi: 10.1039/B303937B.
Brühwiler, D. and Frei, H. (2003) 'Structure of Ni(II) and Ru(III) ammine complexes grafted onto mesoporous silicate sieve', The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107(33), pp. 8547–8556. doi: 10.1021/jp0300795.
Brühwiler, D. et al. (2002) 'Luminescent silver sulfide clusters', The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 106(15), pp. 3770–3777. doi: 10.1021/jp012453b.
Calzaferri, G. et al. (2001) 'Quantum-sized silver, silver chloride and silver sulfide clusters', Journal of Imaging Science & Technology, 45(4), pp. 331–339.
Calzaferri, G. et al. (2000) 'Playing with dye molecules at the inner and outer surface of zeolite L', Solid State Sciences, 2(4), pp. 421–447. doi: 10.1016/S1293-2558(00)00129-1.
Brühwiler, D., Seifert, R. and Calzaferri, G. (1999) 'Quantum-sized silver sulfide clusters in zeolite A', The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 103(31), pp. 6397–6399. doi: 10.1021/jp990498v.
Brühwiler, D., Gfeller, N. and Calzaferri, G. (1998) 'Resorufin in the channels of zeolite L', The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 102(16), pp. 2923–2929. doi: 10.1021/jp980019c.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Zabala Ruiz, A. et al. (2008) 'Controlling Size and Morphology of Zeolite L', in Schubert, U., Hüsing, N., and Laine, R. (eds) Materials syntheses. Wien: Springer, pp. 9–19. doi: 10.1007/978-3-211-75125-1_1.