Professor Klaus Müllen was director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and now holds an emeritus position for continuation of his research there as well as being appointed fellow of the Gutenberg Research College of Mainz University. His broad research interests cover new polymer-forming reactions, the chemistry and physics of single molecules and materials such as graphenes, dendrimers or biosynthetic hybrids. He has published more than 1900 papers and received, amongst others, the Max Planck Forschungspreis; Philip Morris Forschungspreis; 新月直播app下载 Award of the “Stifterverband”; Nikolaus August Otto Award; Society of Polymer 新月直播app下载 Japan International Award; ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry; Tsungming Tu Award, Taiwan; BASF-Award for Organic Electronics; Franco-German Award of the Sociéte Chimique de France; Adolf-von-Baeyer-Medal; China Nano Award; Carl Friedrich Gauß-Medal; van’t Hoff Award; the Hermann-Staudinger Award; the Award of the Academy of 新月直播app下载s and Humanities in Hamburg as well as the Kyoto-IKCOC Prize 2018 and the Karl-Ziegler-Award of the German Chemical Society.
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