Prof. Thomas Fässler

Curriculum Vitae

Research

Synthetic Methods in Inorganic Chemistry

A distinctive combination of synthesis methods allow for the investigation of inorganic materials and soluble main group element compounds. For solids the major activities include the development of energy conversion and storage materials such as new lithium and sodium ion conductors or semiconductors. For molecular atom clusters species such as anionic nine-atom clusters are exciting starting point for the development of nano-scaled materials or catalytically active main-group element molecules. A broad range of synthetic methods, structural characterization techniques (X-ray and neutron diffraction), spectroscopic methods, and physical property measurements such as impedance and magnetic measurements are applied. State-of-art quantum chemical methods are used to deepen the understanding of non-classical bonds in atom clusters and the electronic band structure of solids (see research overview).