Lothar Houben

Research interests

Publications

• Electrostatic co-assembly of nanoparticles with oppositely charged small molecules into static and dynamic superstructures

  Nature Chemistry · 2021 · 10.1038/s41557-021-00752-9

• Large lattice distortions and size-dependent bandgap modulation in epitaxial halide perovskite nanowires

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-14365-2

• A mechanism of ferritin crystallization revealed by cryo-STEM tomography

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2104-4

• Ni–WSe 2 nanostructures as efficient catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in acidic and alkaline media

  Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2019 · 10.1039/c9ta10990k

• Resolution and aberration correction in liquid cell transmission electron microscopy

  Nature Reviews Materials · 2018 · 10.1038/s41578-018-0071-2

• Surface-Guided CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Nanowires on Flat and Faceted Sapphire with Size-Dependent Photoluminescence and Fast Photoconductive Response

  Nano Letters · 2017 · 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04310

• Nucleation, Growth, and Structural Transformations of Perovskite Nanocrystals

  Chemistry of Materials · 2017 · 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b04841

• A Mechanistic Study of Phase Transformation in Perovskite Nanocrystals Driven by Ligand Passivation

  Chemistry of Materials · 2017 · 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02425

• Tunable porous nanoallotropes prepared by post-assembly etching of binary nanoparticle superlattices

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aan6046

• Enantioselective control of lattice and shape chirality in inorganic nanostructures using chiral biomolecules

  Nature Communications · 2014 · 10.1038/ncomms5302

• Cryo-scanning transmission electron tomography of vitrified cells

  Nature Methods · 2014 · 10.1038/nmeth.2842

• Edge and confinement effects allow in situ measurement of size and thickness of liquid-exfoliated nanosheets

  Nature Communications · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5576

• Line Defects in Molybdenum Disulfide Layers

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · 2013 · 10.1021/jp403976d

• Controlling the Orientation, Edge Geometry, and Thickness of Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene

  ACS Nano · 2013 · 10.1021/nn3049297

• Controllable Atomic Scale Patterning of Freestanding Monolayer Graphene at Elevated Temperature

  ACS Nano · 2013 · 10.1021/nn3053582

• Formation and Analysis of Core–Shell Fine Structures in Pt Bimetallic Nanoparticle Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · 2012 · 10.1021/jp306426a

• Direct Imaging of Single Au Atoms Within GaAs Nanowires

  Nano Letters · 2012 · 10.1021/nl300314k

• New Route for Stabilization of 1T-WS 2 and MoS 2 Phases

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jp2076325

• Hybrid nanoscale inorganic cages

  Nature Materials · 2010 · 10.1038/nmat2848

• On the benefit of the negative-spherical-aberration imaging technique for quantitative HRTEM

  Ultramicroscopy · 2009 · 10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.10.006

• Method for Suppression of Stacking Faults in Wurtzite III−V Nanowires

  Nano Letters · 2009 · 10.1021/nl803524s

• Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films

  Nature Materials · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1808

• Intrinsic microcrystalline silicon: A new material for photovoltaics

  Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0927-0248(99)00140-3

• Texture etched ZnO:Al coated glass substrates for silicon based thin film solar cells

  Thin Solid Films · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-6090(99)00085-1

• Structural properties of microcrystalline silicon in the transition from highly crystalline to amorphous growth

  Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties · 1998 · 10.1080/01418619808214262

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