PD Dr. Michael Walter

Projects within livMatS

• Chemistry of triboelectric materials (TriboGen-Chem)
• Studying the properties of lipids and lipid surfaces for usage in triboelectric nano-generators and beyond
  This project is carried out within the the Cluster’s Agnes Pockels Doctoral Fellowship Program.
• Training Materials like Muscles
• Inorganic and Organic SolStore
• Interfaces, charge-transfer and non-adiabatic processes and their exploitation in a frequency-tunable tribogenerator
  
  

Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

• Pooja Bhat Mulki
  
  

Publications in livMatS

• Contact Electrification via Redox-Active Molecules* early view
  Ranjan, N., Izadi, Z., Gaiser, P., Camarada, M.B., Sharma, R., Weber, A., Daub, M., Hu, Q., Fiederle, M., Mayrhofer, L., Moseler, M., Fischer, A., Walter, M., Esser, B., Balzer, B. (2025). Contact Electrification via Redox-Active Molecules. Angewandte Chemie, e10031. doi: 10.1002/anie.202510031
• Explicit core-hole single-particle methods for L- and M-edge x-ray absorption and electron energy-loss spectra*
  Johnsen, E., Horiuchi, N., Susi, T., & Walter, M. (2025). Explicit core-hole single-particle methods for L- and M-edge x-ray absorption and electron energy-loss spectra. .J. Chem. Phys., 163, 084111. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0275212
• Microenvironments as an Explanation for the Mismatch between Photochemical Absorptivity and Reactivity*
  Carroll, J.A., Pashley-Johnson, F., Klein, M., Stephan, T., Pandey, A.K., Walter, M., Unterreiner, A.N., & Barner-Kowollik, C. (2025). Microenvironments as an Explanation for the Mismatch between Photochemical Absorptivity and Reactivitys. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147 (30), 26643-26651. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c069619, 035601.
• Origin of C(1s) binding energy shifts in amorphous carbon materials*
  Walter, M., Mangolini, F., McClimon, J., Carpick, R., & Moseler, M. (2025). Origin of C(1s) binding energy shifts in amorphous carbon materials. Phys. Rev. Materials, 9, 035601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.9.035601
• Mechanochemical Activation of Anthracene [4+4] Cycloadducts*
  Walter, M., Linsler, D., König, T., Gäbert, C., Reinicke, S., Moseler, M., & Mayrhofer, L. (2023). Mechanochemical Activation of Anthracene [4+4] Cycloadducts. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14, 1445−1451. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03493
• Conformer Ring Flip Enhances Mechanochromic Performance of ansa-Donor–Acceptor–Donor Mechanochromic Torsional Springs*
  Hertel, R., Maftuhin, W., Walter, M., and Sommer, M. (2022). Conformer Ring Flip Enhances Mechanochromic Performance of ansa-Donor–Acceptor–Donor Mechanochromic Torsional Springs. Journal of the American Chemical Society. doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c06712
• Force Dependent Barriers from Analytic Potentials within Elastic Environments*
  Khodayeki, S., Maftuhin, W., & Walter, M. (2022). Force Dependent Barriers from Analytic Potentials within Elastic Environments. ChemPhysChem, e202200237. doi: 10.1002/cphc.202200237
• Phenothiazine-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers as Multifunctional Materials for Charge Storage and Solar Energy Conversion*
  Wessling, R., Delgado Andres, R., Morhenn, I., Acker, P., Maftuhin, W., Walter, M., Würfel, U., Esser, B. (2022). Phenothiazine-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers as Multifunctional Materials for Charge Storage and Solar Energy Conversion. Macro-Molecular Rapid Communications. doi: 10.1002/marc.202200699
• A mechanochromic donor-acceptor torsional spring*
  Raisch, M., Maftuhin, W., Walter, M., & Sommer, M. (2021). A mechanochromic donor-acceptor torsional spring. Nature Communications, 12: 4243. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24501

* Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807