个人简介

Richard Dronskowski was born in Brilon, Germany, in 1961, and he studied chemistry and physics at the University of Münster in the early 1980s. After having received his diplomas in 1987 and 1989, he got his Ph. D. (Dr. rer. nat., to be precise) in 1990 from the Technical University of Stuttgart and the (neighboring) Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research; the thesis was entitled "Condensed Clusters in Oxides and Arsenides of Molybdenum". Five years later, he received both habilitation and venia legendi from the University of Dortmund. Boy, those were the good old days! In his professional career he worked as a visiting scientist at Cornell University and at the above-mentioned Max Planck Institute at Stuttgart. In 1997 he took the Chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry and became Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University. In 2006 this chair was eventually given a new name (see above) to better reflect the particular research that is being done here.

研究领域

Festkörper- und Quantenchemie

In a nutshell, the Dronskowski group is specializing in the fields of synthetic and quantum-theoretical solid-state chemistry, bordering with materials science, solid-state and theoretical physics, crystallography, as well as quantum and computational chemistry. In detail, we are synthesizing novel, sometimes extremely sensitive, compounds and elucidate their compositions and crystal structures by means of X-ray and neutron diffractional techniques. The characterization of their physical properties, that is, electronic transport and magnetism, also plays a very important role. We regularly perform solid-state quantum-chemical calculations from first principles to yield the electronic (band) structures and, in particular, to extract the important chemical bonding information needed to thoroughly understand the interplay between chemistry and physics. We have been a major player in making theoretical approaches an essential part of solid-state chemistry. Indeed, the ultimate quest for prediction and understanding is at the very center of our research; thus, syntheses are theory-driven and experiments challenge theories. Alternatively expressed, we have given up any unnecessary fencing between synthetic and theoretical approaches. At the present moment, we expect the most exciting research opportunities in the fields of extended nitrides and oxynitrides, magnetic intermetallics, cyanamides and carbodiimides, and, also, in the quantum-chemical modeling of hypothetical phases and very large solid-state systems. In addition, there is an enormous scientific and, possibly, economical potential in (pathological) biomineralization, namely on the borderline between chemistry and medicine.

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[1] First-Principles Studies of Extended Nitride Materials, P. Kroll, B. Eck, R. Dronskowski, Adv. Mater. 2000, 12, 307. Predicting new ferromagnetic nitrides from electronic structure theory: IrFe3N and RhFe3N, J. von Appen, R. Dronskowski, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 43, 1205. Synthesis, crystal structure and magnetic properties of the semi-hard itinerant ferromagnet RhFe3N, A. Houben, P. Müller, J. von Appen, H. Lueken, R. Niewa, R. Dronskowski, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 7212. Mysterious Platinum Nitride, J. von Appen, M.-W. Lumey, R. Dronskowski, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 4365. Composition and formation mechanism of zirconium oxynitride films produced by reactive direct current magnetron sputtering, J. M. Ngaruiya, O. Kappertz, C. Liesch, P. Müller, R. Dronskowski, M. Wuttig, Phys. Stat. Sol. A 2004, 201, 967. Quantum-Chemical Studies on the Geometric and Electronic Structures of Bertholloide Cobalt Oxynitrides, M.-W. Lumey, R. Dronskowski, Adv. Funct. Mat. 2004, 14, 371. First-Principles Electronic Structure, Chemical Bonding and High-Pressure Phase Prediction of the Oxynitrides of Vanadium, Niobium and Tantalum, M-W. Lumey, R. Dronskowski, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2005, 631, 887. The Orbital Origins of Magnetism: From Atoms to Molecules to Ferromagnetic Alloys, G. A. Landrum, R. Dronskowski, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 1560. Chemically Tuning between Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism by Combining Theory and Synthesis in Iron/Manganese Rhodium Borides, R. Dronskowski, K. Korczak, H. Lueken, W. Jung, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 2528. Synthesis, Structure Determination, and Quantum-Chemical Characterization of an Alternate HgNCN Polymorph, X. Liu, P. Müller, P. Kroll, R. Dronskowski, Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 4259. Formation of Complex Three- and One-Dimensional Interpenetrating Networks within Carbodiimide Chemistry: NCN2--Coordinated Rare-Earth-Metal Tetrahedra and Condensed Alkali-Metal Iodide Octahedra in Two Novel Lithium Europium Carbodiimide Iodides, LiEu2(NCN)I3 and LiEu4(NCN)3I3, W. Liao, C. Hu, R. K. Kremer, R. Dronskowski, Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 5884. Eu8(NCN)5-dI6+2d (d = 0.05): a Novel Rare-Earth Carbodiimide Iodide containing Oligomeric Tritetrahedral Eu8 Clusters, W. Liao, B. P. T. Fokwa, R. Dronskowski, Chem. Commun. 2005, 3612. A theoretical study on the existence and structures of some hypothetical first-row transition-metal M(NCN) compounds, M. Launay, R. Dronskowski, Z. Naturforsch. B 2005, 60, 701. Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Properties of MnNCN, the first Carbodiimide of a Magnetic Transition Metal, X. Liu, M. Krott, P. Müller, C. Hu, H. Lueken, R. Dronskowski, Inorg. Chem. 2004, 44, 3001. A Novel Method for Synthesizing Crystalline Copper Carbodiimide, CuNCN. Structure Determination by X-ray Rietveld Refinement, X. Liu, M. A. Wankeu, H. Lueken, R. Dronskowski, Z. Naturforsch. B 2005, 60, 593. The amount of calcium-deficient hexagonal hydroxyapatite in aortic valves is influenced by gender and associated with genetic polymorphisms in patients with severe calcific aortic stenosis, J. R. Ortlepp, F. Schmitz, V. Mevissen, S. Weiss, J. Huster, R. Dronskowski, G. Langebartels, R. Autschbach, K. Zerres, C. Weber, P. Hanrath, R. Hoffmann, Eur. Heart. J. 2004, 25, 514. Chemical analyses and X-ray diffraction investigations of human hydroxyapatite minerals from aortic valve stenoses, L. Stork, P. Müller, R. Dronskowski, J. R. Ortlepp, Z. Kristallogr. 2005, 220, 201. Atomistic Simulations of Solid-State Materials based on Crystal-Chemical Potential Concepts: Basic Ideas and Implementation; B. Eck, R. Dronskowski, J. Alloys Compd. 2002, 338, 136. A Geminal Model for the Electronic Structures of Extended Systems, A. Tokmachev, R. Dronskowski, Chem. Phys. 2006, 322, 423. A Theoretical Search for Intermetallic Compounds and Solution Phases in the Binary System Sn/Zn, J. von Appen, K. Hack, R. Dronskowski, J. Alloys Compd. 2004, 379, 110. Tetrasulphur Tetranitride: Phase Transition and Crystal Structure at Elevated Temperature, S. H. Irsen, P. Jacobs, R. Dronskowski, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2001, 627, 321. Temperature-Dependent Diffraction Studies on the Phase Evolution of Tetraindium Heptabromide, M. Scholten, P. Kölle, R. Dronskowski, J. Solid State Chem. 2003, 174, 349. Hydrogen Bonding in the Crystal Structures of the Ionic Liquid Compounds Butyldimethylimidazolium Hydrogen Sulfate, Chloride and Chloroferrate(II,III), P. Kölle, R. Dronskowski, Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 2803. Some A6B5O18 cation-deficient perovskites in the BaO-La2O3-TiO2-Nb2O5 system, H. Zhang, L. Fang, R. Dronskowski, P. Müller, R. Z. Yuan, J. Solid State Chem. 2004, 177, 4007.