Dr. Kathrin Knirsch

Chair of Organic Chemistry II

Akademischer Mittelbau

Address

Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Straße 10 91058 Erlangen

04.041

Contact

Email: kathrin.knirsch@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85-65586

Diploma Thesis

Untersuchungen zur reduktiven Mehrfachaddition an Graphen

Ph.D. Thesis

Functionalization and Characterization of 2D Layered Materials – Graphene and Molybdenum Disulfide

Research Area

Teaching

For further information please visit Studon

Publications

Arslanova K., Shkodra B., Klenk S., Knirsch K., Hirsch A., Kohler-Karaaslan A., Amend N., Steinritz D., Stimpel-Lindner T., Duesberg GS.:
Electrolyte-Gated Graphene FETs for Acetylcholine Detection via Functional Layer-assisted Transfer Approach
In: IEEE Sensors Letters (2026)
ISSN: 2475-1472
DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2026.3653458

Chen X., Wolff S., Zuieva S., Schusterbauer R., Shaikh RM., Halbig CE., Habel A., Gillen R., Knirsch K., Donskyi I., Eigler S., Maultzsch J., Hirsch A.:
Patterned Assembly of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide/Graphene Heterostructures via Direct Laser Writing
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2025), Article No.: 2425776
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202425776

Von Lueders L., Tilmann R., Lee K., Bartlam C., Stimpel-Lindner T., Nevanen TK., Iljin K., Knirsch K., Hirsch A., Duesberg GS.:
Functionalisation of Graphene Sensor Surfaces for the Specific Detection of Biomarkers
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 62 (2023), Article No.: e202219024
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202219024

Chen X., Assebban M., Kohring M., Bao L., Weber HB., Knirsch K., Hirsch A.:
Laser-Triggered Bottom-Up Transcription of Chemical Information: Toward Patterned Graphene/MoS2 Heterostructures
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (2022), p. 9645-9650
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00642
URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.2c00642
Moses Badlyan N., Pettinger N., Enderlein N., Gillen R., Chen X., Zhang W., Knirsch K., Hirsch A., Maultzsch J.:
Oxidation and phase transition in covalently functionalized MoS2
In: Physical Review B 106 (2022), Article No.: 104103
ISSN: 0163-1829
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.104103
Scharl T., Binder G., Chen X., Yokosawa T., Cadranel A., Knirsch K., Spiecker E., Hirsch A., Guldi DM.:
Noncovalent Liquid Phase Functionalization of 2H-WS2with PDI: An Energy Conversion Platform with Long-Lived Charge Separation
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (2022), p. 5834–5840
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c11977

Chen X., Bartlam C., Lloret Segura VJ., Moses Badlyan N., Wolff S., Gillen R., Stimpel-Lindner T., Maultzsch J., Duesberg GS., Knirsch K., Hirsch A.:
Covalent Bisfunctionalization of Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Disulfide
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2021), p. 2-11
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202103353
Chen X., Kohring M., Assebban M., Tywoniuk B., Bartlam C., Moses Badlyan N., Maultzsch J., Duesberg GS., Weber HB., Knirsch K., Hirsch A.:
Covalent Patterning of 2D MoS2
In: Chemistry - A European Journal (2021)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102021
Tilmann R., Weiß C., Cullen CP., Peters L., Hartwig O., Hoeltgen L., Stimpel-Lindner T., Knirsch K., Mcevoy N., Hirsch A., Duesberg GS.:
Highly Selective Non-Covalent On-Chip Functionalization of Layered Materials
In: Advanced Electronic Materials (2021)
ISSN: 2199-160X
DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202000564

Chen X., Denninger P., Stimpel-Lindner T., Spiecker E., Duesberg GS., Backes C., Knirsch K., Hirsch A.:
Defect Engineering of Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Disulfide
In: Chemistry - A European Journal (2020)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000286

Knirsch K., Hof F., Lloret Segura VJ., Mundloch U., Hauke F., Hirsch A.:
Topology-Driven Reductive Silylation of Synthetic Carbon Allotropes
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 138 (2016), p. 15642-15647
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b09487
Knirsch K., Schäfer R., Hauke F., Hirsch A.:
Mono- and Ditopic Bisfunctionalization of Graphene
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55 (2016), p. 5861-5864
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511807

Knirsch K., Nerl HC., Cucinotta CS., Berner N., Gholamvand Z., McEvoy N., Wang Z., Abramovic I., Vecera P., Halik M., Sanvito S., Duesberg GS., Nicolosi V., Hauke F., Hirsch A., Coleman JN., Backes C.:
Basal-Plane Functionalization of Chemically Exfoliated Molybdenum Disulfide by Diazonium Salts
In: ACS nano 9 (2015), p. 6018-6030
ISSN: 1936-0851
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00965

Englert J., Vecera P., Knirsch K., Schäfer R., Hauke F., Hirsch A., Hauke F.:
Scanning-Raman-microscopy for the statistical analysis of covalently functionalized graphene
In: Acs Nano 7 (2013), p. 5472-5482
ISSN: 1936-0851
DOI: 10.1021/nn401481h
Knirsch K., Englert J., Dotzer C., Hauke F., Hirsch A., Hauke F.:
Screening of the chemical reactivity of three different graphite sources using the formation of reductively alkylated graphene as a model reaction
In: Chemical Communications 49 (2013), p. 10811-10813
ISSN: 1359-7345
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc46621c

Englert J., Knirsch K., Dotzer C., Butz B., Hauke F., Hirsch A., Spiecker E.:
Functionalization of graphene by electrophilic alkylation of reduced graphite
In: Chemical Communications 48 (2012), p. 5025-5027
ISSN: 1359-7345
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc31181j