Achim Müller

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Professor Achim Müller (born in Detmold, Germany) is a German scientist. He completed his doctorate with Prof. O. Glemser at the University of Göttingen on a topic of experimental thermochemistry in 1965. Müller finished his habilitation on a topic of vibrational spectroscopy in 1967. In 1977 he assumed the helm of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bielefeld and his research interests span an extreme wide arena from spectroscopy, bio-inorganic chemistry, transition metal chemistry to popular science and philosophy of science. Till date he has more than seven hundred publications in reputed international scientific journals to his credit.

He has received several international awards of the field. Müller's discovery of giant spheres of the type Mo₁₃₂ (diameter ca. 3 nm), the wheel shaped Mo₁₅₄ and a large lemon Mo₃₆₈ (as large as 6 nm) has caused a paradigm shift in the matter of concept of single molecules. These single molecules are quite large, this can be shown by taking the length of an oxygen molecule with two atoms (length 0.12 nm) as a meter, then to place Mo₃₆₈ which is 50 times as large requiring a room 50 x 30 x 30 nanometers in size. As of 22nd December 2005, this is the largest inorganic molecule characterized. Müller's recent work demonstrates how cellular processes like ion-transport can be modeled in relation to spherical oxomolybdate capsules. All these clusters also belong to a class commonly known as polyoxometalates.

[edit] References

• A. Müller, S. Roy, J. Mater. Chem. 15 (2005) 4673.
• A. Müller, S. Roy, Co-ord. Chem. Rev. 245 (2003) 153.
• A. Müller, C. Serain, Acc. Chem. Res. 33 (2000) 2.

about him :

• P. Gouzerh, [M. Che], l’actualité chimique juin n° 298 (2006) 9.
• L. Cronin, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45 (2006) 3576.
• N. Hall, Chem. Commun (2003) 803.

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