95) Md. Adil, Robin Wessling, Nico Kokott, Elena Mena-Osteritz, Benedikt Prifling, Markus Osenberg, Thomas Diemant, Volker Schmidt, Ingo Manke, Birgit Esser*

“Nickel-Free Synthesis of Poly(pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone) for Sodium-based Batteries: Insights into Electrode Architecture and Reversible Na-ion Insertion”

Adv. Energy Mater. 2026, DOI: 10.1002/aenm.71098

94) Philipp Penert, Bernd Schulz, Axel Florent, Philippe Poizot, Birgit Esser*

“Bi(benzimidazole)-Based Super-Electron-Donors in Redox Polymers as Battery Electrode Materials”

Appl. Polym. Mater. 2026, DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.6c00515

93) Philipp Penert, Lisa Sophie Neige, Christoph Lorenz, Wojciech Stawski, Birgit Esser*

“Aryl Viologen Polymers in High-Voltage Full-Organic Batteries”

Adv. Energy Sustain. Res. 2026, DOI: 10.1002/aesr.202500496

92) Xiaoshuang Xiang, Mathias Hermann, Lei Ye, Philipp Seitz, Lilian Estaque, Grégory Pieters, Thomas Drewellob and Birgit Esser*

“Diketo[n]CPPs as Chiral and Shape-adaptive Fullerene Hosts and Precursors to DBP[n]CPPs”

Chem. Sci. 2026, DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05305F

91) Sathiya Priya Panjalingam, Somayeh Ahadi, Jakob Michael Hesper, Uta Rodehorst, Sascha Nowak, Birgit Esser, Martin Winter, and Peter Bieker*

“Improving Cycle Life and Capacity Retention in PVMPO‖Li Dual-Ion Lithium-Organic Batteries Using an EC-Free and FEC Additive Containing Electrolyte”

Small Methods 2026, DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202501766

90) Luisa Rzesny^‡, Philipp Seitz^‡, Birgit Esser* (‡equal contribution)

“Exploring the World of Double Nanohoops”

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202516208

"Die Welt der Doppelnanoreifen"

Angew. Chem. 2025, DOI: 10.1002/ange.202516208

89) Alexander Tombrink^‡, Mohini Semwal^‡, Tamar Maisuradze^‡, Alexander K. Mengele, Daniel Straub, Alexander J. C. Kuehne, Sven Rau, Stephan Kupfer, Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić,* and Birgit Esser* (‡equal contribution)

“A Donor-Acceptor Photosensitizer-catalyst Dyad for Light-Driven Nicotinamide Hydrogenation”

Chem. Sci., 2026, DOI: 10.1039/D5SC08675B

88) Sathiya Priya Panjalingam, Philipp Penert, Birgit Esser, Martin Winter,and Peter Bieker*

“Low-Carbon Poly(3-vinyl-N-methylphenothiazine) Electrode Formulation Using PEDOT:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate)) for Lithium-Based Energy Storage”

Adv. Energy Sustain. Res. 2025, DOI: 10.1002/aesr.202500428

87) Nisha Ranja^‡, Zohreh Izadi^‡, Philipp Gaiser^‡, María B. Camarada, Rekha Sharma, Andrej Weber, Michael Daub, Qiwei Hu, Michael Fiederle, Leonard Mayrhofer, Michael Moseler, Anna Fischer,* Michael Walter,* Birgit Esser,* and Bizan N. Balzer* (‡equal contribution)

“Contact Electrification via Redox-Active Molecules”

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202510031

86) Anu Gupta^‡, Philipp Seitz^‡, Mathias Hermann, Birgit Esser*, and Ron Naaman* (‡equal contribution)

“Chiral Nanohoops as an Efficient Spin Polarization System”

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202523339

85) Philipp Seitz, Luisa Rzesny, Darleen Busse, Xiaoshuang Xiang, Mathias Hermann, Lilian Estaque, Grégory Pieters, and Birgit Esser*

“Size and Geometry Impact the Chiroptical Properties of Double Nanohoops”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c12590

84) Robin Wessling^‡, Kylie Chinner^‡, Paula Wenz, Clara Douglas, Oliver Dumele*, and Birgit Esser* (‡equal contribution)

“Enhanced Solubility and Deprotection of Pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraones through Propylene Glycol and Propanediol Protection”

Org. Lett. 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c03752

83) Alexia Rocheteau^‡, Luisa Rzesny^‡, Arvinder Singh, Thomas Devic, Mathias Hermann, Joël Gaubicher, Nicolas Dupré, Stéven Renault, Birgit Esser*, and Philippe Poizot* (‡equal contribution)

“From Neutral Zwitterion to Electroactive Disalt: Electrochemical Insights into Double Zwitterionic Viologens for Anion-Insertion Batteries”

Batteries & Supercaps 2025, DOI: 10.1002/batt.202500431

82) Sathiya Priya Panjalingam, Philipp Penert, Birgit Esser, Martin Winter, and Peter Bieker*

“Cyrene—An Alternative Processing Solvent for N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone in the Electrode Processing of Polyvinylphenothiazine Positive Electrodes for Lithium-Organic Batteries”

ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.5c01216

81) Sathiya Priya Panjalingam, Somayeh Ahadi, Markus Boerner, Birgit Esser, Martin Winter, Peter Bieker*

“From Fabrication to Failure—Aqueous Processing, Electrolyte Tuning and Degradation Mechanism Elucidation in Poly(3-vinyl-N-methylphenoxazine) positive electrodes”

ChemSusChem 2025, 00, e202500753, DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202500753

80) Florin Adler, Sebastián Pinto-Bautista, Christoph Lorenz, Lars Hinrichs, Marcel Weil, Birgit Esser*

“Synthesis of Poly(1,4-anthraquinone) Using Catalytic Amounts of Nickel”

Adv. Sci., Early View. e06251. DOI: 10.1002/advs.202506251

79) Sai Feng^‡, Renad Almughathawi^‡, Andrej Weber^‡, Songjun Hou, Chengyang Zhang, Jan S. Wössner, Birgit Esser*, Colin Lambert, Qingqing Wu*, Yueqi Li*, Jinghong Li (‡ equal contribution)

"Dual-State Ambipolar Charge Transport In Antiaromatic [4]CDBP Single-molecule Nanohoops"

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c17115

78) Guangjun Yang, Louis Blechschmidt, Linda Zedler, Clara Zens, Kamil Witas, Maximilian Schmidt, Birgit Esser, Sven Rau, Georgina E. Shillito, Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić, Stephan Kupfer,*

"Excited State Branching Processes in a Ru(II)-based Donor-Acceptor-Donor System"

Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31, e202404671. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202404671

77) Birgit Esser,* Isabel H. Morhenn, Michael Keis

"Phenothiazine Polymers as Versatile Electrode Materials for Next-Generation Batteries

Acc. Mater. Res. 2025, 6, 754–764. 10.1021/accountsmr.5c00053 Selected as "ACS Editors' Choice" article.

76) Lukas Dodell, Matthias Neumann,* Markus Osenberg, André Hilger, Gauthier Studer, Birgit Esser, Ingo Manke, Volker Schmidt

"Quantifying local heterogeneities in the 3D morphology of X-PVMPT battery electrodes based on FIB-SEM measurements"

ACS Mater. Lett. 2025, 7, 1914–1921. DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01552

75) Mathias Hermann, Silas M. A. Battisti, Birgit Esser*

"Effect of Annulation Pattern on the Antiaromaticity of Thioether- and Sulfone-substituted Dinaphthopentalenes"

Asian J. Org. Chem. 2025, 14, e202500231. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.202500231

74) Niklas Ortlieb, Bärbel Tengen, Verena Perner, Martin Winter, Birgit Esser,* Peter Bieker,*, Anna Fischer*

"Improving the Capacity Retention of Poly(vinylphenothiazine) as Battery Electrode Material by Pore Size Engineering of Porous N-doped Carbon Nanospheres as Conductive Additive"

Adv. Funct. Mater. ..., 2422302. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202422302

73) Robin Wessling, Philipp Penert, Birgit Esser*

"How Do Organic Batteries Work? Theoretical and Design Principles of Electrode Materials for All-Organic Batteries"

Adv. Energy Mater. 2025, 2500150. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202500150

72) Philipp J. Welscher, Daniel Straub, Florian Stümpges, A. Lennart Respondek, Birgit Esser, Alexander J. C. Kühne*

"Electron Donor-Functionalized Pyrenes with Amplified Spontaneous Emission for Violet-Blue Electroluminescent Devices Beyond the Spin Statistical Limit"

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 35, 2417129. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202417129

71) Md. Adil, Maximilian Schmidt, Julia Vogt, Thomas Diemant, Martin Oschatz, Birgit Esser*

"Mitigating Dissolution to Enhance the Performance of Pillar[5]quinone in Sodium Batteries"

Batteries & Supercaps 2024, 7, e202400312. DOI: 10.1002/batt.202400312

70) Robin Wessling, Hendrik Koger, Fabian Otteny, Maximilian Schmidt, Arthur Semmelmaier, Birgit Esser*

"Unlocking twofold oxidation in phenothiazine polymers for application in symmetric all-organic anionic batteries"

ACS Appl. Polymer Mater. 2024, 6, 7956–7968. DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.4c00500

69) Liping Wang,* Sibylle Riedel, Alexander Welle, Smobin Vincent, Sirshendu Dinda, Bosubabu Dasari, Juan Maria Garcia Lastra, Birgit Esser, Zhirong Zhao-Karger

"Advancing Reversible Magnesium-Sulfur Batteries with a Self-Standing Gel Polymer Electrolyte"

ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2024, 7, 5857–5868. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.4c01049

68) Sebastian M. Pallasch,^‡ Manik Bhosale,^‡ Glen J. Smales, Caroline Schmidt, Sibylle Riedel, Zhirong Zhao-Karger, Birgit Esser,* Oliver Dumele* (‡equal contribution)

"A Porous Azatruxene Covalent Organic Framework for Anion Insertion in Battery Cells"

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 17318–17324. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c04044.

67) Maximilian Schmidt, Lydia Abellán Vicente, M. Teresa González, Linda Angela Zotti, Birgit Esser,* Edmund Leary*

"Low-lying LUMO Boosts Conductance in Antiaromatic Dibenzopentalene Versus Aromatic Analogues"

Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202400935 (Hot Paper). DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400935

66) Jan Büttner, Rodrigo Delgado, Robin Wessling, Yu Wang, Birgit Esser, Uli Würfel,* Anna Fischer*

"Energy Harvesting and Storage with a High Voltage Organic Inorganic Photo-Battery for Internet of Things Applications"

Energy Technol. 2024, 12, 2301421. DOI: 10.1002/ente.202301421

65) Manik Bhosale, Caroline Schmidt, Philipp Penert, Gauthier Studer, Birgit Esser*

"Anion-Rocking Chair Batteries with Tuneable Voltage using Viologen- and Phenothiazine Polymer-based Electrodes"

ChemSusChem 2024, 17, e202301143. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202301143

64) Bowen Ding, Manik Bhosale, Troy L. R. Bennett, Martin Heeney, Felix Plasser, Birgit Esser,* Florian Glöcklhofer*

"Reducing Undesired Solubility of Squarephaneic Tetraimide for Use as an Organic Battery Electrode Material"

Faraday Discussions  2024, 250, 129–144. DOI: 10.1039/D3FD00145H.

63) Matthias Uhl, Sadeeda, Philipp Penert, Philipp A. Schuster, Benjamin W. Schick, Simon Muench, Attila Farkas, Ulrich S. Schubert, Birgit Esser, Alexander J. C. Kuehne, Timo Jacob*

"All-Organic Battery Based on Deep Eutectic Solvent and Redox-Active Polymers"

ChemSusChem 2024, 17, e202301057. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202301057.

62) Rodrigo Delgado Andrés,^‡ Robin Wessling,^‡ Jan Büttner, Leonie Pap, Anna Fischer, Birgit Esser,* Uli Würfel*

"Organic photo-battery with high operating voltage using a multi-junction organic solar cell and an organic redox-polymer-based battery"

Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16, 5255–5264. DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01822A

61) Philipp Seitz, Manik Bhosale, Luisa Rzesny, Anselm Uhlmann, Jan S. Wössner, Robin Wessling, Birgit Esser*

"Conjugated Nanohoop Polymers based on Antiaromatic Dibenzopentalenes for Charge Storage in Organic Batteries"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202306184. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202306184

60) Gauthier Studer, Alexei Schmidt, Jan Büttner, Maximilian Schmidt, Anna Fischer, Ingo Krossing,* Birgit Esser*

"On a high-capacity aluminium battery with a two-electron phenothiazine redox polymer as positive electrode"

Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16, 3760–3769. DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00235G.

59) Alia Jouhara, Luisa Rzesny, Valentin Rialland, Camille Latouche, Philippe Poizot,* Birgit Esser*

"Fusing thiadiazol and terephthalate: A concept to promote the electrochemical performance of conjugated dicarboxylates"

ChemSusChem 2023, 16, e202300286. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202300286.

58) Mathias Hermann, David C. Grenz, Birgit Esser*

"Engineering the packing structure of thioether- and sulfone-substituted dibenzo[a,e]pentalenes by pentafluorophenyl substitution"

J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2023, 36, e4491. DOI: 10.1002/poc.4491.

57) Josefine Sprachmann, Tommy Wachsmuth, Manik Bhosale, David Burmeister, Glen J. Smales, Maximilian Schmidt, Zdravko Kochovski, Niklas Grabicki, Robin Wessling, Birgit Esser,* Oliver Dumele*

"Antiaromatic Covalent Organic Frameworks Based on Dibenzopentalenes"

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2840–2851. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10501.

56) Gauthier Desmaizieres, Verena Perner, Daniel Wassy, Martin Kolek, Peter Bieker,* Martin Winter, Birgit Esser*

"Evaluating the polymer backbone – vinylene versus styrene – of anisyl-substituted phenothiazines as battery electrode materials"

Batteries & Supercaps 2022, 6, e202200464. DOI: 10.1002/batt.202200464

55) Bärbel Tengen, Timo Winkelmann, Niklas Ortlieb, Verena Perner, Gauthier Studer, Martin Winter, Birgit Esser,* Anna Fischer,* Peter Bieker*

"Immobilizing Poly(vinylphenothiazine) in Ketjenblack-based Electrodes to Access its Full Specific Capacity as Battery Electrode Material"

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2210512; DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202210512.

54) Robin Wessling, Rodrigo Delgado Andres, Isabel H. Morhenn, Pascal Acker, Wafa Maftuhin, Michael Walter,* Uli Würfel,* Birgit Esser*

"Phenothiazine-based donor-acceptor polymers as multifunctional materials for charge storage and solar energy conversion"

Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2024, 45, 2200699. DOI: 10.1002/marc.202200699

53) Alexei Schmidt, Hendrik Koger, Antoine Barthélemy, Gauthier Studer, Birgit Esser, Ingo Krossing*

"Is One of the Least Coordinating Anions Suitable to Serve as Electrolyte Salt for Magnesium Ion Batteries?"

Batteries & Supercaps 2022, e202200340. DOI: 10.1002/batt.202200340

52) Pascal Acker, Jan S Wössner, Gauthier Desmaizieres, and Birgit Esser*

"Conjugated Copolymer Design in Phenothiazine-Based Battery Materials Enables High Mass Loading Electrodes"

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2022, 10, 3236–3244. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c07564

51)  Jan S. Wössner, Julia Kohn, Daniel Wassy, Mathias Hermann, Stefan Grimme, and Birgit Esser*

"Increased Antiaromaticity through Pentalene Connection in [n]Cyclo-1,5-dibenzopentalenes"

Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 983–988. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c03900

50) Birgit Esser,* Jan S Wössner, Mathias Hermann

"Conjugated Nanohoops with Dibenzo[a,e]pentalenes as Non-alternant and Antiaromatic π-Systems"

Synlett 2022, 33, 737–753 DOI: 10.1055/a-1740-7139

See publications from 2013-2021 here and from 2006-2013 here.

3)  Birgit Esser, Helmut Ehrenberg, Maximilian Fichtner, Axel Groß, Jürgen Janek

"Post-Lithium Storage – Shaping the Future"

Adv. Energy Mater. 2024, 2402824. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202402824

2) B. Esser, M. Hermann
"Buckling up zigzag nanobelts"
Nat. Chem. 2021, 13, 209–211. DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00642-0

1) S. Seiffert, B. Esser, J. Thiele
"Trendberichte Makromolekulare Chemie"
Nachrichten aus der Chemie 2015, 63, 336-346

• F. Otteny, G. Desmaizieres, B. Esser, "Phenothiazine-based Redox Polymers for Energy Storage"
  in "Redox Polymers for Energy and Nanomedicine, Ed. N. Casado, D. Mecerreyes, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020.  DOI: 10.1039/9781788019743-00166

• B. Esser, M. Kolek, P. Schmidt, F. Otteny, P. M. Bieker, M. Winter, "Elektrodenmaterial und Komposit-Elektroden auf Basis eines Polymers und Kohlenstoff" Patent Application No.: DE 10 2017 109 655; 05.05.2017.
• T. M. Swager, B. Esser, J. M. Schnorr, "Ethylene Sensor" International Patent Application No.: PCT/US2013/031851; March 15, 2013.
• T. M. Swager, K. A. Mirica, J. M. Azzarelli, J. G. Weis, J. M. Schnorr, B. Esser, "Methods for Deposition of Materials Including Mechanical Abrasion", WO 2013/180801, 05.12.2013.