Freie Universität Berlin (FU-Berlin)
Institut für Chemie und Biochemie (SupraFAB)
Altensteinstraße 23A
D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Office: 205
Mail: christian.halbig@fu-berlin.de
Phone: +49 (0) 30 838 63201
Scientific
From 2D Materials to 3D Structures
Current Research Focus
Fundamental Aspects on the Formation, Structure and Functionalisation of oxo-functionalized Graphene and thereout derived Graphene
Ph.D. Thesis
Synthese und Charakterisierung von Uran-IV-Komplexen mit Chalcogenid-Liganden
Bachelor Thesis
Research Topics
2D Materials – Graphene and Graphene Oxide
Functionalisation
Post-Processing and Application
Awards
Forum Junge Spitzenforschung 2025
Finalist and 4th place with “CompactWater”
Science & Startups Berlin 2025
Winner in the idea competition “100-to-100”
Tiburtius-Award 2019
3rd price for outstanding dissertation in Berlin
Students
Internship Students
Ruber Bingül (2026)
Faira Akmal (2025)
Jhih-Syuan Wang (2025)
Julia Bahnemann (2022)
MSc. Thesis
Shenquan Wei (2024)
BSc. Thesis
Alexandra Topaj (2025)
Mariam Sbaiti (2023)
Jordis Take (2022)
Senada Hamcik (2017)
Karin Marz (2016)
Curriculum Vitae
since 11/2021
PostDoc with focus on applied nanomaterials at FU Berlin, Germany
04/2019 – 11/2021
PostDoc at National University of Singapore (in the Lab of Prof. Dr. Slaven Garaj)
02/2017 – 12/2018
PhD-student in organic chemistry at FU Berlin, Germany
09/2014 – 02/2017
PhD-student in organic chemistry at Joint Institute of Advanced Materials and Processes (ZMP) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
04/2013 – 08/2014
Study of third subject at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg “Erweiterungsfach: Geographie”
10/2008 – 03/2013
Begin of studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg “Lehramt Gymnasium Biologie und Chemie”
Publications
- A. Dimiev*, C. E. Halbig*, A. Talyzin*
A critical review to avoid common misinterpretations in characterizing graphene oxide
Chem. Rev. 2026, 126, 5, 3055-3088 - C. E. Halbig*, R. Zambare, B. Mukherjee, S. Garaj*
The multidiverse graphene oxide: How the fine structure affects structural analysis and performance in reverse osmosis membranes
Carbon Trends, 2025, 21, 100565. - X. Chen*, S. Wolff, S. Zuieva, R. Schusterbauer, R. Shaikh, C. E. Halbig, A. Habel, R. Gillen, K. C. Knirsch, I. Donskyi, S. Eigler, J. Maultzsch, A. Hirsch
Patterned Assembly of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide/Graphene Heterostructures via Direct Laser Writing
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025, 35, 43, 2425776. - L. Merkel, C. Neumann, C. E. Halbig, A. Habel, X. Chen, A. Turchanin, S. Eigler*
Orthogonal Functionalization of Oxo-Graphene Nanoribbons.
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 21, 5, e20250482e. - C. E. Halbig,* F. Fels, S. Wei, R. Schusterbauer, I. Donskyi, M. R. Heinrich*, S. Eigler
Controlled Growth of Oligophenylene-Structures on Graphene for Facile Secondary functionalization.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 64, e202504482. - L. Merkel, A. Setaro, C. E. Halbig, S. Shimizu, T. Yoshii, H. Nishihara, T. Hilal, G. Algra-Siller, C. Koch, S. Eigler*
Structural Model of Oxidatively Unzipped Narrow Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon 2024, 229, 119454. - F. Grote, B. I. Weintrub, M. Kreßler, Q. Cao, C. E. Halbig, P. Kusch, K. Bolotin, S. Eigler*
Evidence for Trans-Oligoene Chain Formation in Graphene Induced by Iodine
Small 2024, 20, 32, 2311987. - C. E. Halbig*, B. Mukherjee, S. Eigler, S. Garaj*
Origin of oxygen in graphene oxide revealed by 17O and 18O isotopic labelling.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 11, 7431–7438. - R. Malhotra, C. E. Halbig, Y. F. Sim, C. T. Lim, D. T. Leong, A. H. Castro Neto*, S. Garaj*, V. Rosa*
Cytotoxicity survey of commercial graphene materials from worldwide.
npj 2D Mater. Appl. 2022, 6, 1 65. - M. Li, W.-W. Zuo, Q. Wang, K.-L. Wang, M.-P. Zhuo, H. Köbler, C. E. Halbig, S. Eigler*, Y.-G. Yang, X.-Y. Gao, Z.-K. Wang*, Y. Li, A. Abate*
Ultrathin Nanosheets of Oxo-functionalized Graphene Inhibit the Ion Migration in Perovskite Solar Cells.
Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 1902653. - P. Feicht*, J. Biskupek, T. E. Gorelik, J. Renner, C. E. Halbig, M. Mranska, F. Puchtler, U. Kaiser, S. Eigler*
Brodie or Hummers – Oxidation conditions determine the structure of graphene oxide.
Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 38, 8955-8959. - C. E. Halbig, R. Lasch, J. Krüll, A. Pirzer, Z. P. Wang, J. N. Kirchhof, K. I. Bolotin, M. R. Heinrich*, S. Eigler*
Selective functionalization of graphene at defect activated sites by arylazocarboxylic tert-butylesters.
Angew. Chem. 2019, 58, 3559-5603. - K. W. Silverstein, C. E. Halbig, J. S. Mehta, A Sharma, S. Eigler*, J. M. Mativetsky*
Voltage-Reduced Low-Defect Graphene Oxide: A High Conductivity, Near-Zero Temperature Coefficient of Resistance Material.
Nanoscale 2019, 11, 3112-3116. - L. Han, Y. Sun, S. Li, C. Cheng, C. E. Halbig, P. Feicht, P. Strasser*, S. Eigler*
In-plane Carbon Lattice-defect Regulating Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide Production over Nitrogen-doped Graphene.
ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 1283-1288. - C. E. Halbig, O. Martin, F. Hauke, S. Eigler*, A. Hirsch*
Oxo-Functionalized Graphene – A Versatile for Alkylated Graphene Sheets by Reductive Functionalization.
Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 13348-13354. - S. Seiler, C. E. Halbig, F. Grote, P. Rietsch, F. Börrnert, U. Kaiser, B. Meyer,* and S. Eigler*
Effect of friction on oxidative graphite intercalation and high-quality graphene formation.
Nat. Commun., 2018, 9, 836. - T. J. Nacken, C. E. Halbig, S. Wawra, C. Damm, S. Romeis, J. Walter, M. J. Tehrani, Y. Ishii, S. Eigler*, W. Peukert*
Structural factors controlling size reduction of graphene oxide in liquid processing.
Carbon, 2017, 125, 360-369. - P. Feicht, R. Siegel, H. Thurm, J. W. Neubauer, M. Seuss, T. Szabo, A. V. Talyzin, C. E. Halbig, S. Eigler, D. A. Kunz, A. Fery, G. Papastavrou, J. Senker, J. Breu*
Systematic evaluation of different types of graphene oxide in respect to variations in their in-plane modulus.
Carbon, 2017, 114, 700-705. - B. Butz*, C. Dolle, C. E. Halbig, E. Spiecker, S. Eigler*
Highly Intact and Pure Oxo-Functionalized Graphene: Synthesis and Electron-Beam-Induced Reduction.
Nahezu vollständig intaktes und sauberes oxo-functionalisiertes Graphen – Synthese und elektronenstrahlinduzierte Reduktion.
Angew. Chem., 2016, 128 (51), 16003-16006.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55 (51), 15771-15774. - H. Pieper, C. E. Halbig, L. Kovbasyuk, S. Eigler*, A. Mokhir*
Oxo-functionalized graphene as cell membrane carrier of nucleic acid probes controlled by aging.
Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 22 (43), 15389-15395. - A. Naumov*, F. Grote, M. Overgaard, A. Roth, C. E. Halbig, K. Nørgaard, D. M. Guldi, S. Eigler*
Graphene Oxide: A One- versus Two-Component Material.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (36), 11445–11448. - S. M. Belade-Mousavi, S. Sadaf, L. Walder*, M. Gallei, C. Rüttiger, S. Eigler, C. E. Halbig
Poly(vinylferrocene) – Reduced Graphene Oxide as a High Power / High Capacity Cathodic Battery Material.
Adv. Energy Mater., 2016, 6, 1600108. - C. E. Halbig, T. J. Nacken, J. Walter, C. Damm, S. Eigler*, W. Peukert
Quantitative investigation of the fragmentation process and defect density evolution of oxo-functionalized graphene due to ultrasonication and milling.
Carbon, 2016, 96, 897-903. - S. Schindler, F. Vollnhals, C. E. Halbig, H. Marbach, H.-P. Steinrück, C. Papp*, S. Eigler*
Focused Electron Beam based Direct-Write Fabrication of Graphene and Amorphous Carbon from Oxo-Functionalized Graphene on Silicon Dioxide.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 2683-2686. - H. Chen, Y. Hou, C. E. Halbig, S. Chen, H. Zhang, N. Li, F. Guo, X. Tang*, N. Gasparini, I. Levchuk, S. Kahmann, C. O. R. Quiroz, A. Osvet, S. Eigler, C. J. Brabec*
Extending the environmental lifetime of unpackaged perovskite solar cells through interfacial design.
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 11604-11610. - R. Flynt*, W. Knolle, A. Kahnt, C. E. Halbig, S. Eigler, A. Lotnyk, T. Häuptl, A. Prager, B. Abel*
High quality reduced graphene oxide flakes by fast kinetically controlled and clean indirect UV-induced radical reduction.
Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 7572-7579. - H. Pieper, S. Chercheja, S. Eigler, C. E. Halbig, M. R. Filipovic, A. Mokhir*
Endoperoxides revealed as origin of toxicity of graphene oxide
Toxizität von Graphenoxid: Endoperoxide als Ursache.
Angew. Chem., 2016, 128, 413-416.
Angew. Chem. Int. E., 2016, 55, 405-407. - C. E. Halbig, P. Rietsch, S. Eigler*
Towards the Synthesis of Graphene Azide from Graphene Oxide.
Molecules, 2015, 20, 21050-21057.