Research topic: Investigation of (multi-) responsive polymers via ER-spectroscopy
Methods:
- Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
Category: Former Members
Dr. Bärenwald, Ruth – Experimental physics (Saalwächter, MLU)
Research topic: Solid-State NMR Investigations and MD Simulations of Lipid Bilayers in Interaction with Amphiphilic and Polyphilic Molecules
Date of defence: November 07, 2018
Methods:
- Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Magic Angle Spinning (MAS), 1H, 13C NMR, DIPSHIFT, Determination of dipolar coupling
Dr. Kurz, Ricardo – Experimental physics (Saalwächter, MLU)
Research topic: Characterization of crystalline and amorphous phase of semi crystalline polymers by solid state NMR
Date of defence: October 22, 2018
Methods:
- Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
- Double quantum (DQ) NMR
- DIPSHIFT
- Simple Free Induction Decay (FID)
AMK Science Award for publication on the phenomenon of pre-freezing
Congratulations to Dr. Ann-Kristin Flieger. She received the AMK Science Award (Prof.-Hans-Henning-Kausch-Preis) of the Akademie Mitteldeutsche Kunststoffinnovationen for her publication on “Interface-Induced Crystallization of Polycaprolactone on Graphite via First-Order Prewetting of the Crystalline Phase”. The award was conferred at PolymerTec2018 in Merseburg on June 15, 2018. It is dedicated to excellent scientific publications in the field of polymer science and plastics technology. With this price the academy fosters the transfer of knowledge and ideas from research at universities to industry.
Dr. Werlich, Benno – Theoretical physics (Paul, MLU)
Research topic: Intra-molecular structure formation through variation of stiffness and the effect of specific interactions
Date of defence: May 15, 2018
Methods:
- Monte-Carlo simulation (MC)
- Wang-Landau
- Umbrella sampling
- Stochastic Approximation Monte-Carlo (SAMC)
Dr. Hoffmann, Felix – Theoretical Chemistry (Sebastiani, MLU)
Research topic: Structural Driving Forces and Their Spectroscopic Signatures: From Protonation Dynamics to Amyloid Formation
Date of defence: April 23, 2018
Methods:
- Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Dr. Appiah, Clement – Macromolecular chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Research topic: Crystallization of folded and supramolecular polymers
Date of defence: March 20, 2018
Methods:
- Polymer synthesis, Click chemistry, Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), UV spectroscopy
Dr. Müller, Marco – Theoretical physics (Janke, UL)
Research topic: Nonstandard finite-size effects at discontinuous phase transitions – Degenerate low-temperature states and boundary conditions
Date of defence: February 01, 2018
Methods:
- Monte-Carlo simulation (MC)
- Multi canonical
Dr. Kasegoankar, Ajay – Macromolecular chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Title: Synthesis of Complex Polyester-Architectures and their Crystallization
Date of defence: September 14, 2017
Methods:
- Synthesis of polymers
- Click chemistry
- Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- Gel-Permeations-Chromatography (GPC)
Dr. Flieger, Ann-Kristin – Experimental physics (Thurn-Albrecht, MLU)
Title: Grenzflächeninduzierte Kristallisation von Polymeren durch Prefreezing
Date of defence: September 04, 2017
Methods:
- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
- Intermittent Contact Mode
- Temperature dependent
- Diffraction on thin polymer films
- Grazing incidence diffraction (GID)
- X-ray reflectivity (XRR)