Title of thesis: Structure and relaxation dynamics of comb-like polymers with rigid backbone
Date of defence: August 16, 2017
Methods:
- X-ray diffraction, Dynamic mechanical analysis, Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS)
Category: Former Members
Dr. Baumann, Monika – Experimental physics (Balbach, MLU)
Title of thesis: Biophysikalische Untersuchungen an Amyloidfibrillen
Date of defence: June 19, 2017
Methods:
- Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), 1H, 15N, 13C, High-pressure NMR, Protein expression and purification, DNA modification, Circular Dichroism (CD) spectroscopy
Dr. Jbeily, Mark – Physical chemistry (Kreßler, MLU)
Title of thesis: Fluorophilicity in Biologically Relevant Systems Studied with Fluorinated Rhodamines
Date of defence: April 21, 2017
Research topic: Amphiphilic block copolymers synthesis
Methods:
- Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP)
- Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT)
- Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
- Synthetic fluorophylic dyes
Dr. Fuchs, Christian – Phys. chemistry (Kreßler, MLU)
Title of thesis: “Selbstorganisation von Homopolymeren und amphiphilen Triblockcopolymeren auf wässrigen Subphasen”
Date of defence: February 27. 2017
Research topic: Polymer chains at the air-water interface
Methods:
- Monolayer microscopy
- Langmuir measurements
- Brewster angle microscopy
- Langmuir-Blodgett
Dr. Roos, Matthias – Experimental physics (Saalwächter, MLU)
Title of thesis: “Brownian Dynamics of Globular Proteins under Macromolecular Crowding as Studied by NMR”
Date of defence: December 16, 2016
Research topic: Concentrated protein solutions and molecular dynamics via NMR
Methods:
- Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
- Spin relaxation
- Spin diffusion
- Pulse Field Gradient (PFG) NMR
- Micro-viscometer
Dr. Anton, Arthur Markus – Experimental physics (Kremer, UL)
Title of thesis: “Infrarotspektroskopie zur Strukturanalyse weicher Materie”
Date of defence: November 15th, 2016
Research topic: Structure-property relationships in spider silk
Methods:
- Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) (temperature, pressure, orientation)
Dr. Aguiar da Silva, Cecilia – Polymer engineering (Beiner, MLU)
Title of thesis: “Influence of morphology on the softening behavior of vulcanized BR-SBR diblock copolymers”
Date of defence: November 4, 2016
Research topic: Composites with self-assembled block copolymer matrices
Dr. Seidlitz, Anne – Experimental physics (Thurn-Albrecht, MLU)
Title of thesis: “Einfluss von Kristallisationskinetik und Dynamik im Kristall und in der Schmelze auf die Strukturbildung teilkristalliner Polymere”
Date of defence: July 14, 2016
Research topic: Effects of topological constraints in polymer melts on crystallization and structure formation
Methods:
- Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)
- Polarization Microscopy
- Rheology
Dr. Yan, Tingzi – Experimental physics (Thurn-Albrecht, MLU)
Title of thesis: “Self-assembly, rheological properties and self-healing studies of supramolecular polymers in the bulk state”
Date of defence: November 30, 2015
Research topic: Dynamics of self-assembled supramolecular polymers
Methods:
- Rheology
- Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)
- Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)