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
Category: Former Members
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)
Dr. Babur, Tamoor – Experimental physics (Beiner, MLU)
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)
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)
