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Prof. Dr. Sabine Beuermann

 

Professor of Polymer Chemistry

 

Institute of Chemistry, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Golm

 

phone : 49 -331 – 977 5228, fax : 49 – 331 – 977 5059

 

email : sabine.beuermann(at)uni-potsdam.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

 

 

  • Polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide

 

  • Kinetics and mechanisms of radical polymerizations

 

  • Aqueous phase polymerizations

 

  • Continuous polymerizations

 

  • Modeling of polymerization processes

 

  • Controlled radical polymerizations

 

  • Process intensification

 

 

 

TEACHING WS 2006 / 2007

 

 

 

 

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Lecture: Special Aspects of Polymer Synthesis (in English), Tuesday, 15.00 – 16.30, 2.25.F.0.15    

 

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Wahlplichtpraktikum Kolloid- und Polymerchemie, montags

 

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Vertiefungs- und Wahlpflichtpraktikum, nach Vereinbarung

 

 

 

Coworkers

 

 

 

Ines Bastian (secretary)

 

Diana Hill (PhD student)

 

Eleonore Möller (PhD student)

 

Sascha Prentzel (technical staff)

 

Christine Schade (technical staff in education)

 

Muhammad Imran Ul-haq (PhD student)

 

Yingchuan Yu (Master student)

 

 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2006

Professor of Polymer Chemistry, University Potsdam

 

2004

Habilitation with Thesis entitled "Polymerization processes in homogeneous phase of supercritical CO2"
Venia legendi "Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie"

 

1996 –2004

Habilitation at the Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry Group, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

 

2003 - 2004

Task Group Member of three IUPAC projects devoted to the establishment of reliable rate coefficients in radical polymerizations

 

2001

Scientific Secretary of the conference 3rd IUPAC sponsored International Symposium on Free Radical Polymerization: Kinetics and Mechanism, Il Ciocco, Italy (June 2001)

 

2000 - 2002

Task Group Coordinator, IUPAC project: Critically evaluated propagation rate coefficients for free-radical polymerizations of methacrylic acid esters with functional, cyclic and branched ester groups

 

1996 - present 

Member of the IUPAC Working Party "Modeling of Kinetics and Processes of Polymerization" and several IUPAC task groups

 

1995 - 1996

Visiting Research Scientist, CR&D, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, DE, USA

 

1994

Postdoc at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

 

1990 - 1993

Ph.D. Research at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

11 / 1993

Ph.D., Chemistry, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Buback

 

4 / 1990

Diploma in Chemistry, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Buback  

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

“Free-radical propagation rate coefficient of non-ionized methacrylic acid in aqueous solution from low monomer concentrations to bulk polymerization”

S. Beuermann, M. Buback, P. Hesse, I. Lacík

Macromolecules 39, 184 (2006)

 

“Free-radical polymerization kinetics of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-propane sulfonic acid in aqueous solution”

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, P. Hesse, T. Junkers, I. Lacík

Macromolecules 39, 509 (2006)

 

"RAFT Polymerization of Methyl Acrylate in Carbon Dioxide"

T. Arita, S. Beuermann, M. Buback, P. Vana

Macromol. Mater. Eng. 290, 283 (2005)

 

"Kinetics of Free-Radical Polymerization in Homogeneous Phase of scCO2"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback

in M. F. Kemmere, T. Meyer (Eds.), "Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in Polymer Reaction Engineering", Wiley-VCH, S. 55-80, 2005

 

"Critically evaluated rate coefficients for free-radical polymerization, 5. Propagation rate coefficients for butyl acrylate"

J. M. Asua, S. Beuermann, M. Buback, P. Castignolles, B. Charleux, R. G. Gilbert, R. A. Hutchinson, J. R. Leiza, A. N. Nikitin, J.-P. Vairon, A. M. van Herk

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 205, 2151 (2004)

 

"Influence of monomer structure on the propagation kinetics of acrylate and methacrylate homopolymerizations studied via PLP-SEC in fluid CO2"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, V. El Rezzi, M. Jürgens, D. Nelke

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 205, 876 (2004)

 

"PLP-SEC study into free-radical propagation rate coefficients of partially and fully ionized acrylic acid in aqueous solution"

I. Lacík, S. Beuermann, M. Buback

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 205, 1080 (2004)

 

"Rate coefficients of free-radical polymerization in homogeneous fluid mixtures with carbon dioxide"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback

in: "Supercritical fluids as solvents and reaction media", G. Brunner (Hrsg.), Elsevier, S. 573, 2004

 

"A Novel Approach to the Understanding of the Solvent Effects in Radical Polymerization Propagation Kinetics"

S. Beuermann, N. García

Macromolecules 37, 3018 (2004)

 

"Impact of H-bonding on the propagation kinetics in butyl methacrylate radical polymerizations"

S. Beuermann

Macromolecules 37, 1037 (2004)

 

"Continuous polymerizations of styrene, methyl methacrylate, and glycidyl methacrylate in homogeneous mixtures with supercritical carbon dioxide"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, M. Gadermann, M. Jürgens, F. Günzler

Macromol. Symp. 206, 229 (2004)

 

"Solvation of poly(methyl acrylate) and poly(vinyl acetate) by CO2 studied via atomistic Monte Carlo simulation techniques"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback, M. Drache, D. Nelke, G. Schmidt-Naake

e-polymers, no. 002 (2004)

 

"Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization of Styrene in Fluid CO2"

T. Arita, S. Beuermann, M. Buback, P. Vana

e-polymers, no. 003 (2004)

 

"PLP-SEC Study into Free-Radical Propagation Rate of Non-Ionized Acrylic Acid in Aqueous Solution"

I. Lacík, S. Beuermann, M. Buback

Macromolecules 36, 9355 (2003)

 

"The influence of hydrogen bonding on the propagation rate coefficient in free-radical polymerizations of hydroxypropyl methacrylate"

S. Beuermann*, D. Nelke

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 204, 460 (2003)

 

"Free-radical terpolymerization of styrene and two methacrylates in homogeneous phase containing supercritical CO2"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, M. Jürgens

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 42, 6338 (2003)

 

"Critically evaluated rate coefficients for free-radical polymerization, 4 Propagation rate coefficients for methacrylates with cyclic ester groups"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, T. P. Davis, N. García, R. G. Gilbert, R. A. Hutchinson, A. Kajiwara, I. Lacík, G. T. Russell

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 204, 1338 (2003)

 

 "Critically-evaluated propagation rate coefficients in free radical polymerizations - II. Methacrylates with cyclic ester groups"

S. Beuermann

Pure & Appl. Chem. 75, 1091 (2003)

 

"Rate coefficients of free-radical polymerization deduced from pulsed laser experiments"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback

Prog. Polym. Sci. 27, 191 (2002)

 

"Propagation kinetics in free-radical polymerizations"

S. Beuermann

Macromol. Symp. 182, 31 (2002)

 

"Pressure and Temperature Dependence of the Propagation Rate Coefficient of Free-Radical Styrene Polymerization in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, C. Isemer, I. Lacík, A. Wahl

Macromolecules 35, 3866 (2002)

 

"Supercritical CO2 as a reaction medium for the homogeneous free-radical copolymerization of styrene and methacrylic acid esters"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, M. Gadermann, M. Jürgens

Chemical Engineering Transactions 2, 645 (2002)

 

"High Pressure ‘Living’ Free-Radical Polymerization of Styrene in the presence of RAFT"

M. J. Monteiro, R. Bussels, S. Beuermann, M. Buback

Aust. J. Chem. 55, 433 (2002)

 

"Requirements Associated with Studies into a Chain-Length Dependence of Propagation Rate Coefficients via PLP-SEC Experiments"

S. Beuermann

Macromolecules 35, 9300 (2002)

 

"Aqueous Phase Size-Exclusion-Chromatography Used for PLP-SEC Studies into Free-Radical Propagation Rate of Acrylic Acid in Aqueous Solution"

I. Lacík, S. Beuermann, M. Buback

Macromolecules 34, 6224 (2001)

 

"Pressure dependence of the propagation rate coefficient kp for vinyl acetate polymerizations in bulk and in solution of fluid CO2"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, D. Nelke

Macromolecules 34, 6637 (2001) 

 

"Critically evaluated rate coefficients for free-radical polymerization, 3. Propagation rate coefficients for alkyl methacrylates"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, T. P. Davis, R. G. Gilbert, R. A. Hutchinson, A. Kajiwara, B. Klumperman, G. T. Russell

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 201, 1355 (2000)

 

"Homogeneous Free-Radical Polymerization of Styrene in Supercritical CO2"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, C. Isemer, A. Wahl

Macromol. Rapid Commun. 20, 26 (1999)

 

"Free-Radical Polymerization in Reactive Supercritical Fluids"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback, M. Busch

in P. G. Jessop, W. Leitner (Hrsg.), "Chemical Synthesis using Supercritical Fluids", VCH, Weinheim, S. 326, 1999

 

"Free-Radical Polymerization under High Pressure"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback

in R. Winter (Hrsg.), "High Pressure Molecular Science", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, S. 331, 1999

 

"Termination Rate Coefficients of Butyl Acrylate Free-Radical Homopolymerization in Supercritical CO2 and in Bulk"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, C. Schmaltz

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 38, 3338 (1999)

 

"Determination of Free-Radical Propagation Rate Coefficients for Methyl Methacrylate and n-Butyl Acrylate Homopolymerization in CO2"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, F.-D. Kuchta, C. Schmaltz

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 199, 1209 (1998)

 

"Investigation of Methacrylate Free-Radical Depropagation Kinetics by Pulsed-Laser Polymerization"

R. A. Hutchinson, D. A. Paquet, Jr, S. Beuermann, J. H. McMinn

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 37, 3567 (1998)

 

"Critically-evaluated propagation rate coefficients in free radical polymerizations - II. Alkyl methacrylates"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback

Pure & Appl. Chem. 70, 1415 (1998)

 

"Pressure and Temperature Dependence of Butyl Acrylate Propagation Rate Coefficients in Fluid CO2"

S. Beuermann*, M. Buback, C. Schmaltz

Macromolecules 31, 8069 (1998)

 

"The Determination of Free-Radical Propagation Rate Coefficients for Cycloalkyl and Functional Methacrylates by Pulsed-Laser Polymerization"

R. A. Hutchinson, S. Beuermann, D. A. Paquet, Jr., J. H. McMinn, C. Jackson

Macromolecules 31, 1542 (1998)

 

"Pulsed Laser Experiments directed toward the detailed study of Free-Radical Polymerizations"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback

in: ACS Symposium Series 685 Controlled Radical Polymerization, K. Matyjaszewski (Hrsg.), S. 84, ACS, Washington, DC, 1998

 

"Free-Radical Polymerization Kinetics at High Pressure"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback

High Pressure Research 15, 333 (1997)

 

"Critically evaluated rate coefficients for free-radical polymerization, 2. Propagation rate coefficients for methyl methacrylate"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback, R. G. Gilbert, R. A. Hutchinson, B. Klumperman, G. T. Russell, J. Schweer

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 198, 1545 (1997)

 

“A Pulsed-Laser Study of Penultimate Copolymerization Propagation Kinetics for Methyl Methacrylate / n-Butyl Acrylate"

R. A. Hutchinson, J. H. McMinn, D. A. Paquet, Jr.; S. Beuermann, C. Jackson

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 36, 1103 (1997)

 

"Propagation Kinetics of Methacrylic Acid Studied by Pulsed Laser Polymerization"

S. Beuermann*, D. A. Paquet, Jr.; J. H. McMinn, R. A. Hutchinson

Macromolecules 30, 194 (1997)

 

"The Determination of Free-Radical Propagation Rate Coefficients for Alkyl Methacrylates by Pulsed-Laser Polymerization"

R. A. Hutchinson, S. Beuermann, D. A. Paquet, Jr., J. H. McMinn

Macromolecules 30, 3490 (1997)

 

"Determination of Free-Radical Propagation Rate Coefficients of Butyl, 2-Ethylhexyl and Dodecyl Acrylates by Pulsed-Laser Polymerization"

S. Beuermann*, D. A. Paquet, Jr., J. H. McMinn, R. A. Hutchinson

Macromolecules 29, 4206 (1996)

 

"Effect of photoinitiator on the molar mass distribution obtained from a pulsed laser polymerization"

U. Bergert, S. Beuermann, M. Buback, C. H. Kurz, G. T. Russell, C. Schmaltz

Macromol. Rapid Commun. 16, 425 (1995)

 

"Kinetics of free radical solution polymerization of methyl methacrylate over an extended conversion range"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback, G. T. Russell

Macromol. Chem. Phys. 196, 2493 (1995)

 

"The Application of Pulsed-Laser Methods for the Determination of Free-Radical Polymerization Rate Coefficients"

R. A. Hutchinson, D. A. Paquet, Jr., J. H. McMinn, S. Beuermann, R. Fuller, C. Jackson

5th International Workshop on Polymer Reaction Engineering (DECHEMA Monographs 131); VCH Publishers; 467, 1995

 

"Rate of propagation in free radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate in solution"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback, G. T. Russell

Maromol. Rapid Commun. 15, 647 (1994)

 

"The pressure variation of the propagation rate coefficient for methyl methacrylate free radical polymerization"

S. Beuermann, M. Buback, G. T. Russell

Maromol. Rapid Commun. 15, 351 (1994)