Main Research interests:

 

 
  • Polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide

 
  • Homo- and copolymerizations of fluorinated olefins (e.g. vinylidene fluoride)

 
  • Polymerizations in ionic liquids

 
  • Kinetics and mechanisms of radical polymerizations

 
  • Controlled radical polymerizations (ITP, AGET ATRP, RAFT)

 
  • Polymer modification

 
  • Click chemistry

 
  • Modeling of polymerization processes

 
  • Aqueous phase polymerizations

 

Research  Equipment:

 

 

·       High-pressure set-up to prepare mixtures containing CO2 and liquid / gaseous monomers

 

·       Optical high-pressure cells, Tmax = 300 °C and pmax = 3000 bar

 
  •  Optical high-pressure cell for isobaric reactions up to 200 °C and 2000 bar

 

·       Optical cell for reactions at ambient pressure up to 250 °C

 
  •  FTIR/NIR spectrometer, Bruker Vertex 70, spectral range 400 to 12000 cm−1

 

·       Quanta–Ray Nd:YAG laser (Spectra Physics), max. repetition rate 100 Hz, wavelength: 355 nm

 

·       Size-exclusion chromatography with RI and viscosity detector for the following eluents:

−      THF (PSS SDV columns, pre-column, 100 A, 1000 A, 100000 A. 5µ, 8.0 x 500 mm )

−      dimethylacetamid (3 PSS GRAM columns, 10 μm, 8 x 300 mm, pore sizes 100 and 2 x 1000)

−      hexafluoroisopropanol (2 PFG columns (7 µm, 8 x 300 mm, pore sizes 100 and 300 Å))

 
  •  DSC, Mettler Toledo

 

·    Microwave, CEM Discover

·    PREDICI

 

Access to:

 

 

·       1H-NMR

 

·       13C-NMR

 

·       ESI-MS

 

·       MALDI

 

·       TEM

 

·       SEM

 

·       TGA

 

·       Elemental Analysis