Current Projects and Collaborations
Prof. Dr. Kay Saalwächter
- DFG Research Unit 1145, Faculty of Natural Sciences II, MLU Halle: Coordinated research involving 5 groups from Chemistry and Physics on "Structure Formation of Polyphilic Molecules with Lipid Membranes", project on NMR investigations of membrane-modifying properties of polyphilic molecules (SA982/7-1).
- DFG-ANR Franco-German joint project on constrained dynamics in interphases of model filled elastomers ("DINaFil: Dynamics in the Interphase of Nanoscopic Fillers", SA982/6-1), with Dr. Didier Long/Dr. Paul Sotta (CNRS-Rhodia, Lyon) and Prof. Francois Lequeux/Dr. Helene Montes (ESPCI, Paris).
- Prof. Dr. Martin Steinhart, Physikalische Chemie, Uni Osnabrück: Joint DFG project (SA982/4-1) on polymeric interphases in self-ordered porous alumina in the framework of the DFG Priority Programme 1369 "Polymer-solid contacts: interfaces and interphases"
- Prof. Dr. Takamasa Sakai, Dept. of Bioengineering, U Tokyo, Japan: Unfunded collaboration on model-homogeneous hydrogels.
- Dr. Juan López Valentín Chemistry and Technology of Elastomers Department, ICTP-CSIC, Madrid, Spain: Long-standing collaboration on NMR applications in rubber science; funding by the Humboldt Foundation, DFG (SA983/5-1), DAAD.
- Prof. Dr. Eduardo R. deAzevedo, Prof. Dr. Tito J. Bonagamba, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brasil: Long-standing collaboration on development and application of dynamic NMR methods; funding by the DAAD.
- Dr. Patrick Judeinstein, U Paris-Sud: Unfunded long-standing collaboration on diffusion in polymer systems.
- Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Sommer, Dr. Michael Lang, IPF Dresden: Unfunded, long-standing collaboration on network structure and swelling.
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Experimental Polymer Physics, MLU Halle: Joint industry project (Fraunhofer Innocluster Polymertechnologie) on filled elastomers; unfunded collaborations on dynamics in conducting polymers and crystallization in cyclic polymers.
- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Binder, Macromolecular Chemistry, MLU Halle: Unfunded collaboration on crystallization in cyclic polymers.
- Priv. Doz. Dr. Semjon Stepanow, Theoretical Physics Group, MLU Halle: Joint DFG project (SA982/3-1) on polymer melt dynamics.