Experimental Polymer Physics Group
Research Group Exp. Polymer Physics MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Head of the group
Research interests
- Semicrystalline polymers and polymer crystallization
- Structure and morphology of polymers for photovoltaics applications
- structure and mechanical properties in nanostructured polymers
- Experimental Techniques: small and wide angle x-ray scattering, scanning force microscopy, rheology/dynamic-mechanical analysis
Selected/Recent publications
- Dolynchuk, O., Tariq, M., Thurn-Albrecht, T.; Phenomenological Theory of First-Order Prefreezing. J Phys Chem Lett 10, 1942-1946 (2019)
- Schulz, M., Seidlitz, A., Kurz, R., Bärenwald, R., Petzold, A., Saalwächter, K., Thurn-Albrecht, T.; The Underestimated Effect of Intracrystalline Chain Dynamics on the Morphology and Stability of Semicrystalline Polymers. Macromolecules 51, 8377-8385 (2018)
- Flieger, A.-K.; Schulz, M.; Thurn-Albrecht, T.; Interface-Induced Crystallization of Polycaprolactone on Graphite via First-Order Prewetting of the Crystalline Phase, Macromolecules 51, 189-194 (2018)
- Kurz, R.; Achilles, A.; Chen, W.; Schäfer, M.; Seidlitz, A.; Golitsyn, Y.; Kressler, J.; Paul, W.; Hempel, G.; Miyoshi, T.; Thurn-Albrecht, T.; Saalwächter, K; Intracrystalline Jump Motion in Poly(ethylene oxide) Lamellae of Variable Thickness: A Comparison of NMR Methods, Macromolecules 50, 3890-3902 (2017)