17.15 Uhr im Seminarraum 1.27 Von-Danckelmann-Platz 4, 06120 Halle
Universität zu Köln, Department Chemie, Institut für Physikalische Chemie,
Köln, Deutschland
“Structure and Dynamics of Polymers: Influence of Confinement, Architecture and Supramolecular Associations”
Abstract:
Over the last decades, synthetic polymer materials have become an important part of our everyday lives. At breakfast, we have bottles of orange juice made of polyethylene. Our car bumper is made of high impact polypropylene, the interior is largely composed of polyurethane, the tires are elastomers and parts of the bodywork are polymer mixtures. In this context, a fundamental understanding of the structure and dynamics of polymers at different time and length scales is crucial for the design of polymers with improved physical and mechanical properties for nowadays applications. There are different experimental techniques providing access to the properties of polymers from a microscopic to a macroscopic scale.
