Young Talents in Polymer Science

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-03842-458-1
Verlag: MDPI AG

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, GEKL, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Polymers aims to compile the current trends and research directions of internationally renowned and successful young polymer scientists in one dedicated Special Issue. The idea for this Special Issue has arisen from the numerous and, above all, brilliant nominations for our 1st Young Investigator Award. It was the easiest-ever choice for us to publicly share the fascinating and thrilling research successes of the nominated scientists with you, our dear peer readers.
For this prestigious Special Issue, the journal Polymers will only accept original research papers that have been invited exclusively by the editors. The contributions to this Special Issue will highlight the current state-of-the-art in the fields of polymerization methods, theory/simulation/modeling, new physical phenomena, advances in characterization techniques, and harnessing of self-assembly and biological strategies for producing complex multifunctional structures.
Please enjoy reading these high-end research highlights!

Zielgruppe

Professional/Scholar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Böker, Alexander

Wiesbrock, Frank

Über Autor(innen)

Böker, Alexander
[Alexander Böker] [Dr.] is Director of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP) and holds the Chair for Polymer Materials and Polymer Technology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He received his PhD from Bayreuth University in 2002 working with Prof. G. Krausch and Prof. Axel H.E. Müller. From 2002–2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Thomas P. Russell at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2006, he received a Lichtenberg-Professorship funded by the VolkswagenStiftung and in 2015 the ERC Consolidator Grant. Alexander Böker has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals. The main research interests of his group include guided self-assembly of block copolymer systems, hierarchical (bio)nanoparticle assemblies and the control of self-assembly processes via external fields.

Wiesbrock, Frank
[Frank Wiesbrock] [Dr.] received his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2003 for his work on metal ß-amino carboxylates under the supervision of H. Schmidbaur. His subsequent biannual postdoctoral stay with U.S. Schubert at the Eindhoven Technical University focused on block copoly(2-oxazoline)s from microwave-assisted synthesis. He worked as a project manager at Chemspeed Technologies AG in Augst, Switzerland, and returned to academia in 2007 as a Marie Curie ToK researcher with T. Calogeropoulou at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece. Since 2008, he has been an assistant professor/lecturer at the Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he completed his Habilitation in 2012. Currently he is employed as a senior researcher at the Polymer Competence Center Leoben (PCCL), Austria. His research interests comprise microwave-assisted polymerizations, poly(2-oxazoline)s, biopolymers and biocompatible polymers, and nanocomposites for electronic applications.