Structure and local properties of polymers in contact with ideal surfaces (B02)

• Subject Area: Solid State and Surface Chemistry, Material Synthesis ; Experimental Condensed Matter Physics ; Experimental and Theoretical Physics of Polymers ; Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
• Term: from 2011 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 189853844

The project aims are the experimental and theoretical characterization and understanding of structure, conformation, and electronic properties of polymer chains in contact with well-defined surfaces. By combination of scanning tunnel microscopy and spectroscopy with electrospray polymer deposition, it focuses experimentally on the local properties on the length scale of a single polymer segment. It is complemented by ab-initio calculations of structural and electronic properties to elucidate the competition between polymer-polymer and polymer-surface interactions as structural driving forces.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 102: Polymers under Multiple Constraints: Restricted and Controlled Molecular Order and Mobility
• Major Instrumentation: Quadrupole mass spectrometer
• Instrumentation Group: 1710 Partialdruck-, Restgas-Massenspektrometer
• Applicant Institution: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Daniel Sebastiani, since 7/2015; Professor Dr. Wolf Widdra