GRK 720:  Advanced Polymeric Materials: Preparation, Characterization and Application

• Subject Area: Polymer Research ; Physical Chemistry ; Production Technology
• Term: from 2001 to 2004
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273323

The aim of the European research training group is a broad research-oriented education of Ph.D. students in the area of advanced polymer materials. It is achieved by the combination of the interdisciplinary research program with an intense training program in an international environment. The Ph.D. students are requested to carry out a part of their research in the partner institutions and to attend workshops and seminars organized in regular time intervals in the research institutions participating in the European research training group. The subject of the Ph.D. thesis cover aspects of the synthesis, characterization and properties of advanced polymeric materials, and of their application. Their work are especially focused on supramolecular structures, special polymer architecture, high performance polymer networks, phase separation and association phenomena of polymers in solution and in bulk as well as on polymers sensitive to thermal, optical, electric, mechanical and chemical stimuli, polymers for biomedical applications, and polymer membranes.

• DFG Programme: International Research Training Groups
• International Connection: Czech Republic, Poland
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• IRTG-Partner Institution: Schlesische Universität für Technologie ; Abteilung für Physikalische Chemie und ; Technologie der Polymere; Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) ; Departement of Polymers
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen P. Adler
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Karl-Friedrich Arndt (†); Professor Dr. Vratislav Duchacek; Professor Dr. Miroslav Gibas; Dr. Wolf Dieter Habicher; Dr. Brigitte Kuchling; Professor Dr. Jan Lukaszczyk; Professor Dr. Klaus Lunkwitz; Privatdozent Dr. Vladimir Marousek; Professor Dr. Waldfried Plieth (†); Professor Dr. Karel Procházka; Professor Dr. Manfred Stamm; Professor Dr. Ivan Stibor; Dr. Jiri Vohlidal; Professorin Brigitte Voit, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Thomas Wolff