SFB 1769:  Polymer Mechanochemistry

• Subject Area: Chemistry ; Biology ; Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ; Materials Science and Engineering ; Medicine ; Physics ; Thermal Engineering/Process Engineering
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 553993870

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• A01 - Covalent and non-covalent bond cleavage in high-molar-mass nucleic acids (Project Heads Herrmann, Andreas ;  Wiegand, Thomas )
• A02 - Mechanochemical degradation with high selectivity steered by polymer architecture (Project Heads Pich, Andrij ;  Richtering, Walter ;  Wang, Jian )
• A03 - Tailoring the mechanics and mechanochemistry of hollow polymeric micromaterials (Project Heads Lammers, Twan ;  De Laporte, Laura )
• A04 - Experimental mechanophore discovery enabled by DNA-templated synthesis (Project Heads Herrmann, Andreas ;  Schoenebeck, Franziska )
• B01 - Probing and manipulating mechanoresponsive polymer networks in situ on the nanoscale by combined force and fluorescence microscopy (Project Heads Göstl, Robert ;  Richtering, Walter ;  Wöll, Dominik )
• B02 - In situ investigation of mechanochemistry of macromolecules in flow (Project Heads Förster, Stephan ;  Wittkowski, Raphael )
• B03 - Monitoring polymer mechanochemical reaction pathways in situ by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (Project Heads Göstl, Robert ;  Herres-Pawlis, Sonja )
• B04 - Probing mechanoresponsive polymer networks with optical tweezers across Ångström to micrometer scales (Project Head Lorenz, Charlotta )
• C01 - Mechanophore discovery by combination of quantum chemistry and machine learning (Project Heads Bannwarth, Christoph ;  Neudecker, Tim )
• C02 - Effect of electronic state transitions in molecular mechanochemistry (Project Heads Bannwarth, Christoph ;  Meisner, Jan )
• C03 - Computational dynamics of mechanoresponsive microbubbles across scales (Project Heads Gräter, Frauke ;  Itskov, Mikhail )
• C04 - Rationalizing mechanical bond scission and fracture of network polymers (Project Heads Neudecker, Tim ;  Vu Ngoc, Khiêm )
• D01 - Mechano-activated cytokine release from hydrogels for activation of stem cells and regen-eration of lymphatic tissue (Project Heads Boos, Anja Miriam ;  Pich, Andrij )
• D02 - Ultrasound-induced, mechanochemical release of drugs from microbubbles (Project Heads Herrmann, Andreas ;  Kiessling, Fabian )
• INF - Information Infrastructure Project – mechanochemistry as multidisciplinary use case for chemical research data management (Project Heads Bannwarth, Christoph ;  Herres-Pawlis, Sonja ;  Politze, Marius )
• MGK - Integrated Research Training Group (Project Heads Pich, Andrij ;  Richtering, Walter )
• Z - Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre (Project Head Herrmann, Andreas )

• Applicant Institution: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• Participating University: Bergische Universität Wuppertal; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Universität Bremen; Universität zu Lübeck
• Participating Institution: DWI - Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien e.V.; an der RWTH Aachen; Forschungszentrum Jülich; Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Andreas Herrmann