Research topics

• Organic synthesis: monodisperse oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene)s, alkyne-protecting groups, chemistry of perylene(di)imide, giganto cycles, catenanes

• oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene)s as rulers for the nm region

• rod-coil blockcopolymers with oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene)s as the shape persistent, rodlike unit: synthesis and investigation of the morphologies in solution, bulk, and at surfaces; chemical and geometrical pattern recognition through rod-coil blockcopolymers; SFB 613

• comparison of DEER (EPR-method) und FRET for determination of distances in cooperation with Prof. Dr. G. Jeschke, ETH Zürich, and Prof. Dr. M. Sauer, Universität Würzburg

• spin labels

• geometrically well-defined, spin labeled probes for the further development and evaluation of EPR techniques in cooperation with Prof. Dr. G. Jeschke, ETH Zürich, Prof. Dr. D. Goldfarb, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and Prof. Dr. Song-I Han, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; SPP 1601

• molecules for solid-state photo-CIDNP-experiments in cooperation with Prof. Dr. G. Jeschke, ETH Zürich, Dr. J. Matysik, University Leiden, and Dr. T. Kottke, Fac. of Chemistry, Bielefeld University

• (poly)catenanes; chemical topology and its influence on the properties of topological non-trivial molecules

• Photocurrent spectroscopy of single molecules junctions in ccoperation with Prof. Dr. W. Pfeiffer, Fac. of Physics, Bielefeld University; SFB 613

• Blockcopolymers and metal(oxide) nanoparticles

• MOFs (metal organic frameworks) in cooperation with Prof. Dr. P. Behrens, Leibniz University Hannover, and Prof. Dr. M. Wark, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; SPP1362