A cooperation with the AG Herrmann of the RWTH Aachen University and the AG Meisner of the HHU Düsseldorf.
New publication in Nature Communications: Polymer microbubbles accelerate polymer mechanochemistry

At this year's SommerUni, we are offering the lecture "Polymers: ingenious materials or ecological time bomb?" on Tue, 01.07. at 14:15 in H09.
Polymers at the SommerUni 2025

Berçin has published a wonderful review article in collaboration with our colleagues in polymer mechanics, Khiem Vu Ngoc (RWTH Aachen University) and…
New review in Aggregate: Optical Force Probes for Spatially Resolved Imaging of Polymer Damage and Failure

A manuscript from a collaboration with the working groups of Andreas Herrmann and Frauke Gräter was published in Chem. In his work, Johannes shows…
New publication in Chem: sequence specific mechanochemistry on DNA

Making tertiary amines using polymer mechanochemical methods is hard. By pulling on the polymer chain, you break a bond as initial step meaning that…
New publication in RSC Mechanochem.: tertiary amines by polymer mechanochemistry

Simay's manuscript has just been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society with dynamic support of Davide Campagna, Sonja Storch, and…
New publication in JACS: thermally stable mechanophores

Plastics consist mainly of macromolecules, i.e. polymers. Robert Göstl, the new Professor of Sustainable Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of…
Sustainable polymers: the future of plastic

The website of the working group Sustainable Macromolecular Chemistry just went online.
The website is online