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Recent Publications
Gabriele Greco, Benjamin Schmuck, Fredrik G. Bäcklund, Günter Reiter and Anna Rising. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, published online
Recent biotechnological advancements in protein production and development of biomimetic spinning procedures make artificial spider silk a promising alternative to petroleum-based fibers. To enhance the competitiveness of artificial silk in terms of mechanical properties, refining the spinning techniques is imperative. One potential strategy involves the integration of post-spin stretching, known to improve fiber strength and stiffness while potentially offering additional advantages. Here, we demonstrate that post-spin stretching not only enhances the mechanical properties of artificial silk fibers but also restores a higher and more uniform alignment of the protein chains, leading to a higher fiber toughness. (more...)
Raphael Hertel, Maximilian Raisch, Michael Walter, Günter Reiter, Michael Sommer. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202409369
Sterically distorted donor-acceptor p‑systems, termed DA springs, can be progressively planarized under mechanical load causing a bathochromic shift of the photoluminescence (PL) spectrum. By combining theory and experiment, we here use a simple linear force calibration for two different conformational mechanochromophores to determine molecular forces in polymers from the mechanochromic shift in PL wavelength during multiple uniaxial tensile tests. Two systems are used, i) a highly entangled linear glassy polyphenylene and ii) a covalent elastomeric polydimethylsiloxane network. The mean forces estimated by this method are validated using known threshold forces for the mechanochemical ring-opening reactions of two different spiropyran force probes. The agreement between both approaches underlines that these DA springs provide the unique opportunity for the online monitoring of local molecular forces present in diverse polymer matrices.(more...)
"Printing" on Polymer Single Crystals through Microregional Heating
Tianyu Wu, Haimu Ye, Xinyi Pan, Yaning He, Jun Xu, Günter Reiter. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2024, 6, 14, 7969–7977
Polymer single crystals are composed of well-ordered polymer chains and possess a characteristic symmetric shape. If one can precisely control the microregional morphology, polymer single crystals have the potential to be used as functional templates for applications like information storage or cell culture. However, with current experimental approaches, it is rather difficult to generate predictable structures of defined size within polymer single crystals. Here, we propose a research strategy based on a combination of fluorescence labeling and microregional heating by irradiation with focused red light. This approach enabled us to locally heat single crystals while simultaneously following the thereby induced changes via fluorescence imaging with a micrometer lateral resolution. We found that polymers diffused out of the heated region within a stacked single crystal and thereby produced a hole at the irradiated location. (more...)
Da Huang, Thorsten Hugel, and Günter Reiter. Macromolecules 2024, 57, 3696–3705
We have investigated the formation of millimeter-long filaments induced by spin-coating ca. 130 °C dilute para-xylene solutions of rapidly crystallizable polyethylene chains with a contour length in the micrometer range onto ca. 80 °C mica substrates. These filaments were radially oriented and accumulated on the periphery of the substrate. Our observations can be explained by the stretching of polymers through the flow field induced by spinning the solution on a solid substrate. The corresponding loss in conformational entropy emphasized attractive interactions between polymers, which resulted in the formation of bundles and their assembly into long filaments. Caused by a Plateau–Rayleigh-type instability of a liquid coating on a solid filament and due to crystallization, these filaments were decorated with various small-scale structures. (more...)
List of Publications
- Revealing Order and Disorder in Films and Single Crystals of a Thiophene-Based Oligomer by Optical Spectroscopy
- Sajedeh Motamen, Dominic Raithel, Richard Hildner, Khosrow Rahimi, Thibaut Jarrosson, Françoise Serein-Spirau, Laurent Simon, and Günter Reiter. ACS Photonics 3 (2016) 2315–2323
- Poly(2,5-dioctylphenyl-3-thiophene) synthesized by direct arylation polycondensation: End groups, defects and crystallinity
- Daniel Schiefer, Hartmut Komber, Fanuel Mugwanga Keheze, Susanna Kunz, Ralf Hanselmann, Guenter Reiter, Michael Sommer. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 7230-7237
- Transient cooperative processes in dewetting polymer melts
- Sivasurender Chandran, Günter Reiter, PRL 116 (2016) 088301
- Crystallization and Resulting Optical Properties of Thiophene-Based Oligomers
- Sajedeh Motamen. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrads der Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik der Universität Freiburg, 2016
- Large area crystal surfaces of precisely sidebranched polyethylenes: Preparation, surface order and functionalization
- Rainhard Machatschek. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, 2016
- Probing the Elasticity of Langmuir Polymer Films of High Molecular Weight Poly (γ-benzyl-L-glutamate)
- Emna Khechine. Master Thesis im Studiengang M.Sc. Sustainable Materials, 2016
- Self-assembled nanotubes and nanoribbons of aromatic diamide-esters
- Asad Jamal. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrads der Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik der Universität Freiburg, 2016
- Formation and Optical Characterization of Single Crystals of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) (P3HT), a Model Conjugated Polymer
- John O. Agumba. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrads der Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik der Universität Freiburg, 2016
- History Dependent Temporal Changes of Properties of Thin Polymer Films
- Günter Reiter. In: Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter. Ed. Simone Napolitano. Springer 2015
- Consequences of a Single Double Bond within a Side-Group on the Ordering of Supra-Molecular Polymers
- Roozbeh Shokri, Olga Guskova, Asad Jamal, Kaiwan Jahanshahi, Benjamin Isare, Laurent Bouteiller, Laurent Simon, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Günter Reiter. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Part C 119 (2015) 22596–22603
- Different surface sensing of the cell body and nucleus in healthy primary cells and in a cancerous cell line on nanogrooves
- Patricia Davidson, Maxence Bigerelle, Günter Reiter and Karine Anselm. Biointerphases 10, 031004 (2015) / DOI: 10.1116/1.4927556
- How Chain-Folding Crystal Growth Determines Thermodynamic Stability of Polymer Crystals
- Xiaoming Jiang, Günter Reiter, Wenbing Hu. J. Phys. Chem. B, 120 (2016) 566–571
- Stabilization of nuclei of lamellar polymer crystals: Insights from a comparison of the Hoffman-Weeks line with the crystallization line
- Jun Xu, Barbara Heck, Hai-Mu Ye, Jing Jiang, Yi-Ren Tang, Jin Liu, Bao-Hua Guo, Renate Reiter, Dongshan Zhou, Günter Reiter. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 2206–2215
- Role of Preparation Pathways and Tacticity on the Non-Equilibrium Dynamcis of Polystyrene Films
- Rishab Handa. Master Thesis im Studiengang M.Sc. Sustainable Materials, 2016
- Variation of the contact resistance with electric current for gold electrodes on a squaraine single crystal
- Leonid Govor, Guenter Reiter, and Jurgen Parisi. Phys. Status Solidi A 212 (2015) 2738–2746, DOI 10.1002/pssa.201532241
- Simulation of secondary nucleation of polymer crystallization via a model of microscopic kinetics
- Kun-Lun Xu, Bao-Hua Guo, Renate Reiter, Günter Reiter, Jun Xu. Chinese Chemical Letters 26, 1105–1108 (2015) / DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2015.06.002
- From holes to drops to toroids: Conditions for the transcription of surface patterns into three-dimensional morphologies via rim instabilities in the course of dewetting
- Samer Al Akhrass, Laurent Vonna and Günter Reiter. In: Polymer Surfaces in Motion: Unconventional Patterning Methods, Eds. Juan Rodriguez-Hernandez and Carlos Drummond. Springer 2015
- Tuning Morphologies of Langmuir Polymer Films Through Controlled Relaxations of Non-Equilibrium States
- Sivasurender Chandran, Stefanie Dold, Amaury Buvignier, Kai-Steffen Krannig, Helmut Schlaad, Günter Reiter, and Renate Reiter. Langmuir 2015, 31, 6426−6435. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01212
- High Temperature Stability of Dewetting-Induced Thin Polyethylene Filaments
- Bin Zhang, Jingbo Chen, Paul Freyberg, Renate Reiter, Rolf Mülhaupt, Jun Xu, Günter Reiter. Macromolecules 48, 1518–1523 (2015)
- Triangular dewetting by symmetry breaking in blends of stiff and flexible polymers
- Paul Freyberg. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2015