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Research profile
The unit is interested in various fields of polymer chemistry. One topic is the 
synthesis and characterisation of water-soluble amphiphilic polymers with focus on 
stimuli-responsive materials. The unit applies modern methods of radical 
polymerisations, for example, atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) or 
reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerisation. 
Nanocomposites have been investigated with the aim of crafting gold particles with 
polymers. More recently, the unit has analysed water-dispersible conducting polymers 
such as polyaniline. One of the professors in the unit is interested in cellulose 
derivatisation and the application of solid-state NMR. All research topics are up-to-
date but quite diverse.