Synthesis of advanced stimuli-responsive polymers for biomedical applications

This dissertation focuses on the design and synthesis of advanced stimuli-responsive polymers for biomedical applications, including polymer therapeutics and medical devices. By leveraging modern polymerization techniques (e.g., controlled radical polymerizations …

Development of conjugated hyper-cross-linked porous organic polymers for sorption and catalytic applications

The aim of the dissertation project will be the design, development and optimization of new synthetic procedures for the preparation of sorptionally and catalytically active conjugated Porous Organic Polymers (POPs). …

Polymeric materials with covalently attached anionic boron clusters

Polymeric nanostructures containing anionic clusters are very promising because these nanosystems are capable of transferring or exchanging counterions. The resulting systems thus have great potential as ion-conducting materials in potential …

Ionization of weak polyelectrolytes in the semidilute and entangled regimes

The relationship between ionization and morphology in weak polyelectrolyte systems is complex and is influenced by external conditions such as pH, ionic strength, and polymer concentration. While extensive studies have …

Developing machine learning tools for reactive atomistic material modelling

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs): - Generation of reference ab initio database of energy/force/stress data and/or data mining of thereof and/or combination of existing datasets via, e.g., multi-task learning (e.g., …