Research

Processing of "Intractable" Polymers

Processing -i.e. the transformation of raw materials into useful products- is an area that is of paramount importance to the research efforts of the Group. more...

Polymer Nucleation

The Group has embarked on a study of structure-property relations and the phase behavior of a series of novel nucleating agents, jointly with Professor H.-W. Schmidt (Universität Bayreuth, Germany). more...

Polymetals

Considerable attention has been paid in recent years to the semiconductive properties of polymeric materials based on p-bond-conjugated backbones of carbon with a view to their application in molecular (opto)electronic devices. Much less effort has been directed to polymeric materials based on sigma-bonded backbones of other group 4 elements, despite evidence that polysilanes, polygermanes and polystannanes also display semiconductive properties. more...

Semi-Conducting Polymers

Interest in organic semiconducting materials has surged in recent years due to their envisaged applications in, for instance, flexible electronic circuitry and solar cells. more...