Gerhard Wegner

Publication List Details

Period

1923 - 2008

Number

81

Co-Authors

Nanocomposites of hairy-rod macromolecules: Concepts, constructs, and materials (2003)

Wegner, Gerhard

The rational construction of nanocomposites based on so-called hairy-rod macromolecules (HRM) is the objective of this review covering 15 years of extensive research at the Max Planck Institute for...

Polyelectrolyte Networks Based on Poly(Para-phenylene)s: Synthesis, Preparation of Thin Films, and Swelling Behavior (2003)

Ulbrich, D., Meyer, Wolfgang H., Wegner, Gerhard, Prucker, O., Biesalski, M., Rühe, Jürgen

The preparation of poly(para-phenylene) (PPP) derivatives with sulfonate groups and photo cross-linkable side chains is described. These statistical copolymers are used to construct molecularly...

Electronic transport in monolayers of phthalocyanine polymers (2003)

Tans, S. J., Miedema, R. G., Geerligs, L. J., Dekker, C., Wu, J., Neher, Dieter, ...

We report on a study of the electrical-transport properties of monolayers of phthalocyaninepolysiloxane (PcPS) polymers, and evaluate their potential for use as molecular wires. Monolayers have been...

Scanning tunneling microscopy study of graphite oxidation in ozone-air mixtures (2003)

Tracz, A., Wegner, Gerhard, Rabe, J. P.

The early stages of thermal oxidation of the basal plane of highly oriented graphite (HOPG) have been investigated in ozonized air. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) was employed to determine the...

PAA/imidazol-based proton conducting polymer electrolytes (2003)

Bozkurt, A., Meyer, Wolfgang H., Wegner, Gerhard

Anhydrous proton conducting polymer electrolytes have been prepared by entrapping imidazol (Im) in polyacrylic acid (PAA) with various stoichiometric ratios, x, to form PAAxIm (x is the number of...

Shape persistence as a concept in the design of macromolecular architectures (2003)

Wegner, Gerhard

Shape persistent macromolecules are objects defined by a time independent overall shape. In most cases such macromolecular objects are characterized by an exterior surface structure and an internal...

Reinforced superabsorbent polyacrylamide hydrogels (2003)

Philippova, O. E., Zaroslov, Y. D., Khokhlov, A. R., Wegner, Gerhard

The ability of linear stiff-chain poly(sodium p-phenylenesulfonate) to self-assemble in aqueous media with the formation of rodlike aggregates was used to immobilize it in a polyacrylamide network...

On the origin of the heterogeneous orientation dynamics of semiflexible polymers in solutions (2002)

Loppinet, B., Fytas, G., Petekidis, G., Sato, T., Wegner, Gerhard

Collective rotational motion in nondilute isotropic solutions of semirigid chains is sensitively probed by depolarized light scattering over a broad time range. The bit-nodal shape and the peculiar...

Self-assembly of polyelectrolyte rods in polymer gel and in solution: Small-angle neutron scattering study (2002)

Zaroslov, Y. D., Gordeliy, V. I., Kuklin, A. I., Islamov, A. H., Philippova, O. E., Khokhlov, A. R., ...

Self-aggregation of rigid-rod poly(sodium p-phenylenesulfonate) in aqueous solution and inside water-swollen polyacrylamide gel was studied by small-angle neutron scattering. It was shown that both...

Formation of uniform and monodisperse zincite crystals in the presence of soluble starch (2002)

Taubert, A., Wegner, Gerhard

A novel procedure for the formation of uniform, monodisperse, and single-phase zincite particles using soluble starch as crystallization additive is reported. At low starch concentrations, roughly...

Proton transport in polybenzimidazole blended with H3PO4 or H2SO4 (2002)

Pu, H. T., Meyer, Wolfgang H., Wegner, Gerhard

Proton transport in H3PO4- and H2SO4-blended polybenzimidazoles (PBIs) has been studied with both temperature- and pressure- dependent dielectric spectroscopy. The influences of the acid...

Constrained dynamics in supramolecular structures of poly(p- phenylenes) with ethylene oxide side chains: A combined dielectric and nuclear magnetic resonance investigation (2002)

Mierzwa, M., Floudas, G., Neidhöfer, M., Graf, Robert, Spiess, Hans Wolfgang, Meyer, Wolfgang H., ...

The complex dynamics in supramolecular structures of poly(p- phenylenes) with short ethylene oxide (EO) side chains (known as "hairy rods") have been studied by combining temperature and pressure...

Preparation and modification of poly(methacrylic acid) and poly(acrylic acid) multilayers (2002)

Mengel, C., Esker, A. R., Meyer, Wolfgang H., Wegner, Gerhard

By employment of a strategy of post-transfer modification, precursor Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) (PtBMA) and poly(tert-butylacrylate) (PtBA) can be converted to...

Ultrathin layers of polyelectrolytes on mica: Preparation, characterization, and electrokinetic surface potential (2002)

Sterthaus, R., Wegner, Gerhard

We report on the preparation of ultrathin polyelectrolyte network films on solid substrates, particularly on mica. This supramolecular construct serves as a useful model of ionogenic surfaces in...

Langmuir-Blodgett mono- and multilayers of preformed poly(octadecyl methacrylate)s, 1. Surface-area isotherms of atactic and isotactic poly(octadecyl methacrylate)s and transfer into multilayers (1991)

Schouten, Arend Jan, Wegner, Gerhard

In order to elucidate some of the parameters controlling the transfer of compressed monomolecular layers of preformed poly(octadecyl methacrylate)s (PODMA) onto substrates by the so-called...

Langmuir-Blodgett mono- and multilayers of preformed poly(octadecyl methacrylate)s, 2. Structural studies by IR spectroscopy and small-angle X-ray scattering (1991)

Arndt, Thomas, Schouten, Arend Jan, Schmidt, Günther F., Wegner, Gerhard

Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) mono- and multilayers of preformed atactic and isotactic poly(octadecyl methacrylate)s were studied on gold surfaces and silicon wafers. The average orientation of the carbonyl...

Political Learning: The Neglected Precondition of Constitutional Reform

Gerhard Wegner

This paper analyses the claim of constitutional economics that liberal economic policy requires far-reaching constitutional reform. The paper starts with a restatement of this claim and reinforces...