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Overview

Dieter Richter is a researcher affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, specializing primarily in Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy. Their work focuses extensively on polymers and the dynamic properties of materials, with documented contributions to subfields such as Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their research emphasizes several core topics, including:

  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Polymer Crystallization and Properties
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
  • NMR Spectroscopy and Applications
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Richter has published in a range of scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Macromolecules
  • ACS Macro Letters
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Journal of Rheology

Their recent papers highlight several aspects of polymer science and material behavior, including:

  • "Topology Matters: Conformation and Microscopic Dynamics of Ring Polymers" (2023, Macromolecules)
  • "Structural and Dynamical Roles of Bound Polymer Chains in Rubber Reinforcement" (2021, Macromolecules)
  • "Self-Similar Polymer Ring Conformations Based on Elementary Loops: A Direct Observation by SANS" (2020, ACS Macro Letters)
  • "Self-Similar Dynamics of Large Polymer Rings: A Neutron Spin Echo Study" (2020, Physical Review Letters)
  • "Structure and dynamics of large ring polymers" (2021, Journal of Rheology)

Throughout their career, Richter has frequently collaborated with coauthors such as Margarita Kruteva, M. Monkenbusch, Jürgen Allgaier, Ingo Hoffmann, and Michaela Zamponi. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial body of work, particularly in the study of polymer dynamics and material structuring at the microscopic level.

Best Publications

  • Connection between polymer molecular weight, density, chain dimensions, and melt viscoelastic properties

    L. J. Fetters;D. J. Lohse;D. Richter;T. A. Witten

  • Unexpected power-law stress relaxation of entangled ring polymers.

    M. Kapnistos;M. Lang;M. Lang;D. Vlassopoulos;W. Pyckhout-Hintzen

  • Star Polymers Viewed as Ultrasoft Colloidal Particles

    C. N. Likos;H. Löwen;H. Löwen;M. Watzlawek;B. Abbas

  • The Microscopic Basis of the Glass Transition in Polymers from Neutron Scattering Studies

    B. Frick;D. Richter

  • Star Polymers: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation

    Gary S. Grest;Lewis J. Fetters;John S. Huang;Dieter Richter

  • Neutron Spin Echo in Polymer Systems

    Dieter Richter;Michael Monkenbusch;Arantxa Arbe;Juan Colmenero;Juan Colmenero

  • Merging of the alpha and beta relaxations in polybutadiene: A neutron spin echo and dielectric study.

    A. Arbe;D. Richter;J. Colmenero;B. Farago

  • Neutron-spin-echo investigation on the dynamics of polybutadiene near the glass transition.

    D. Richter;B. Frick;B. Farago

  • Chain Motion in an Unentangled Polyethylene Melt: A Critical Test of the Rouse Model by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy

    W. Paul;G. D. Smith;D. Y. Yoon;B. Farago

  • Polymer Aggregates with Crystalline Cores: The System Polyethylene−Poly(ethylenepropylene)

    D. Richter;D. Schneiders;M. Monkenbusch;L. Willner

  • Effect of Nanoconfinement on Polymer Dynamics: Surface Layers and Interphases

    M. Krutyeva;A. Wischnewski;M. Monkenbusch;L. Willner

  • DYNAMICS OF GLASS-FORMING POLYMERS : HOMOGENEOUS VERSUS HETEROGENEOUS SCENARIO

    A. Arbe;J. Colmenero;M. Monkenbusch;D. Richter

  • Dynamics of disordered materials II

    A. J. Dianoux;W. Petry;D. Richter

  • Shape and size fluctuations of microemulsion droplets: The role of cosurfactant.

    B. Farago;D. Richter;J. S. Huang;S. A. Safran

  • Equilibrium chain exchange kinetics of diblock copolymer micelles : Tuning and logarithmic relaxation

    Reidar Lund;Lutz Willner;Dieter Richter;Elena E. Dormidontova

  • AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS AS EFFICIENCY BOOSTERS FOR MICROEMULSIONS

    B. Jakobs;and T. Sottmann;R. Strey;J. Allgaier

  • Phase transitions in crystals of chain molecules. Relation between defect structures and molecular motion in the four modifications of n-C33H68

    Bernd Ewen;Gert R. Strobl;Dieter Richter

  • Molecular dynamics of lipid bilayers studied by incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering

    S. König;W. Pfeiffer;T. Bayerl;D. Richter

  • Structural investigation of star polymers in solution by small angle neutron scattering

    L. Willner;O. Jucknischke;D. Richter;J. Roovers

  • Dynamics of Entangled Chains in Polymer Nanocomposites

    G. J. Schneider;K. Nusser;L. Willner;P. Falus

  • Study of the glass transition order parameter in amorphous polybutadiene by incoherent neutron scattering

    B. Frick;D. Richter;W. Petry;U. Buchenau

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Colmenero
Juan Colmenero University of the Basque Country
Lutz Willner
Lutz Willner Forschungszentrum Jülich
Aurel Radulescu
Aurel Radulescu Forschungszentrum Jülich
Lewis J. Fetters
Lewis J. Fetters Cornell University
Arantxa Arbe
Arantxa Arbe Spanish National Research Council
Bernhard Frick
Bernhard Frick Institut Laue-Langevin
Gerhard Gompper
Gerhard Gompper Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rolf Hempelmann
Rolf Hempelmann Saarland University
Angel Alegría
Angel Alegría University of the Basque Country
Christos N. Likos
Christos N. Likos University of Vienna

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