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Overview

Kay Saalwächter is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with a specific emphasis on polymers and plastics, organic chemistry, materials chemistry, spectroscopy, and biomaterials.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to polymer nanocomposites and properties, polymer crystallization and properties, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, advanced NMR techniques and applications, polymer composites and self-healing, hydrogels including synthesis, properties, and applications, as well as NMR spectroscopy and its applications.

Recent publications by Kay Saalwächter include the following:

  • Recent Progress in Understanding Polymer Crystallization, 2023, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
  • Competition between crystal growth and intracrystalline chain diffusion determines the lamellar thickness in semicrystalline polymers, 2022, Nature Communications
  • How entanglements determine the morphology of semicrystalline polymers, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Structure, Mechanical Properties, and Dynamics of Polyethylenoxide/Nanoclay Nacre-Mimetic Nanocomposites, 2020, Macromolecules
  • On the Immobilized Polymer Fraction in Attractive Nanocomposites: Tg Gradient versus Interfacial Layer, 2021, Macromolecules

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Lucas Löser, Albrecht Petzold, Carolin Bunk, and Michael Lang.

Kay Saalwächter's work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Macromolecules
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
  • Frontiers in Soft Matter

Best Publications

  • Proton multiple-quantum NMR for the study of chain dynamics and structural constraints in polymeric soft materials

    Kay Saalwächter

  • Low-Field NMR Investigations of Nanocomposites: Polymer Dynamics and Network Effects

    Aurélie Papon;Kay Saalwächter;Kerstin Schäler;Laurent Guy

  • Uncertainties in the Determination of Cross-Link Density by Equilibrium Swelling Experiments in Natural Rubber

    J. L. Valentín;J. Carretero-González;I. Mora-Barrantes;W. Chassé

  • Highly Ordered Columnar Structures from Hexa‐peri‐hexabenzocoronenes—Synthesis, X‐ray Diffraction, and Solid‐State Heteronuclear Multiple‐Quantum NMR Investigations

    Andreas Fechtenkötter;Kay Saalwächter;Martha A. Harbison;Klaus Müllen

  • 1H multiple-quantum nuclear magnetic resonance investigations of molecular order distributions in poly(dimethylsiloxane) networks: Evidence for a linear mixing law in bimodal systems

    Kay Saalwächter;Pascal Ziegler;Olivier Spyckerelle;Bassel Haidar

  • Cross-Link Density Estimation of PDMS Networks with Precise Consideration of Networks Defects

    Walter Chassé;Michael Lang;Jens-Uwe Sommer;Kay Saalwächter

  • Inhomogeneities and Chain Dynamics in Diene Rubbers Vulcanized with Different Cure Systems

    J. L. Valentín;J. L. Valentín;P. Posadas;A. Fernández-Torres;M. A. Malmierca

  • A Robust Proton NMR Method to Investigate Hard/Soft Ratios, Crystallinity, and Component Mobility in Polymers

    Andreas Maus;Christopher Hertlein;Christopher Hertlein;Kay Saalwächter

  • Glass-transition temperature gradient in nanocomposites: evidence from nuclear magnetic resonance and differential scanning calorimetry.

    Aurélie Papon;Hélène Montes;Mohamed Hanafi;François Lequeux

  • Novel Experimental Approach To Evaluate Filler−Elastomer Interactions

    J. L. Valentín;J. L. Valentín;I. Mora-Barrantes;J. Carretero-González;M. A. López-Manchado

  • Cellulose Solutions in Water Containing Metal Complexes

    Kay Saalwächter;Walther Burchard;Peter Klüfers;G. Kettenbach

  • Connectivity and Structural Defects in Model Hydrogels: A Combined Proton NMR and Monte Carlo Simulation Study

    Frank Lange;Konrad Schwenke;Manami Kurakazu;Yuki Akagi

  • Structure and Dynamics in Columnar Discotic Materials: A Combined X-ray and Solid-State NMR Study of Hexabenzocoronene Derivatives

    Ingrid Fischbach;Tadeusz Pakula;Piotr Minkin;Andreas Fechtenkötter

  • Biaxial Nematic Phase in a Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Side-Chain Polymer

    Kirsten Severing;Kay Saalwächter

  • BaBa-xy16: Robust and broadband homonuclear DQ recoupling for applications in rigid and soft solids up to the highest MAS frequencies

    Kay Saalwächter;Frank Lange;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski;Chih-Feng Huang

  • Chain Order and Cross-Link Density of Elastomers As Investigated by Proton Multiple-Quantum NMR

    Kay Saalwächter;Berta Herrero;Miguel Angel López-Manchado

  • Polymer Dynamics in PEG-Silica Nanocomposites: Effects of Polymer Molecular Weight, Temperature and Solvent Dilution

    So Youn Kim;Henriette W. Meyer;Kay Saalwächter;Charles F. Zukoski

  • High Crystallinity and Nature of Crystal−Crystal Phase Transformations in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    Ovidiu F. Pascui;Ruth H. Lohwasser;Michael Sommer;Mukundan Thelakkat

  • Detection of Surface-Immobilized Components and Their Role in Viscoelastic Reinforcement of Rubber–Silica Nanocomposites

    A. Mujtaba;M. Keller;S. Ilisch;H.-J. Radusch

  • Sulfur-Cured Natural Rubber Elastomer Networks: Correlating Cross-Link Density, Chain Orientation, and Mechanical Response by Combined Techniques

    Arnaud Vieyres;Roberto Pérez-Aparicio;Pierre-Antoine Albouy;Olivier Sanseau

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Thurn-Albrecht
Thomas Thurn-Albrecht Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Hans Wolfgang Spiess
Hans Wolfgang Spiess Max Planck Society
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Sebastian Seiffert
Sebastian Seiffert Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Alfred Blume
Alfred Blume Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Robert Graf
Robert Graf Max Planck Society
Martin Steinhart
Martin Steinhart Osnabrück University
Miguel A. López-Manchado
Miguel A. López-Manchado Spanish National Research Council

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