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Overview

Lutz Willner is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on materials science and chemistry, with notable work in organic chemistry, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, biomaterials, and molecular biology.

Their research topics include:

  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Polymer Crystallization and Properties
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lutz Willner are:

  • Reidar Lund
  • Nico König
  • Margarita Kruteva
  • Dieter Richter
  • Szymon Mikołaj Szostak

The publication venues in which Willner has often published include:

  • Macromolecules
  • Langmuir
  • Physical Review Letters
  • ACS Nano
  • ACS Macro Letters

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Willner include:

  • Manipulating Phospholipid Vesicles at the Nanoscale: A Transformation from Unilamellar to Multilamellar by an n-Alkyl-poly(ethylene oxide), 2021, Langmuir
  • Cooperative Chain Dynamics of Tracer Chains in Highly Entangled Polyethylene Melts, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Stability of Nanopeptides: Structure and Molecular Exchange of Self-assembled Peptide Fibers, 2023, ACS Nano
  • How Detergents Dissolve Polymeric Micelles: Kinetic Pathways of Hybrid Micelle Formation in SDS and Block Copolymer Mixtures, 2020, Langmuir
  • Tale of Two Tails: Molecular Exchange Kinetics of Telechelic Polymer Micelles, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Poly[1,4-isoprene-b-(ethylene oxide)] and Poly[ethylene-co-propylene-b-(ethylene oxide)] Block Copolymers

    Jürgen Allgaier;Andreas Poppe;Lutz Willner;Dieter Richter

  • Logarithmic chain-exchange kinetics of diblock copolymer micelles.

    Reidar Lund;Lutz Willner;Jörg Stellbrink;Peter Lindner

  • Segmental Dynamics in Poly(vinylethylene)/Polyisoprene Miscible Blends Revisited. A Neutron Scattering and Broad-Band Dielectric Spectroscopy Investigation

    A. Arbe;A. Alegria;J. Colmenero;S. Hoffmann

  • Dynamics of poly(ethylene oxide) in a blend with poly(methyl methacrylate): a quasielastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulations study

    A.-C. Genix;A. Arbe;F. Alvarez;J. Colmenero

  • Time-resolved SANS for the determination of unimer exchange kinetics in block copolymer micelles

    L. Willner;A. Poppe;J. Allgaier;M. Monkenbusch

  • Structural Investigation of Micelles Formed by an Amphiphilic PEP−PEO Block Copolymer in Water

    Andreas Poppe;Lutz Willner;Jürgen Allgaier;Jörg Stellbrink

  • Molecular Dynamics of a 1,4-Polybutadiene Melt. Comparison of Experiment and Simulation

    G. D. Smith;W. Paul;M. Monkenbusch;L. Willner

  • Molecular observation of contour-length fluctuations limiting topological confinement in polymer melts.

    A. Wischnewski;M. Monkenbusch;L. Willner;D. Richter

  • Conformations of Silica-Poly(ethylene-propylene) Nanocomposites

    Klaus Nusser;Susanne Neueder;Gerald J. Schneider;Mathias Meyer

  • Micellization of amphiphilic diblock copolymers: Corona shape and mean-field to scaling crossover

    L. Willner;A. Poppe;J. Allgaier;M. Monkenbusch

  • Rheological Investigation of Polybutadienes Having Different Microstructures over a Large Temperature Range

    Reiner Zorn;Gregory B. McKenna;Lutz Willner;Dieter Richter

  • Direct Observation of the Transition from Free to Constrained Single-Segment Motion in Entangled Polymer Melts

    A. Wischnewski;M. Monkenbusch;L. Willner;D. Richter

  • Aggregation Phenomena of Model PS/PI Super-H-Shaped Block Copolymers. Influence of the Architecture

    Hermis Iatrou;Lutz Willner;Nikos Hadjichristidis;and Avi Halperin

  • Study of the dynamic structure factor in the beta relaxation regime of polybutadiene.

    Arbe A;Buchenau U;Willner L;Richter D

  • Structural observation and kinetic pathway in the formation of polymeric micelles.

    Reidar Lund;Lutz Willner;Michael Monkenbusch;Pierre Panine

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Richter
Dieter Richter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Juan Colmenero
Juan Colmenero University of the Basque Country
Lewis J. Fetters
Lewis J. Fetters Cornell University
Arantxa Arbe
Arantxa Arbe Spanish National Research Council
Aurel Radulescu
Aurel Radulescu Forschungszentrum Jülich
E. A. Rössler
E. A. Rössler University of Bayreuth
Bernhard Frick
Bernhard Frick Institut Laue-Langevin
Emanuela Zaccarelli
Emanuela Zaccarelli National Research Council (CNR)
Angel Alegría
Angel Alegría University of the Basque Country
Jacques Roovers
Jacques Roovers National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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