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Philipp Vana is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their work spans numerous subfields, including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scope of Vana's research is reflected in their focus on several main topics, such as:

  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties

Vana has contributed to multiple papers published in respected journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Hydroplastic polymers as eco-friendly hydrosetting plastics" (2021, Nature Sustainability)
  • "The Next 100 Years of Polymer Science" (2020, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics)
  • "Nanoengineering with RAFT polymers: from nanocomposite design to applications" (2021, Polymer Chemistry)
  • "Dehydration regulates structural reorganization of dynamic hydrogels" (2024, Nature Communications)
  • "Macroscalar Helices Co-Assembled from Chirality-Transferring Temperature-Responsive Carbohydrate-Based Bolaamphiphiles and 1,4-Benzenediboronic Acid" (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Frequent publication venues where Vana's research appears include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Polymers
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
  • Nature Communications

Vana's collaborations feature several coauthors with whom they have frequently published, including:

  • Kai Zhang
  • Yingying Cai
  • Florian Ehlers
  • Wentao Peng
  • Judith E. Rauschendorfer

Best Publications

  • RAFTing down under: Tales of missing radicals, fancy architectures, and mysterious holes

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Thomas P. Davis;Johan P. A. Heuts;Martina H. Stenzel

  • Mechanism and kinetics of dithiobenzoate-mediated RAFT polymerization. I. The current situation

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Michael Buback;Bernadette Charleux;Michelle L. Coote

  • Origin of Inhibition Effects in the Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization of Methyl Acrylate

    Sébastien Perrier;Christopher Barner-Kowollik;John F. Quinn;Philipp Vana

  • Xanthate Mediated Living Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate: A Systematic Variation in MADIX/RAFT Agent Structure

    Martina H. Stenzel;Lyndal Cummins;G. Evan Roberts;Thomas P. Davis

  • Kinetic Analysis of Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerizations: Conditions for Inhibition, Retardation, and Optimum Living Polymerization

    Philipp Vana;Thomas P. Davis;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • Critically evaluated termination rate coefficients for free-radical polymerization, 1. The current situation

    Michael Buback;Mark Egorov;Robert G. Gilbert;Vladimir Kaminsky

  • The reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer process and the strength and limitations of modeling: Comment on “the magnitude of the fragmentation rate coefficient”

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Michelle L. Coote;Thomas P. Davis;Leo Radom

  • Long‐lived intermediates in reversible addition–fragmentation chain‐transfer (RAFT) polymerization generated by γ radiation

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Philipp Vana;John F. Quinn;Thomas P. Davis

  • Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization of Methyl Acrylate: Detailed Structural Investigation via Coupled Size Exclusion Chromatography−Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (SEC−ESI-MS)

    Andrew Ah Toy;Philipp Vana;Thomas P. Davis;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • Critically evaluated termination rate coefficients for free-radical polymerization: Experimental methods

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Michael Buback;Mark Egorov;Takeshi Fukuda

  • Reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization: Unambiguous end-group assignment via electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

    Philipp Vana;Luca Albertin;Leonie Barner;Thomas P. Davis

  • Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization initiated with γ-radiation at ambient temperature: An overview

    Leonie Barner;John F Quinn;Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Philipp Vana

  • RAFT-Polymers with Single and Multiple Trithiocarbonate Groups as Uniform Gold-Nanoparticle Coatings

    Bastian Ebeling;Philipp Vana

  • Z-RAFT star polymerizations of acrylates : Star coupling via intermolecular chain transfer to polymer

    Daniel Boschmann;Philipp Vana

  • Modeling RAFT polymerization kinetics via Monte Carlo methods: cumyl dithiobenzoate mediated methyl acrylate polymerization

    Marco Drache;Gudrun Schmidt-Naake;Michael Buback;Philipp Vana

  • Hydroplastic polymers as eco-friendly hydrosetting plastics

    Jiaxiu Wang;Lukas Emmerich;Jianfeng Wu;Philipp Vana

  • Easy access to chain-length-dependent termination rate coefficients using RAFT polymerization

    Philipp Vana;Thomas P. Davis;Christopher Barner-Kowollik

  • Is the rate constant of chain propagation kp in radical polymerization really chain-length independent ?

    Oskar Friedrich Olaj;Philipp Vana;Monika Zoder;Andreas Kornherr

  • One-pot RAFT/"click" chemistry via isocyanates: efficient synthesis of α-end-functionalized polymers.

    Guillaume Gody;Christian Rossner;John Moraes;Philipp Vana

  • Chain length dependent termination in butyl acrylate free-radical polymerization studied via stationary and pulsed laser initiated RAFT polymerization

    Thomas Junkers;Alexander Theis;Michael Buback;Thomas P. Davis

  • RAFT-Polymerization of Styrene up to High Pressure: Rate Enhancement and Improved Control

    Toshihiko Arita;Michael Buback;Olaf Janssen;Philipp Vana

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Christopher Barner-Kowollik Queensland University of Technology
Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Michael Buback
Michael Buback University of Göttingen
Martina H. Stenzel
Martina H. Stenzel University of New South Wales
John F. Quinn
John F. Quinn Monash University
Tanja Junkers
Tanja Junkers Monash University
Atsushi Goto
Atsushi Goto Nanyang Technological University
Takeshi Fukuda
Takeshi Fukuda Kyoto University
Sébastien Perrier
Sébastien Perrier University of Warwick
Michelle L. Coote
Michelle L. Coote Flinders University

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