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Rainer Jordan

Rainer Jordan

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Materials Science

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72
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14573
World Ranking
4144
National Ranking
232

Chemistry

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72
Citations
14437
World Ranking
5401
National Ranking
390

Overview

Rainer Jordan is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and specializes in materials science with a strong focus on surface coatings, films, and polymer chemistry. Their research encompasses multiple subfields such as surfaces, coatings and films, molecular biology, biomaterials, materials chemistry, and organic chemistry.

Jordan's work primarily addresses topics including polymer surface interaction studies, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, nanoparticle-based drug delivery, RNA interference and gene delivery, biopolymer synthesis and applications, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, and surface modification and superhydrophobicity.

Their recent published papers include:
"Polymer Brushes on Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Patterning and as a SERS Active Sensing Layer via Incorporated Nanoparticles" (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces),
"Surface Grafting 'Band-Aid' for 'Everyone': Filter Paper-Assisted Surface-Initiated Polymerization in the Presence of Air" (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition),
"Visual Detection of Thiocyanate Based on Fabry-Perot Etalons with a Responsive Polymer Brush as the Transducer" (2020, ACS Sensors),
"Substrate-independent Cu(0)-mediated controlled radical polymerization: grafting of block copolymer brushes from poly(dopamine) modified surfaces" (2020, Polymer Chemistry),
and "A molecular brush with thermoresponsive poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) side chains: a structural investigation" (2020, Colloid & Polymer Science).

Frequent co-authors working with Jordan include Alexander V. Kabanov, Wenbo Sheng, Erik Wegener, Robert Luxenhofer, and Wei Li.

Jordan often publishes in venues such as UNC Libraries, Polymer Chemistry, ACS Macro Letters, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Best Publications

  • Poly(2-oxazoline)s as Polymer Therapeutics

    Robert Luxenhofer;Yingchao Han;Yingchao Han;Anita Schulz;Jing Tong

  • Surface-Initiated Anionic Polymerization of Styrene by Means of Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Rainer Jordan;Abraham Ulman;Jung F. Kang;Miriam H. Rafailovich

  • Surface Initiated Living Cationic Polymerization of 2-Oxazolines

    Rainer Jordan;Abraham Ulman

  • Novel One-Phase Synthesis of Thiol-Functionalized Gold, Palladium, and Iridium Nanoparticles Using Superhydride

    Chanel K. Yee;Rainer Jordan;Abraham Ulman;Henry White

  • Poly(2-oxazoline)s based biomaterials: A comprehensive and critical update.

    Thomas Lorson;Michael M. Lübtow;Erik Wegener;Malik S. Haider

  • On the biodegradability of polyethylene glycol, polypeptoids and poly(2-oxazoline)s.

    Juliane Ulbricht;Rainer Jordan;Robert Luxenhofer

  • Doubly-Amphiphilic Poly(2-oxazoline)s as High-Capacity Delivery Systems for Hydrophobic Drugs

    Robert Luxenhofer;Robert Luxenhofer;Anita Schulz;Anita Schulz;Anita Schulz;Caroline Roques;Shu Li

  • Synthesis, biodistribution and excretion of radiolabeled poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazoline)s.

    Florian C. Gaertner;Robert Luxenhofer;Birgit Blechert;Rainer Jordan

  • Nanocomposites by Surface-Initiated Living Cationic Polymerization of 2-Oxazolines on Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

    Rainer Jordan;Nuki West;Abraham Ulman;Yen Ming Chou

  • Patterned polymer brushes.

    Tao Chen;Ihsan Amin;Rainer Jordan

  • Structure-property relationship in cytotoxicity and cell uptake of poly(2-oxazoline) amphiphiles

    Robert Luxenhofer;Robert Luxenhofer;Robert Luxenhofer;Gaurav Sahay;Gaurav Sahay;Anita Schulz;Daria Alakhova

  • Self-Assembled Rigid Monolayers of 4‘-Substituted-4-mercaptobiphenyls on Gold and Silver Surfaces

    Jung F. Kang;Jung F. Kang;Abraham Ulman;Abraham Ulman;Sheng Liao;Sheng Liao;Rainer Jordan;Rainer Jordan

  • Co-delivery of paclitaxel and cisplatin in poly(2-oxazoline) polymeric micelles: Implications for drug loading, release, pharmacokinetics and outcome of ovarian and breast cancer treatments

    Xiaomeng Wan;James J. Beaudoin;Natasha Vinod;Yuanzeng Min

  • Click Chemistry with Poly(2-oxazoline)s

    Robert Luxenhofer;Rainer Jordan

  • Modulation of the lower critical solution temperature of 2-Alkyl-2-oxazoline copolymers

    Stephan Huber;Rainer Jordan

  • Tailored Poly(2-oxazoline) Polymer Brushes to Control Protein Adsorption and Cell Adhesion

    Ning Zhang;Tilo Pompe;Tilo Pompe;Ihsan Amin;Robert Luxenhofer

  • A high capacity polymeric micelle of paclitaxel: Implication of high dose drug therapy to safety and in vivo anti-cancer activity.

    Zhijian He;Xiaomeng Wan;Anita Schulz;Herdis Bludau

  • The Fifth German Oral Health Study (Fünfte Deutsche Mundgesundheitsstudie, DMS V) – rationale, design, and methods

    Rainer A Jordan;Constanze Bodechtel;Katrin Hertrampf;Thomas Hoffmann

  • When to intervene in the caries process? An expert Delphi consensus statement

    Falk Schwendicke;Christian Splieth;Lorenzo Breschi;Avijit Banerjee

  • Photochemical Modification of Cross-Linked Poly(dimethylsiloxane) by Irradiation at 172 nm

    Vera-Maria Graubner;Rainer Jordan;Oskar Nuyken;Bernhard Schnyder

  • Surface-Initiated Polymerization on Self- Assembled Monolayers: Amplification of Patterns on the Micrometer and Nanometer Scale**

    Ursula Schmelmer;Rainer Jordan;Wolfgang Geyer;Wolfgang Eck

  • Polymer brushes on graphene.

    Marin Steenackers;Alexander M. Gigler;Ning Zhang;Frank Deubel

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Luxenhofer
Robert Luxenhofer University of Helsinki
Alexander V. Kabanov
Alexander V. Kabanov University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abraham Ulman
Abraham Ulman New York University
Armin Gölzhäuser
Armin Gölzhäuser Bielefeld University
Oskar Nuyken
Oskar Nuyken Technical University of Munich
Christine M. Papadakis
Christine M. Papadakis Technical University of Munich
Ehrenfried Zschech
Ehrenfried Zschech Fraunhofer Society
Motomu Tanaka
Motomu Tanaka Heidelberg University
Jose A. Garrido
Jose A. Garrido Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
Martin Stutzmann
Martin Stutzmann Technical University of Munich

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