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Thomas Thurn-Albrecht is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Science, with a particular emphasis on Polymers and Plastics, Biomaterials, and Materials Chemistry. Additional areas of study include Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.

Their work covers various topics including polymer crystallization and properties, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, polymer nanocomposites and properties, conducting polymers and applications, organic electronics and photovoltaics, material dynamics and properties, as well as polymer composites and self-healing.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Macromolecules
  • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
  • Polymer
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Nature Communications

Some of their recent papers are:

  • The Key Role of Side Chain Linkage in Structure Formation and Mixed Conduction of Ethylene Glycol Substituted Polythiophenes (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • Competition between crystal growth and intracrystalline chain diffusion determines the lamellar thickness in semicrystalline polymers (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Dynamics and healing behavior of metallosupramolecular polymers (2021, Science Advances)
  • How entanglements determine the morphology of semicrystalline polymers (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Structure-Property Relationships of Microphase-Separated Metallosupramolecular Polymers (2020, Macromolecules)

They have collaborated frequently with researchers such as Albrecht Petzold, Kay Saalwächter, Qiang Yu, Oleksandr Dolynchuk, and Mareen Schaller.

Best Publications

  • Ultrahigh-Density Nanowire Arrays Grown in Self-Assembled Diblock Copolymer Templates

    T. Thurn-Albrecht;J. Schotter;G. A. Kästle;N. Emley

  • Self-assembly of nanoparticles into structured spherical and network aggregates

    Andrew K. Boal;Faysal Ilhan;Jason E. DeRouchey;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

  • Electrically induced structure formation and pattern transfer

    Erik Schäffer;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht;Thomas P. Russell;Ullrich Steiner

  • Nanoscopic Templates from Oriented Block Copolymer Films

    Thomas Thurn-Albrecht;Rachel Steiner;Jason DeRouchey;Christopher M. Stafford

  • On exfoliation of montmorillonite in epoxy

    In-Joo Chin;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht;Ho-Cheol Kim;Thomas P. Russell

  • Overcoming Interfacial Interactions with Electric Fields

    T. Thurn-Albrecht;J. DeRouchey;T. P. Russell;H. M. Jaeger

  • Comb-shaped polymers to enhance hydroxide transport in anion exchange membranes

    Nanwen Li;Tingzi Yan;Zheng Li;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

  • Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in polymer films

    E. Schäffer;E. Schäffer;T. Thurn-Albrecht;T.P. Russell;U Steiner

  • Semicrystalline morphology in thin films of poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    S. Hugger;R. Thomann;T. Heinzel;T. Thurn-Albrecht

  • Phase behavior, crystallization, and hierarchical nanostructures in self-organized thermoset blends of epoxy resin and amphiphilic poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) triblock copolymers

    Qipeng Guo;Ralf Thomann;Wolfram Gronski;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

  • Direct visualization of random crystallization and melting in arrays of nanometer-size polymer crystals.

    Günter Reiter;Gilles Castelein;Jens-Uwe Sommer;Andreas Röttele

  • Temperature and Molecular Weight Dependent Hierarchical Equilibrium Structures in Semiconducting Poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    Zhiyong Wu;Albrecht Petzold;Thomas Henze;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

  • Coherent kinetic control over crystal orientation in macroscopic ensembles of polymer nanorods and nanotubes.

    Martin Steinhart;Petra Göring;Haissam Dernaika;Munusamy Prabhukaran

  • Aggregation and Chain Dynamics in Supramolecular Polymers by Dynamic Rheology: Cluster Formation and Self-Aggregation

    Florian Herbst;Klaus Schröter;Ilja Gunkel;Stefan Gröger

  • Pathways toward Electric Field Induced Alignment of Block Copolymers

    Thomas Thurn-Albrecht;Jason Derouchey;Thomas P. Russell;Rainer Kolb

  • 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

  • Mechanical Properties and Cross-Link Density of Styrene–Butadiene Model Composites Containing Fillers with Bimodal Particle Size Distribution

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

  • Twin polymerization at spherical hard templates: an approach to size-adjustable carbon hollow spheres with micro- or mesoporous shells.

    Falko Böttger-Hiller;Patrick Kempe;Gerhard Cox;Alexander Panchenko

  • Correlation of charge transport with structural order in highly ordered melt-crystallized poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films

    Chetan R. Singh;Gaurav Gupta;Ruth H. Lohwasser;Sebastian Engmann

  • The Key Role of Side Chain Linkage in Structure Formation and Mixed Conduction of Ethylene Glycol Substituted Polythiophenes

    Philip Schmode;Achilleas Savva;Robert Kahl;David Ohayon

  • A Four-State Scheme for Treating Polymer Crystallization and Melting Suggested by Calorimetric and Small Angle X-ray Scattering Experiments on Syndiotactic Polypropylene

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  • Basic principles of static proton low-resolution spin diffusion NMR in nanophase-separated materials with mobility contrast.

    Kerstin Schäler;Matthias Roos;Peter Micke;Yury Golitsyn

  • Thermodynamics of Formation, Reorganization, and Melting of Confined Nanometer-Sized Polymer Crystals

    Andreas Röttele;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht;Jens-Uwe Sommer;Günter Reiter

  • Nanostructure and Rheology of Hydrogen-Bonding Telechelic Polymers in the Melt: From Micellar Liquids and Solids to Supramolecular Gels

    Tingzi Yan;Klaus Schröter;Florian Herbst;Wolfgang H. Binder

Frequent Co-Authors

Mukundan Thelakkat
Mukundan Thelakkat University of Bayreuth
Kay Saalwächter
Kay Saalwächter Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Martin Steinhart
Martin Steinhart Osnabrück University
Wolfgang H. Binder
Wolfgang H. Binder Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Alejandro J. Müller
Alejandro J. Müller University of the Basque Country
Michael Sommer
Michael Sommer Chemnitz University of Technology
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jörg Kressler
Jörg Kressler Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ullrich Steiner
Ullrich Steiner University of Freiburg
Friedrich Kremer
Friedrich Kremer Leipzig University

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