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Overview

Volker Abetz is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and engineering, with a significant focus on materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and organic chemistry. Mechanical engineering and polymers and plastics also constitute important subfields of their scientific work.

Their main topics of study include membrane separation technologies, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, membrane separation and gas transport, and block copolymer self-assembly. Other areas of research cover polymer composites and self-healing materials, membrane-based ion separation techniques, as well as fuel cells and related materials.

Volker Abetz has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • Polymers
  • Macromolecular Rapid Communications
  • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their notable recent papers demonstrate a focus on polymer membranes and their formations, as well as polymer synthesis techniques. Selected works include:

  • Advanced porous polymer membranes from self-assembling block copolymers, 2020, Progress in Polymer Science
  • Nonequilibrium Processes in Polymer Membrane Formation: Theory and Experiment, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Polymerizations by RAFT: Developments of the Technique and Its Application in the Synthesis of Tailored (Co)polymers, 2020, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
  • Hybrid Organic-Inorganic-Organic Isoporous Membranes with Tunable Pore Sizes and Functionalities for Molecular Separation, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Lithium selectivity of crown ethers: The effect of heteroatoms and cavity size, 2022, Separation and Purification Technology

Collaborations are an important part of their work. Frequent coauthors include Md. Mushfequr Rahman, Clarissa Abetz, Hluf Hailu Kinfu, Nicolás Cevallos-Cueva, and Joachim Koll.

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric superstructure formed in a block copolymer via phase separation

    Klaus-Viktor Peinemann;Volker Abetz;Peter F W Simon

  • Phase behaviour and morphologies of block copolymers

    Volker Abetz;Peter F. W. Simon

  • Structural Characterization of Graphene Oxide: Surface Functional Groups and Fractionated Oxidative Debris

    Elvin Aliyev;Volkan Filiz;Muntazim M. Khan;Young Joo Lee

  • Amphiphilic Janus Micelles with Polystyrene and Poly(methacrylic acid) Hemispheres

    Rainer Erhardt;Mingfu Zhang;Alexander Böker;Heiko Zettl

  • Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) mixed polyacrylonitrile (PAN) ultrafiltration membranes

    Shahid Majeed;Daniel Fierro;Kristian Buhr;Jan Wind

  • Isoporous Block Copolymer Membranes

    Volker Abetz

  • Synthesis and morphology of ABC heteroarm star terpolymers of polystyrene, polybutadiene and poly(2‐vinylpyridine)

    Hanno Hückstädt;Astrid Göpfert;Volker Abetz

  • Developments in Membrane Research: from Material via Process Design to Industrial Application

    V. Abetz;T. Brinkmann;M. Dijkstra;K. Ebert

  • PEBAX® with PEG functionalized POSS as nanocomposite membranes for CO2 separation

    Md. Mushfequr Rahman;Volkan Filiz;Sergey Shishatskiy;Clarissa Abetz

  • Non-centrosymmetric superlattices in block copolymer blends

    Thorsten Goldacker;Volker Abetz;Reimund Stadler;Igor Erukhimovich

  • Formation of superlattices via blending of block copolymers

    Volker Abetz;Thorsten Goldacker

  • Cylindrical morphologies in asymmetric ABC triblock copolymers

    Ulrike Breiner;Udo Krappe;Volker Abetz;Reimund Stadler

  • Homogeneous nucleation and fractionated crystallization in block copolymers

    Alejandro J. Müller;V. Balsamo;M. L. Arnal;T. Jakob

  • Double Stimuli‐Responsive Isoporous Membranes via Post‐Modification of pH‐Sensitive Self‐Assembled Diblock Copolymer Membranes

    Juliana Isabel Clodt;Volkan Filiz;Sofia Rangou;Kristian Buhr

  • Polyelectrolyte block copolymer micelles

    Stephan Förster;Volker Abetz;Axel H. E. Müller

  • Reactive Tetrablock Copolymers Containing Glycidyl Methacrylate. Synthesis and Morphology Control in Epoxy−Amine Networks

    Valéry Rebizant;Volker Abetz;Francois Tournilhac;Francois Court

  • Enhanced gas permeability by fabricating mixed matrix membranes of functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes and polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIM)

    Muntazim M. Khan;Volkan Filiz;Gisela Bengtson;Sergey Shishatskiy

  • INFLUENCE OF CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS ON THE DIELECTRIC ALPHA-RELAXATION IN HOMOGENEOUS POLYMER MIXTURES

    G. Katana;Erhard W. Fischer;T. Hack;Volker Abetz

  • Advanced porous polymer membranes from self-assembling block copolymers

    Maryam Radjabian;Volker Abetz;Volker Abetz

  • Self-assembly of Janus cylinders into hierarchical superstructures.

    Andreas Walther;Markus Drechsler;Sabine Rosenfeldt;Ludger Harnau

  • Large Scale Domain Alignment of a Block Copolymer from Solution Using Electric Fields

    Alexander Böker;Armin Knoll;Hubert Elbs;Volker Abetz

  • Janus discs.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Reimund Stadler
Reimund Stadler University of Bayreuth
Holger Schmalz
Holger Schmalz University of Bayreuth
Alejandro J. Müller
Alejandro J. Müller University of the Basque Country
Georg Krausch
Georg Krausch Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Axel H. E. Müller
Axel H. E. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Alexander Böker
Alexander Böker Fraunhofer Society
Manfred Stamm
Manfred Stamm Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Karl Schulte
Karl Schulte Hamburg University of Technology
Ludwik Leibler
Ludwik Leibler PSL University
Klaus-Viktor Peinemann
Klaus-Viktor Peinemann King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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