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  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for exceptional research in the development and application of laser diagnostics for turbulent flames and gas turbine combustors

Overview

Wolfgang Meier is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a focus on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, and Biomaterials.

The scientist has contributed notably to several main topics within these fields, including:

  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis

Wolfgang Meier has authored multiple scientific papers, with some recent publications listed below:

  • "Synthetic Biology: Bottom-Up Assembly of Molecular Systems," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Multicompartment Polymer Vesicles with Artificial Organelles for Signal-Triggered Cascade Reactions Including Cytoskeleton Formation," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Combinatorial Strategy for Studying Biochemical Pathways in Double Emulsion Templated Cell-Sized Compartments," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Updating radical ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic ketene acetals from synthesis to degradation," 2020, European Polymer Journal
  • "Recent Advances in Hybrid Biomimetic Polymer-Based Films: from Assembly to Applications," 2020, Polymers

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biomacromolecules, Chemical Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials, and the European Polymer Journal.

Wolfgang Meier has collaborated extensively with coauthors including Cornelia G. Palivan, Riccardo Wehr, Jens Gaitzsch, Davy Daubian, and Saziye Yorulmaz Avsar.

Among accolades, Wolfgang Meier was recognized as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018 for research contributions related to laser diagnostics for turbulent flames and gas turbine combustors.

Best Publications

  • Polymeric vesicles: from drug carriers to nanoreactors and artificial organelles.

    Pascal Tanner;Patric Baumann;Ramona Enea;Ozana Onaca

  • Highly permeable polymeric membranes based on the incorporation of the functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z

    Manish Kumar;Mariusz Grzelakowski;Julie Zilles;Mark Clark

  • Block copolymer vesicles—using concepts from polymer chemistry to mimic biomembranes

    Katarzyna Kita-Tokarczyk;Julie Grumelard;Thomas Haefele;Wolfgang Meier

  • Stimuli-responsive polymersomes as nanocarriers for drug and gene delivery.

    Ozana Onaca;Ramona Enea;David W. Hughes;Wolfgang Meier

  • Polymerized ABA Triblock Copolymer Vesicles

    Corinne Nardin;Thomas Hirt;Jörg Leukel;Wolfgang Meier

  • Bioinspired polymer vesicles and membranes for biological and medical applications

    Cornelia G. Palivan;Roland Goers;Roland Goers;Adrian Najer;Xiaoyan Zhang

  • Stimuli-Responsive Polymers and Their Applications in Nanomedicine

    Etienne Cabane;Xiaoyan Zhang;Karolina Langowska;Cornelia G. Palivan

  • Gel-Assisted Formation of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

    Andreas Weinberger;Feng-Ching Tsai;Gijsje H. Koenderink;Thais F. Schmidt

  • Detailed characterization of the dynamics of thermoacoustic pulsations in a lean premixed swirl flame

    Wolfgang Meier;Peter Weigand;Xuru R. Duan;Robert Giezendanner-Thoben

  • Investigations of swirl flames in a gas turbine model combustor: I. Flow field, structures, temperature, and species distributions

    Peter Weigand;Wolfgang Meier;Xuru Duan;Winfried Stricker

  • Flow–flame interactions causing acoustically coupled heat release fluctuations in a thermo-acoustically unstable gas turbine model combustor

    Adam M. Steinberg;Isaac Boxx;Michael Stöhr;Campbell Carter

  • Reconstitution of Channel Proteins in (Polymerized) ABA Triblock Copolymer Membranes

    Wolfgang Meier;Corinne Nardin;Mathias Winterhalter

  • Nanoreactors based on (polymerized) ABA-triblock copolymer vesicles

    Corinne Nardin;Sandra Thoeni;Jörg Widmer;Mathias Winterhalter

  • Experimental study of vortex-flame interaction in a gas turbine model combustor

    Michael Stöhr;Isaac Boxx;Campbell D. Carter;Wolfgang Meier

  • Dynamics of lean blowout of a swirl-stabilized flame in a gas turbine model combustor

    Michael Stöhr;Isaac Boxx;Campbell Carter;Wolfgang Meier

  • Virus-assisted loading of polymer nanocontainer

    Alexandra Graff;Marc Sauer;Patrick Van Gelder;Wolfgang Meier

  • Amphiphilic block copolymer nanocontainers as bioreactors

    C. Nardin;J. Widmer;M. Winterhalter;W. Meier

  • Toward intelligent nanosize bioreactors: a pH-switchable, channel-equipped, functional polymer nanocontainer.

    Pavel Broz;Sergey Driamov;Joerg Ziegler;Nadav Ben-Haim

  • Vesicle-Templated Polymer Hollow Spheres

    Jutta Hotz;Wolfgang Meier

  • Effects of silver nanoparticles on primary mixed neural cell cultures: Uptake, oxidative stress and acute calcium responses

    Andrea Haase;Stephanie Rott;Alexandre Mantion;Philipp Graf

Frequent Co-Authors

Cornelia G. Palivan
Cornelia G. Palivan University of Basel
Manfred Aigner
Manfred Aigner German Aerospace Center
Michael Stöhr
Michael Stöhr German Aerospace Center
Andreas Taubert
Andreas Taubert University of Potsdam
Mathias Winterhalter
Mathias Winterhalter Jacobs University
Andreas Dreizler
Andreas Dreizler Technical University of Darmstadt
Hans-Peter Beck
Hans-Peter Beck University of Basel
Edwin C. Constable
Edwin C. Constable University of Basel
Robert P. Lucht
Robert P. Lucht Purdue University West Lafayette
Heino Finkelmann
Heino Finkelmann University of Freiburg

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