Team Team

Functional Electronic Materials Paradigm

We design polymeric, hybrid, and molecular systems that tightly link structure-processing-property to function. We enable electronics that are both high-performance and manufacturable. Ranging from stretchable semiconductors and OMIECs to interfacial hybrids and molecular machines, our materials-first approach turns fundamental design rules into scalable device performance.

Soft & Sustainable Polymer Electronics

We design stretchable polymer semiconductors, OMIECs, and low-loss dielectric composites that preserve electronic function at high strain. By tuning monomers, architecture, and interface, we decouple transport from mechanics. Where specs permit, cleavable or redispersible motifs enable repair, reuse, and recycling – advancing truly sustainable soft-electronic device stacks.

Functional Interfaces & Hybrid Materials

We create NHC-linked Au-nanoparticle/polymer hybrids as e.g. conjugated interlayers or water-processable conductive inks, tuning ligands, grafting density, and spacing to control charge/ion transport while maintaining colloidal stability. These hybrids serve as contact-modification and ion-management layers formulated for printing without high-temperature sintering.

Rational Design of Molecular Machines

We synthesize electrically responsive molecules with tailored anchors, dipoles, and charge distributions that convert fields or tunneling currents into controlled motion at surfaces. Scanning-tunneling feedback closes the design loop, yielding rules for nanoscale actuation and sensing – and for storing and releasing minute energy packets in internal molecular degrees of freedom.

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TUHH:
  • Hamburg University of Technology
    Institute of Applied Polymer Physics
    Harburger Schloßstr. 22a
    D-21079 Hamburg

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Organic chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, analytical chemistry − we use a large variety of methods and tools.

Polymers or nanocars − we love functional electronic materials.

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