Meeting in Messe Freiburg

Monday February 26, 2024

08:00 – 09:00

Registration and Check-In

Morning Session 09:00 – 12:45

09:00 – 09:10

OPENING REMARKS

PROF. PRASAD SHASTRI (Meeting Chair, University of Freiburg)

Session – I

Chair: PROF. PRASAD SHASTRI

09:10 – 09:30

In memoriam Prof. Helmut Ringsdorf

PROF. LEO GROS (Hochschule Fresenius gGmbH) (Invited)

09:30 – 10:10

Meeting Plenary - I

PROF. NICHOLAS PEPPAS (University of Texas, Austin) (Invited)

Structure, Mechanics and Diffusive Characteristics of Non-Gaussian, Multi-Arm, Multi-Functional Networks

10:10 – 10:50

POSTER INTRODUCTION I

Chair: PROF. SEEMA AGARWAL

10:50 – 11:25       Coffee Break / Poster Viewing

Session – II

Chair: PROF. NICO BRUNS

11:25 – 11:45

PROF. ANDRE LASCHEWSKY (Fraunhofer IAP)

Dye-Functionalized Multi-responsive Polymers: Combining Temperature and Light as Non-invasive Stimuli

11:45 – 12:05

PROF. DORINA OPRIS (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa))

Stimuli-Responsive Smart Elastomers

12:05 – 12:45

POSTER INTRODUCTION II

Chair: PROF. SEEMA AGARWAL

12:45 – 14:15

LUNCH BREAK / Poster Viewing (Lunch provided at venue)

Afternoon Session 14:15 – 18:00 (2:15 PM – 6:00 PM)

Session - III Young Scientists Session (sponsored by ALTANA)

Chair: PROF. LAURA HARTMANN

14:15 – 14:35

DR. TAYLOR NELSON (University of Konstanz)

Degradable and Recyclable Long-Chain Aliphatic Polyesters from Bio-Based and Waste-Sourceable Feedstocks

14:35 – 14:55

DR. FRIEDERIKE ADAMS (University of Stuttgart)

The Power of Yttrium: Versatile Synthesis of Functional Copolymers for Nanomedical Applications

14:55 – 15:15

DR. MARIA HOENKE (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

Targeting the Endosomal Membrane by Biomimetic, pH-sensitive Polymers

15:15  – 15:40

WILEY MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS YOUNG RESEARCHER LECTURESHIP (TALK AND AWARD CEREMONY)

To be announced LIVE during the Colloquium

15:40 – 16:20    Coffee Break / Poster Viewing

Session - IV

Chair: PROF. TANJA WEIL

16:20 – 16:50

DR. RUPERT KONRADI (BASF) (Invited)

Collaboration Across Interfaces

16:50 – 17:20

PROF. SEEMA AGARWAL (University of Bayreuth) (Invited)

Polymer Architectures with Predetermined Breaking Points for After-Use Degradation Options

17:20 – 17:50

DR. ERIK LICHT (LyondellBasell)

Analytics of Recyclates – Enabling Closing the Loop of Plastics

19:30 – 23:00

Dinner in Mensa Rempartstrasse (Rempartstraße 18)

(Doors open at 19:15)

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Tuesday February 27, 2024

Morning Session 09:00 – 12:35

09:00 - 10:30

Session - V

Chair: PROF. ANDREAS WALTHER

09:00 – 09:40

Meeting Plenary - II

PROF. XINLIANG FENG (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics) (Invited)

Advances in Organic 2D Crystals – From On-Water Surface Chemistry to Functional Applications

09:40 – 10:00

PROF. JOHANNES BRENDEL (University of Bayreuth)

Guiding Polymer Self-Assembly towards One-Dimensional Nanostructures

10:00 – 10:30

PROF. MICHAEL SOMMER (TU Chemnitz) (Invited)

New Ionomers for Proton and Anion Exchange Membranes

10:30 – 11:15       Coffee Break / Poster Viewing

Session – VI

Chair: PROF. JOHANNES BRENDEL

11:15 – 11:45

PROF. JÖRG TILLER (TU Dortmund) (Invited)

Empowering the Biological Activity of Antibiotics by Forming Conjugates with Poly(2-oxazoline)s

11:45 – 12:05

PROF. JULIAN THIELE (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)

Additive Soft Matter Design by Hydrogel Particles as Building Blocks

12:05 – 12:35

PROF. NICO BRUNS (TU Darmstadt) (Invited)

Enwrapping Biological Systems into Bioinspired Polymer Capsules: from Enzyme Nanoreactors to Self-Synthesizing Artificial Cells

12:35 – 14:00

LUNCH BREAK / Poster Viewing (Lunch provided at venue)

Afternoon Session 14:00 – 18:05(2:00 PM –6:05 PM)

Session – VII

Chair: PROF. XINLIANG FENG

14:00 – 14:30

PROF. TANJA WEIL (MPI Mainz) (Invited)

Supramolecular Chemistry in Living Systems

14:30 – 14:50

PROF. HOLGER FREY (University Mainz)

Isomerizing Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) to “rPEG”: Amorphous and Non-Immunogenic Structures for Medical and Pharmaceutical Applications

14:50 – 15:10

PROF. BELA IVAN (Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Research Network)

Novel Nanostructured Amphiphilic Polymer Architectures as Nanocontainers and Intelligent Drug Carriers

15:10 – 15:30

DR. LEONID KABEROV (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

2-Oxazoline-Based Polyphotoacids – Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Copolymers for Targeted Drug Delivery

15:30 – 16:15       Coffee Break / Poster Viewing

Session – VIII

Chair: PROF. PRASAD SHASTRI

16:15 – 16:45

PROF. JOERG LAHANN (University of Michigan) (Invited)

Vapor-Based Polymers: Towards Chemical, Topological and Biological Control of Biointerfaces

16:45 – 17:05

DR. KEVIN NEUMANN (Radboud University)

Stronger Together: Unexplored Polymeric Ylides Open a New Generation of Antifouling and Biofilm Preventing Materials

17:05 – 17:25

DR. CHRISTIAN ROSSNER (IPF Dresden)

Kinetically Controlled Site-Specific Self-Assembly of Brush-Coated Anisotropic

Nanoparticles

17:25 – 17:45

DR. JENS GAITZSCH (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.)

Functional Polymers from Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation by pH Responsiveness and Branches as Features

17:45 – 17:55

WILEY POSTER PRIZE

17:55 – 18:05

CLOSING REMARKS

PROF. LAURA HARTMANN (University of Freiburg)

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