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Dr. Alex Plajer
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Juniorprofessorship for polymers for electrooptical and sensory applications
Group Leader
Macromolecular Chemistry I
Universität Bayreuth
Scientific career
- Since Dec. 2023: Jun.-Prof. at Universitat Bayreuth
- 2021 - 2023: Junior group leader Freie Universität Berlin
- 2020 - 2021: 1851 research fellow University of Oxford
- 2020: Ph.D. University of Cambridge
- 2016: M. Phil. University of Cambridge
- 2015: B.Sc. University of Heidelberg
- 2012: Abitur Johann Sebastian Bach Gymnasium Mannheim
Awards and Funding
- DFG Individual Grant
- Daimler and Benz Foundation Scholarship
- START initiative funding from the FUB senate
- Project leader in the CRC 1349
- Liebig fellowship of the association of the chemical industry
- Royal commission for the exhibition of 1851 research fellowship
- Cambridge trust vice-chancellor Ph.D. scholarship
- Karl-Ziegler and Selwyn college travel grants; RSC Dalton talk award
- Goetz Durand B.Sc. award; GDCH, DPG and BASF Abitur award
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Juniorprofessorship for polymers for electrooptical and sensory applications
Publications
2024
Jenny Stephan, Jorge L. Olmedo-Martínez, Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin Stühler, Mathias Dimde, Daniel Braatz, Robert Langer, Alejandro J. Müller, Holger Schmalz, Alex Plajer: Easy Synthetic Access to High‐Melting Sulfurated Copolymers and their Self‐Assembling Block Polymers from Phenylisothiocyanate and Oxetane. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63 (2024). - .
doi:10.1002/anie.202405047
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin R. Stühler, Alexandre Millanvois, Luca Steiner, Christiane Weimann, Dorothee Silbernagl, Heinz Sturm, Beate Paulus, Alex Plajer: Fluoride Recovery in Degradable Fluorinated Polyesters. In: Chemical Communications, 60 (2024). - S. 7479-7482.
doi:10.1039/D4CC02513J
Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Merlin R. Stühler, Luise Quick, Alex Plajer: Improved Access to Polythioesters by Heterobimetallic Aluminium Catalysis. In: Chemical Communications, 60 (2024). - S. 4541-4544.
doi:10.1039/D4CC00811A
Cesare Gallizioli, David Battke, Helmut Schlaad, Peter Deglmann, Alex Plajer: Ring‐Opening Terpolymerisation of Elemental Sulfur Waste with Propylene Oxide and Carbon Disulfide via Lithium Catalysis. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63 (2024). - .
doi:10.1002/anie.202319810
2023
Peter Deglmann, Sara Machleit, Cesare Gallizioli, Susanne M. Rupf, Alex Plajer: Lithium catalysed sequence selective ring opening terpolymerisation : a mechanistic study. In: Catalysis Science & Technology, 13 (2023). - S. 2937-2945.
doi:10.1039/D3CY00301A
Jenny Stephan, Merlin R. Stühler, Susanne M. Rupf, Sam Neale, Alex Plajer: Mechanistic mapping of (CS₂/CO₂)/epoxide copolymerization catalysis leads to terpolymers with improved degradability. In: Cell Reports Physical Science, 4 (2023). - .
doi:10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101510
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Volker Wachtendorf, Bernhard Schartel, Alex Plajer: Precise construction of weather-sensitive poly(ester-alt-thioesters) from phthalic thioanhydride and oxetane. In: Chemical Communications, 59 (2023). - S. 11353-11356.
doi:10.1039/D3CC03315E
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Carsten Müller, Patrick Pröhm, Alex Plajer: Precise cooperative sulfur placement leads to semi-crystallinity and selective depolymerisability in CS₂/oxetane copolymers. In: Nature Communications, 14 (2023). - .
doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39951-y
Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Susanne M. Rupf, Alex Plajer: Ring-opening terpolymerisation of phthalic thioanhydride with carbon dioxide and epoxides. In: Polymer Chemistry, 14 (2023). - S. 4848-4855.
doi:10.1039/D3PY01022H
2022
Alex Plajer: Sequence Selective Ring‐opening Terpolymerisation Facilitates Higher Order Switchable Catalysis. In: ChemCatChem, 14 (2022). - .
doi:10.1002/cctc.202200867
Dorothee Silbernagl, Heinz Sturm, Alex Plajer: Thioanhydride/isothiocyanate/epoxide ring-opening terpolymerisation: sequence selective enchainment of monomer mixtures and switchable catalysis. In: Polymer Chemistry, 13 (2022). - S. 3981-3985.
doi:10.1039/D2PY00629D
Susanne Rupf, Patrick Pröhm, Alex Plajer: Lithium achieves sequence selective ring-opening terpolymerisation (ROTERP) of ternary monomer mixtures. In: Chemical Science, 13 (2022). - S. 6355-6365.
doi:10.1039/D2SC01776H
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Juniorprofessorship for polymers for electrooptical and sensory applications
Dr. Alex Plajer
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
95447 Bayreuth
E-mail: alex.plajer@uni-bayreuth.de
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