Prof. Dr. Werner-Michael Kulicke

The property of materials, that is what Technical Chemistry is all about. Every industrial process aims for a product with desired properties, for the application as a final product as well as in further proccesing steps. However, the prediction of the properties of a material requires a sound knowledge of the underlying molecular structure. Especially for Macromolecular (polymeric) materials the structural variations are manyfold, even for chemically identical monomeric subunits. It is therefore of utmost importance to analyse the structure of a polymeric material and to correlate this structure with the properties to allow for a better understanding, improvement and optimization in a technical application.