Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Position

Professor and Chair of Preparative Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe/ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

Qualifications
•    Director of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, UNSW (2007-2008).
•    Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2002) University of New South Wales (UNSW).
•    PhD (2000) the University of Göttingen.

Expertise
•    Synthesis of complex macromomolecular architectures via living/controlled radical polymerization.
•    Development of novel polymer conjugation protocols.
•    Polymer reaction kinetics and mechanism.

Key Areas of Research

•    Development of novel processes for controlled/ living radical polymerization.
•    Access routes to complex polymeric materials/ orthogonal conjugation.
•    Surface modification of polymeric materials.
•    Photo-initiator decay processes, photo-radical reactivity towards vinyl monomer.
•    Quantitative mass spectrometry on synthetic polymers coupled to SEC, multi-dimensional chromatography.

Selected Publications

Junkers, T; Barner-Kowollik, C. The Role of Mid-Chain Radicals in Acrylate Free Radical Polymerization: Branching and Scission. J. Polym. Sci. – Polym. Chem. 2008, 46, 7585-7605.

Gruendling, T; Guilhaus, M; Barner-Kowollik, C. Quantitative LC-MS of Polymers: Determining Accurate Molecular Weight Distributions by Combined Size Exclusion Chromatography and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry with Maximum Entropy Data Processing. Analytical Chemistry. 2008, 80, 6915-6927.