Department of Supramolecular Polymer Systems
Head: Petr Štěpánek, PhD
(phone +420-296 809 211, e-mail stepan@imc.cas.cz)
ResearchThe activities of the
Department are focused on physical and physicochemical studies of
various supramolecular systems consisting of homopolymers, block
and random copolymers, gels, either in bulk or in the presence of
large or small amounts of solvents or solvent mixtures, or
latices. Particular attention is paid to phase separation
phenomena, to association, complexation and micelle formation, to
ordering processes on microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic
scales with respect to their kinetics and dynamics, and to the
generated structure and its flow behavior. Research is performed
in the field of organic electroluminescence (polymer
light-emitting devices - LEDs) and of optical, electric and
photoelectric properties of thin polymer films. The experimental
techniques used include static and dynamic light scattering,
time-resolved light scattering, laser speckle analysis,
birefringence analysis, image analysis, electron paramagnetic
resonance (EPR), both stationary and time-resolved fluorescence,
measurements of electroluminescence and photoconductivity,
Newtonian and non-Newtonian viscometry, electrorheology, size
exclusion chromatography with multiple detection, and MALDI-TOF
mass spectrometry.
Organisation Structure:
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stepan@imc.cas.cz
Last modified: 21.04.2004
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