Institutions of the University of Bayreuth
Junior Professor Polymers for Electrooptical and Sensory Applications

Stühler, Merlin R. ; Makki, Hesam ; Silbernagl, Dorothee ; Dimde, Mathias ; Ludwig, Kai ; Tegner, Bengt E. ; Greve, Christopher ; Rausch, Konstantin ; Herzig, Eva M. ; Köhler, Anna ; Plajer, Alex:
Flexibility and Dynamicity Enhances and Controls Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Zinc(II) Metallogels.
In: Advanced Functional Materials. (2025) . - 2507793.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202507793

Stephan, Jenny ; Olmedo-Martínez, Jorge L. ; Fornacon-Wood, Christoph ; Stühler, Merlin ; Dimde, Mathias ; Braatz, Daniel ; Langer, Robert ; Müller, Alejandro J. ; Schmalz, Holger ; Plajer, Alex:
Easy Synthetic Access to High‐Melting Sulfurated Copolymers and their Self‐Assembling Block Polymers from Phenylisothiocyanate and Oxetane.
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Vol. 63 (2024) Issue 25 . - e202405047.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202405047

Fornacon-Wood, Christoph ; Stühler, Merlin R. ; Millanvois, Alexandre ; Steiner, Luca ; Weimann, Christiane ; Silbernagl, Dorothee ; Sturm, Heinz ; Paulus, Beate ; Plajer, Alex:
Fluoride Recovery in Degradable Fluorinated Polyesters.
In: Chemical Communications. Vol. 60 (2024) Issue 58 . - pp. 7479-7482.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC02513J

Manjunatha, Bhargav Rampura ; Stühler, Merlin R. ; Quick, Luise ; Plajer, Alex:
Improved Access to Polythioesters by Heterobimetallic Aluminium Catalysis.
In: Chemical Communications. Vol. 60 (2024) Issue 34 . - pp. 4541-4544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC00811A

Stühler, Merlin R. ; Kreische, Marie ; Fornacon-Wood, Christoph ; Rupf, Susanne M. ; Langer, Robert ; Plajer, Alex:
Monomer centred selectivity guidelines for sulfurated ring-opening copolymerisations.
In: Chemical Science. Vol. 15 (2024) Issue 45 . - pp. 19029-19036.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC05858E

Gallizioli, Cesare ; Battke, David ; Schlaad, Helmut ; Deglmann, Peter ; Plajer, Alex:
Ring‐Opening Terpolymerisation of Elemental Sulfur Waste with Propylene Oxide and Carbon Disulfide via Lithium Catalysis.
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Vol. 63 (2024) Issue 17 . - e202319810.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202319810

Deglmann, Peter ; Machleit, Sara ; Gallizioli, Cesare ; Rupf, Susanne M. ; Plajer, Alex:
Lithium catalysed sequence selective ring opening terpolymerisation : a mechanistic study.
In: Catalysis Science & Technology. Vol. 13 (2023) Issue 10 . - pp. 2937-2945.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CY00301A

Stephan, Jenny ; Stühler, Merlin R. ; Rupf, Susanne M. ; Neale, Sam ; Plajer, Alex:
Mechanistic mapping of (CS₂/CO₂)/epoxide copolymerization catalysis leads to terpolymers with improved degradability.
In: Cell Reports Physical Science. Vol. 4 (2023) Issue 8 . - 101510.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101510

Fornacon-Wood, Christoph ; Stühler, Merlin R. ; Gallizioli, Cesare ; Manjunatha, Bhargav Rampura ; Wachtendorf, Volker ; Schartel, Bernhard ; Plajer, Alex:
Precise construction of weather-sensitive poly(ester-alt-thioesters) from phthalic thioanhydride and oxetane.
In: Chemical Communications. Vol. 59 (2023) Issue 76 . - pp. 11353-11356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC03315E

Fornacon-Wood, Christoph ; Manjunatha, Bhargav Rampura ; Stühler, Merlin R. ; Gallizioli, Cesare ; Müller, Carsten ; Pröhm, Patrick ; Plajer, Alex:
Precise cooperative sulfur placement leads to semi-crystallinity and selective depolymerisability in CS₂/oxetane copolymers.
In: Nature Communications. Vol. 14 (2023) . - 4525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39951-y

Stühler, Merlin R. ; Gallizioli, Cesare ; Rupf, Susanne M. ; Plajer, Alex:
Ring-opening terpolymerisation of phthalic thioanhydride with carbon dioxide and epoxides.
In: Polymer Chemistry. Vol. 14 (2023) Issue 42 . - pp. 4848-4855.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3PY01022H

Rupf, Susanne ; Pröhm, Patrick ; Plajer, Alex:
Lithium achieves sequence selective ring-opening terpolymerisation (ROTERP) of ternary monomer mixtures.
In: Chemical Science. Vol. 13 (2022) Issue 21 . - pp. 6355-6365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SC01776H

Plajer, Alex:
Sequence Selective Ring‐opening Terpolymerisation Facilitates Higher Order Switchable Catalysis.
In: ChemCatChem. Vol. 14 (2022) Issue 22 . - e202200867.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202200867

Silbernagl, Dorothee ; Sturm, Heinz ; Plajer, Alex:
Thioanhydride/isothiocyanate/epoxide ring-opening terpolymerisation: sequence selective enchainment of monomer mixtures and switchable catalysis.
In: Polymer Chemistry. Vol. 13 (2022) Issue 27 . - pp. 3981-3985.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2PY00629D