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2008Type
- Doctoral Thesis
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The main goals of this thesis have been, on the phenomenological side, to (i) explore phenomena of the dendronized polymer chemistry including morphology and dynamics of single molecules and (ii) to describe supramolecular structures of many-molecule dendronized polymeric systems. As the author uses a computational modeling approach to attack the aforementioned goals, and due to the complexity of dendronized polymeric systems, a systematic multiscale modeling approach had been required. Its implementation constitutes the methodological goal of this thesis. The two threads of thesis work, phenomena and methodology, proceed in parallel and are mutually benefiting from each other. Dendronized polymers provide a good play ground for practicing multiscale modeling approaches. At the same time modeling results solve theoretical problems in dendronized polymer systems. The first chapter of the thesis introduces the background of the work, states some open problems in dendronized polymers at the time the thesis plan had been set up. The second chapter gives a brief introduction to the tools the author developed and used for modeling. The multiscaled models are presented in the chapters 3–5. In the end of the thesis the author gives a summary of the work and an outlook for some prospective further developments. Show more
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DENDRIMERS (PLASTICS INDUSTRY); MODELLRECHNUNG UND SIMULATION IN DER WERKSTOFFKUNDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCES; SUPRAMOLEKULARE STRUKTUREN (PHYSIK VON MOLEKULARSYSTEMEN); SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURES (PHYSICS OF MOLECULAR SYSTEMS); DENDRIMERE (KUNSTSTOFFINDUSTRIE)Organisational unit
03359 - Oettinger, Christian (emeritus) / Oettinger, Christian (emeritus)
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