Feature Article“Smart” nanoparticles: Preparation, characterization and applications
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Matthias Ballauff studied chemistry at the University of Mainz, where he received his degree in 1977 in the group of Professor Dr. B.A. Wolf. In 1981, he received his doctorate working in the same group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry. From 1981 to 1983, Matthias Ballauff was a postdoc in Professor P.J. Flory's group at Stanford University, where he studied liquid crystalline polymers and defined liquid crystalline model oligomers. He then worked with Professor Dr. G. Wegner and Professor Dr. E.W. Fischer at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. After his habilitation at the University of Mainz in 1989, Matthias Ballauff became Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe. Since 2003, Matthias Ballauff is professor for physical chemistry (Lehrstuhl Physikalische Chemie I) in the University of Bayreuth. Professor Ballauff was a member of the DFG committee for areas of special research and is a member of the board of the journal Colloid & Polymer Science, and a member of the Executive Advisory Board for the Macromolecular Journals.
Yan Lu was born in Wuxi, China. She received her Masters degree in Material Science at Donghua University (formerly China Textile University) in 2001. In 2005, she received her PhD with summa cum laude under the supervision of Prof. Dr. H.-J.P. Adler at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry and Textile Chemistry in Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Since 2005, she works as post-doctor in Prof. Dr. M. Ballauff's group at the Department of Physical Chemistry I, University of Bayreuth. She was awarded “APi-Prize” for the best dissertation in 2005 by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) Division of Coatings and Pigments. Her research interests cover synthesis and characterization of polymer colloids, including polyelectrolyte brushes and microgels, and synthesis of metal nanocomposite particles.