Electrospun nanofibers of a copolymer consisting of polyvinylalcohol that has been crosslinked with an inorganic polymer containing phosphorus, oxygen and nitrogen only.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Orthaber

Uppsala Universitet, Section of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry - Ångström laboratoriet
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Tel: +46 18 471-3638
Fax: +46 18 471-6844
BOX 523, 75120 Uppsala

Expertise
Organophosphorus and organoarsenic compounds; monomeric precursors, polymers via radical polymerization and C-C coupling reactions, organic-, inorganic synthesis, single-crystal X-ray crystallography, theoretical mechanistic investigations, C-C coupling reactions, catalysis.

Equipment
• Diffractometer Bruker D8 APEX-III.
• NMR Spectrometer (Delta 400, Jeol)
• Analytical HPLC (Dionex, Ultimate 300) with MS coupling (LCQ Deca XP MAX, Finnigan)
  and light scattering (PL-ELS 2100, Polymer Laboratories)
• Semi-preparative HPLC (Dionex, Ultimate 300)
• Flashmaster SP4 (Biotage)
• In-situ IR (Mettler Toledo, ReactIR IC 10)
• FT-IR spectrometer (Bruker IFS 66v/s) can be coupled to electrochemistry setup
• FT-IR spectrometer (Perkin Elmer Spectrum one)
• UV/Vis/NIR spectrometer (Varian: 50 Bio, Cary 5000)
• Oven for (solvo)thermal synthesis (Memmert UN55)
• Cyclovoltammetry (Autolab PGstat) coupled to MBraun Glovebox
• Spectroelectrochemistry (Autolab + Agilent 8453)
• Microwave for synthesis Initiator (Biotage)
• Glovebox + freezer (MBraun, 3 gloves)
• High Performance Computing (various systems and software)

General lab equipment for the synthesis of sensitive and reactive materials, i.e. Schlenk techniques, ...