⇓Expertise: Fiber forming polymers, polysaccharides, biocompatible polymers, model film preparation from these polymers, adsorption processes at (solid-liquid) interfaces, surface interactions with biomolecules, charge determinations on bulk materials and surfaces, electrospinning, biomedical engineering of surfaces, microstructured polymers for advanced applications, nanoparticle synthesis (on interfaces), fiber modification and analysis, analysis of textiles, materials for medical applications.

⇓Equipment: • Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D); Q-Sense
• Electrospinning apparatus using rotating drums with different electrode geometries, El Marco
• AFM Agilent 550
• Scanning electron microscope Fesem Supra 35VP
• KS 300 Rel. 3.0. image processing and analyses
• Optical microscope Carl Zeiss; Oxford Ins. EDX
• TOC TN-2100 Jena Analitic; Perkin Elmer spectrum GX FT-IR with Raman attachment and
   microscope
• Atomic absorption Spectrophotometer
• Wide Angle WAXS and Small Angle SAXS X-ray Apparatus
• Titrators DL 35; Particle Charge Detector; Electrokinetic Analyzer
• UV/Vis spectrophotometer
• Franz cells
• Tensiometer K12
• Goniometer OCA 35
• Spin coater Polos
• Martindale Abrasion and Pilling tester
• Lenzing Dynamometer; Electronic Dynamometer
• Apparatus for determination of water vapor and air permeability
• Apparatus for LOI index determination
• Heraeus Xenotest
• Datacolor Spectra Flash SF 600 Plus
• Perkin Elmer Lambda 900
• PELA 1020; Minolta- CM 512m3
• Fungilab viscometer
• Access to Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, XPS, TEM