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Dr. Alex Plajer
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Juniorprofessorship for polymers for electrooptical and sensory applications
Group Leader
Macromolecular Chemistry I
Universität Bayreuth
Scientific career
- Since Dec. 2023: Jun.-Prof. at Universitat Bayreuth
- 2021 - 2023: Junior group leader Freie Universität Berlin
- 2020 - 2021: 1851 research fellow University of Oxford
- 2020: Ph.D. University of Cambridge
- 2016: M. Phil. University of Cambridge
- 2015: B.Sc. University of Heidelberg
- 2012: Abitur Johann Sebastian Bach Gymnasium Mannheim
Awards and Funding
- DFG Individual Grant
- Daimler and Benz Foundation Scholarship
- START initiative funding from the FUB senate
- Project leader in the CRC 1349
- Liebig fellowship of the association of the chemical industry
- Royal commission for the exhibition of 1851 research fellowship
- Cambridge trust vice-chancellor Ph.D. scholarship
- Karl-Ziegler and Selwyn college travel grants; RSC Dalton talk award
- Goetz Durand B.Sc. award; GDCH, DPG and BASF Abitur award
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Juniorprofessorship for polymers for electrooptical and sensory applications
Publications
2025
Merlin R. Stühler, Hesam Makki, Dorothee Silbernagl, Mathias Dimde, Kai Ludwig, Bengt E. Tegner, Christopher Greve, Konstantin Rausch, Eva M. Herzig, Anna Köhler, Alex Plajer: Flexibility and Dynamicity Enhances and Controls Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Zinc(II) Metallogels. In: Advanced Functional Materials, (2025). - .
doi:10.1002/adfm.202507793
2024
Jenny Stephan, Jorge L. Olmedo-Martínez, Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin Stühler, Mathias Dimde, Daniel Braatz, Robert Langer, Alejandro J. Müller, Holger Schmalz, Alex Plajer: Easy Synthetic Access to High‐Melting Sulfurated Copolymers and their Self‐Assembling Block Polymers from Phenylisothiocyanate and Oxetane. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63 (2024). - .
doi:10.1002/anie.202405047
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin R. Stühler, Alexandre Millanvois, Luca Steiner, Christiane Weimann, Dorothee Silbernagl, Heinz Sturm, Beate Paulus, Alex Plajer: Fluoride Recovery in Degradable Fluorinated Polyesters. In: Chemical Communications, 60 (2024). - S. 7479-7482.
doi:10.1039/D4CC02513J
Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Merlin R. Stühler, Luise Quick, Alex Plajer: Improved Access to Polythioesters by Heterobimetallic Aluminium Catalysis. In: Chemical Communications, 60 (2024). - S. 4541-4544.
doi:10.1039/D4CC00811A
Merlin R. Stühler, Marie Kreische, Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Susanne M. Rupf, Robert Langer, Alex Plajer: Monomer centred selectivity guidelines for sulfurated ring-opening copolymerisations. In: Chemical Science, 15 (2024). - S. 19029-19036.
doi:10.1039/D4SC05858E
Cesare Gallizioli, David Battke, Helmut Schlaad, Peter Deglmann, Alex Plajer: Ring‐Opening Terpolymerisation of Elemental Sulfur Waste with Propylene Oxide and Carbon Disulfide via Lithium Catalysis. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63 (2024). - .
doi:10.1002/anie.202319810
2023
Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Susanne M. Rupf, Alex Plajer: Ring-opening terpolymerisation of phthalic thioanhydride with carbon dioxide and epoxides. In: Polymer Chemistry, 14 (2023). - S. 4848-4855.
doi:10.1039/D3PY01022H
Peter Deglmann, Sara Machleit, Cesare Gallizioli, Susanne M. Rupf, Alex Plajer: Lithium catalysed sequence selective ring opening terpolymerisation : a mechanistic study. In: Catalysis Science & Technology, 13 (2023). - S. 2937-2945.
doi:10.1039/D3CY00301A
Jenny Stephan, Merlin R. Stühler, Susanne M. Rupf, Sam Neale, Alex Plajer: Mechanistic mapping of (CS₂/CO₂)/epoxide copolymerization catalysis leads to terpolymers with improved degradability. In: Cell Reports Physical Science, 4 (2023). - .
doi:10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101510
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Volker Wachtendorf, Bernhard Schartel, Alex Plajer: Precise construction of weather-sensitive poly(ester-alt-thioesters) from phthalic thioanhydride and oxetane. In: Chemical Communications, 59 (2023). - S. 11353-11356.
doi:10.1039/D3CC03315E
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Merlin R. Stühler, Cesare Gallizioli, Carsten Müller, Patrick Pröhm, Alex Plajer: Precise cooperative sulfur placement leads to semi-crystallinity and selective depolymerisability in CS₂/oxetane copolymers. In: Nature Communications, 14 (2023). - .
doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39951-y
2022
Susanne Rupf, Patrick Pröhm, Alex Plajer: Lithium achieves sequence selective ring-opening terpolymerisation (ROTERP) of ternary monomer mixtures. In: Chemical Science, 13 (2022). - S. 6355-6365.
doi:10.1039/D2SC01776H
Alex Plajer: Sequence Selective Ring‐opening Terpolymerisation Facilitates Higher Order Switchable Catalysis. In: ChemCatChem, 14 (2022). - .
doi:10.1002/cctc.202200867
Dorothee Silbernagl, Heinz Sturm, Alex Plajer: Thioanhydride/isothiocyanate/epoxide ring-opening terpolymerisation: sequence selective enchainment of monomer mixtures and switchable catalysis. In: Polymer Chemistry, 13 (2022). - S. 3981-3985.
doi:10.1039/D2PY00629D
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Juniorprofessorship for polymers for electrooptical and sensory applications
Dr. Alex Plajer
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
95447 Bayreuth
E-mail: alex.plajer@uni-bayreuth.de
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