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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
- ERC Starting Grant 2025
- Emmy Noether fellowship of the DFG (granted, declined in favour of ERC)
- Seed Project Leader in the CRC 1585
- IMAGE Grant University Bayreuth
- Research Expenses Grant of the Association of the Chemical Industry
- 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
2026
Merlin S. Stühler, Hesam Makki, Tarek Hilal, Debsena Chakraboty, Mathias Dimde, Kai Ludwig, Rainer Haag, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Dorothee Silbermagl, Andreas Schäfer, Alex Plajer: Hydrogelation via Supramolecular Copolymerization of Structural Water within Adaptive Metal-Organic Fibers. In: Advanced Materials, (2026). - e19933.
doi:10.1002/adma.202519933
2025
André H. Gröschel, Alex Plajer, Meike N. Leiske, Johannes C. Brendel: Cover Image, Volume 63, Issue 21, Journal of Polymer Science, 63, 2025
Jenny Stephan, Merlin R. Stühler, Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Mathias Dimde, Kai Ludwig, Heinz Sturm, Jorge L. Olmedo-Martínez, Alejandro J. Müller, Alex Plajer: Sulfur-containing block polymers from ring-opening copolymerization : coordinative encapsulants for transition metals. In: Polymer Chemistry, 16 (2025). - S. 1003-1009.
doi:10.1039/D4PY01415D
Cesare Gallizioli, Marina Sebastian, Malte Cornelsen, Christian Rossner, Alex Plajer: Sulfur-containing polyesters from thioanhydride/CS₂/epoxide ring-opening terpolymerisation: monomer scope and gold-nanoparticle functionalisation. In: European Polymer Journal, 241 (2025). - 114373.
doi:10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2025.114373
Merlin R. Stühler, Alex Plajer: Supramolecular polymerization and self-assembly of transition metal complexes. In: Polymer Chemistry, 16 (2025). - S. 2799-2810.
doi:10.1039/D5PY00315F
André H. Gröschel, Alex Plajer, Meike N. Leiske, Johannes C. Brendel: Editorial: Celebrating 50 Years of Macromolecular Chemistry and Polymer Research at the University of Bayreuth. In: Journal of Polymer Science, 63 (2025). - S. 4379-4382.
doi:10.1002/pol.20250928
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). - 2507793.
doi:10.1002/adfm.202507793
Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Kailey Sun Marcus, Rosa M. Gomila, Antonio Frontera, Alex Plajer: Harnessing borane-potassium cooperativity for sulfurated ring-opening copolymerisation. In: Green Chemistry, 27 (2025). - S. 3494-3502.
doi:10.1039/D4GC05665E
Cesare Gallizioli, Peter Deglmann, Alex Plajer: Kinetically Enhanced Access to a Dynamic Polyester Platform via Sequence Selective Terpolymerisation of Elemental Sulphur. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64 (2025). - e202501337.
doi:10.1002/anie.202501337
Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Mani Sengoden, Merlin R. Stühler, Robert Langer, Donald J. Darensbourg, Alex Plajer: Monomer-Dependent Selectivity in Sulfur-Containing Ring-Opening Copolymerisation : Bimetallic Catalysis for Predictive Design of Degradable Polymers. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64 (2025). - e202508985.
doi:10.1002/anie.202508985
Debsena Chakraborty, Alex Plajer: Recent Advances in Polyimine Chemistry: Synthesis, Functional Design, and Degradation. In: Journal of Polymer Science, 63 (2025). - S. 4383-4393.
doi:10.1002/pol.20241199
Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Luca Steiner, Chengzhang Xu, Beate Paulus, Alex Plajer: Recoverable Fluorination Accelerates Ring-Opening Copolymerisation and Enables Post-Polymerisation-Modification of Polyesters. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64 (2025). - e202515104.
doi:10.1002/anie.202515104
Bhargav Rampura Manjunatha, Cesare Gallizioli, Christoph Fornacon-Wood, Jenny Stephan, Merlin R. Stühler, Alex Plajer: Sequence Control in Sulphur-Containing Ring-Opening Co- and Terpolymerisations. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64 (2025). - e202507243.
doi:10.1002/anie.202507243
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). - e202405047.
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). - e202319810.
doi:10.1002/anie.202319810
2023
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). - 101510.
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). - 4525.
doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39951-y
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
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). - e202200867.
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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