Albena Lederer is a scientist in the Analytical Department of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at IPF Dresden and head of the Polymer Separation Group.

Research activities

• Scaling properties of model dendritic polymers
• Aggregation behaviour of dendronized glycopolymers
• Quantification of polymer host-guest complexes
• Branching separation by phase distribution chromatography

 

Characterization Techniques

Size exclusion chromatography of polymers. SEC 

• SEC coupled to different detectors: RI, UV, Visco, SLS, DLS, MALDI-TOF MS
• organic and aqueous
• high temperature and temperature dependent SEC

Asymmetrical Flow Field Flow Fractionation, AF4

• aqueous and organic
• with UV-Vis, SLS and DLS detection

Gas Chromatography

• Headspace GC-MS
• Pyrolysis GC-MS 

Solution viscosity

Elution Fractionation

Static and dynamic light scattering

Complementary methods

• SANS
• AFM, SEM
• Zetapotential determination
• NMR and FTIR spectroscopy
• MALDI-TOF MS
• Thermal analysis