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David Gräfe

PhD student

David Gräfe
+49 (0)351 4658 264/789 +49 (0)351 4658 565

David Gräfe is a PhD student in the department of Bioactive and Responsive Polymers working under the supervision of Dr. Dietmar Appelhans, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Richter and Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit. The work is involved within the „chemical information processing path” of the cluster of excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfAED). His research topic covers the synthesis of bi sensitive hydrogels for application in chemical transistors.

Fileds of Activity

  • Synthesis of pH sensitive macromonomers with controlled radical polymerization techniques (Reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization)
  • Synthesis of bi sensitive hydrogels via covalent bonding of pH sensitive macromonomers within polymeric networks
  • Immobilization of nanoparticles within bi sensitive hydrogels
  • Applied characterization methods: 1H- und 13C-NMR, FTIR, EA, SEC, DLS, UV/Vis, Cryo-TEM und MALDI-TOF

Personal Data

since 01/2013 PhD student at Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. and the Dresden University of Technology, Supervisors: Dr. Dietmar Appelhans, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Richter
10/2007 - 12/2012 Studies in chemistry at the Dresden University of Technology
2012 Master's Thesis: Polymersomes as synthetic bionanoreactor, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit and Dr. Dietmar Appelhans
2010 Bachelor's Thesis: Synthesis and characterization of polymersomes from amphiphilic block copolymers, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit and Dr. Dietmar Appelhans