Science: Chemistry: Physical: Research Groups

Laser-based research on trace-element detection, microsurgery and cooling and trapping.

Photochemistry. Self-assembly.

Uses novel two-dimensional ultrafast laser spectroscopy techniques to study chemical dynamics of liquids and electronic properties of new materials.

Physical chemistry of solid Surfaces: chemisorption, catalysis, and surface analysis.

Chemical reactions of gas molecules at the gas-liquid interface.

Hydrogel and nanoparticulate materials chemistry.

Single-molecule spectroscopy and microscopy. Single-molecule biophysics and nanophotonics.

Molecular electronics and molecular recognition.

Photochemistry. Reactive intermediates.

Materials and surface chemistry.

Study of Van der Waals and other weakly bonded aromatic complexes.

Single molecule spectroscopy and microscopy. Development of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microscopy.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jger's Laboratory for the Study of Intermolecular Interactions.

Active projects include nonlinear chemical imaging nanomicroscopy of nanostructured materials, polymers, and biological systems, terahertz laser spectroscopy of water clusters, infrared cavity ringdown spectroscopy of ions and clusters, synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy of liquid surfaces, chemistry at liquid surfaces, and single photon counting IR emission spectroscopy of PAHs.

Applied physical chemistry of polymers and colloids, including polymer solutions, polysaccharides, gels, latices, surfactants, and liposomes.

Spectroscopy, photophysics and photochemistry.