TY - CONF A1 - Falkenhagen, Jana A1 - Fink, Friedrich T1 - Biobased and biodegradable polymers - sustainability and circular economy N2 - The presentation shows recent results on the synthesis and modification of environmentally relevant polymers based on renewable resources and the associated development of robust, high quality analytical methods. The first topic presents analytical results for star-shaped polylactides with different degrees of functionalisation. It is shown how liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry methods complement each other in a proven way to obtain accurate molar masses and to quantify chemically heterogeneous species. The second part presents an approach to incorporate lignin into epoxy matrices to obtain covalently adaptable epoxy networks that can be reprocessed and reused. T2 - 11th International Symposium on the Separation and Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Macromolecules CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands DA - 21.01.2025 KW - Polylactides KW - Ligninbased thermosets KW - MALDI-TOF-MS KW - Gradient elution liquid adsorption chromatography KW - Atomic force spectroscopy KW - FT-IR PY - 2025 AN - OPUS4-62532 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - de Camargo, Andrea Simone Stucchi T1 - Spectroscopy Lectures N2 - As a guest professor of FUNGLASS, I delivered 3 lectures on spectroscopy to the Graduate School Program, the postdoctoral fellows and other researchers: 1) Introduction to spectroscopy applied to solid state materials (with focus on glass and glass ceramics); 2) Vibrational spectroscopy (Infrared and Raman); 3) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance T2 - FunGlass CY - TrencĂ­n, Slovakia DA - 03.06.2024 KW - Spectroscopy KW - Radiation-matter interaction KW - FT-IR KW - Raman KW - EPR PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-60367 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Langklotz, U. T1 - FT-IR spectroscopy of corrosion products formed on zinc under atmospheric conditions N2 - Zinc materials are of high importance in the field of corrosion protection. For example, almost half of the annual production of zinc is used as anti-corrosive layer for steel components, particularly under atmospheric conditions. The corrosion protection is frequently ascribed to zinc carbonate species with low solubility which form on the metal surface under atmospheric conditions. Due to the technological importance and wide use of zinc materials, its corrosion behavior and the formation of reaction products has been intensively investigated over decades. Assuming atmospheric corrosion conditions, an initial native passive film of few nanometers thickness forms spontaneously. It consists of zinc oxide and hydroxide, transforming into various species in dependence of the surrounding atmospheric conditions. This study focusses on the investigation of corrosion product layers on massive titanium-zinc sheets, formed during short- and mid-term exposure experiments by Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy. This method enables the investigation of extremely thin native passive films which form during the initial hours of exposure. Furthermore, aged surface layers are analyzed which were formed by transformation of initial passive layers over the time of several weeks. The spectroscopic investigations are complemented by scanning electron microscopy (SEM/EDX) in order to obtain information on the chemical composition and morphology of the corrosion products. The combination of both methods offers a comprehensive view on the processes occurring in the early stages of zinc corrosion. T2 - EUROCORR 2019 CY - Sevilla, Spain DA - 09.09.2019 KW - Zinc coatings KW - FT-IR KW - Layer formation PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-49132 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -