Working group: Prof. Blume

Office: Von-Dankelman-Platz 4, room E.12, phone 25235

Lab: room E.22, phone 25821

FAX: 27157

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Working fields:

• interaction of amphiphilic and polyphilic molecules with lipid monolayers and lipid vesicles
• self organisation of amphiphilic and polyphilic liquid crystalline molecules at the air/water interface
• strukture-interaction-relationship of small polyphilic molecule with lipids
• alteration of human tooth enamel by (modified) food stuffs -  mineralization of tooth hard tissue

Methods:

• Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
• Powder diffraction (x-ray)
• Infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total-reflection (ATR-FT IR)
• Tensiometry (Compression isotherms, adsorption isotherms)
  • Brewster angle microscopy,
  • Langmuir-Blodgett transfer
• Elektron microscopy (TEM, ESEM)
• Fluorescence-spectroscopy and microscopy, dynamic light scattering