Authors: Friedrich Kremer
Publish Date: 2004/05/07
Volume: 282, Issue: 8, Pages: 771-772
Abstract
There are not many elder polymer scientists in the world whose careers have covered a similar wealth of scientific interests as Erhard W Fischer’s Going through his publication list of more than 270 papers published between 1955 and 2004 one finds topics as diverse as polymer morphology and crystallisation glassy dynamics in polymers polymerisation of conjugated diacetylenes density fluctuations in homogeneous and heterogeneous polymer systems levels of order in stiffchain polymers and scaling of relaxation process in the bulk and under confinement—to mention but a few It is evident that this requires a manifold of experimental methods including structural eg SEM and scattering techniques eg with neutrons electrons Xrays and light thermodynamics and especially spectroscopic NMR IR dielectric or mechanical tools Backed by his deep understanding of physics it is for Erhard W Fischer a matter of course to switch between the different fields according to the
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