Welcome to
Théato Research Group
My highly motivated research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is working on the development of new synthesis methods for polymers, synthesis of functional polymers, surface chemistry, nanomaterials, and materials science. Synthetically we are utilizing numerous modern polymerization techniques in combination with post-polymerization modification techniques. With the development of a powerful synthetic toolbox, we are extending and pushing the current limits of polymer chemistry.
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Agilent Cary 3500 Multicell Peltier Mutlizone UV/ViS Spectrometer
We are very happy to finally be able to use our new UV/ViS Spectrometer from Agilent. Yesterday the Cary 3500 Multicell Peltier Mutlizone was put into operation. From now on we can do photometry again.
Group Trip 2025 – Bad Wildbad and Pizza Session
On the July, 7th we made our way to Bad Wildbad, the trip to the treetop walk ended immediately after the group photo due to the considerable amount of rain. However, the Théato group doesn’t let a little rain get them down. We travelled back to Campus West and baked delicious pizzas together with our pizza chefs Björn and Christian. Many thanks to Christian and Björn for providing the pizza ovens. Great day!
DFG Decision Excellence Strategy
The Clusters of Excellence were announced by the DFG on Thursday, 22 May 2025. We are delighted that the joint project with Ulm and Giessen can proceed to the next funding period. 7 more years of outstanding post-lithium battery research. Let’s achieve great things together…
POLiS – Cluster of Excellence Post-Lithium Storage
Polymer-based Batteries
We would like to thank the Priority Programme – Polymer-based Batteries (SPP 2248) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) for funding our project on polymers based on squaric acid amides and cyclopropenium cations as new electrode materials for energy storage: Synthesis and electrochemical characterization.
SS 2025
The lecture of the summer term 2025 start on 25th of April. For the Synthetische Polymerchemie II lecture please refer to the respective ILIAS entry. For the Angewandte Chemie lecture please refer to the respective ILIAS entry.