Dr. Marina Ruths

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPhysical Chemistry at Surfaces,Preparative and Physical Chemistry of Polymers,Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Causes
Keywordssurface and interfacial interactions, boundary friction, adhesion, self-assembled monolayers, polymer films

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityLowell
InstitutionUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry
Homepagehttp://www.uml.edu/college/arts_sciences/chemistry/Faculty/Marina_Ruths.html

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang KnollMax-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/1998

Programme(s)

1998Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2001Marina Ruths, Manfred Heuberger, Volker Scheumann, Jianjiang Hu, Wolfgang Knoll: Confinement-Induced Film Thickness Transitions in Liquid Crystals between Two Alkanethiol Monolayers on Gold. In: Langmuir, 2001, 6213-6219
2000Marina Ruths, Diethelm Johannsmann, Juergen Ruehe, Wolfgang Knoll: Repulsive Forces and Relaxation on Compression of Entangled, Polydisperse Polystyrene Brushes. In: Macromolecules, 2000, 3860-3870