Jürgen Rühe

Jürgen Rühe (* 1961 in Enniger , Westphalia) is a German chemist ( polymer chemistry , surface chemistry).

Rühe studied chemistry at the University of Münster and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1989 under Gerhard Wegner . He wrote his dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz on electrically conductive polymers, specifically conjugated poly-heterocycles. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the IBM Research Laboratory in San José, California , where he worked on ultra-thin polymer films on computer hard drives. From 1991 he was at the University of Bayreuth as a habilitation scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation and Liebig scholarship holder of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and habilitated in 1995 with a thesis on the interface chemistry of polymers. He then returned to the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz, where he headed the Max Planck Research Group for Interface Chemistry and had a C3 position. From 1998 to 2001 he was visiting associate professor at Stanford University , where he became an associate member of the Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA) there in 1998 . In 1999 he became professor for chemistry and physics of interfaces in the microsystem technology department (IMTEK) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He is the managing director and also founding director of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). From 2006 to 2014 he was Vice Rector for Internationalization and Technology Transfer at the University of Freiburg.

He was visiting scholar at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, RIKEN in Tokyo, and Stanford University.

He deals with polymer films and macromolecules on interfaces, their self-assembly and their application in microsystem technology. He developed methods of fixing macromolecules on surfaces, functionalizing surfaces with such macromolecules, and photolithographic and various printing processes for the microstructuring of surfaces. He also develops analytical methods for the characterization of ultra-thin layers of polymers on surfaces and applications for medicine and biotechnology.

In 1997 he received the Chemistry Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 2001 he received the Dechema Prize for pioneering experimental, theoretical and application-oriented work on the functionalization of interfaces using surface-fixed macromolecules (laudation).

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with O. Prucker: Polymer layers through self-assembled monolayers of initiators, Langmuir, Volume 14, 1998, pp. 6893-6898
with O. Prucker: Synthesis of poly (styrene) monolayers attached to high surface area silica gels through self-assembled monolayers of azo initiators, Macromolecules, Volume 31, 1998, pp. 592-601
with O. Prucker: Mechanism of radical chain polymerizations initiated by azo compounds covalently bound to the surface of spherical particles, Macromolecules, Volume 31, 1998, pp. 602-613
with O. Prucker u. a .: On the glass transition in ultrathin polymer films of different molecular architecture, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Volume 199, 1998, pp. 1435-1444
with O Prucker, CW Frank, CA Naumann, W. Knoll: Photochemical attachment of polymer films to solid surfaces via monolayers of benzophenone derivatives, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 121, 1999, pp. 8766-8770
with CA Naumann u. a .: The polymer-supported phospholipid bilayer: Tethering as a new approach to substrate− membrane stabilization, Biomacromolecules, Volume 3, 2002, pp. 27-35
with M. Ballauff u. a .: Polyelectrolyte brushes, in: Polyelectrolytes with Defined Molecular Architecture I, Springer 2004, pp. 79–150
with R. Toomey, D. Freidank: Swelling behavior of thin, surface-attached polymer networks, Macromolecules, Volume 37, 2004, pp. 882-887
with C. Dorrer: Condensation and wetting transitions on microstructured ultrahydrophobic surfaces, Langmuir, Volume 23, 2007, pp. 3820-3824
with C. Dorrer: Wetting of silicon nanograss: from superhydrophilic to superhydrophobic surfaces, Advanced Materials, Volume 20, 2008, pp. 159-163
with C. Dorrer: Some thoughts on superhydrophobic wetting, Soft Matter, Volume 5, 2009, pp. 51-61

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SURNAME	Rühe, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Enniger