Fundamental research
News:
Early February 2025, an international Research consortium published an article about 2-dimensional Polyaniline: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08387-9. After my first comment on the respective researchgate page (see below), I am in active discussion with the group. You can, follow it here at communities.springernature.com.
Very differentiated comments sent to „nature“ on March 13 in the format of „Matters Arising“
Fundamental Research in Conductive Polymers (leading to the first Organic Metal), its dispersion, colloidal science in general, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and turbulence
Research Topics and Results
Major results of Dr. Wessling’s research over almost 4 decades have been
– synthesis and characterisation of polyaniline p-toluene sulfonate, its dispersion (towards processable forms), structure elucidation, transformation to an Organic Metal, basic understanding of the properties of an Organic Metal: (nano-)metallic conductivity mechanism in combination with catalytic abilities;
– pioneering application processes (mainly corrosion protection, based on the discovery of the passivation capability of the Organic Metal Polyaniline, and final finishing of printed circuit boards / chemical deposition of Tin on Copper catalyzed by the Organic Metal, and passivation of Copper by it);
– fundamental insights into the Organic Metal’s properties and into the various application processes basics;
– non-equilibrium thermodynamical description of dispersions and emulsions (concise non-equilibrium thermodynamical theory), discovery and theoretical explanation of structure formation in dispersions and emulsions (self-organisation to frozen dissipative structures);
– (together with Dr. Helmut Baumert) parameter-free theory of turbulence of dispersions and emulsions.
The following links offer some paths to history and key publications of this research work.
Most of publications can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernhard-Wessling/research
Here at scholar.google.com you can find a citation overview.
