Methods and Research Techniques of the Soft Matter Group

Measuring

Small Angle Xray Scattering
Xray Reflection

3 Langmuir Troughs

Surface Force Apparatus
Atomic Force Microscope

UV/VIS Spectrometry
Imaging Ellipsometry
Wave Guiding

Contact Angle Determination
Optical Microscopy

Experiments at large scale facilities

Grazing Incidence Diffraction at liquid Interfaces (Hasylab, Hamburg)
Neutron Reflexion (HMI, Berlin)

Sample Prepartation

Langmuir-Blodget films
Vacuum Evaporation
Laminar Flow Hoods
Automatic Preparation of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers