Matthias Ballauff

Matthias Ballauff
Born	(1952-07-12) July 12, 1952
Nationality	Germany
Alma mater	University of Mainz
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Chemistry
Institutions	Free University of Berlin Humboldt University Berlin Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin University of Bayreuth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology University of Stanford Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research University of Mainz
Thesis	(1981)
Doctoral advisor	Bernhard A. Wolf
Other academic advisors	Paul Flory

Matthias Ballauff (born 13 July 1952) is a German chemist and physicist, and is a professor of physics at the Free University of Berlin. His postdoctoral research and training was directed by Paul Flory. He contributed to various areas of physical chemistry, in particular to polymer science, colloidal chemistry and nanomaterials, as well as to soft matter physics. Ballauff is particularly known for having developed new catalyst materials in the form of functionalized metallic nanoparticles dispersed in liquid phase, which can greatly speed up the reaction kinetics of organic molecules.

Selected publications

• Wunder, S.; Polzer, F.; Lu, Y.; Mei, Y.; Ballauff, M. (2010), "Kinetic analysis of catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol by metallic nanoparticles immobilized in spherical polyelectrolyte brushes", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114 (19): 8814–8820, doi:10.1021/jp101125j.
• Gu, S.; Wunder, S.; Lu, Y.; Ballauff, M.; Fenger, R.; Rademann, K.; Jaquet, B.; Zaccone, A. (2014), "Kinetic Analysis of the Catalytic Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol by Metallic Nanoparticles", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118 (32): 18618–18625, doi:10.1021/jp5060606.
• Guo, X.; Weiss, A.; Ballauff, M. (1999), "Synthesis of Spherical Polyelectrolyte Brushes by Photoemulsion Polymerization", Macromolecules, 32 (19): 6043–6046, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.68.011306.