PD Dr. Michael Walter

Projects within livMatS

• Chemistry of triboelectric materials (TriboGen-Chem)
• Studying the properties of lipids and lipid surfaces for usage in triboelectric nano-generators and beyond
  This project is carried out within the the Cluster’s Agnes Pockels Doctoral Fellowship Program.
• Training Materials like Muscles
• Inorganic and Organic SolStore
• Interfaces, charge-transfer and non-adiabatic processes and their exploitation in a frequency-tunable tribogenerator
  
  

Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

• Pooja Bhat Mulki
  
  

Publications in livMatS

• Mechanochemical Activation of Anthracene [4+4] Cycloadducts*
  Walter, M., Linsler, D., König, T., Gäbert, C., Reinicke, S., Moseler, M., & Mayrhofer, L. (2023). Mechanochemical Activation of Anthracene [4+4] Cycloadducts. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14, 1445−1451. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03493
• Conformer Ring Flip Enhances Mechanochromic Performance of ansa-Donor–Acceptor–Donor Mechanochromic Torsional Springs*
  Hertel, R., Maftuhin, W., Walter, M., and Sommer, M. (2022). Conformer Ring Flip Enhances Mechanochromic Performance of ansa-Donor–Acceptor–Donor Mechanochromic Torsional Springs. Journal of the American Chemical Society. doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c06712
• Force Dependent Barriers from Analytic Potentials within Elastic Environments*
  Khodayeki, S., Maftuhin, W., & Walter, M. (2022). Force Dependent Barriers from Analytic Potentials within Elastic Environments. ChemPhysChem, e202200237. doi: 10.1002/cphc.202200237
• Phenothiazine-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers as Multifunctional Materials for Charge Storage and Solar Energy Conversion*
  Wessling, R., Delgado Andres, R., Morhenn, I., Acker, P., Maftuhin, W., Walter, M., Würfel, U., Esser, B. (2022). Phenothiazine-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers as Multifunctional Materials for Charge Storage and Solar Energy Conversion. Macro-Molecular Rapid Communications. doi: 10.1002/marc.202200699
• A mechanochromic donor-acceptor torsional spring*
  Raisch, M., Maftuhin, W., Walter, M., & Sommer, M. (2021). A mechanochromic donor-acceptor torsional spring. Nature Communications, 12: 4243. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24501

* Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807