Dr. Tonya Andreeva staff scientist Building 2 - Room 008A Tel. 07121/271-2043 E-mail: Tonya.Andreeva@Reutlingen-University.DE |
Research interests:
- Physical chemistry of surfaces, Dispersions, colloids and foams, Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers and multilayers
- Materials chemistry, Soft matter, Polymer materials and coatings, Biodegradable materials, Biocompatible polymers, Hybrid polymer-based coatings, Nano materials, Drug delivery
- Biophysics, Biomembranes, Model membranes, Membrane proteins, Self-assembly of proteins
Technical Skills and Competences:
Methods for surface modification:
- Langmuir layers (on liquid support) and Langmuir-Blodgett layers (on solid support)
- Layer-by-Layer (LbL) technique for deposition of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers (PEM) on solid surfaces.
Methods for surface characterization:
Many optical, X-ray and spectroscopic techniques for characterization of surfaces and interfaces e.g.:
- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
- Brewster Angle Microscopy (BAM)
- Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction (GIXD)
- Polarization Modulated Infrared Reflection-Absorption Spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS)
- Fluorescent microscopy
- Ellipsometry
- Quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM)
- Rame-Hart CA Goniometer
- Microinterpherometric measurement of the foam films thickness