Group Members
PhD Students
Maximilian Baumann
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 81897
Email: maximilian.baumann@uni-wuerzburg.de
Maximilian Baumann finished his chemistry (Master) studies at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg in May 2019. He wrote his Master thesis "Umbrella-Shaped Mesogens for Polar and Ferroelectric Liquid-crystalline Phases" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
Current Research Topic
Trigonal-pyramidal mesogens for ferroelectric and polar liquid crystals.
Prizes
Winning prize at the 47th German Liquid Crystal Conference 2021 (Online-Conference) for his poster with the title "Umbrella-shaped LC Star Subphthalocyanines - E-Field Orientable Polar Mesophases".
Leonard Fink
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 83101
Email: leonard.fink@uni-wuerzburg.de
Leonard Fink studied chemistry (Bachelor and Master) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg from October 2017 to December 2022. He wrote his Master thesis "Synthese BTBT-substituierter Phthalocyanine mit Siloxan-Peripherie als organische Halbleitermaterialien" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
Current Research Topic
Phthalocyanine based star mesogens with BTBT arms and peripheral siloxane moieties.
Anselm Herzog
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 87870
Email: anselm.herzog@uni-wuerzburg.de
Anselm Herzog studied Math and Chemistry (teaching degree) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg from October 2011 to March 2016. From March 2016 to November 2021 he studied Chemistry at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. He wrote his Bachelor thesis “Synthese und Charakterisierung eines neuartigen C3-symmetrischen OPV-Sternmesogens“ in 2018 and his Master thesis "Synthesis and Characterisation of Hexasubstituted oligothiophen starmesogenes containing PBIs" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
Current Research Topic
Trigonal-pyramidal mesogens for ferroelectric and polar liquid crystals.
Katja Noll
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 888769
Email: katja.noll@uni-wuerzburg.de
Katja Noll studied chemistry (Master) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg from October 2014 to February 2020. She wrote her Master thesis "Synthese und Untersuchungen von Sternmesogenen mit drei Ankergruppen zur Anbindung an Gäste und anorganische Substrate" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
For her PhD thesis she is funded by the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes".
Current Research Topic
Synthesis and investigations of shape-persistant C3-symmetric star mesogens with guest molecules in the free spaces.
Prizes
Winning prize at the 49th German Liquid Crystal Conference 2021 for her poster with the title "Structural Control of Nucleobase Star Mesogens – Switching Bicontinuous Cubic Networks to Hexagonal Columnar Phases".
Aparna Prasad
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Email: aparna.prasad@uni-wuerzburg.de
Aparna Prasad studied chemistry (Bachelor's & Master's Degree) at the Madras Christian College (University of Madras, India) from 2010 to 2015. She completed her master's degree in catalytic chemistry at the SRM Research Institute.
For her PhD thesis she is funded by the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (Oct. 2019).
Current Research Topic
“Low Melting Donor-Acceptor Star Mesogens Based On Phthalocyanine-Oligo(Phenyleneethenylene)-Fullerene Triads – New Filled Mesophases For Potential Photovoltaic Applications”.
Lisa Reber, geb. Gerbig
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 84173
Email: lisa.reber@uni-wuerzburg.de
Lisa Reber studied chemistry at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg from October 2013 to April 2019. She wrote her Master thesis "Flüssigkristalline Fullerenhelices auf Basis von Drei- und Vierarmsternmesogenen: Synthese und Struktur-Eigenschafts-Beziehungen" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
Current Research Topic
Four-armed star-shaped shape-persistent porphyrine based liquid crystals.
Publications
- "Supramolecular click procedures in liquid crystals" M. Lehmann, M. Dechant, L. Gerbig and M. Baumann, Liquid Crystals 2019. DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2019.1618936
Prizes
Winning prize at the 46th German Liquid Crystal Conference in Paderborn for her poster with the title "Star-shaped Porphyrine-Oligo(phenylenevinylene)-Fullerene Triads – New Mesogens for Organic Bulk Heterojunction Materials?".
Nikolai Scheuring
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 83101
Email: nikolai.scheuring@uni-wuerzburg.de
Nikolai Scheuring studied chemistry (Master) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg from October 2010 to April 2018. He wrote his Master thesis "Synthese von Oligopeptiden mit fluorierten Azobenzolen als fotoschaltbare supramolekulare Polymere" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
Current Research Topic
Board-shaped mesogens.
Pascal Weinberger
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 87557
Email: pascal.weinberger@uni-wuerzburg.de
Pascal Weinberger studied chemistry (Bachelor's and Master's Degree) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg from October 2015 to January 2021. He wrote his master's thesis "Systematische Untersuchung der thermotropen Eigenschaften flüssigkristalliner ionischer Cyanoborate" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
Current Research Topic
Borate anions forming ionic liquid crystals.
Publications
- "Sulfinyl-aminotroponiminates: alkali- (Li, Na, K) and heavy-metal (Bi) complexes" A. Hanft, D. Rottschäfer, V. Müller, P. Weinberger, K. Radacki, X. Xie and C. Lichtenberg, Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 10809-10817. DOI: 10.1039/D2DT01802K
Technical Staff
Paul Runge
Institut für Organische Chemie
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: coming soon
Email: paul.runge@uni-wuerzburg.de
Paul Runge studied chemistry (Bachelor and Master) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg from October 2015 to August 2022. He wrote his Master thesis "Hexasubstituierte, alternierende Sternmesogene mit Oligothiophenarmen" at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the working group of Prof. Dr. Lehmann.
Master Students
Steffen Maier
Research Topic
"Synthese und Struktur-Eigenschaftsbeziehungen von chromophorgefüllten sechsarmigen Sternmesogenen"
