Prof. Dr. Reiner Kirchheim

++49 - 551 - 39 5001 e-mail Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Institut für Materialphysik Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 37077 Göttingen Germany

• Hydrogen in metals
• Thermodynamics of alloys, metastable alloys, nucleation and growth
• Interstital solution and diffusion in glasses (metals, oxides, polymers and semiconductors)
• Solute-atom segregation at and diffusion in internal interfaces
• Passivity of metals
• Electromigration in metals
• Plasticity of glassy polymers and positron annihilation in polymers

PCGG activities

Ongoing and Planned Research Group Interaction(s) within the Graduate School

• The Zippelius Group
• The Buback Group
• The Samwer Group
• The Krebs Group

• ♦ T. Haramina, R. Kirchheim, A. Tibrewala, E. Peiner, Mechanical spectroscopy of thin polystyrene films, Polymer 2008, 49, 2115-2118.
• ♦ T. Haramina, R. Kirchheim, Mechanical spectroscopy of PVCN with increasing cross-linking degree, Macromolecules 2007, 40, 4211-4216.
• ♦ M. Suleiman, J. Faupel, C. Borchers, H.U. Krebs, J. Bankmann, C. Bähtz, R. Kirchheim, A. Pundt, Hydrogen absorption behaviour in nanometer sized palladium samples stabilized in surfactant and polymer matrix, HASYLAB, Annual Report 2004, , .

• Talk: Nov 07 2007 Thermodynamics of polymer mixtures (Introductory Lecture WS 2007/2008 - Polymer Coils)
• Talk: Nov 02 2005 Thermodynamics of polymer mixtures (Introductory Lecture WS 2005/2006 - Polymer Coils)
• Talk: Jan 21 2004 Entropic and Energetic Elasticity (Introductory Lecture WS 2003/2004)
• Talk: Dec 10 2003 Gels and Sol-Gel-Transition (Introductory Lecture WS 2003/2004)

• Grad_Koll_Kirchheim1.zip: 958760 Byte Lecture Notes on "The behaviour of small molecules in polymers and oxide glasses"