Matthias Ballauff (born 13 July 1952) is a German chemist and physicist, and is a professor of physics at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

. His postdoctoral research and training was directed by Paul Flory. He contributed to various areas of

physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistica ...

, in particular to

polymer science Polymer science or macromolecular science is a subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers. The field of polymer science includes researchers in multiple disciplines includ ...

colloidal chemistry Interface and colloid science is an interdisciplinary intersection of branches of chemistry, physics, nanoscience and other fields dealing with colloids, heterogeneous systems consisting of a mechanical mixture of particles between 1 nm and ...

and

nanomaterials * Nanomaterials describe, in principle, materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale). Nanomaterials research takes a materials science-based approach to na ...

, 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.

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* 1952 births Living people 20th-century German physicists 21st-century German chemists Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Stanford University faculty German expatriates in the United States Academic staff of the University of Bayreuth Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research people Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni {{Germany-chemist-stub