Mario Beiner

Prof. Dr. habil.
Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM
Polymer Applications
Walter-Hülse-Str. 1
Halle/Saale Germany 06120
Email: mario.beiner@iwmh.fraunhofer.de

Biographical Sketch: Professor Dr. Mario Beiner is Scientific Director of the Business Unit Polymer Applications at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Halle (Saale) and is heading a small research group working on Micro- and Nanostructure-based Polymer Composites at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. His research is focusing on structure property relations and applications of materials where softening and crystallization occur in nanoscopic domains or at interfaces. This covers materials like self-assembled polymers, polymer composites as well as host-guest systems. Mario Beiner got his PhD for work on fundamental aspects of glass transition and polymer dynamics in 1995 and finished his Habilitation at the Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg in 2003. He worked as visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, at the FORTH-IESL in Heraklion (Crete), at the McMaster University Hamilton and at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. Dr. Beiner’s group is currently part of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 102 ‘Polymers under Multiple Constraints’ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Papers:
64 About the Viscoelastic Nature of the Filler Network in Rubber Composites and Its Importance for the Optimization of Composites Containing Grained Rubber 80 Interrelation Between Morphology and Relaxation Behavior in Self-Assembled Poly((styrene-stat-butadiene)-Block-Butadiene) Copolymers