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Dr. Klaus Tauer
Heterophase polymerization – Group Leader
Colloids Chemistry Department
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476
Golm, Germany
Education
Klaus Tauer studied chemistry at the Friedrich – Schiller University Jena (1970-1977).
He got his PhD on "Investigations of spectral sensitization of photoconductivity of
poly(arylene vinylene) polymers" in 1978, under the supervision of H.-H. Hörhold.
He received his habilitation in 1987 working on the kinetics, mechanisms, and mathematical
modeling of emulsion polymerization of vinyl chloride.
Professional Experience
Since 1977 he started working on heterophase polymerization, first at the Institute for
Polymer Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the former GDR in Teltow-Seehof, and
later, since 1992, at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in the division of
Colloid Chemistry (Director: Markus Antonietti).
Research interests
Topics related to heterophase polymerization including:
• Mechanism and modeling of heterophase polymerization
• Particle nucleation
• Reactive surfactants
• Block copolymers and block copolymer latex particles via heterophase polymerization
• Photo-initiated heterophase polymerization
Selected publications
• Hugo F. Hernández, Klaus Tauer. Emulsion Polymerization. In: Dieter A. Schlüter,
Craig Hawker, Junji Sakamoto. Synthesis of Polymers. Wiley-VCH (2012).
• Klaus Tauer, Hugo Hernandez, Nancy Weber, Farnoosh Roohi. Molecular Versus
Conventional Kinetics of Emulsion Polymerization. Macromolecular Symposia 302
(1), 110–120 (2011)
• Nancy Weber, Brigitte Tiersch, Miriam M. Unterlass, Anneliese Heilig, Klaus Tauer.
“Schizomorphic” Emulsion Copolymerization Particles. Macromolecular Rapid
Communications 32 (23), 1925–1929 (2011)
• Hugo F. Hernandez, Klaus Tauer. Radical Desorption Kinetics in Emulsion
Polymerization. 1. Theory and Simulation. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 47 (24), 9795–9811
(2008)

• Klaus Tauer, Hugo Hernandez, Steffen Kozempel, Olga Lazareva, Pantea Nazaran.
Towards a consistent mechanism of emulsion polymerization—new experimental
details. Colloid & Polymer Science 286 (5), 499-515 (2008)
• Hugo F. Hernández, Klaus Tauer. Brownian Dynamics Simulation of the Capture of
Primary Radicals in Dispersions of Colloidal Polymer Particles. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.
46 (13), 4480–4485 (2007)
• Klaus Tauer, Steffen Kozempel, Gudrun Rother. The interface engine: Experimental
consequences. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 312 (2), 432–438 (2007)
• Samira Nozari, Klaus Tauer. Calorimetric study on the influence of the nature of the
RAFT agent and the initiator in ab initio aqueous heterophase polymerization.
Polymer 46 (4), 1033–1043 (2005)
• Nadine Nassif , Nicole Gehrke, Nicola Pinna, Natasha Shirshova, Klaus Tauer,
Markus Antonietti, Helmut Cölfen. Synthesis of Stable Aragonite Superstructures by a
Biomimetic Crystallization Pathway. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 44
(37), 6004–6009 (2005)
• Shu-Hong Yu, Helmut Cölfen, Klaus Tauer, Markus Antonietti. Tectonic arrangement
of BaCO3 nanocrystals into helices induced by a racemic block copolymer. Nature
Materials 4, 51 - 55 (2005)
• Klaus Tauer. Heterophase Polymerization in: Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and
Technology. John Wiley & Sons. (2003)
• Markus Antonietti, Klaus Tauer. 90 Years of Polymer Latexes and Heterophase
Polymerization: More vital than ever. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 204 (2),
207–219 (2003)
• Karine Glinel, Gleb B. Sukhorukov, Helmuth Möhwald, Victor Khrenov, Klaus Tauer.
Thermosensitive Hollow Capsules Based on Thermoresponsive Polyelectrolytes.
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 204 (14), 1784–1790 (2003)
• Arkadi Zintchenko, Herbert Dautzenberg, Klaus Tauer, Viktor Khrenov.
Polyelectrolyte Complex Formation with Double Hydrophilic Block Polyelectrolytes:
Effects of the Amount and Length of the Neutral Block. Langmuir 18 (4), 1386–1393
(2002)
• Klaus Tauer, Victor Khrenov. Polymer dispersions as intermediate state during the
synthesis of specialty polymers. Macromolecular Symposia 179 (1), 27–52 (2002)
• Carsten Schellenberg, Klaus Tauer, Markus Antonietti. Nanostructured polymer films
based on core-shell latexes: preparation and characterization. Macromolecular
Symposia 151 (1), 465–471 (2000)
• Klaus Tauer, Harmin Müller, Lutz Rosengarten, Kerstin Riedelsberger. The use of
polymers in heterophase polymerizations. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical
and Engineering Aspects 153 (1–3), 75–88 (1999)
• Klaus Tauer, Markus Antonietti, Lutz Rosengarten, Harmin Müller. Initiators based on
poly(ethylene glycol) for starting heterophase polymerizations: generation of block
copolymers and new particle morphologies. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
199 (5), 897–908 (1998)
• María J. Unzué, Harold A. S. Schoonbrood, José M. Asua, Amaia Montoya Goñi,
David C. Sherrington, Katrin Stähler, Karl-Heinz Goebel, Klaus Tauer, Marie Sjöberg,
Krister Holmberg. Reactive surfactants in heterophase polymerization. VI. Synthesis
and screening of polymerizable surfactants (surfmers) with varying reactivity in high
solids styrene—butyl acrylate—acrylic acid emulsion polymerization. Journal of
Applied Polymer Science 66 (9), 1803–1820 (1997)

• Harmin Müller, Walter Leube, Klaus Tauer, Stephan Förster, Markus Antonietti.
Polyelectrolyte Block Copolymers as Effective Stabilizers in Emulsion
Polymerization. Macromolecules 30 (8), 2288–2293 (1997)
• Markus Antonietti, Harald Kaspar, Klaus Tauer. Swelling Equilibrium of Small
Polymer Colloids: Influence of Surface Structure and a Size-Dependent Depletion
Correction. Langmuir 12 (26), 6211–6217 (1996).
• Klaus Tauer, Ingolf Kühn. Modeling Particle Formation in Emulsion Polymerization:
An Approach by Means of the Classical Nucleation Theory. Macromolecules 28 (7),
2236–2239 (1995)
• Klaus Tauer, Gerhard Reinisch, Herbert Gajewski, Ingolf Müller. Modeling of
Emulsion Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part
A Pure and Applied Chemistry 28(3), 431 – 460 (1991)
• Klaus Tauer, Karl-Heinz Goebel, Sabine Kosmella, Katrin Stähler, Jens Neelsen.
Emulsion polymerization in the presence of polymerizable emulsifiers and surface
active initiators. Macromolecular Symposia 31 (1), 107–121 (1990)