Laser-based research on trace-element detection, microsurgery and cooling and trapping.

Photochemistry. Self-assembly.

Uses novel two-dimensional ultrafast laser spectroscopy techniques to study chemical dynamics of liquids and electronic properties of new materials.

Ion-selective electrodes, Ion-sensitive field effect transistors and fibre optic chemical sensors.

Physical chemistry of solid Surfaces: chemisorption, catalysis, and surface analysis.

Electrospray ionization Tandem mass spectrometry, spectroscopy and dynamics, computational chemistry.

Chemical reactions of gas molecules at the gas-liquid interface.

High pressure and temperature chemistry. Diamond anvil cells. Raman spectroscopy. X-ray diffraction. Laser heating systems.

Study the interaction of short light pulses with matter.

Hydrogel and nanoparticulate materials chemistry.

Single-molecule spectroscopy and microscopy. Single-molecule biophysics and nanophotonics.

Molecular electronics and molecular recognition.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jäger's Laboratory for the Study of Intermolecular Interactions.

Active projects include nonlinear chemical imaging nanomicroscopy of nanostructured materials, polymers, and biological systems, terahertz laser spectroscopy of water clusters, infrared cavity ringdown spectroscopy of ions and clusters, synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy of liquid surfaces, chemistry at liquid surfaces, and single photon counting IR emission spectroscopy of PAHs.

Applied physical chemistry of polymers and colloids, including polymer solutions, polysaccharides, gels, latices, surfactants, and liposomes.

Spectroscopy, photophysics and photochemistry.

Photochemistry. Reactive intermediates.

Materials and surface chemistry.

Study of Van der Waals and other weakly bonded aromatic complexes.

Single molecule spectroscopy and microscopy. Development of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microscopy.