Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Overview
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It concentrates on foundational research on macromolecular materials. The institute was founded in 1983. It is one of 80 institutes in the German Max Planck Society
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes publicly funded by the federal and the 16 state governments of Germany....
(Max Planck Gesellschaft).
The institute has six research groups on synthetic chemistry, solid-state chemistry, polymer physics, polymer spectroscopy, material science, and polymer theory.
On December 1, 2006 the MPI-P had 509 employees, 131 of them were scientists and 163 were PhD candidates.
The International Max Planck Research School for Polymer Materials is a graduate program offering a Ph.D.
Discussions
