Research interests:

• Self-organization of organic molecules
• Langmuir-Blodgett technique
• X-ray structure investigation of soft matter
• Materials for life sciences
• Stimuli responsive polymers
• Hydrolytic / enzymatic degradation of polymers

Selected Publications

• Köpf, M.; Harder, H.; Reiche, J.; Santer, S.
  «Impact of Temperature on the LB Patterning of DPPC on Mica»
  Langmuir 2011 27:12354
  
  
• Reiche, J.; Kratz, K.; Hofmann, D.; Lendlein, A.
  «Current status of Langmuir monolayer degradation of polymeric biomaterials»
  International Journal of Artificial Organs. 2010 34(2):123
  
  
• Junginger, M.; Bleek, K.; Kita-Tokarczyk, K.; Reiche, J.; Shkilnyy, A.; Schacher, F.; Müller, H. E.; Taubert, A.
  «Calcium Phosphate Growth Beneath a Polycationic Monolayer at the Air-Water Interface: Effects of Oscillating Surface Pressure on Mineralization»
  Nanoscale 2010 2:2440.
  
  
• Hofmann, D.; M. Entrialgo, M.; Reiche, J.; Kratz, K. and Lendlein, A.
  «Molecular modeling and experimental investigation of hydrolytically degradable polymeric biomaterials»
  Advances in Science and Technology 2010 76:16.
  
  
• Junginger, M.; Kita-Tokarczyk, K.; Schuster, Th.; Reiche, J.; Schacher, F.;Müller, A. H. E. and Taubert, A.
  «Calcium Phosphate Mineralization beneath a Polycationic Monolayer at the Air–Water Interface»
  Macromol. Biosci. 2010 10:1084.
  
  
• Reiche, J.; Kulkarni, A.; Kratz, K. and Lendlein, A.
  «Enzymatic Monolayer Degradation of Multiblock Copolymers consisting of Poly (e-caprolactone) and Poly (p-dioxanone) Blocks»
  Thin Solid Films 2008 516:8821.
  
  
• Kulkarni, A.; Reiche, J.; Hartmann, J.; Kratz, K. and Lendlein, A.
  «Selective enzymatic degradation of poly (e-caprolactone) containing multiblock copolymers»
  Eur. J. Pharm.Biopharm. 2008 68:46.
  
  
• Kulkarni, A.; Reiche, J.; Kratz, K.; Kamusewitz, H.; Sokolov, I. M. and Lendlein, A.
  «Enzymatic Chain Scission Kinetics of Poly (e-caprolactone) Monolayers»
  Langmuir 2007 23:12202.
  
  
• Kulkarni, A.; Reiche, J. and Lendlein, A.
  «Hydrolytic degradation of poly(rac-lactide) and poly[(rac-lactide)-co-glycolide] at the air-water interface»
  Surf. Interf. Anal. 2007 39:740.
  
  
• Akpo, C.; Weber, E. and Reiche, J.
  «Synthesis, Langmuir- and Langmuir-Blodgett Film Behaviour of New Dendritic Amphiphiles»
  New J. Chem. 2006 30:1820.