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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus

T: +43-1-4277-52440
M: +43-664-8176714

ellen.backus@univie.ac.at

Sommersemester 2026

270018 SE Erstellen der Bachelorarbeit C - Physikalische Chemie / Materialchemie

270025 VO Physikalische Chemie III - Physikalische Chemie der kondensierten Materie (Makromolekulare Chemie, Strukturchemie und Mischungen) und statistische Thermodynamik

270051 PUE Einführung in die Chemie - Grundlagen - PUE

270105 PR Wahlfachpraktikum C (Bachelormodul) - Physikalische Chemie / Materialchemie

270115 LP Wahlpraktikum Physikalische Chemie

270122 VO Grundlegende Konzepte in der Materialchemie

270185 VO Soft Matter Interfaces - Principles and Experimental Techniques

270188 PR Research project on surfaces and interfaces

270230 PR Research Project Laserspectroscopy or Molecular Symmetry

530008 SE Seminar in ultrafast and nonlinear optics

530022 SE Teaching Experience

Wintersemester 2025

270018 SE Erstellen der Bachelorarbeit C - Physikalische Chemie / Materialchemie

270022 VO Physikalische Chemie II - Quantentheorie, Spektroskopie und Statistische Thermodynamik - VO

270023 PUE Physikalische Chemie II - Quantentheorie, Spektroskopie und Statistische Thermodynamik - PUE

270051 PUE Einführung in die Chemie - Grundlagen - PUE

270105 PR Wahlfachpraktikum C (Bachelormodul) - Physikalische Chemie / Materialchemie

270115 LP Wahlpraktikum Physikalische Chemie

270230 PR Research Project Laserspectroscopy or Molecular Symmetry

270260 VO Ultrafast and Multidimensional Laserspectroscopy

530008 SE Seminar in ultrafast and nonlinear optics

530022 SE Teaching Experience

Sommersemester 2025

270010 VO Grundlegende Konzepte in der Materialchemie

270018 SE Erstellen der Bachelorarbeit C - Physikalische Chemie / Materialchemie

270025 VO Physikalische Chemie III - Physikalische Chemie der kondensierten Materie (Makromolekulare Chemie, Strukturchemie und Mischungen) und statistische Thermodynamik

270105 PR Wahlfachpraktikum C (Bachelormodul) - Physikalische Chemie / Materialchemie

270118 PUE Einführung in die Chemie - Grundlagen - PUE

270140 PR Physikalisch-chemisches Praktikum - Laboratory practice in physical chemistry

270185 VO Soft Matter Interfaces - Principles and Experimental Techniques

270187 UE Soft Matter Interfaces - Principles and Experimental Techniques

270188 PR Research project on surfaces and interfaces

530008 SE Seminar in ultrafast and nonlinear optics

530022 SE Teaching Experience

Lukas, M., Backus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., & Grechko, M. (2022). Passively Stabilized Phase-Resolved Collinear SFG Spectroscopy Using a Displaced Sagnac Interferometer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part A: Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment and General Theory, 126(6), 951-956. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c10155

Turetta, N., Stoeckel, M.-A., de Oliveira, R. F., Devaux, F., Greco, A., Cendra, C., Gullace, S., Gicevicius, M., Chattopadhyay, B., Liu, J., Schweicher, G., Sirringhaus, H., Salleo, A., Bonn, M., Backus, E. H. G., Geerts, Y. H., & Samori, P. (2022). High-Performance Humidity Sensing in π-Conjugated Molecular Assemblies through the Engineering of Electron/Proton Transport and Device Interfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(6), 2546-2555. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10119

Hunger, J., Schaefer, J., Ober, P., Seki, T., Wang, Y., Prädel, L., Nagata, Y., Bonn, M., Bonthuis, D. J., & Backus, E. H. G. (2022). Nature of Cations Critically Affects Water at the Negatively Charged Silica Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(43), 19726-19738. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c02777

Vasileiadis, T., D'Alvise, T. M., Saak, C.-M., Pochylski, M., Harvey, S., V. Synatschke, C., Gapinski, J., Fytas, G., Backus, E. H. G., Weil, T., & Graczykowski, B. (2021). Fast Light-Driven Motion of Polydopamine Nanomembranes. Nano Letters, 22(2), 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03165

Sudera, P., Cyran, J. D., Bonn, M., & Backus, E. H. G. (2021). Interfacial Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Water Bending Mode on Ice I-h. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(41), 22937-22942. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c08046

Yu, X., Seki, T., Yu, C.-C., Zhong, K., Sun, S., Okuno, M., Backus, E. H. G., Hunger, J., Bonn, M., & Nagata, Y. (2021). Interfacial Water Structure of Binary Liquid Mixtures Reflects Nonideal Behavior. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125(37), 10639-10646. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c06001

Soengen, H., Schlegel, S. J., Jaques, Y. M., Tracey, J., Hosseinpour, S., Hwang, D., Bechstein, R., Bonn, M., Foster, A. S., Kuehnle, A., & Backus, E. H. G. (2021). Water Orientation at the Calcite-Water Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(31), 7605-7611. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01729

Ober, P., Boon, W. Q., Dijkstra, M., Backus, E. H. G., van Roij, R., & Bonn, M. (2021). Liquid flow reversibly creates a macroscopic surface charge gradient. Nature Communications, 12(1), Artikel 4102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24270-x

Gonella, G., Backus, E. H. G., Nagata, Y., Bonthuis, D. J., Loche, P., Schlaich, A., Netz, R. R., Kuhnle, A., McCrum, I. T., Koper, M. T. M., Wolf, M., Winter, B., Meijer, G., Campen, R. K., & Bonn, M. (2021). Water at charged interfaces. Nature reviews chemistry, 5(7), 466-485. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-021-00293-2

Bera, B., Backus, E. H. G., Carrier, O., Bonn, M., Shahidzadeh, N., & Bonn, D. (2021). Antisurfactant (Autophobic) Behavior of Superspreader Surfactant Solutions. Langmuir, 37(20), 6243-6247. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00475

Amann-Winkel, K., Murphy, B., Lehmkühler, F., Grübel, G., Artemov, V., Backus, E., Björneholm, O., Ehresmann, A., Fröba, M., Goy, C., Grisenti, R., Haseneder, R., Huber, P., Kühne, T. D., Küpper, J., Kurta, R., Loerting, T., Madsen, A., Magnussen, O., ... Vartaniants, I. (2021). CMWS Pillar 1: Fundamental Properties of Water. in G. Grübel, M. Schnell, C. Goy, F. Lehmkühler, & S. Bari (Hrsg.), Centre for Molecular Water Science: White Paper (S. 23-38). Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY. https://doi.org/10.3204/PUBDB-2021-01859

Vietze, L., Backus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., & Grechko, M. (2021). Distinguishing different excitation pathways in two-dimensional terahertz-infrared-visible spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(17), Artikel 174201. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0047918

Backus, E. H. G., Schaefer, J., & Bonn, M. (2021). Probing the Mineral-Water Interface with Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 60(19), 10482-10501. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202003085

Lukas, M., Schwidetzky, R., Kunert, A. T., Backus, E. H. G., Poeschl, U., Froehlich-Nowoisky, J., Bonn, M., & Meister, K. (2021). Interfacial Water Ordering Is Insufficient to Explain Ice-Nucleating Protein Activity. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(1), 218-223. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03163

Naghilou, A., Poettschacher, L., Millesi, F., Mann, A., Supper, P., Semmler, L., Weiss, T., Backus, E. H. G., & Radtke, C. (2020). Correlating the secondary protein structure of natural spider silk with its guiding properties for Schwann cells. Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 116, Artikel 111219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2020.111219

Jin, S., Liu, Y., Deiseroth, M., Liu, J., Backus, E. H. G., Li, H., Xue, H., Zhao, L., Zeng, X. C., Bonn, M., & Wang, J. (2020). Use of Ion Exchange To Regulate the Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation Efficiency of Mica. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(42), 17956-17965. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c00920

Haroun, F., El Haitami, A., Ober, P., Backus, E. H. G., & Cantin, S. (2020). Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene glycol)-block-poly(ethylene glycol) Copolymer 2D Single Network at the Air-Water Interface. Langmuir: the A C S journal of surfaces and colloids, 36(31), 9142-9152. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01398

Lesnicki, D., Zhang, Z., Bonn, M., Sulpizi, M., & Backus, E. H. G. (2020). Surface Charges at the CaF2/Water Interface Allow Very Fast Intermolecular Vibrational-Energy Transfer. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 59(31), 13116-13121. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202004686

Sudera, P., Cyran, J. D., Deiseroth, M., Backus, E. H. G., & Bonn, M. (2020). Interfacial Vibrational Dynamics of Ice I_hand Liquid Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(28), 12005-12009. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c04526

Qazi, M. J., Schlegel, S. J., Backus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., Bonn, D., & Shahidzadeh, N. (2020). Dynamic Surface Tension of Surfactants in the Presence of High Salt Concentrations. Langmuir: the A C S journal of surfaces and colloids, 36(27), 7956-7964. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01211