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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

Schaefer, J., Gonella, G., Bonn, M., & Backus, E. H. G. (2017). Surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy of the water/silica interface: Screening and interference. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(25), 16875-16880. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cp02251d

Wang, F., Jin, Z., Jiang, Y., Backus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., Lou, S. N., Turchinovich, D., & Amal, R. (2016). Probing the charge separation process on In₂S₃/Pt-TiO₂ nanocomposites for boosted visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 198, 25-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.05.048

Schaefer, J., Backus, E. H. G., Nagata, Y., & Bonn, M. (2016). Both Inter- and Intramolecular Coupling of O-H Groups Determine the Vibrational Response of the Water/Air Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7(22), 4591-4595. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02513

Livingstone, R. A., Zhang, Z., Piatkowski, L., Bakker, H. J., Hunger, J., Bonn, M., & Backus, E. H. G. (2016). Water in contact with a cationic lipid exhibits bulklike vibrational dynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120(38), 10069-10078. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b07085

Khatib, R., Hasegawa, T., Sulpizi, M., Backus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., & Nagata, Y. (2016). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of SFG Librational Modes Spectra of Water at the Water-Air Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(33), 18665-18673. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06371

Ohto, T., Backus, E. H. G., Mizukami, W., Hunger, J., Bonn, M., & Nagata, Y. (2016). Unveiling the Amphiphilic Nature of TMAO by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(31), 17435-17443. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b04852

Nagata, Y., Ohto, T., Backus, E. H. G., & Bonn, M. (2016). Molecular Modeling of Water Interfaces: From Molecular Spectroscopy to Thermodynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120(16), 3785-3796. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b01012

Donovan, M. A., Yimer, Y. Y., Pfaendtner, J., Backus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., & Weidner, T. (2016). Ultrafast Reorientational Dynamics of Leucine at the Air-Water Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(16), 5226-5229. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b01878

Khatib, R., Backus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., Perez-Haro, M. J., Gaigeot, M. P., & Sulpizi, M. (2016). Water orientation and hydrogen-bond structure at the fluorite/water interface. Scientific Reports, 6, Artikel 24287. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24287

Pandey, R., Usui, K., Livingstone, R. A., Fischer, S. A., Pfaendtner, J., Backus, E. H. G., Nagata, Y., Fröhlich-Nowoisky, J., Schmüser, L., Mauri, S., Scheel, J. F., Knopf, D. A., Pöschl, U., Bonn, M., & Weidner, T. (2016). Ice-nucleating bacteria control the order and dynamics of interfacial water. Science Advances, 2(4), Artikel e1501630. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501630

Carrier, O., Backus, E. H. G., Shahidzadeh, N., Franz, J., Wagner, M., Nagata, Y., Bonn, M., & Bonn, D. (2016). Oppositely Charged Ions at Water-Air and Water-Oil Interfaces: Contrasting the Molecular Picture with Thermodynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7(5), 825-830. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02646

Ohto, T., Backus, E. H. G., Hsieh, C. S., Sulpizi, M., Bonn, M., & Nagata, Y. (2015). Lipid Carbonyl Groups Terminate the Hydrogen Bond Network of Membrane-Bound Water. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6(22), 4499-4503. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02141

Varol, H. S., Sánchez, M. A., Lu, H., Baio, J. E., Malm, C., Encinas, N., Mermet-Guyennet, M. R. B., Martzel, N., Bonn, D., Bonn, M., Weidner, T., Backus, E. H. G., & Parekh, S. H. (2015). Multiscale effects of interfacial polymer confinement in silica nanocomposites. Macromolecules, 48(21), 7929-7937. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01111

Livingstone, R. A., Nagata, Y., Bonn, M., & Backus, E. H. G. (2015). Two Types of Water at the Water-Surfactant Interface Revealed by Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(47), 14912-14919. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b07845

Nagata, Y., Hasegawa, T., Backus, E. H. G., Usui, K., Yoshimune, S., Ohto, T., & Bonn, M. (2015). The surface roughness, but not the water molecular orientation varies with temperature at the water-air interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(36), 23559-23564. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp04022a

Bonn, M., Nagata, Y., & Backus, E. H. G. (2015). Molecular structure and dynamics of water at the water-air interface studied with surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 54(19), 5560-5576. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201411188

Okuno, M., Mezger, M., Stangenberg, R., Baumgarten, M., Müllen, K., Bonn, M., & Backus, E. H. G. (2015). Interaction of a patterned amphiphilic polyphenylene dendrimer with a lipid monolayer: Electrostatic interactions dominate. Langmuir, 31(6), 1980-1987. https://doi.org/10.1021/la504252s

Schach, D., Globisch, C., Roeters, S. J., Woutersen, S., Fuchs, A., Weiss, C. K., Backus, E. H. G., Landfester, K., Bonn, M., Peter, C., & Weidner, T. (2014). Sticky water surfaces: Helix-coil transitions suppressed in a cell-penetrating peptide at the air-water interface. Journal of Chemical Physics, 141(22), Artikel 22D517. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4898711

El Haitami, A., Backus, E. H. G., & Cantin, S. (2014). Synthesis at the Air-Water Interface of a Two-Dimensional Semi-Interpenetrating Network Based on Poly(dimethylsiloxane) and Cellulose Acetate Butyrate. Langmuir, 30(40), 11919-11927. https://doi.org/10.1021/la502514e

Hsieh, C. S., Okuno, M., Hunger, J., Backus, E. H. G., Nagata, Y., & Bonn, M. (2014). Aqueous heterogeneity at the air/water interface revealed by 2D-HD-SFG spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 53(31), 8146-8149. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201402566