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Bernhard Wessling
Portrait photo of Dr. Wessling during crane observation
Bernhard Wessling (2025)
Born1951 (age 73–74)
Herne, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Bochum
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Ornithologists and Entrepreneur
InstitutionsInternational Crane Foundation
ThesisSynthese von Anhydriden der A-Seco-steroidreihe mit 10β-Methyl- oder 10β-Methoxycarbonylsubstitution (1979)

Bernhard Weßling (*1951 in Herne, Germany) is a German researcher (Chemistry) and entrepreneur.

Education

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From 1970 to 1975, Wessling studied chemistry in Bochum and received his doctorate in 1977 with a research project[1] involving the synthesis of natural products and circular dichroism theory.

The discovery of an illegal cyanide dump in Bochum (1971), in the clean-up of which he participated (on behalf of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia) as a chemistry student, and the publication of the Club of Rome's first report, “The Limits to Growth”, were, together with a growing interest in nature, the triggers for decades of extra-professional activities in nature conservation (crane protection) and independent bioacoustic crane research (behavioural research).[2]

Career and research

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After completing his doctorate and a first job in a small engineering consulting company, he moved in 1981 to a small chemical company, the Ahrensburger Zipperling Kessler & Co (ZKC), where he took over the development and quality control lab, only shortly later to add a small but growing basic research group. In 1984, he became the company’s General Manager and invested (by using a large bank loan) into the company buying out several shareholders.[3]

In 1994, he founded Ormecon GmbH as a subsidiary of ZKC. In 1995, he sold ZKC's operative business to Clariant INC. and concentrated on further research, product development, manufacturing and marketing of the patented organic metal (conductive polymer) polyaniline with Ormecon GmbH. The main focus of marketing is on corrosion protection[4] (through passivation)[5] [6] and solderable end surfaces for printed circuit boards.[7] In addition, Ormecon technology for special applications outside the Ormecon market was licensed to several chemical companies worldwide, including Bayer INC. for their PEDOT.[8]

When the majority of the worldwide printed circuit board industry moved to Asia, and increasingly to China, in the early 2000s, Ormecon also found first customers in China. Wessling went to China himself at the beginning of 2005 and lived and worked there for over 13 years.[9] He built up the market for Ormecon in the electronics industry in Asia, with a focus on China, and by around 2010 the company had become the global market leader in this surface finishing segment.[10]

In 2018, he returned to Germany, where he mainly devotes his time to the Kattendorfer Hof on a part-time basis as one of its major investors and one of the General Managers.[11]

His scientific work after the doctorate began in 1978 with the development of a patented process for the production of highly filled polyolefins.[12]

From 1981, his research focused on dispersion technology in thermoplastic polymers devoted to the dispersion of pigments, additives and conductive polymers.[13].

From 1990, the focus was on the non-equilibrium thermodynamic consideration of dispersions and emulsions[14]. This research led to the development of a new theory that replaced the previously accepted percolation theory, which was refuted by his experimental results.[15] At the same time, in collaboration with the University of Cologne, it was demonstrated that polyaniline[16][17][18] exhibits nanometallic conductivity[19] behavior comparable to conventional nanometals.[20][21]

In 1993, the so-called insulator-metal transition in conductive polymers was discovered and researched, which led to the development of a practically usable “organic metal”.[22]

Another field of research opened up in 2015 with the optimization of production processes. His engineering invention[23] made it possible to improve emulsion structures by replacing pumps with propellers. This new development led to the first parameter-free theory of turbulence in non-Newtonian fluids in 2016.[24]

Recently, he has been trying to look at the concept of sustainability from a thermodynamic perspective. In 2024, the principle of “entropy as a criterion for sustainability” was proposed and applied to CO₂ removal technologies such as DAC, CCS and CCU.[25]

In addition to scientific research, nature and species conservation played an important role in his life. From 1985 to 2023, he had been actively involved in various crane conservation projects in Germany, Japan, Korea and North America, among other places. In the process, he developed a bioacoustic method for the individual identification of cranes, which was particularly crucial for the rescue of the endangered whooping crane in North America.[26][27]

He applied the technology developed and the knowledge gained in his active work on the complex species conservation project “Whooping crane” with “Operation Migration” and the “International Crane Foundation” in the USA and Canada.[28]

In his professional and entrepreneurial activities, chemical products and processes that lead to greater sustainability were central tasks. Since 2009, Wessling has also been involved as an investor and (since 2017) as one of the managing directors of an organic farming business that has grown over the years.[11]

Author and inventor

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Wessling has authored over 160 scientific and technical publications in journals and books and has filed for and been granted more than 30 international patents.

He is also a non-fiction author.[29]

Personal life

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He is an enthusiastic nature photographer, active footballer (goalkeeper) and diver (with 600 dives, he is a PADI Master Scuba Diver and certified rescue diver). Among other things, he 2005 in a marine biology research expedition of the “Aldabra Marine Programme” to Aldabra (Seychelles) to document the repopulation and coral growth after the coral bleaching in 1998.

Selected works

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Articles

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  • Helmut Z. Baumert; B. Wessling (2016-07-01). "On turbulence in dilatant dispersions". Physica Scripta. 91 (7): 074003. Bibcode:2016PhyS...91g4003B. doi:10.1088/0031-8949/91/7/074003. ISSN 0031-8949.
  • V.I. Krinichnyi; H.-K. Roth; M. Schrödner; B. Wessling (2006). "EPR study of polyaniline highly doped by p-toluenesulfonic acid". Polymer. 47 (21): 7460–7468. doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2006.08.025.
  • D. Srinivasan; G. Rangarajan; T. Mietzner; W. Lennartz; B. Wessling (2000). "Dispersion-induced insulator-to-metal transition in polyaniline". The European Physical Journal E. 2 (3): 207–210. doi:10.1007/PL00013668. ISSN 1292-8941.
  • Wessling, Bernhard (1994). "Passivation of metals by coating with polyaniline: Corrosion potential shift and morphological changes". Advanced Materials. 6 (3): 226–228. Bibcode:1994AdM.....6..226W. doi:10.1002/adma.19940060309. ISSN 0935-9648.
  • Wessling, Bernhard (1984). "Beitrag zur Diskussion um die Morphologie von polyacetylen". Die Makromolekulare Chemie. 185 (6): 1265–1275. doi:10.1002/macp.1984.021850619.

Books

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  • Wessling, Bernhard (2018). Here I Am LaoWei. China is A Different Place. Eyes Wide Open in ShenZhen. China Intercontinental Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-7508538723.
  • Wessling, Bernhard (2022). The Call of the Cranes: Expeditions into a Mysterious World. Springer Nature. p. 276. ISBN 978-3030982829.
  • Wessling, Bernhard (2023). What a Coincidence!: On Unpredictability, Complexity and the Nature of Time. Springer. p. 253. ISBN 978-3658406707.

References

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  1. ^ Snatzke, G., Weßling, B. (1979). Synthese von Anhydriden der A-Seco-steroidreihe mit 10β-Methyl- oder 10β-Methoxycarbonylsubstitution. Liebigs Annalen der Chemie. 1979(7):1028−1035, DOI: 10.1002/jlac.197919790713.
  2. ^ Bernhard Weßling: Der Ruf der Kraniche: Expeditionen in eine geheimnisvolle Welt. 1. Auflage. Goldmann Verlag, 2023, ISBN 978-3-03098282-9, S. 416.
  3. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernhard_Wessling2/publication/262076086_Short_History_of_Zipperling_Kessler_Co_Ormecon's_mother_company/links/0c9605369dc07aed3a000000/Short-History-of-Zipperling-Kessler-Co-Ormecons-mother-company.pdf
  4. ^ "THE INFLUENCE OF THE POLYANILINE COATINGS ON CORROSION PROTECTION OF MILD STEEL IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Anodic synthesis of polyaniline coatings onto fe sheets".
  6. ^ "Cars and bridges that never rust?".
  7. ^ "Ormecon - Aluminum Corrosion Protection Coating, conductive polymer, emf shielding Chaina, Germen, Russia". www.ormecon.co.
  8. ^ "kunststoffFORUM - Lizenz für leitfähiges Polymer". www.kunststofforum.de.
  9. ^ Bernhard Weßling: Mein Sprung ins kalte Wasser - Mit offenen Augen und Ohren in China leben und arbeiten. 1. Auflage. Verlag am Park, 2024, ISBN 978-3-897-93376-7, S. 400.
  10. ^ "Milestones & highlights of the Organic Metal Polyaniline Science & Technology".
  11. ^ a b "Bio Abo - Bio-Lebensmittel vom Kattendorfer Hof". October 23, 2023.
  12. ^ https://g.co/kgs/YXw5cCH
  13. ^ "New Insight into Organic Metal Polyaniline Morphology and Structure".
  14. ^ "Reply to "Comment on 'The Mayonnaise Effect'"".
  15. ^ "Size-limited conductivity in submicrometre metal particles. Similarities with conducting polymers?".
  16. ^ "A Review on Polyaniline-Supported Catalyst for Organic Transformations".
  17. ^ "A review of advances in the preparation and application of polyaniline based thermoset blends and composites".
  18. ^ "Polyaniline-based all-polymeric adhesive layer: An effective lightning strike protection technology for high residual mechanical strength of CFRPs".
  19. ^ "Polyaniline on Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells".
  20. ^ "Conductive Polymers as Organic Nanometals".
  21. ^ "Facile Fabrication of a Low-Cost Lignosulfonate– Graphene Oxide–Polyaniline Ternary Nanocomposite for the Highly Efficient Removal of Pb(II) and Cr((VI) Ions from Aqueous Solutions".
  22. ^ "Dispersion-induced insulator-to-metal transition in polyaniline".
  23. ^ DE102012017058A1, Wessling, Bernhard, "Low-turbulence flow chemical coating unit for coating printed circuit board, has coating module which is provided with propeller device which moves and transports coating material with low-turbulence flow", issued 2014-03-06 
  24. ^ "Turbulent mixing and a generalized phase transition in shear-thickening fluids".
  25. ^ "Nachhaltigkeit_und_entropie - Bernhard Wessling". 28 March 2024.
  26. ^ "Journey North Whooping Cranes". journeynorth.org.
  27. ^ Johnsgard, Paul A. (2015). A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World. University Press of Colorado.
  28. ^ Bernhard Wessling: The Call of the Cranes - Expeditions into a Mysterious World. 1. Auflage. Springer Nature, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-98282-9, S. 254.
  29. ^ "Buchkatalog.de | Der große Bücher Online-Shop". Buchkatalog.
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