Materials
for a better Life

Expertise

Our Expertise

At the DWI, the working groups of currently five members of the scientific management combine their different expertise under one roof.

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Mission

Interactive Materials

New materials are the key to the development of forward-looking technologies. In this context, we are facing a central challenge in modern materials research.

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News

News

Three DWI-related ideas in the final of the "AC² - Gründen und Wachsen" competition and two winners

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Exciting Advances in Sonogenetics and Sonopharmacology

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Kachel Sono
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What happens upstream of the membrane during a filtration process?

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Lucas Stüwe
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National strategy for gene and cell-based therapies published - Aachen expertise strongly represented

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PhD student Ninon Möhl receives Fellowship of the Joachim Herz Foundation and Fulbright Scholarship

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Cloaked Microgels

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Cloaked Microgels
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The Institute

Perspektiven und Gestaltung

Working at the DWI

Find information on opportunities to work at the DWI.

Equal opportunity and diversity are embedded in the mission statement of the DWI and belong a priori to the self-image of the institute.

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Projects

The project work of the Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials is interdisciplinary and includes several working groups. The majority of the projects are carried out with particular focus on the practical application.

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DNA Nanoflower
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Interactive Materials

New materials are the key to the development of forward-looking technologies. In this context, we are facing a central challenge in modern materials research.

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Infrastructure

Joint Lab fiT

People, medicine and materials - these and other subjects are the focus of interdisciplinary research at the DWI - Leibniz Institute. The "Leibniz Joint Lab fiT" (first in Translation) supports the cooperation with the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University.

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Current publications

  • Publication

    FLIM Nanoscopy Resolves the Structure and Preferential Adsorption in the Co-Nonsolvency of PNIPAM Microgels in Methanol-Water

    S.P. Centeno, K. Nothdurft, A.S. Klymchenko, A. Pich, W. Richtering and D. Wöll
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Vol. 678 210-220 (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.08.235
  • Publication

    Flim Nanoscopy Resolves the Structure and Preferential Adsorption in the Co-Nonsolvency of Pnipam Microgels in Methanol-Water

    S. P. Centeno, K. Nothdurft, A. S. Klymchenko, A. Pich, W. Richtering and D. Wöll
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Vol. 678 210-220 (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.08.235