Materials
for a better
Life

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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Our research focus

Research Programs

Key questions for the development of new active and interactive material properties.

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News

ORGANTRANS – DWI researches artificial liver replacement

05.02.2020
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Arnold Boersma receives ERC Consolidator Grant for artificial cell research

10.12.2019
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News

Prof. Dr. Martin Möller elected foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

20.11.2019
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News

Sino-German Symposium as guest in Aachen

16.11.2019
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News

Equal opportunities in practice: DWI receives the Total E-Quality award

08.11.2019
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News

Max Planck School 'Matter to Life' – Application Portals open

06.11.2019
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Research Programs

Research program

Aqua Materials

Materials formed from or for aqueous systems; chemistry in water
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Synthiofluidics

New chemical syntheses and processes for producing building blocks for interactive materials
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Research program

Macromolecular films and fibers

Functional Surfaces and Interfaces
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Research program

Transport, Reaction and Exchange Systems

Material systems for controlled transport, reaction, and exchange
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Research program

Bioactive and Bioinstructive Materials

Materials designed for active interaction and integration with the biological environment
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Publications

  • Publication

    Optimizing the Geometry of Photoacoustically Active Gold Na

    R. García-Álvarez, L. Chen, A. Nedilko, A. Sánchez-Iglesias, A. Rix, W. Lederle, V. Pathak, T. Lammers, G. von Plessen, K. Kostarelos, L. Liz-Marzán, A. Kühne, D. Chigrin
    Acs Photonics (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01418
  • Publication

    Multiphysics simulations of adaptive metasurfaces at the meta-atom length scale

    S. Meyer, Z. Tan, D. Chigrin
    Nanophotonics (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2019-0458

Job offers

  • Master thesis Bachelor thesis

    Master / Bachelor thesis (Optimization of supercharged unfolded polypeptide expression)

    RG Herrmann
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    06.12.2019
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    31.01.2020
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