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

Leibniz Apprentice Award 2024 for DWI apprentice

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Annual Report 2023

Jahresbericht 2023
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Exciting Advances in Sonogenetics and Sonopharmacology

Sonogenetik
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Synthetic Mitochondria in Nature Nanotechnology

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Winners of WIMA 2024

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What happens upstream of the membrane during a filtration process?

Filtration
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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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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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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)
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    Polymeric Antibubbles with Strong Ultrasound Imaging Capabilities

    R. A. Barmin, J. Köhler, M. Pohl, B. Becker, F. Kiessling, T. Lammers, A. T. Poortinga and R. M. Pallares
    Chemical Communications (2024)