Expertise

Our scientific expertise

At the DWI, the working groups of currently six members of the Scientific Board combine their different areas of expertise under one roof.

Textcolor
Black
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.

Textcolor
Black

News

News

Two awards for Marcus Lantzius-Beninga and his research

03.02.2025
Textcolor
Black
News

The Year in Review: Must-Read DWI Publications from 2024

Publikationsrückblick
Textcolor
Black
News

Annual Report 2023

Jahresbericht 2023
Textcolor
Black
News

Fulbright Scholarship for Johannes Hahmann

Textcolor
Black
News

Synthetic Mitochondria in Nature Nanotechnology

Textcolor
Black
News

Exciting Advances in Sonogenetics and Sonopharmacology

Sonogenetik
Textcolor
Black

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.

Textcolor
Black
Page

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.

DNA Nanoflower
Textcolor
Green
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.

Textcolor
White
Page

About the Leibniz Joint Lab fiT

The Leibniz Joint Lab “fiT" (first in Translation) is dedicated to educate and guide researchers with basic research discoveries in the biomedical field through the required preclinical- and clinical product development phases.

Textcolor
Black

Current publications

  • Publication

    Asymmetric Microgels with Tunable Morphologies by Assembly-Guided Polymerization of Liquid Crystalline Monomers

    N. A. Wolter, H. Küttner, J. Schmitz, M. Karg and A. Pich
    Small 2410502 (2025)
  • Publication

    Sequence-Specific, Mechanophore-Free Mechanochemistry of DNA

    J. Hahmann, B. N. Schüpp, A. Ishaqat, A. Selvakumar, R. Göstl, F. Gräter and A. Herrmann
    Chem 102376 (2025)