Confined Self-Assembly
We seek to fundamentally understand the crystallization mechanism and to control the resulting morphology of assembly structures.
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Particles at interfaces
We developed a simple protocol to assemble monolayers at the air/water interface and transfer them to solid substrates which allows us to routinely prepare high quality substrates over macroscopic dimensions.
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Nanostructures and Plasmonics
Localized surface plasmons can be excited in metal nanostructures. Strong absorption and scattering phenomena arise when the frequency of the incident light field is in resonance with the eigenfrequency of the electron gas oscillation.
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Structural Color
We also utilize the optical response of grain crystallization to study the dynamic process of self-assembly in photonic balls. Light microscopes are usually not capable of “seeing” small nano particles, but their collective response to light gives live information about the state and orientation of crystals by their color appearance.
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Self-cleaning surfaces
Clean up yourself! We use blueprints from nature to create liquid-repellent, self-cleaning surface coating that prevent staining, fouling or dirt accumulation.
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Welcome to the laboratory of Prof. Nicolas Vogel

Research in the self-assembled materials group gravitates around the self-organization of colloidal particles. We seek a fundamental understanding of self-assembly processes to create defined nanostructured materials and surfaces. We investigate the emergence of functional properties from such structures, for example to control the wetting of a surface, to create vivid structural coloration, or to fabricate plasmonic nanostructure arrays.

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Junwei Wang @_wang_jw_ ·
3 Sep

Check out our new work on decahedral clusters! Another collaboration in @VogelLab with Chrameh (Engel team) and Silvan (Spiecker team) that continues to unveil the wonders of colloids in spherical confinement! This time, it’s about kinetics!

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Christian Kuttner @chrkuttner ·
1 Sep

Crystallization in a sphere… Researchers @UniFAU explain the role of #thermodynamics and #kinetics for bifurcation in #colloidal #crystallization.
@NatureComms @VogelLab #CRC1411 #CRC1452
👉 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41001-6

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