New paper by Teresa is published in Green Chemistry!In this work we introduce a simple and environmentally benign method to create functional coatings mimicking the lotus leaf and the pitcher plant in a scalable process. In contrast to conventional fabrication processes that typically require toxic components and elevated temperatures, we developed an aqueous dispersion-based, fluorine-free coating system that produces highly repellent surface coatings at ambient conditions. This work is a contribution to the Baybionik Projektverbund. Read the full paper here!

New paper by Junwei Wang et al on Polyhedral Metal-Organic Framework particles are assembled in droplets into supraparticles that exhibit structural color is out! find it here

Congrats to Junwei to make it to the cover of Advanced Materials with his recent article on how to easily make double emulsion!

Curious to know more about the research going on at FAU and about the elite master program MAP? The English-taught interdisciplinary M.Sc. programme “Advanced Materials and Processes” (MAP) offers their annual MAP poster session again in a digital format on 9 February 2022 from 4:00 to 6:30 pm. Part time attendance is possible.MAP students of the third semester present scientific posters showing the results of their mini projects and other research work. After short introductions of two poster sets, each poster and the scientific work behind it can be individually… Read More »MAP poster session 2022

Little budget, no microfluidic experience, but want to make water-in-oil-in-water droplets? No problem. Teaming up with SMaL, Junwei develop a simple method to make double emulsions of a single core and a micrometer-thick shell, using only centrifuge tubes and a vortex mixer. Full article here.  

Congratulations to Yara for winning the best presentation prize at The 1st AUGM (Asociacion de Universidades Grupo Montevideo)  – BAYLAT (Bavaria-Latin America University Center)PhD Student Symposium on “Materials for Energy, Environment and Health.