Current Projects

Future Field "Adaptive and Active Polymer Materials"

livMatS projects from Area B

• Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
• Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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• livMatS subprojects at FIT:

1. Logic self-reporting mechano-adaptive metamaterials
2. Autonomous light-actuated LCE actuators
3. Dissipative systems engineering: Chemically fueled active molecular systems

The Capillary Lock Actuator: A novel bistable microfluidic actuator for cost-effective high-density actuator arrays suitable for large-scale graphical tactile displays

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bastian E. Rapp
• Period: 01.04.2019 – 30.04.2024
• Funding: ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Communion
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Interactive and Programmable Materials (IPROM)

• Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe & Prof. Dr. Bastian E. Rapp
• Period: 01.02.2020 – 28.02.2024
• Funding: Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
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Dynamic behavior of water droplets on flexible, adaptive and switchable surfaces generated using surface attached polymer networks and brushes

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
• Period: 01.10.2019 – 30.06.2022
• Funding: DFG
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Thermische und photochemische Vernetzung von Papierfasern zur
Erzeugung von nassfesten und multifunktionalen Papieren

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
• Period: 01.08.2018 – 31.07.2021
• Funding: DFG RU 489/34-1

Polymer-modifizierte Papiere - Vermeidung von Sensitivitätsverlusten
in papierbasierten analytischen Verfahrenn

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
• Period 01.11.2018 – 31.10.2021
• Funding: DFG RU 489/33-1

Chemo-Mechanical and Chemo-Structural pH-Feedback Mechanisms to Program Transient and Autonomous Self- Assembling Systems

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Andreas Walther
• Period: 01.08.2018 – 31.07.2021
• Funding: DFG
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BioSMAMPs

• Project leader: PD Dr. Karen Lienkamp
• Period: 01.08.2018 – 31.07.2021
• Funding: BMBF
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ANTIBUG

• Project leader: PD Dr. Karen Lienkamp
• Period: 01.10.2017 – 30.09.2020
• Funding: BMBF
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Self-shedding Surfaces

• Project leader: PD Dr. Karen Lienkamp
• Period: 01.05.2015 – 30.04.2020
• Funding: ERC Starting Grant of European Commission
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Future Field "Biomimetic, Biobased and Bioactive Materials Systems"

livMatS projects from Area C

• Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
• Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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• livMatS subprojects at FIT:

1. Abscission and self-repair in biological and artificial materials systems
2. Training and self-healing by interface snapping mechanisms
3. livMatS Demonstrators

livMatS projects from Area D

• Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
• Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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• livMatS subprojects at FIT:

1. Predicting attitudes and behavior concerning living materials: Develop software and analyses methods to apply cognitive affective maps
2. Collection and evaluation of basal attributes of living materials systems
3. Development of a TAPASS (Tiered Approach for Prospective Assessment of Benefits and Challenges) and first applications
4. livMatS as part of and reaction to the Anthropocene: Sustainability assessement and investigation of psychological and philosophical implications of living materials systems

DINAMIK – Digitaler Nachweis von Biomarkern des Interaktoms für die Krebsdiagnostik am Beispiel der HER2/HER3-Interaktion

• Project leader: Dr. Csaba Jeney
• Period: 01.04.2020 – 31.03.2023
• Funding: „Ideenwettbewerbs Biotechnologie – Von der Natur lernen“ des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

4D-Bioprinting von vaskularisiertem Knochengewebe und Evaluation der Blutgefäß- und Knochenbildung in einem orthotopen Knochendefektmodell

• Project leader: Dr. Peter Koltay
• Period: 01.04.2020 – 31.03.2023
• Funding: DFG

GrowBot – Towards a new generation of plant-inspired growing artefacts

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2022
• Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 824074)
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NeuroSENS – Multiplexed point-of-care testing for inflammatory miRNA and neurotransmitter profiling in Alzheimer’s disease diagnostics

• Project leader: Dr. Can Dincer
• Period: 01.10.2019 – 30.09.2022
• Funding: DFG
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TimePROSAMAT - Time-Programmed Self-Assemblies and Dynamic Materials

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Andreas Walther
• Period: 01.11.2016 – 31.10.2021
• Funding: ERC Starting Grant of European Commission
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miPAT - Personalized antibiotherapy: development and evaluation of a microfluidic biosensor platform for non-invasive, multianalyte on-site diagnostics

• Project leader: Dr. Can Dincer
• Period: 01.09.2018 – 31.08.2021
• Funding: DFG
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PlaMatSu - Plant-inspired Materials and Surfaces

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
• Period: 01.10.2016 – 31.09.2020
• Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 722842)
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Future Field "(Micro)Systems for Energy Conversion, Storage and Energy-autonomy"

livMatS projects from Area A

• Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
• Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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• livMatS subprojects at FIT:

1. Inorganic and Organic SolStore
2. Thermo BatS - Thermoelectric Battery Systems
3. Interfaces, charge-transfer and non-adiabatic processes and their exploitation in a frequency-tunable tribogenerator
4. Autonomous light-actuated LCE actuators
    

CFD- und Through-Plane Modellierung von PEM Brennstoffzellen (FC-CAT)

• Project leader: Dr. Severin Vierrath
• Period: 01.07.2019 – 30.06.2024
• Funding: BMBF
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All-Solid-State CO2-Elektrolyse mit höherer Effizienz & geringeren Kosten

• Project leader: Dr. Severin Vierrath
• Period: 01.03.2020 – 28.02.2024
• Funding: Vector Stiftung

Entwicklung integrierter und flexibler Fertigungsprozesse für Thermoelektrische Mikro-Generatoren (MiTEG)

• Project leader: Dr. Uwe Pelz
• Period: 01.08.2019 – 31.07.2022
• Funding: DFG
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AlkaCell - Neue Materialien und Strukturen für die alkalische Brennstoffzelle 

• Project leader: Dr.-Ing. Severin Vierrath, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2021
• Funding: Vector Stiftung
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Pan-European Network of Fundamental pH Research: UnipHied

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing
• Period: 01.05.2018 – 30.04.2021
• Funding: European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) Project 17FUN09 “Realisation of a Unified pH Scale” The EMPIR is jointly funded by the EMPIR participating countries within the European Association of National Metrology Institutes (EURAMET e.V.) and the European Union
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Core Facility "Imaging of Materials Systems"

In-situ electrochemical (scanning) transmission electron microscopy - Understanding in-operando dynamics of electrocatalysts on the nanometer scale

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer
• Period: 01.06.2020 – 31.05.2025
• Funding: Momentum - Förderung für Erstberufene (VolkswagenStiftung)
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Core Facility "Modelling and Simulation of Materials Systems"

Donor-Akzeptor Torsionsfedern als Kraftsensoren

• Project leader: PD Dr. Michael Walter
• Period: 01.03.2019 – 28.02.2022
• Funding: DFG (DFG-Geschäftszeichen WA 1687/11-1)
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HYBRIDIS: Dispersionskräfte in Medien — Ein Hybridansatz aus makroskopischer Quantenelektrodynamik und mikroskopischer Dichtefunktionaltheorie

• Project leader: PD Dr. Michael Walter
• Period: 01.08.2018 – 31.07.2021
• Funding: DFG (DFG-Geschäftszeichen WA 1687/10-1)
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Core Facility "Functional Processing"

NILAX Sensorsystem zur Bestimmung von Knielaxitäten 

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Peter Woias
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020
• Funding: DFG

Polymer-based optical sensor platform with integrated light source

• Project leader: Prof. Dr. Claas Müller, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kowalsky
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020
• Funding: DFG
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