Current Projects
List of ongoing projects focusing on basic research being carried out at the FIT.
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:
- Logic self-reporting mechano-adaptive metamaterials
- Autonomous light-actuated LCE actuators
- 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: 01.05.2019 – 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 – 31.01.2025
- Funding: Carl Zeiss Foundation
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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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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:
- Abscission and self-repair in biological and artificial materials systems
- Training and self-healing by interface snapping mechanisms
- 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:
- Predicting attitudes and behavior concerning living materials: Develop software and analyses methods to apply cognitive affective maps
- Collection and evaluation of basal attributes of living materials systems
- Development of a TAPASS (Tiered Approach for Prospective Assessment of Benefits and Challenges) and first applications
- 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 – 31.12.2023
- 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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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:
- Inorganic and Organic SolStore
- Thermo BatS - Thermoelectric Battery Systems
- Interfaces, charge-transfer and non-adiabatic processes and their exploitation in a frequency-tunable tribogenerator
- Autonomous light-actuated LCE actuators
CFD- und Through-Plane Modellierung von PEM Brennstoffzellen (FC-CAT)
- Project leader: Dr. Severin Vierrath
- Period: 01.01.2020 – 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 – 29.02.2024
- 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: 01.01.2021 – 31.12.2025
- 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: 01.01.2019 – 31.03.2021
- 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 – 31.01.2022
- 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 – 01.03.2021
- Funding: DFG
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