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
Dynamic chemical networks: steps towards living materials
- Project leader: Dr. Charalampos G. Pappas
- Period: 01.10.2020 – 30.09.2025
- Funding: DFG
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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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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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Push, Push, Push – Cooperative Actuators and Actuators Fields by Direct Writing Processes
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
- Period: 01.10.2019 – 30.09.2022
- Funding: DFG
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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
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Future Field "Biomimetic, Biobased and Bioactive Materials Systems"
3D Bioprinted constructs of hydrogel composites for tissue engineering
- Project leader: Dr. Anayancy Osorio
- Period: 01.03.2020 – 31.12.2026
- Funding: DFG - Emmy-Noether Programme
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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
MERGE - Diagnostik und Verlaufskontrolle tödlich verlaufender Erkrankungen des Zentralnervensystems mit Multiplex-CRISPR
- Project leader: Dr. Can Dincer
- Period: 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024
- Funding: BMBF
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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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
All-Solid-State CO2-Elektrolyse mit höherer Effizienz & geringeren Kosten
- Project leader: Dr. Severin Vierrath
- Period: 01.03.2020 – 28.02.2026
- Funding: Vector Stiftung
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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PrEsto – Perowskit-Silizium-Tandemsolarzellen: Entwicklung skalierbarer Prozess-technologien; Teilvorhaben: Vakuumprozesse für Perowskitabsorber
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Glunz
- Period: 01.02.2021 – 31.01.2024
- Funding: BMWi
Entwicklung integrierter und flexibler Fertigungsprozesse für Thermoelektrische Mikro-Generatoren (MiTEG)
- Project leader: Dr. Uwe Pelz
- Period: 01.08.2019 – 31.08.2023
- Funding: DFG
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Future Field "New Materials: Societal Challenges"
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
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 "Functional Processing"
NILAX Sensorsystem zur Bestimmung von Knielaxitäten
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Peter Woias
- Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.01.2022
- Funding: DFG
Core Facility "Modelling and Simulation of Materials Systems"
Synthese, in-operando X-ray Spektroskopie und theoretische Modellierung von neuen Li-S Batterien mit zweifachen Redoxsystemen
- Project leader: PD Dr. Michael Walter
- Period: 15.12.2020 – 14.12.2023
- Funding: DFG SPP 2248 (DFG-Geschäftszeichen WA 1687/12-1)
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