Current Projects
List of ongoing projects focusing on basic research being carried out at the FIT.
Future Field "Adaptive and Active Polymer Materials"
Droplet behaviour on switchable and adaptive soft and hard spiropyran-based materials
- Project leader: Dr. Dorothea Helmer
- Period: 01.06.2023 – 31.05.2026
- Funding: DFG
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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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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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Development of a miniaturized analysis platform for quantitative and time-resolved high throughput-analysis of signaling kinetics in cancer cells
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
- Period: 01.09.2022 – 30.08.2025
- Funding: DFG
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An audible sound approach to peptide systems chemistry
- Project leader: Dr. Charalampos G. Pappas
- Period: 01.7.2022 – 30.06.2025
- 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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Elastocaloric Cooling Based on Tailored Rubber Films
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
- Period: 01.02.2022 – 30.01.2025
- Funding: DFG
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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 – 30.09.2023
- Funding: DFG
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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
Future Field "(Micro)Systems for Energy Conversion, Storage and Energy-autonomy"
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
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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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
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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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"
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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