Completed Projects
List of already finished basic research projects conducted by the members of the FIT.
Future Field "Adaptive and Active Polymer Materials"
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 – 31.07.2021
- Funding: BMBF
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Self-shedding Surfaces
- Project leader: PD Dr. Karen Lienkamp
- Period: 01.05.2015 – 30.04.2021
- Funding: ERC Starting Grant of European Commission
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Adaptive lenses based on conductive and optically transparent silver nanowire networks
- Project leader: Dr. Frank Goldschmidtböing
- Period: 01.10.2019 – 30.04.2021
- Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) – GO 1686/4-2
International Research Training Group (IRTG 1642) “Soft Matter Science: Concepts for the Design of Functional Materials”
- Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Günter Reiter
- Duration of 2. period: 01.04.2015 – 30.09.2019
- Funding: DFG
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- SoMaS-Teilprojekte am FIT
- Controlled deformations and modifications of model and cellular lipid membranes (project description)
- Interactions between bio-systems and 3D micro-structured surfaces (project description)
- Friction on textured surfaces: Inspiration from insect-plant interactions (project description)
- Slippery when wet: Wet adhesion and friction on nano/micro-structured surfaces (project descrption)
- Graphene-induced crystallization of semicrystalline conjugated polymers (project description)
- Compartmentalized smart polymer ionic liquids for responsive systems (project descrption)
- Multifunctional hybrid polymers for adaptive nanocrystalline multilayer composites (project description)
- Linear mechanical and viscoelastic properties of model glass-forming polymer films
- Ordering and crystallisation of polymers in quasi-2 dimensions (project description)
- Thermodynamics of membranes with complex lipid compositions (project description)
- Recognition of synthetic polymers by biological nanopores (project description)
Mikrosysteme und Funktionsmaterialien – Integrierte bioinspirierte Systeme (BITS)
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Rolf Mülhaupt
- Period: 01.06.2015 – 31.05.2018
- Funding: MWK – Zukunftsoffensive IV Schwerpunktbereich „Aufbau und Stärkung der Forschungsinfrastruktur im Bereich der Mikro- und Nanotechnologie sowie der neuen Materialien“
Platinum free electrodes for PEM electrolysis devices (RiSC)
- Project leader: Dr.-Ing. Simon Thiele
- Period: 01.01.2016 – 28.02.2017
- Funding: Innovationsfonds Forschung
Future Field "Biomimetic, Biobased and Bioactive Materials Systems"
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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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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SFB/TRR 141 "Biological Design and Integrative Structures - Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in Architecture"
- Spokesperson in Freiburg: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
- Period: 01.10.2014 – 30.06.2019
- Funding: DFG
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- TRR141-subprojects at FIT:
- Plants and animals as source of inspiration for energy dissipation in load bearing systems and facades (project description)
- Inspired by plants and animals: actively actuated rod-shaped structures exhibiting adaptive stiffness and joint-free continuous kinematics (project description)
- Kinematics of planar, curved and corrugated plant surfaces as concept generators for deployable systems in architecture (project description)
- Branching and axes in selected plant species as concept generators for high load-bearing joints of branched building structures (project description)
- Continuous fused deposition modelling of architectural envelopes based on the shell formation of molluscs (project description)
- Analysis of Physcomitrella chloroplasts to reveal adaptation principles leading to structural stability at the nano-scale (project description)
- Scaling of properties of highly porous biological and biomimetic constructions (project description)
- Multifunctional simulation of complex biological and biomimetic designs and materials (project description)
Energetische Untersuchungen zur induzierten Aufnahme von Partikeln in funktionalisierte, synthetische Membransysteme
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Winfried Römer
- Period: 01.02.2016 – 31.01.2019
- Funding: DFG (DFG-Geschäftszeichen RO 4341/3-1)
- Project leader: Dr. Michael Sommer
- Period: 01.09.2015 – 31.08.2018
- Funding: DFG (DFG-Geschäftszeichen SO 1213/7-1)
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Lignocellulose: Bionisches Lignozellulose-NanocompoSit mit innovativem Verarbeitungskonzept zur Verbesserung der physikalischen Leistungsfähigkeit“ (LignoSit)
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Marie-Pierre Laborie
- Period: 01.09.2014 – 31.12.2017
- Funding: MWK – „Forschungsprogramm Bioökonomie Baden-Württemberg“
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Future Field "(Micro)Systems for Energy Conversion, Storage and Energy-autonomy"
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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LIM-MOBIL - Entwicklung von sicheren und zyklenfesten Lithium-Metall basierten Batterien für den Einsatz in der Elektromobilität
- Project leader: Dr. Witali Beichel, Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing
- Period: 01.03.2019 – 28.02.2022 (in FIT until 31.12.2019)
- Funding: Vector Stiftung
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OPoSiT (Fortgeschrittene Optik für Perowskit-Silizium-Tandemsolarzellen)
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Glunz
- Period: 01.08.2017 – 31.07.2019
- Funding: DFG
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Novel thin film composites and co-catalysts for visible light-induced water splitting
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer
- Period: 01.10.2016 – 31.03.2019
- Funding: DFG (PP 1613)
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Nanotomographische Untersuchungen von Lithium-Luft-Batterien
- Project leader: Dr.-Ing. Simon Thiele
- Period: 01.03.2017 – 28.02.2019
- Funding: Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium
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CAPRI - Characterization of probe interactions with brain tissue
- Project leader: Dr.-Ing. Simon Thiele
- Period: 01.03.2017 – 31.12.2018
- Funding: BrainLinks - BrainTools
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Von Kohlenstoffdioxid und Wasserstoff zu Methanol und Oxymethylendimethylethern als Basischemikalien und flüssige Energieträger
- Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing
- Period: 01.01.2017 – 31.01.2018
- Funding: MWK
Core Facility "Functional Processing"
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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Core Facility "Modelling and Simulation of Materials Systems"
Kontrolle des Kraftbereichs von polymeren Kraftsensoren aus massgeschneiderten mechanochromen Copolymernetzwerken
- Project leader: PD Dr. Michael Walter (DFG-Geschäftszeichen WA 1687/9-1)
- Period: 01.12.2015 – 30.11.2018
- Project leader: Dr. Michael Sommer (DFG-Geschäftszeichen SO 1213/7-1)
- Period: 01.09.2015 – 31.08.2018
- Funding: DFG
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