Completed Projects

Future Field "Adaptive and Active Polymer Materials"  

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: 01.07.2019 – 30.06.2022
• Funding: DFG
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Fe-based metal-organic frameworks as photocatalysts for energy and environmental applications

• Project leaders: Dr. Severin Vierrath, Dr. Naghmeh Mirbagheri
• Period: 01.07.2020 – 30.06.2022
• Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Evaluation of droplet shape and three-phase contact line movement on dynamically switchable spiropyran surfaces

• Project leader: Dr. Dorothea Helmer
• Period: 20.05.2019 – 19.05.2022
• 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 – 31.07.2023
• Funding: DFG RU 489/34-1 and DFG RU 489/34-2
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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

1. Controlled deformations and modifications of model and cellular lipid membranes (project description)
2. Interactions between bio-systems and 3D micro-structured surfaces (project description)
3. Friction on textured surfaces: Inspiration from insect-plant interactions (project description)
4. Slippery when wet: Wet adhesion and friction on nano/micro-structured surfaces  (project descrption)
5. Graphene-induced crystallization of semicrystalline conjugated polymers (project description)
6. Compartmentalized smart polymer ionic liquids for responsive systems (project descrption)
7. Multifunctional hybrid polymers for adaptive nanocrystalline multilayer composites (project description)
8. Linear mechanical and viscoelastic properties of model glass-forming polymer films
9. Ordering and crystallisation of polymers in quasi-2 dimensions (project description)
10. Thermodynamics of membranes with complex lipid compositions (project description)
11. 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"

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

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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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 – 31.08.2022
• 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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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:

1. Plants and animals as source of inspiration for energy dissipation in load bearing systems and facades (project description)
2. Inspired by plants and animals: actively actuated rod-shaped structures exhibiting adaptive stiffness and joint-free continuous kinematics (project description)
3. Kinematics of planar, curved and corrugated plant surfaces as concept generators for deployable systems in architecture (project description)
4. Branching and axes in selected plant species as concept generators for high load-bearing joints of branched building structures (project description)
5. Continuous fused deposition modelling of architectural envelopes based on the shell formation of molluscs (project description)
6. Analysis of Physcomitrella chloroplasts to reveal adaptation principles leading to structural stability at the nano-scale (project description)
7. Scaling of properties of highly porous biological and biomimetic constructions (project description) 
8. 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"

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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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"

HYBRIDIS: Dispersionskräfte in Medien — Ein Hybridansatz aus makroskopischer Quantenelektrodynamik und mikroskopischer Dichtefunktionaltheorie

• Project leader: PD Dr. Michael Walter
• Period: 01.08.2018 – 31.11.2022
• Funding: DFG (DFG-Geschäftszeichen WA 1687/10-1)
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Donor-Akzeptor Torsionsfedern als Kraftsensoren

• Project leader: PD Dr. Michael Walter
• Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2021
• Funding: DFG (DFG-Geschäftszeichen WA 1687/11-1)
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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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