Please check out our new article on Ultrashort Peptide Grafting on Mesoporous Films and Its Impact on Ionic Mesopore Accessibility

We welcome Steffen Paech as new group member

Together, we look back on 2023 at the end of the year at the working group's annual Christmas breakfast

Congratulations Dr. Laura Despot, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the influence of wetting architecture and pore wall charge on fluid distribution and proton transport in mesoporous silica films.

Congratulations Dr. Joanna Mikolei, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Selectively addressable interfaces in paper via fibre pre-functionalisation.

Dr. Mathias Stanzel has received the Gold Medal of the International Sol-Gel Society (ISGS) PhD Thesis award 2022 for his work entitled “Mesoporous film architectures and step gradient formation”. The award, granted by the ISGS and first launched in 2018, was created to distinguish PhD theses that represent outstanding contributions to scientific and/or technological knowledge in the field of sol-gel chemistry and related fields.

Please check out our article in collaboration with the group of Tanja Weil (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz) on electropolymerization to functionalize mesoporous films published s part of the Chemistry of Materials virtual special issue “In Honor of Prof. Clement Sanchez”.

Please check out our new article on Molecular transport and water condensation inside mesopores with wettability step gradients

We welcome Surya Suresh Puthenpurackal as new group member. She is working on the topic of functionalised nanopores in membrane separation processes.

We welcome Marianne Blascakas as our new secretary.