Together we went on a Trip to to Hofgut Oberfeld and enjoyed coffee and cake to round off the afternoon

We welcome Lucía Pizarro from the Soft Matter Labratory (INIFTA, La Plata, Argentina) who will spend a DAAD funded guest stay in our group! Looking forward to inspiring collaborative research.

Our project team working on “SiliCoat Paper” was awarded with the Award for Sustainability and Interdisciplinarity from the “Freunde der TU-Darmstadt”. This is an example of a very fruitful collaboration between the MAP and Smartmem research group. We feel honored to receive this award and we will keep working on the understanding and real-world application of more sustainable paper materials by combining silica and paper.

Congratulations Dr. Lucy Zhao, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on hierarchical design in mesoporous silica using functional templates and digital light processing.

Please check out our new article on Local water management in cotton linter papers with silica-based coatings

Please check out our new article on Single-fibre coating and additive manufacturing of multifunctional papers

We welcome Michael Zoppelt as new group member. He is working on controlled copolymerisation in mesoporous silica layers.

Please check out our new article on Printing of In Situ Functionalized Mesoporous Silica withDigital Light Processing for Combinatorial Sensing

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