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Der Lehrstuhl für Feststoff- und Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik trauert um seinen Gründer und ehemaligen Ordinarius, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Otto Molerus, der am 24. Juli 2022 im Alter von 88 Jahren verstarb. To English version Otto Molerus studierte Maschinenbau an der Technischen Hochschule Karlsruhe....

FAU-Forschende entwickeln Methode, die die gleichmäßige Trocknung partikel-haltigen Flüssigkeiten begünstigt Was haben Kaffee, Rotwein und Tinte gemein? Die Flecken, die sie hinterlassen. Wer schon mal eine Tasse Kaffee umgestoßen hat weiß, dass Kaffee in einem außergewöhnlichen Muster trocknet: De...

The successful end of the joined project BayBionik with the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection was celebrated at a final event at the Bionicum in the Tiergarten Nürnberg. The group of Prof. Nicolas Vogel presented their work on self-cleaning and sustainable surface co...

In the afternoon of 9 February, 2022, the annual Poster Session and Awards Ceremony of the Elite Masters Programme in Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) took place. Of the 27 posters on display, 6 were on research projects based at LFG. The MAP Poster Session is the culmination of a scien...

In November 2021, Prof. Nicolas Vogel of the Institute of Particle Technology was awarded the “Lehrpreis der technischen Fakultät” (Teaching award of the Faculty of Engineering). According to the selection committee, the awards reflects the excellent student evaluations of the courses given by Prof....

The performance of TiO2 thin films as an electron transport layer (ETL) in perovskite solar cells depends on the composition, phase, and defects of the TiO2 layer. In the recently published paper in Nano Select (Wiley), Saman Hosseinpour (LFG) together with colleagues from i-MEET, HI ERN, and WW4-LK...

On Thursday (30.09.2021) Eric Görlitzer completed his PhD on “Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures via Colloidal Templating - Chirale Plasmonische Nanostrukturen durch Kolloidale Oberflächenstrukturierung”,  becoming the fourth PhD graduate from the Vogel Lab. We wish him success in his future endeavor. ...

On Monday (27.09.2021) Junwei completed his PhD on “Colloidal Clusters in Spherical Confinement”. Junwei was enrolled in the Elite Master’s Programme, Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP), from 2013 to 2013 and performed his PhD research under the supervision of Prof. Vogel (main supervisor) and P...

Satisfying the increased demand for materials with enhanced performance requires constant improvement in the properties of the existing materials. In this regard, very often, composite materials and coatings provide superior characteristics which are tunable to fit the requirements of specific appli...

Oil/water interfaces are omnipresent in our life. You can find them at the surface of cell membranes, in dairy and other food products, as well as in technological fields such as oil refinery and pharmaceutics. Single and double emulsions are also emerging as means for smart drug delivery in which t...