EXC 315:  Engineering of Advanced Materials - Hierarchical Structure Formation for Functional Devices

• Subject Area: Materials Science
• Term: from 2007 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 53244630

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

The vision of EAM was to link, in the context of a world-class research and training program, fundamental science and real-world applications in the field of high-performance materials. FAU‘s unique combination of strengths in engineering and natural science led to the scientific concept of EAM, which focused on the science and engineering of hierarchical materials organized from nano- to macroscopic scales. Bridging the gap between nanoscale materials design and macroscopic devices required approaches that covered the entire range of time and length scales in synthesis and processing, modeling and simulation. Novel approaches were developed coherently with new methods for structure, property and process analytics. EAM’s scientific structure reflected its research philosophy. Major innovations and breakthrough technologies were developed in the three cross-sectional areas that were organized in sustainable interdisciplinary centers for Functional Particle Systems, Nanoanalysis and Microscopy and Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, and four Research Areas organized in process chains: engineering of Nanoelectronic Materials, Photonic and Optical Materials, Catalytic Materials and Lightweight Materials. One major lesson is that key unifying scientific principles are common to all EAM Research Areas and were therefore explored in the second funding period as four Focal Topics. EAM has shaped the structure of the FAU by installing 13 new professorships, by attracting the best early career researchers, providing new impetus for innovative teaching and implanting support structures for female researchers. EAM founded three new interdisciplinary centers and improved the research infrastructure by adding a total of 11,800 m2 new working space equipped with new cutting-edge instruments. We boosted interdisciplinary collaboration to an exemplary level, which is documented by our remarkable track record: in total 2518 papers were published in peer-reviewed journals (as of 12/2019), 34 % of which are joint publications of two or more EAM research teams. In particular, EAM acted as nucleus for new collaborative research initiatives (five collaborative research centers, two research training groups, two research units, one core facility,) and for the foundation of a new Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN). Technology Transfer was realized in strategic cooperations with companies, the foundation of transfer centers, and via joint demonstrators as the materialized outcome of collaborations between the Research Areas. Sustainability of EAM is guaranteed by its outstanding research infrastructure, and by the high quality of EAM researchers at the eight involved departments of FAU, supported by the 25 % allowance fund of the State Government of Bavaria. EAM will continue to act as nucleus for new research initiatives and as hub for worldwide visible excellence in materials and process research.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1697245943

Publications

• Analysis of Optical Absorbance Spectra for the Determination of ZnO Nanoparticle Size Distribution, Solubility, and Surface Energy. ACS Nano 3, 1703-1710 (2009)
  D. Segets, J. Gradl, R. N. Klupp Taylor, V. Vassilev, W. Peukert
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/nn900223b)
• Endohedral fullerenes for organic photovoltaic devices. Nature Materials 8, 208–212 (2009)
  R. B. Ross, C. M. Cardona, D. M. Guldi, S. Gayathri Sankaranarayanan, M. O. Reese, N. Kopidakis, J. Peet, B. Walker, G. C. Bazan, E. Van Keuren, B. C. Holloway, M. Drees
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2379)
• Evaluation of NbN thin films grown by MOCVD and plasma-enhanced ALD for gate electrode application in high-k/SiO2 gate stacks. Semiconductor Science and Technology 25, 045009 (2010)
  J. Hinz, A. J. Bauer, T. Thiede, R. A. Fischer, L. Frey
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/25/4/045009)
• Near IR Sensitization of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Towards Optimization of the Spectral Response of Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials 20, 338-346 (2010)
  M. Koppe, H .J. A. Egelhaaf, G. Dennler, M. C. Scharber, C. J. Brabec, P. Schilinsky, C. N. Hoth
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• Processing of Ceramic Foams with Hierarchical Cell Structure. Advanced Engineering Materials 12, 884-892 (2010)
  B. Ceron-Nicolat, T. Fey, P. Greil
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201000114)
• Giant Faraday rotation in single- and multilayer graphene. Nature Physics 7, 48-51 (2011)
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• Ligand Effects in SCILL Model Systems: Site-Specific Interactions with Pt and Pd Nanoparticles. Advanced Materials 23, 2617-2621 (2011)
  M. Sobota, M. Happel, M. Amende, N. Paape, P. Wasserscheid, M. Laurin, J. Libuda
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201004064)
• Minkowski tensor shape analysis of cellular, granular and porous structures. Advanced Materials 23, 2535-2553 (2011)
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  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201100562)
• Surface science and model catalysis with ionic liquidmodified materials. Advanced Materials 23, 2571-2587 (2011)
  H.-P. Steinrück, J. Libuda, P. Wasserscheid, T. Cremer, C. Kolbeck, M. Laurin, F. Maier, M. Sobota, P. S. Schulz, M. Stark
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201100211)
• Assemblies of mesoporous FAU-type zeolite nanosheets. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 51, 1962-1965 (2012)
  A. Inayat, I. Knoke, E. Spiecker, W. Schwieger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201105738)
• Determination of the Quantum Dot Band Gap Dependence on Particle Size from Optical Absorbance and Transmission Electron Microscopy Measurements. ACS Nano 6, 9021-9032 (2012)
  D. Segets, J. M. Lucas, R. N. Klupp Taylor, M. Scheele, H. Zheng, A. P. Alivisato, W. Peukert
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/nn303130d)
• Low-Voltage Organic Field Effect Transistors with a 2-Tridecyl[1]benzothieno[3,2--b][1]benzothiophene Semiconductor Layer. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134, 16548-16550 (2012)
  A. Y. Amin, A. Khassanov, K. Reuter, T. Meyer-Friedrichsen, M. Halik
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/ja307802q)
• Monitoring liquid phase, organic reactions by photoelectron spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 51, 2610-2613 (2012)
  C. Kolbeck, I. Niedermaier, N. Taccardi, P.S. Schulz, F. Maier, P. Wasserscheid, H.-P Steinrück
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201107402)
• Nucleation of Ligand-Receptor Domains in Membrane Adhesion. Physical Review Letters 109, 258101 (2012)
  T. Bihr, U. Seifert, A.-S. Smith
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.258101)
• Particle Networks from Powder Mixtures: Generation of TiO2–SnO2 Heterojunctions via Surface Charge-Induced Heteroaggregation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116, 22967-22973 (2012)
  N. Siedl, S. O. Baumann, M. J. Elser, O. Diwald
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/jp307737s)
• Permeability of Porous Materials Determined from the Euler Characteristic. Physical Review Letters 109, 264504 (2012)
  C. Scholz, F. Wirner, J. Götz, U. Rüde, G. E. Schröder-Turk, K. Mecke, C. Bechinger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.264504)
• Probing guided modes in a monolayer colloidal crystal on a flat metal film. Physical Review B 86, 195145 (2012)
  S. G. Romanov, N. Vogel, K. Bley, K; Landfester, C. K. Weiss, S. Orlov, A. V. Korovin, G. P. Chuiko, A. Regensburger, A. S. Romanova, A. Kriesch, U. Peschel
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.195145)
• Time- and temperature-dependent crosslinking behaviour of a silicone resin. Rheologica Acta 51, 71–80 (2012)
  F. Wolff, C. Kugler, H. Münstedt
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-011-0585-7)
• Carbon Nanohorns as Integrative Materials for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Advanced Materials 25, 6513-6518 (2013)
  R. D. Costa, S. Feihl, A. Kahnt, S. Gambhir, D. L. Officer, G. G. Wallace, M. I. Lucio, M. A. Herrero, E. Vázquez, Z. Syrgiannis, M. Prato, D. M. Guldi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201301527)
• Chemical and (Photo)-Catalytical Transformations in Photonic Crystal Fibers. ChemCatChem 5, 641 (2013)
  M. Schmidt, A. M. Cubillas, N. Taccardi, T. G. Euser, T. Cremer, F. Maier, H.-P. Steinrück, P. S. J. Russell, P. Wasserscheid, B. J. M. Etzold
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201200676)
• Enhanced activity and selectivity in catalytic methanol steam reforming by basic alkali-metal salt coatings. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52, 5028-5032 (2013)
  M. Kusche, F. Enzenberger, S. Bajus, H. Niedermeyer, A. Bösmann, A. Kaftan, M. Laurin, J. Libuda, P. Wasserscheid
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201209758)
• Improving the Charge Transport in Self-Assembled Monolayer Field-Effect Transistors: From Theory to Devices. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135, 4893-4900 (2013)
  C. M. Jäger, T. Schmaltz, M. Novak, A. Khassanov, A. Vorobiev, M. Hennemann, A. Krause, H. Dietrich, D. Zahn, A. Hirsch, M. Halik, T. Clark
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/ja401320n)
• Photonic crystal fibres for chemical sensing and photochemistry. Chemical Society Reviews 42, 8629-8648 (2013)
  A. M. Cubillas, S. Unterkofler, T. G. Euser, B. J. M. Etzold, A. C. Jones, P. J. Sadler, P. Wasserscheid, P. S. J. Russell
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cs60128e)
• Probing a gas/liquid acid-base reaction by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52, 8904-8907 (2013)
  I. Niedermaier, N. Taccardi, P. Wasserscheid, F. Maier, H.-P. Steinrück
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201304115)
• Probing Charge Transfer in Benzodifuran-C60 Dumbbell-Type Electron Donor-Acceptor Conjugates: Ground- and Excited-State Assays. ChemPhysChem 14, 2910–2919 (2013)
  H. Li, C. Schubert, P. O. Dral, R. D. Costa, A. La Rosa, J. Thüring, S.Liu, C. Yi, S. Filippone, N. Martín, S. Decurtins, T. Clark, D. M. Guldi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201300378)
• A laboratory X-ray microscopy setup using a field emission electron source and micro-structured reflection targets. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 324, 4-10 (2014)
  P. Stahlhut, T. Ebensperger, S. Zabler, R. Hanke
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2013.12.028)
• Disentangling the effects of nanoscale structural variations on the light emission wavelength of single nanoemitters: InGaN/GaN multiquantum well nano-LEDs for a case study. Nanoscale 6, 119532014 (2014)
  G. Sarau, M. Heilmann, M. Latzel, S. Christiansen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr02939a)
• Electron transfer through rigid organic molecular wires enhanced by electronic and electron–vibration coupling. Nature Chemistry 6, 899-905 (2014)
  J. Sukegawa, C. Schubert, X. Zhu, H. Tsuji, D. M. Guldi, E. Nakamura
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NCHEM.2026)
• Epitaxial Growth of PbSe Quantum Dots on MoS2 Nanosheets and their Near-Infrared Photoresponse. Advanced Functional Materials 24, 5798-5806 (2014)
  J. Schornbaum, B. Winter, S. Schießl, F. Gannott, G. Katsukis, D. M. Guldi, E. Spiecker, J. Zaumseil
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201400330)
• Model catalytic studies of liquid organic hydrogen carriers: Dehydrogenation and decomposition mechanisms of dodecahydro-n-ethylcarbazole on pt(111). American Chemical Society 4, 657-665 (2014)
  M. Amende, C. Gleichweit, K. Werner, S. Schernich, W. Zhao, M. Lorenz, O. Höfert , C. Papp, M. Koch, P. Wasserscheid, L. Laurin, H.P. Steinrück, J. Libuda
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/cs400946x)
• Nanoscale Conducting Oxide PlasMOStor. Nano Letters 14, 6463-6468 (2014)
  H. W. Lee, G. Papadakis, S. P. Burgos, K. Chander, A. Kriesch, R. Pala, U. Peschel, H. A. Atwater
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/nl502998z)
• Periodic Open Cellular Structures With Ideal Cubic Cell Geometry: Effect of Porosity and Cell Orientation on Pressure Drop Behavior. Chemical Engineering Journal 242, 364-378 (2014)
  M. Klumpp, A. Inayat, J. Schwerdtfeger, C. Körner, R. F. Singer, H. Freund, W. Schwieger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2013.12.060)
• A combined SAXS/SANS study for the in situ characterization of ligand shells on small nanoparticles: the case of ZnO. Langmuir 31, 10130-10136 (2015)
  T. Schindler, M. Schmiele, T. Schmutzler, T. Kassar, D. Segets, W. Peukert, A. Radulescu, A. Kriele, R. Gilles, T. Unruh
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02198)
• A General Approach To Study the Thermodynamics of Ligand Adsorption to Colloidal Surfaces Demonstrated by Means of Catechols Binding to Zinc Oxide Quantum Dots. Chemistry of Materials 27, 358-369 (2015)
  W. Lin, J. Walter, A. Burger, H. Maid, A. Hirsch, W. Peukert, D. Segets
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/cm504080d)
• Advances in Colloidal Assembly: The Design of Structure and Hierarchy in Two and Three Dimensions. Chemical Reviews 115, 6265-6311 (2015)
  N. Vogel, M. Retsch, C.-A. Fustin, A. del Campo, U. Jonas
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/cr400081d)
• Atomistic aspects of fracture. International Journal of Fracture 191, 13-30 (2015)
  E. Bitzek, J. Kermode, P. Gumbsch
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-015-9988-2)
• Efficient hydrogen release from perhydro-N-ethylcarbazole using catalyst-coated metallic structures produced by selective electron beam melting. Energy & Environmental Science 8, 641–649 (2015)
  W. Peters, M. Eypasch, T. Frank, J. Schwerdtfeger, C. Körner, A. Bösmann, P. Wasserscheid
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ee03461a)
• Germanium-silicon alloy and core-shell nanocrystals by gas phase synthesis. Nanoscale 7, 5186-5196 (2015)
  C. Mehringer, C. Kloner, B. Butz., B. Winter, E. Spiecker, W. Peukert
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr06318j)
• Improving the Performance of Organic Thin-Film Transistors by Ion Doping of Ethylene Glycol Based Self-Assembled Monolayer Hybrid Dielectrics. Advanced Materials 27, 8023-8027 (2015)
  H. Dietrich, S. Scheiner, L. Portilla, D. Zahn, M. Halik
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201503911)
• Influence of anisotropic elasticity on the mechanical properties of fivefold twinned nanowires. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 84, 358, (2015)
  F. Niekiel, E. Spiecker and E. Bitzek
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2015.08.004)
• Layer-by-layer assemblies of catechol-functionalized TiO2 nanoparticles and porphyrins through electrostatic interactions. Chemistry - A European Journal 21, 5041 (2015)
  A. Burger, R. D. Costa, V. Lobaz, W. Peukert, D. M. Guldi, A. Hirsch
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201405039)
• Linear magnetoresistance in mosaic-like bilayer graphene. Nature Physics 11, 650-653 (2015)
  F. Kisslinger, C. Ott, C. Heide, E. Kampert, B. Butz, E. Spiecker, S. Shallcross, H. B. Weber
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS3368)
• Long-range energy transport in single supramolecular nanofibres at room temperature. Nature 523, 196-199 (2015)
  A. T. Haedler, K. Kreger, A. Issac, B. Wittmann, M. Kivala, N. Hammer, J. Köhler, H.-W. Schmidt, R. Hildner
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14570)
• Micro/Macroporous System: MFI-Type Zeolite Crystals with Embedded Macropores. Advanced Materials 27, 1066-1070 (2015)
  A. G. Machoke, A. M. Beltrán, A. Inayat, B. Winter, T. Weissenberger, N. Kruse, R. Güttel, E. Spiecker, W. Schwieger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201404493)
• Numerical simulation of heat transfer in the near-wall region of tubular reactors packed with metal open-cell foams. Chemical Engineering Journal 264, 268-279 (2015)
  E. Bianchi, G. Groppi, W. Schwieger, E. Tronconi, H. Freund
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2014.11.055)
• Synthesis of Goethite α-FeOOH Particles by Air Oxidation of Ferrous Hydroxide Fe(OH)2 Suspensions: Insight on the Formation Mechanism. Crystal Growth and Design 15, 194 (2015)
  E. R. Encina, M. Distaso, R. N. Klupp Taylor, W. Peukert
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/cg501191h)
• Catalytic test reactions for the evaluation of hierarchical zeolites. Chemical Society Reviews 45, 3313-3330 (2016)
  M. Hartmann, A. G. Machoke, W. Schwieger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cs00935a)
• Effect of a local laser heat treatment on the formability of multilayered 6000 series aluminum alloys. Physics Procedia 83, 560-567 (2016)
  M. Merklein, J. Herrmann
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2016.08.058)
• Engineered disorder and light propagation in a planar photonic glass. Scientific Reports 6, 27264 (2016)
  S. G. Romanov, S. Orlov, D. Ploss, C. K. Weiss, N. Vogel, U. Peschel
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27264)
• Enhanced fatigue lives in AA1050A/AA5005 laminated metal composites produced by accumulative roll bonding. Acta Materialia 120,150-158 (2016)
  F. Kümmel, T. Hausöl, H. W. Höppel, M. Göken
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.08.039)
• Exploring the Limiting Open-Circuit Voltage and the Voltage Loss Mechanism in Planar CH3NH3PbBr3 Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials 18, 1600132 (2016)
  S. Chen, Y. Hou, H. Chen, M. Richter, F. Guo, S. Kahmann, X. Tang, T. Stubhan, H. Zhang, N. Li, N. Gasparini, C. O. Ramírez Quiroz, L. S. Khanzada, G. Matt, A. Osvet, C. J. Brabec
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201600132)
• First results on laboratory nano-CT with a needle reflection target and an adapted toolchain. Proceedings of SPIE 9967, 99670I (2016)
  P. Stahlhut, K. Dremel, J. Dittmann, J. M. Engel, S. Zabler, A. Hoelzing, R. Hanke
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240561)
• Fluorescence-based remote irradiation sensor in liquid-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. Applied Physics Letters 108, 231107 (2016)
  R. Zeltner, D. S. Bykov, S. Xie, T. G. Euser, P. S. J. Russell
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953590)
• Global and local strain rate sensitivity of bimodal Al-laminates produced by accumulative roll bonding. Acta Materialia 103, 643-650 (2016)
  M. Ruppert, C. Schunk, D. Hausmann, H. W. Höppel, M. Göken
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.11.009)
• High efficiency and stability small molecule solar cells developed by bulk microstructure fine-tuning. Nano Energy 28, 241-249 (2016)
  J. Min, X. Jiao, V. Sgobba, B. Kan, T. Heumüller, S. Rechberger, E. Spiecker, D. M. Guldi, X. Wan, Y. Chen, H. Ade, C. J. Brabec
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.08.047)
• Industrially scalable, cost-effective and highly luminescent Mn2+ doped ZnxCd1-xS/ZnS nanocrystals as efficient down-shifting material in photovoltaics. Energy & Environmental Sciences 9, 1083-1094 (2016)
  I. Levchuk, C. Würth, F. Krause, A. Osvet, M. Batentschuk, U. Resch-Genger, C. Kolbeck, P. Herre, H.P. Steinrück, W. Peukert, C. J. Brabec
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee03165f)
• Power Series Approximation for the Correlation Kernel Leading to Kohn-Sham Methods Combining Accuracy, Computational Efficiency, and General Applicability. Physical Review Letters 117, 143002 (2016)
  J. Erhard, P. Bleiziffer, A. Görling
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.143002)
• Texture evolution and microstructural changes during solid-state dewetting: A correlative study by complementary in situ TEM techniques. Acta Materialia 115, 230-241 (2016)
  F. Niekiel, S. Kraschewski, P. Schweizer, B. Butz, E. Spiecker
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.05.026)
• , Influence of grain boundary structure and topology on the plastic deformation of nanocrystalline aluminum as studied by atomistic simulations. International Journal of Plasticity 97,107-125 (2017)
  A. Prakash, D. Weygand, E. Bitzek
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2017.05.011)
• Bounds on size-dependent behavior of composites. Philosophical Magazine, 98, 437-463 (2017)
  S. Saeb, P. Steinmann, A. Javili
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2017.1408967)
• Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development. Science Advances 3, e1603119 (2017)
  B. D. Wilts, B. Apeleo Zubiri, M. A. Klatt, B. Butz, M. G. Fischer, S. T. Kelly, E. Spiecker, U. Steiner, G. E. Schröder-Turk
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603119)
• Design and additive manufacturing of 3D phononic band gap structures based on gradient based optimization. Materials 10, 1125 (2017)
  M. Wormser, F. Wein, M. Stingl, C. Körner
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10101125)
• Efficient Nitrogen Doping of Single-Layer Graphene Accompanied by Negligible Defect Generation for Integration into Hybrid Semiconductor Heterostructures. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 10003-10011 (2017)
  G. Sarau, M; Heilmann, M. Y. Bashouti, M. Latzel, C. Tessarek, S. Christiansen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00067)
• Electrophoretic Deposition of Boehmite on Additively Manufactured, Interpenetrating Periodic Open Cellular Structures for Catalytic Applications. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 56, 13402-13410 (2017)
  G. Do, T. Stiegler, M. Fiegl, L. Adler, C. Körner, A. Bösmann, H. Freund, W. Schwieger, P. Wasserscheid
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.7b02453)
• Fabrication and characterisation of a fully auxetic 3D lattice structure via selective electron beam melting. Smart Materials and Structures 26, 025013 (2017)
  F. Warmuth, F. Osmanlic, L. Adler, M. Lodes, C. Körner
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/26/2/025013)
• Gallium-rich Pd-Ga phases as supported liquid metal catalysts. Nature Chemistry 9, 862-867 (2017)
  N. Taccardi, J. Dubuschewitz, M. Distaso, M. Brandl, R. Hock, F. Maier, M. Grabau, C. Papp, J. Erhard, C. Neiss, W. Peukert, A. Görling, H.-P. Steinrück, P. Wasserscheid
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NCHEM.2822)
• Gluing ionic liquids to oxide surfaces: Chemical anchoring of functionalized ionic liquids by vapor deposition onto cobalt(II) oxide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56, 9072-9076 (2017)
  T. Xu, T. Waehler, J. Vecchietti, A. Bonivardi, T. Bauer, J. Schwegler, P.S. Schulz, P. Wasserscheid, J. Libuda
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201704107)
• Heterogeneous nucleation and surface conformal growth of silver nanocoatings on colloidal silica in a continuous flow static T-mixer. Chemical Engineering Journal 308, 89-100 (2017)
  T. Meincke, H. Bao, L. Pflug, M. Stingl, R. N. Klupp Taylor
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2016.09.048)
• High-performance direct conversion X-ray detectors based on sintered hybrid lead triiodide perovskite wafers. Nature Photonics 11, 436-440 (2017)
  S. Shrestha, R. Fischer, G. J. Matt, P. Feldner, T. Michel, A. Osvet, I. Levchuk, B. Merle, S. Golkar, H. Chen, S. F. Tedde, O. R. Schmidt, R. Hock, M. Rührig, M. Göken, W. Heiss, G. Anton, C. J. Brabec
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHOTON.2017.94)
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