Dr. Matthias C. Huber

Project

Hierarchically Programmable Materials with Propagating Stimulus Responsive Elements and Metamaterial Ultrastructuring
As a member of the Cluster of Excellence livMatS my project has the following objectives. I will develop novel, bioinspired soft materials and thereof derived mechanical systems that are able to adapt autonomously to environmental changes, harvest energy from their surroundings or respond to external triggers. These adaptive soft macromolecular materials should be 2D and 3D structurable in high-resolution additive manufacturing. They should comprise behavior associated to learning, memory and oblivion. My major objective will be the development of adjustable novel protein-based stimulus-responsive soft materials that are biocompatible, durable and allow fine structuring (e.g. auxetic structures, compliant mechanisms) to fulfil the above mentioned purposes.

First supervisor

Dr. Stefan Schiller (Schiller Lab website

Publications in livMatS

• An Autonomous Chemically Fueled Artificial Protein Muscle*
  Huber, M. C., Jonas, U., & Schiller, S. M. (2022). An Autonomous Chemically Fueled Artificial Protein Muscle. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2100189. doi: 10.1002/aisy.202100189
• Dynamische Strukturänderung und Thermodynamik von Phasentrennprozessen eines Proteinmodells mit intrinsisch ungeordneter/geordneter Struktur*
  Lüdeke, S., Lohner, P., Stühn, L. G., Betschart, M. U., Huber, M. C., Schreiber, A., & Schiller, S. M. (2022). Dynamische Strukturänderung und Thermodynamik von Phasentrennprozessen eines Proteinmodells mit intrinsisch ungeordneter/geordneter Struktur. Angewandte Chemie, 134(3), e202112738. doi: 10.1002/ange.202112738
  
  
  * Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807