Associated Projects

To strengthen and broaden its research impact, the livMatS cluster of excellence strives to establish close collaborations with innovative scientists and young researchers working in related fields.

The following research projects have officially been associated to livMatS to foster knowledge sharing and scientific exchange:

• GLYMCE - Glycan Mimetics for Cell Glycocalyx Reconstitution: a polymer chemist’s approach to fight infection

• Creating Neurofluidics for Intelligent Soft Machines

• Dual-responsive organo-sulfur network cathodes for stable high capacity polymer batteries

• Antibiofouling and Antisoiling Coatings (C02)

• Innocent Deelectronation Chemistry: From the Unified Redox Scale to Innocent Deelectronation Chemistry in Innocent Solvents

• Biomimetic design

• Vector Nachwuchsgruppe – Die Solarzelle der Zukunft

• Modeling and Analysis of Adhesion Hysteresis Between Rough Surfaces

• Reduced-order topology optimisation of high-resolution microstructures with internal contact

• Structure-property relationship in soft matters to discover novel materials in silico

• Coupling Effects in Re-Programmable Micro-Matter

• Elastocaloric Cooling Based on Tailored Rubber Films

• Single molecule adhesion and friction of complex molecules

• In-Situ Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy - Understanding Electrocatalysts Dynamics under Electrochemical Conditions at the Nano Scale

• The BODIPY scaffold as a core chromophoric motif for extended, oligomeric, and helically chiral π-systems

• The functional morphology of monocotyledons and their mechanical adaptability can inspire technology

• IPROM Interaktive und Programmierbare Materialien

• Thermal and Photochemical Crosslinking of Paper Fibers for Generation of Paper Substrates Providing a High Wet Strength and Multiple Chemical Fucntions

• Reduction of the scleral adhesion of tenon fibroblasts

• LIOREM – STAR PROJECT – F2F

• DELIVER – Data-driven Engineering of Sustainable Living Materials

• Bi-O-AKTOR: Biosphärische und -inspirierte Multi-Material-Systeme für autarke Aktoren

• Peltate leaf unfolding: analyses of functional morphology and kinematics as bioinspiration for (un)folding of structures in space

• SCHARF: Skalenübergreifende Charaktierisierung robuster funktionaler Materialsysteme

• Perowskit-Silizium-Tandemsolarzellen: Vakuumprozesse für Perowskitabsorber

• Aluminium- and Magnesium-Organic Polymer-Based Batteries (AMPERE)

• Redox-Active Organic Subunits in Linear Amorphous Polymers Versus Highly Ordered COFs as Hierarchical Structured Battery Electrode Materials (PROMISE)

• Generations and functionalization of the dropled-based carries and research its antiproliferative and apoptotic effects on cancer cell lines

• Inflatable Snapping Metamaterials for Next Generation Soft Machines

• GrowBot: Towards a new generation of plant-inspired growing artefacts (the Freiburg subproject)

• Das Verhältnis von Natürlichem und Geistigem im Ausgang von Hegels Anthropologie

• Droplet behaviour on switchable and adaptive soft and hard spiropyran-based materials

• Adaptive Droplets Transport Through Coupled Flow Paths

• AlkaCell – Neue Materialien und Strukturen für die alkalische Brennstoffzelle

• Bio-inspirierte elastische Materialsysteme und Verbundkomponenten für nachhaltiges Bauen im 21ten Jahrhundert (BioElast)“ (the Freiburg subproject)