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:
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GLYMCE - Glycan Mimetics for Cell Glycocalyx Reconstitution: a polymer chemist’s approach to fight infection
ERC Consolidator Grant
Funding period: 01/02/2024 – 31/01/2029
Project leader: Prof Dr. Laura Hartmann
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Dual-responsive organo-sulfur network cathodes for stable high capacity polymer batteries
Funded by the DFG within the SPP 2248 Polymer-based batteries
Funding period: 2020 – 2023 / 2024 – 2027
Project leader: PD Dr. Michael Walter
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Antibiofouling and Antisoiling Coatings (C02)
Funded by the DFG within the SFB 1537 ECOSENSE – Multiscale quantification of spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosys-tem processes by smart autonomous sensor networks
Funding period: 2023 – 2027
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
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Innocent Deelectronation Chemistry: From the Unified Redox Scale to Innocent Deelectronation Chemistry in Innocent Solvents
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC)
Funding period: 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2027
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing
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Biomimetic design
Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Funding period: 12/2023 – 12/2026
Project leader: PD Dr. Simon Poppinga
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Vector Nachwuchsgruppe – Die Solarzelle der Zukunft
Funded by the Vector Stiftung
Funding period: 01/07/2022 – 30/06/2026
Project leader: Dr. Juliane Borchert
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Modeling and Analysis of Adhesion Hysteresis Between Rough Surfaces
Funded by the DFG within the SPP 2256 Variational Methods for Predicting Complex Phenomena in Engineering Structures and Materials
Funding period: 07/2023 – 06/2026
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Lars Pastewka, Prof. Dr. Patrick Dondl
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Reduced-order topology optimisation of high-resolution microstructures with internal contact
Funded by the European Research Executive Agency (REA), delegated by the European Commission
Funding period: 01/03/2024 – 28/02/2026
Project leader: Dr. Martin Ladecky
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Coupling Effects in Re-Programmable Micro-Matter
Funded by the DFG within the SPP 2206 Cooperative Multilevel Multistable Micro Actuator Systems (KOMMMA)
Funding period: 2023 – 2025
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
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Elastocaloric Cooling Based on Tailored Rubber Films
Funded by the DFG
Funding period: 2022 – 2025
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
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Single molecule adhesion and friction of complex molecules
Funded by the DFG
Funding period: 2021 – 2025
Project leader: Dr. Bizan N. Balzer
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In-Situ Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy - Understanding Electrocatalysts Dynamics under Electrochemical Conditions at the Nano Scale
Funded through the VolkswagenStiftung initiative "Momentum - Funding for Recently Tenured Professors"
Funding period: 2020 – 2025
Grant recipient and livMatS spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer
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The BODIPY scaffold as a core chromophoric motif for extended, oligomeric, and helically chiral π-systems
Funded by the DFG
Funding period: 01/2023 – 12/2025
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Daniel B. Werz
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The functional morphology of monocotyledons and their mechanical adaptability can inspire technology
Funded through the Margarete von Wrangell- Habilitationsprogramm für Frauen
Funding period: 05/2020 – 05/2025
Project leader and associated livMatS scientist: Dr. Linnea Hesse
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IPROM Interaktive und Programmierbare Materialien
Funded by the ZEISS Stiftung
Funding period: 01/02/2020 – 30/01/2025
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Bastian Rapp
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Thermal and Photochemical Crosslinking of Paper Fibers for Generation of Paper Substrates Providing a High Wet Strength and Multiple Chemical Fucntions
Funded by the DFG
Funding period: 2021 – 2024
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
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Reduction of the scleral adhesion of tenon fibroblasts
Funded by the DFG
Funding period: 2021 – 2024
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
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LIOREM – STAR PROJECT – F2F
Funded by the BASF within the framework of JONAS (Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems)
Funding period: 08/2022 – 12/2024
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
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DELIVER – Data-driven Engineering of Sustainable Living Materials
Funded by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung
Funding period: 01/2021 – 12/2024
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
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Bi-O-AKTOR: Biosphärische und -inspirierte Multi-Material-Systeme für autarke Aktoren
Funded by the Vector Stiftung
Funding period: 01/11/2022 – 31/10/2024
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Frank Balle
Associated doctoral researcher: Karima Saddedine
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Peltate leaf unfolding: analyses of functional morphology and kinematics as bioinspiration for (un)folding of structures in space
Funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
Funding period: 01/10/2021 – 31/10/2024
Project leaders: Dr. Tom Masselter, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
Associated doctoral researcher: Michelle Modert
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SCHARF: Skalenübergreifende Charaktierisierung robuster funktionaler Materialsysteme
Funded by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung
Funding period: 06/2018 – 06/2024
Project member and livMatS Principle Investigator: Prof. Dr. Chris Eberl
Project member and livMatS Responsible Investigator: Prof. Dr. Stefan Hiermaier
Associated livMatS postdoctoral researcher: Dr. Kaiyang Yin
Associated livMatS doctoral researcher: Nadira Grübel
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Perowskit-Silizium-Tandemsolarzellen: Vakuumprozesse für Perowskitabsorber
Funded by the BMWi
Funding period: 01/02/2021 – 31/01/2024
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Stefan Glunz, Dr. Saeid Rafizadeh
Associated postdoctoral researcher: Dr. Saeid Rafizadeh
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Aluminium- and Magnesium-Organic Polymer-Based Batteries (AMPERE)
Subproject within the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2248: Polymer-based batteries.
Funded through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Funding period: 2020 – 2023
Project leaders and livMatS Principle Investigators: Prof. Dr. Birgit Esser and Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing
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Redox-Active Organic Subunits in Linear Amorphous Polymers Versus Highly Ordered COFs as Hierarchical Structured Battery Electrode Materials (PROMISE)
Subproject within the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2248: Polymer-based batteries.
Funded through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Funding period: 2020 – 2023
Project leader and livMatS Principle Investigator: Prof. Dr. Birgit Esser
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Generations and functionalization of the dropled-based carries and research its antiproliferative and apoptotic effects on cancer cell lines
Funded by the Philipp Schwartz Initiative
Funding period: 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2023
Project leaders: Dr. Thomas Brandstetter, Prof. Lokman Alpsoy
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Inflatable Snapping Metamaterials for Next Generation Soft Machines
Funded by the DFG
Funding period: 01/2023 – 04/2023
Project leader: Dr. Edoardo Milana
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GrowBot: Towards a new generation of plant-inspired growing artefacts (the Freiburg subproject)
Funded under the FET-Proactive (FET: Future and Emerging Technologies) programme of the EU framework programme for research and innovation (Horizon 2020), Research and Innovation Action Grant agreement n. 824074
Funding period: 01/2019 – 12/2022
Project leader and livMatS spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
Associated livMatS doctoral researcher: Frederike Klimm
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Das Verhältnis von Natürlichem und Geistigem im Ausgang von Hegels Anthropologie
Funded by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
Funding period: 10/2020 – 10/2022
Project leader and livMatS Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Lore Hühn
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Droplet behaviour on switchable and adaptive soft and hard spiropyran-based materials
Subproject within the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2171: Dynamic wetting of flexible, adaptive and switchable surfaces.
Funded through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Funding period: 10/2019 – 09/2022
Project leader and associated livMatS scientist: Dr. Dorothea Helmer
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Adaptive Droplets Transport Through Coupled Flow Paths
Subproject within the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2171: Dynamic wetting of flexible, adaptive and switchable surfaces.
Funded through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Funding period: 10/2019 – 09/2022
Project leader and livMatS Responsible Investigator: Dr. Thomas Pfohl
Associated livMatS doctoral researcher: Claas-Hendrik Stamp
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AlkaCell – Neue Materialien und Strukturen für die alkalische Brennstoffzelle
Funded through the Vector Stiftung
Funding period: 01/2019 – 12/2021
Project leader and livMatS spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer
Project leader and associated livMatS scientist: Dr. Severin Vierrath
Associated livMatS doctoral researcher: Patrick Elsässer
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Bio-inspirierte elastische Materialsysteme und Verbundkomponenten für nachhaltiges Bauen im 21ten Jahrhundert (BioElast)“ (the Freiburg subproject)
Funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg, Zukunftsoffensive IV, Innovation und Exzellenz
Funding period: 07/2019 – 07/2021
Project leader and livMatS spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
Associated livMatS doctoral researcher: Max Langer