Exploring
New Materials
for a Better World
We engineer new materials from chemical and living building blocks to overcome frontiers in functionality, performance, and sustainability.
We transfer our materials to drive sustainable technologies and solve societal and technological challenges in synergy with academic and industrial partners.
Bio-intelligent Materials
We design materials that can instruct biological systems and program living organisms to inter face materials and augment their properties.
Electro-integrative Materials
We develop materials that integrate high-density ion management and stimulus- responsive conductivity.
Opto-interactive Materials
We develop materials that modulate light be havior, or that are modulated upon interaction with light.
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06.01.2026 |
TUESDAY 13.01.26
11:00
Controlled Polymerizations Applied to Organic Bioelectronics
Prof. Dr. Laure Kayser Discover more Controlled Polymerizations Applied to Organic Bioelectronics
06.01.2026 |
TUESDAY 03.02.26
11:00
Light-powered control of materials and biological processes in biofabrication
Prof. Dr. Riccardo Levato Discover more Light-powered control of materials and biological processes in biofabrication
19.12.2025 |
Oskar Staufer awarded the Alois Lauer Research Prize
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12.12.2025 |
Mini-tumors from the lab simulate immune responses
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17.11.2025 |
Material Minds Lindau Nobel Meeting Insights
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24.10.2025 |
THURSDAY 23.10.25
13:30
– 14:30
STEM study of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals – quantum dots
Dr. Iurii Ivanov Discover more STEM study of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals – quantum dots
17.09.2025 |
Saarbrücken researchers named as new fellows of the Max Planck School
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05.09.2025 |
THURSDAY 02.10.25
German Unity Day Citizens Festival
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25.07.2025 |
WEDNESDAY 19.11.25
Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken