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.

Lab worker wearing safety goggles and gloves pipettes a blue liquid into a beaker beside a microscope and a laptop in a laboratory.
Bio-intelligent Materials: Circular illustration with a stylized DNA double helix, microorganism, and curved line.

Bio-intelligent Materials

We design materials that can instruct biological systems and program living organisms to inter face materials and augment their properties.

Logo Electro-integrative Materials: Circular illustration showing a battery, a leaf, rotating arrows, and plus and minus signs, symbolizing sustainable energy storage

Electro-integrative Materials

We develop materials that integrate high-density ion management and stimulus- responsive conductivity.

Logo Opto-interactive Materials: Circular illustration with a wavy line and arrow between diagonal lines and curved arcs, symbolizing the propagation of waves or signals

Opto-interactive Materials

We develop materials that modulate light behavior, or that are modulated upon interaction with light.

Facts & Figures Discover more about INM
28.01

Million Euro in Annual budget 2024

6.03

Million Euro Third-party funding 2024

98

Peer-reviewed articles 2024

53

Active patent families

238

Employees in 2024

37

Nationalities