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We are delighted that INM scientist Stefanie Arnold will have the wonderful opportunity to exchange ideas with Nobel Laureates in physics, as well as with other promising young scientists at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2024. Stefanie is a postdoc in the Research Department of Energy Materials led by Volker Presser and works on high-performance next-generation batteries. Congratulations and enjoy this exceptional opportunity!

Prof. Tobias Kraus, head of INM's Research Department Structure Formation, and Dr. Gracita Raquel Tomboc, PostDoc in the Research Department Energy Materials, have been recognized as outstanding reviewers of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023. Congratulations!

Thanks to a Humboldt Research Fellowship, Seonki Hong, a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology in Daegu, Republic of Korea, is enhancing the Dynamic Biomaterials Department at the INM. The chemist is researching new materials that adhere in water, drawing inspiration from the adhesive properties of mussels in seawater, which are based on special proteins. What Professor Hong appreciates about the INM is the opportunity to receive input from a wide range of disciplines and to look beyond the boundaries of chemistry. With her research, she is exploring applications in medicine, specifically focusing on developing materials that could, for instance, coat prostheses in the oral cavity, enabling them to adhere in a moist environment.

The current publication list of INM is released online:

• INM Publikationen January 2024
• INM Publikationen February 2024
• INM Bibliography
• INMdok : Open Access INM Repository

Contact: NTNM Library

Have you graduated in the natural sciences or successfully completed your doctorate and are now looking for new challenges? The INM employs scientists from the materials sciences, biology, physics, chemistry, and related disciplines. There is no standstill with us, we are constantly developing and are looking for new colleagues who would like to follow this path with us. Find the next step in your career in our job offers! Details…

Congratulations to INM Group Leader Professor Volker Presser for receiving the 2022 Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry. This outstanding award by the International Society of Electrochemistry recognizes his achievements in the field of electrochemistry for energy. The list of former awardees ranges from Xiangfeng Duan (2017), Fabio la Mantia (2018), Zhichuan (Jason) Xu (2019), to Joaquín Rodríguez-López (2021).

The Nachwuchsakademie "Engineered Living Materials" is a DFG workshop for early-career investigators in Engineered Living Materials funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). For more information, see the website!

Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. As in 2018, Prof. Volker Presser is among this elite group of Highly Cited Researchers also in 2021.Details…

The INM and Saarland University are seeking a Scientific Director and Head of Department (f/m/x) for the Leibniz Institute for New Materials starting January 2023. The successful applicant will simultaneously be appointed as Professor (W3) for New Materials (f/m/x) in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology at Saarland University. Application deadline: November 25, 2021.Details…

Research on living materials and, in particular, on targeted designed living materials is developing rapidly and in a wide variety of application areas.Details…

A team from the 3sat channel filmed a report on lithium extraction from mine water at the INM for the science program "nano". Details…

The annual report 0f 2020 has been published. Browse the pdf or order your printed copy from contact@leibniz-inm.de.

Optogenetics and photonic technologies are changing the future of medicine. To implement light‐based therapies in the clinic, patient‐friendly devices that can deliver light inside the body while offering tunable properties and compatibility with soft tissues are needed. An article by Jun Feng et al. published in Advanced Functional Materials is dedicated to this topic.Details…

In a cooperation project between the INM and the University of Namibia (UNAM), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, a fireproof building material made of acacia wood chippings and an inorganic binder was developed.Details…

The automotive delegation of the Saarland made a strong appearance at the international motor show DIFA 2019 in Daegu, South Korea. INM was one of the exhibitors at the joint Saarland stand initiated by saaris - saarland.innovation&standort e.V. and GW Saar (Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung).Details…

The INM awards two scholarships for a research internship in materials science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The internship will take place from June to August 2020 (9 weeks) as part of the ICMR Undergraduate Research Internship Program between the UCSB, Saarland University and the INM.Details…

The Humboldt Research Award is granted to scientists who have had a lasting impact on their field of research. Humboldt Laureate Prof. Nigel Browning, one of the world's leading experts in the field of electron microscopy, will spend his scientific stay at the INMDetails…

For his publication "The influence of beam broadening on the spatial resolution of Annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy" he received the Best Software and Instrumentation Paper Award.Details…

Researchers of the Leibniz Research Alliance Nanosafety, Saarland University and TU Dortmund analysed a cell culture model that mimics the real conditions a little closer – they grew human lung cells on flexible surfaces that were stretched in a respiration-like mode. Lung cells that were stretched reacted in a way that resembled an inflammatory response.

29.10.2019 Prof. Dr. Matthias Epple, University of Duisburg-Essen 17.12.2019 Prof. Dr. Laura De Laporte, DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen Prof. Dr. Catherine Picart, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Dr. Seraphine Wegner, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz Dr. Marie Weinhart, Free University of Berlin Details…

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) will support the chemist Dr. Julieta Paez and a PhD student to develop green crosslinking reactions to form polymeric networks.Details…

The annual report 0f 2018 has been published.Details…

Girls from grade 8-10 will have the opportunity to conduct research at the INM labs as part of the Girls’ Day on March 28. Details…

A new family room offers INM employees with children or relatives in need of care a further opportunity to reconcile work and family life – especially in the case of short-term care bottlenecks. Details…

Liquid cell electron microscopy possesses a combination of spatial and temporal resolution that provides a unique view of static structures and dynamic processes in liquids. Optimizing the resolution in liquids requires consideration of both the microscope performance and the properties of the sample. The new review article examines the different parameters for optimizing the resolution.Details…

Inside most materials, little is moving. But a new “active nanocomposite” is teeming with motion: small particles connect or separate, thus changing the color of the entire material. Details…

For the first time there will be a lecture of the University of Fine Arts Saar in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for New Materials in the winter semester 2018/19. Details…

In this publication an optoregulated Escherichia coli (E. coli)‐based living biomaterial that can be externally addressed using light to interact with mammalian cells is demonstrated.

Read the e-paper, download the pdf file or ask for the print version. Details…

Students of Leibniz-Gymnasium St. Ingbert displayed their artistic talent in response to the topic “innovation” at INM.Details…