{"id":22084,"date":"2024-03-05T13:34:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-inm.de\/?page_id=22084"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:07:36","slug":"structure-formation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-inm.de\/en\/research\/scientific-units\/structure-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The program division \u201cStructure Formation\u201d investigates how molecules, polymers and colloidal particles join to form materials. It studies fundamental processes of structure formation and applies them to prepare new materials from liquid precursors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We study how the properties of composite and hybrid materials depend on their microstructures and how to change them. To this end, we systematically vary size, geometry, chemical composition, and arrangement of the materials\u2019 constituents. We observe how microstructure and interfaces form and affect material properties to create transparent conductive layers of metal nanoparticles for electronics, composites of conductive polymers with optically active particles for sensors and supraparticles that contain optically active nanoparticles, for example. We see particles as the basis of future \u201cactive nanocomposites\u201d that can interface with electronics and change their properties whenever required.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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