Patterned Slippery Surfaces
Find out more how to use patterned slippery surfaces to manipulate the paths of droplets and sort them according to size in our recent publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
Biofilm Bridges
Recently we discovered that bacteria grown on micropatterns of repellent and adhesive properties (SLIPS+adhesive) form biofilm bridges, thin biofilm strings, connecting separated biofilm clusters. It is interesting that bacteria form networks of such biofilm bridges and these bridges are packed with highly metabolically active bacteria. Here is our paper in Advanced Science about this novel phenomenon. Congratulations to Wenxi Lei and coauthors. Great collaboration with Thomas Schwartz´s group at KIT.
Cellular High Content Imaging in a Miniaturized Array Format
Check this very interesting poster of our collaborators at GlaxoSmithKline who used #Aquarray Droplet Microarrays (DMA) for extremely miniaturized high-content cellular screenings. Very nice comparison of microtiter plates with culture in 100 nL droplets on DMAs. Let us know if you want to try such Droplet Microarrays for your cell screening experiments.
"Design and Application of Photoresponsive Hydrogels"
Lei's and Johannes' Review of that name has just been accepted to Advanced Materials!
"High‐Throughput Combinatorial Synthesis of Stimuli‐Responsive Materials"
Alisa Rosenfeld's review on this matter got published in Applied Bosystems! Congratulations!
Pavel Levkin joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Functional Materials
Progress Report on Slippery Surfaces published in Advanced Functional Materials
Our new Progress Report titled "Slippery Lubricant-Infused Surfaces: Properties and Emerging Applications" can be found online here. It is a "trans-generational" effort with co-authors including current (Dorothea Paulssen) and former members (Junsheng Li and Erica Ueda) of the Pavel Levkin lab!
Farid successfully defended his PhD!
During his PhD Farid published 5 papers (2 more to follow) and presented work at 9 international conferences. Congratulations on a successful PhD defense!
Gerile Oudeng joins our lab
Gerile arrived as a PhD-exchange-student from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University - welcome!
Pavel Levkin elected on Editorial Board
Pavel Levkin joins the Editorial Board of a new open access journal: Materials Today Bio!
Haijun Cui, Ye Tian and Shuai Li join our group!
Welcome!
Farid's paper just published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Aquarray selected to the Top 500 deeptech startups
Aquarray GmbH has been selected as one of @Hello Tomorrow’s Top 500 deeptech startups from over 4,500 applications from 119 countries!
Congratulations to Johannes for being awarded a DBU PhD Scholarship!
His project is focusing on environmentally friendly synthesis of sulfur polymer based functional surfaces. The project will be supported for up to 36 months!
Forming droplets - just how big?!
Our collaboration on liquid deposition on star-shaped hydrophilic patterns on superhydrophobic surfaces, titled "Nanoliter deposition on star-shaped hydrophilic–superhydrophobic patterned surfaces", got published! Congratulations Ivana and co-workers!!
The Photographs of our Group Retreat 2018 are now online
The pictures are now online and can be found here!
Welcome Shraddha Chakraborty!
Shraddha Chakraborty has started her Post-Doc in the lab with a project regarding sequencing on the DMA
Xin Du's paper in Advanced Functional Materials
Check out our new paper “Reparable Superhydrophobic Surface with Hidden Reactivity, Its Photofunctionalization and Photopatterning” in Advanced Functional Materials, where we create patterned surfaces utilizing the photodynamic nature of surface disulfides. Congratulations Xin Du!
Seminar announcement
Prof. Robin Ras (Aalto University, Finnland) is going to give a seminar on August 31st at 13:00 (seminar room, building 316).
The title of his talk is
“The challenge of accurate surface wetting characterization”
Dorothea's article in 'Hot Topic: Surfaces and Interfaces'
Dorothea's article titled "Formation of Liquid–Liquid Micropatterns through Guided Liquid Displacement on Liquid‐Infused Surfaces" is included in the special issue on Surfaces and Interfaces by Advanced Materials Interfaces. Congratulations!