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!
Zheqin's paper in Advanced Materials
Zheqin´s paper has been just accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Congratulations Zheqin! Excellent job!
New Intern Students
Maria Kuzina from Moscow State University and Fulya Unalp from Manisa Celal Bayar University have joint our lab for an internship! Welcome!
Group Picture 2018 online
Find our new group photos 2018 online!
Tina's paper now published!
The article on embryoid body formation using the DMA can be found here!
Aquarray was awarded in the Science4Life Venture Cup 2018 Business Plan competition
Congratulations!
Tina's paper accepted in Lab on a Chip
Tina's paper entitled "Droplet Microarray: miniaturized platform for rapid formation and high throughput screening of embryoid bodies" just got accepted to Lab on a Chip - congratulations to her and all of her co-authors!
Max Benz was awarded with a travel grant
Congratulations to Max for receiving a Tony B. Academic Travel Award to attend the SLAS Europe 2018 conference in Brussels!
Pavel Levkin joins the International Advisory Board of Advanced Biosystems
"Advanced Biosystems extends the Advanced brand into the life sciences by publishing research into technologies that enhance and harness biological systems, including systems and synthetic biology, advanced therapeutics, and biohybrids and neurotechnology."
Mijanur's article about one-pot lipid synthesis is out
The article titled "One-Pot Parallel Synthesis of Lipid Library via Thiolactone Ring Opening and Screening for Gene Delivery" was published in Bioconjugate Chemistry.
Aquarray GmbH is now officially founded!
Aquarray aims to make a difference in the fields of cell screenings, drug discovery and diagnostics. It commercializes the superhydrophilic/superhydrophobic Microarray technology and makes it available for a greater community of researchers and other applicants.
Review on Droplet Microarrays is out!
Our new Advanced Materials paper titled "Droplet Microarrays: From Surface Patterning to High‐Throughput Applications" is published!
Plant Polyphenols Polymerization and Patterning
Congratulations to Farid for acceptance of his paper on "Bioinspired Strategy for Controlled Polymerization and Photopatterning of Plant Polyphenols" in Chemistry of Materials!
Mijanur Molla joins the group
Dr. Mijanur Molla is back in the group, now as a visiting professor. Welcome back!
Dr. Levkin represented KIT during the signature ceremony between MoU with Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
See attached some photographs of the celebration!