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Published: 12 January 2021

"3D printing of inherently nanoporous structures" check out our latest Nature Comm. paper. Great collaboration with Martin Wegener and Britta Nestler!

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Published: 20 December 2020

Pavel Levkin accepts an invitation to join the editorial advisory board of Advanced Materials Interfaces (Wiley).

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Published: 17 November 2020

Have a look at our newest Advanced Materials paper on "Assembly of Multi‐Spheroid Cellular Architectures by Programmable Droplet Merging". This is a very interesting method to make arrays of complex multi-spheroid architectures (microtissues) by fusing nanoliter droplets containing single spheroids together. Double spheroids or even up to 4 spheroids can be fused together in a controlled way. Different cell types can be combined in such structures (see pictures below).
I believe it will be very useful for tissue engineering applications, studying cell-cell interactions, cell signaling, cell experiments in 3D, etc. Congratulations to Haijun!

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Published: 28 October 2020

Check out our just published Nature Communications paper demonstrating miniaturized chemistry, analysis and biology on-chip using the droplet microarray platform. Great collaboration with Bruker Daltonics on MALDI-MS. We demonstrate attomole detection of molecules, in-situ on-chip reaction monitoring using UV-Vis and IR spectroscopy. The platform is compatible with various cell-biological screenings, which opens new avenues in the fields of high-throughput synthesis and drug discovery. Congratulations to Maximilian Benz for his second Nature Comm. paper.

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Published: 13 October 2020

Proteomics-On-Chip: Combining Droplet Microarrays and Mass Spectrometry for Single-Cell Proteomics!

We are searching for an enthusiastic PhD candidate that holds a major in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology or similar.

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Published: 06 September 2020

Our recent paper in Advanced Biosystems titled “Droplet‐Microarray: Miniaturized Platform for High‐Throughput Screening of Antimicrobial” is online now. Congratulations to Wenxi and the co-authors! Great collaboration with Thomas Schwartz´s group at KIT.
The authors demonstrated the droplet‐microarray (DMA) platform can be used for screening the efficiency of clinically used antibiotics against bacterial pathogens. This platform offers the ability to investigate drug‐resistance of bacteria isolated from patients and the environment with minimal cost and effort.

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Published: 19 August 2020

Our group has now moved to the new building of the Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems - Functional Molecular Systems!

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Published: 21 July 2020

Check out our recent paper in Angewandte on an important topic of converting “useless” elemental sulfur (byproduct of crude oil processing) into useful materials for functional coatings. Great collaboration with Patrick Theato Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Congrats to Johannes Scheiger!