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ABOUT THE GROUP
Our research group is located at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and affiliated with the University of Heidelberg. Our research is focused on the synthesis and application of biofunctional materials, surfaces and nanoparticles.
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Our new group picture for 2019 is out! As evidenced by the crowd - we keep on growing:
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We are glad to congratulate Max Benz for receiving the 3rd prize for his chemBIOS approach at the NEULAND Innovation Competition at the KIT yesterday.
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Check out our paper in Nature Communications: “Marrying chemistry with biology by combining on-chip solution-based combinatorial synthesis and cellular screening”. Great paper highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research. Congrats Max and all co-authors!
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Check out our new paper in AFM. We demonstrate rapid photodegradability of commonly used polymethacrylate hydrogels without the need to incorporate additional photolabile functionalities.
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Check this excellent special issue of Advanced Materials about materials research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Lots of exciting research!
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Great talks by Simon, Anna and Max at SLAS Europe in Barcelona!
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Please, check out our newest paper on tumor spheroid formation in 100 nL droplets!
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Yanxi, Alisa and Pavel were representing the Levkin lab with posters and talks at the 6th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials in Sitges, Spain.
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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.
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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
- "Design and Application of Photoresponsive Hydrogels"
- "High‐Throughput Combinatorial Synthesis of Stimuli‐Responsive Materials"
- Pavel Levkin joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Functional Materials
- Progress Report on Slippery Surfaces published in Advanced Functional Materials
- Farid successfully defended his PhD!
- Gerile Oudeng joins our lab
- Pavel Levkin elected on Editorial Board