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2023

November 2023 - Kalkhof-Rose award

November 2023 - Kalkhof-Rose award

Excited to announce that last week our postdoc Seunghyeon Kim received the Kalkhof-Rose award for his work on photocatalytical nanoparticles. Congratulations! May many new achievements come in the following year!
November 2023 - Poster prize

November 2023 - Poster prize

Julian Heuer and Tsvetomir Ivanov, together with Heloisa Bremm Madalosso and Thao Phuong Doan Nguyen, both received a MPIP poster prize for their work on photocatalysis and synthetic cells, respectively.
November 2023 - MPIP art contest

November 2023 - MPIP art contest

Here is our own "Beauty at MPIP" art contest winner! Congrats to Daksh for submitting "Bert from Sesame Street".
Check out the beautiful SEM image!
November 2023 - Stay at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

November 2023 - Stay at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Francesca Mazzotta and Maria Micheva are back form an exciting exchange with our collaborator Pablo Froimowicz at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was a great learning experience to exchange knowledge overseas. More updates on this exchange are soon to come so stay tuned!
November 2023 - Teacher training on recycling and bioplastics

November 2023 - Teacher training on recycling and bioplastics

We hosted the Regional Conference by the Network of Education for Sustainable Development Schools. The full-day programme with a guided tour along the Polymer Path and two workshops was very intensive. There were many discussions on both thematic modules. The aim was for the teachers to deepen their basic knowledge so that they could pass on what they had learnt to their pupils or even plan their next trip to the Polymer Path.
November 2023 - Visit of two recycling plants

November 2023 - Visit of two recycling plants

A group from several working groups and service points travelled to Gernsheim and Grünstadt on November 2nd. In Gernsheim there is a large sorting plant that sorts the waste from the Yellow Bag or Yellow Bin in a complex process and with large facilities. The second plant, "Kunststoff Recycling Grünstadt", takes the pre-sorted plastic packaging and uses the most modern technology to produce regranulate of the same quality as virgin material. After the visit it was clear: recycling is a science in itself.
October 2023 - New paper
We are happy to share our newest paper, which is online now in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Explore our latest research article to discover how polymer vesicles and coacervates can be used to develop hierarchical materials that mimic the structure and dynamic properties of cells. more
October 2023 - Stay at UFC Fortaleza, Brasil

October 2023 - Stay at UFC Fortaleza, Brasil

Tsvetomir Ivanov and Julian Heuer visited our collaboration partner lab of Prof. Dr. Nagila Ricardo at UFC Fortaleza, Brasil. It was a great experience for the two PhD students who also presented their work and gave an overview about our department work at MPIP.
October 2023 - Defense time!

October 2023 - Defense time!

Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Schunke for successfully passing her defense of her PhD thesis about adjuvance-loaded nanocapsules that induce effective antitumoral immune response.
October 2023 - CLINAM conference

October 2023 - CLINAM conference

Two great poster prizes for our group at the CLINAM conference in Basel! Congratulations to Laura Dietz and Carina Jung! Thanks to to organizers for an inspiring conference.
October 2023

October 2023

We are excited to have had the kick-off meeting of NanoBrain. It is great to be part of the Leibniz ScienceCampus
about targeted delivery of therapeutics to the brain: advancing translational nanomedicine to decode, prevent,
and fight mental disorders. Let's get started!
October 2023 - Concept paper online!
Our concept paper about "Assembly of Multi-Compartment Cell Mimics by Droplet-Based Microfluidics" is online! It highlights and reviews the progress made in the construction of hierarchically organized cell-mimics using droplet-based microfluidics methods. more
October 2023 - BOW Meeting
Great BOW meeting of the EU project in Rostock! It was again great to see that different groups with their expertise in different fields work together towards a common goal. more
September 2023 - Grape harvest at the MPI-P

September 2023 - Grape harvest at the MPI-P

For the second year now we had a great grape harvest - free of ESCA - to produce world famous MPI-P wine again. The weather was fanstatic for the harvet. We are looking forward to a tasty wine.
September 2023 - Visit to the exhibition "Plastic World"
We went to the Schirn in Frankfurt, the art gallery for current topics and for national and international artists in Germany. "Plastic World" shows a collection of art from several decades. Especially in the 60s/70s, the versatile material influenced many artists. They experimented with PUR foam or epoxy resin. Plastic was as fascinating then as now because it has been either highly formable, transparent or elastic. But it was also used for socio-critical statements: the role of women in society with inflatable Nanas by Niki de Saint Phalle or the beginnings of mobile work with the blow-up office made of transparent PVC foil by Hans Hollein in 1969.
And of course art has always dealt with the opposites of artificiality (Daksh's new favourite word!) and nature: on the one hand, cold, sterile plastic in garish colours, which has just shaped the Pop Art movement, and the destructive force in our environment according to the motto "plastic has come to stay". For example, Otto Piene's walk-in installation with its giant inflatable sea anemones and lobsters shows that plastic is fascinating and omnipresent at the same time, even in the ocean.
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September 2023 - Award time!

September 2023 - Award time!

Congratulations to Heloísa Bremm Madalosso for winning the Best Lecture Award at the 14th International Workshop on Polymer Reaction Engineering (September 5-8, 2023 - Potsdam, Germany). Heloísa presented her work entitled "Molecular weight distributions and thermal properties of polyesters synthesized via enzymatic ring-opening copolymerization of macrolactones".
September 2023 - ECIS conference

September 2023 - ECIS conference

Francesca Mazzotta, our PhD student, is participating at the ECIS 2023 conference in Naples. Here she presented a poster on the work done during her industrial secondment titled: "Dual colour imaging for the detection of polymeric NP composition".
August 2023 - Well deserved retirement

August 2023 - Well deserved retirement

After 25 years of service, our LEO Gemini SEM is retiring. It has seen over 80.000 samples and taken more than 700.000 images. On the bottom, you can see its very last image.
Thanks for working with us for such a long time and farewell!
July 2023 - Conference talk M&M
Ingo Lieberwirth gave a presentation about „Correlative Microscopy for the Identification of Intracellular Nanoparticles and their Cellular Processing“ at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2023 event, which took place in Minneapolis, US from July 23 - 27. more
July 2023 - Defense time!

July 2023 - Defense time!

Congratulations to Dr. Mareike Deuker for successfully passing her defense of her PhD thesis about the Interaction of anti-PEG antibodies with PEG and their presence in the protein corona.
June 2023 - Summer school DLCV

June 2023 - Summer school DLCV

Daksh joined the summer school Deep Learning and Computer Vision (DLCV) at Genova, Italy. It was a great opportunity to meet new people and learn new technologies with hands on experience. Finally, in the group project presentations, his group won the award for the most novel idea and best presentation.
March 2023 - BOW Meeting
Ana Mateos Maroto and Svenja Morsbach joined the next consortium meeting of the European project BOW „Biogenic Organotropic Wetsuits“ in Santiago de Compostela from March 20-22. It was great to meet partners at USC and as always very productive! more
March 2023 - Guest visit

March 2023 - Guest visit

Visit from scientists from Costa Rica. To study the extraordinary properties of the skin of the velvet worm (Epiperipatus biolleyi) native to Costa Rica, the AK-Landfester had three scientists from CeNAT as guests.
March 2023 - The Sense-Compute-Response Paradigm Workshop
Tsvetomir Ivanov gave a talk at The Sense-Compute-Response Paradigm Workshop in Darmstadt about his work on adaptive multi-compartmentalized microreactors obtained by oleyl alcohol-assisted polymersome assembly. It was a great opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with the leading researchers in the field. more
March 2023 - Defense time!

March 2023 - Defense time!

Congratulations to Dr. Richard da Costa Marquez to the successful defense of his PhD thesis about Proteomic studies on intracellular nanocarrier trafficking and regenerative bone substitute materials.
February 2023 - SuperCol meeting
Francesca Mazzotta, Iain Harley, and Ingo Lieberwirth joined a SuperCol meeting in Fribourgh in February, where they discussed new aspects of super-resolution microscopy for the localization of functional groups on nanoscaled colloids. more
February 2023 - Defense time!

February 2023 - Defense time!

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Oberländer to the successful defense of her PhD thesis about the effect of temperature on the protein corona around nanoparticles and the exocytosis of nanoparticles from cells.
February 2023 - Group retreat

February 2023 - Group retreat

We had a great time at our first group retreat after a long time! Lots of aspects about sustainability were discussed in the middle of the snowy hills around the Tegernsee. Of course, we also did not miss a good snowball fight!
January 2023 - Stay in Waalwijk

January 2023 - Stay in Waalwijk

Francesca Mazzotta, working for the SuperCol project, started her industrial secondment at Covestro! For the next 10 weeks she will have the opportunity to see and understand how a company works and give her contribution to their scientific project. We wish her lots of luck! 
 

2022

December 2022 - Defense time!

December 2022 - Defense time!

Congratulations to Dr. Thao Doan-Nguyen to the successful defense of her PhD thesis about mass transport phenomena as hidden gems for reducing the size of colloidal nanomaterials. Thao just returned to Thailand after one wonderful year in our labs in Mainz.
 
November 2022 - AK poster session

November 2022 - AK poster session

We had lots of great discussions about all the current research projects going on in our group. The first internal department poster session was a success!
October 2022 - BOW Consortium Meeting in Catania
We are halfway into our European project BOW and met with our partners from many different countries on the beautiful slopes of Etna. Ana Mateos Maroto and Svenja Morsbach participated in intense days of project discussions and team-building from October 2 - 6. more
October 2022 - ESCA project
Successful first vintage in our vinyard at MPIP. 10 liters of grape juice - ESCA free - wait to become great Riesling wine. It is part of our ESCApe project and closely connected to our newly founded company "Lignilabs". more
September 2022 - ECIS conference
This time at the 36th ECIS conference, María Martínez Negro presented her work about the characterization of PEG-protein interactions on nanoparticles using neutron scattering techniques. The conference was held from September 4-9 in Chania, Crete. You can check out the results in Biomacromolecules. more
July 2022 - Prague Meeting on Macromolecules
This year, Mareike Deuker from our group presented her PhD work about protein-nanocarrier interactions at the 84th PMM - Frontiers of Polymer Colloids. Again a great conference, which took place from July 24 - 28 in the beautiful city of Prague. Until next time! more
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