Last weekend, our outreach project was part of the lively Schlossgartenfest – and we brought our interactive photobooth with us!
Visitors could snap colorful science selfies and dive into the fascinating world of color. From curious kids to enthusiastic adults, it was wonderful to see so many faces...
Dr. rer. nat. habil. Jochen Schmidt has successfully completed his habilitation in the field of particle technology. The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr. Kai Willner, congratulated him on receiving his habilitation certificate. Mr. Schmidt revealed his motivation for his habilitation an...
Since 1 April 2025, the Institute of Particle Technology (DE: Lehrstuhl für Feststoff- und Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik, LFG) has been renamed to the Institute of Interfaces and Particle Technology (DE: Lehrstuhl für Interfaces and Partikeltechnologie, IPT). A new institute logo and web-domain name...
Researchers from the LFG have teamed up with the renowned magazine GEO to co-author an article on structural colors in animals. The piece, published on GEO.de, explores the fascinating mechanisms behind the vibrant and shimmering colors found in nature.
Unlike pigment-based colors, structural color...
From March 6 to 7, 2025, the annual meeting of the DECHEMA/VDI working groups on Gas Cleaning, Mechanical Liquid Separation, and Interface-Determined Systems and Processes was held at DECHEMA House in Frankfurt am Main. Bringing together a wide range of participants—from major companies and innovati...
Just a few days into 2025, LFG professor Robin Klupp Taylor found himself trading a Bavarian winter holiday for a lecture hall at Kyoto University in Japan. While colleagues back home savoured their final post-Christmas relaxation, on January 6, Prof. Klupp Taylor was already engaging graduate stude...
The annual poster session of the MAP Master's degree program, which took place on 22 January 2025, included posters by students who carried out their miniprojects at LFG. We are delighted that our miniproject students Jiolin and Pranjal were awarded best poster prizes - congratulations!
At the sa...
Curious to know more about supraparticles? Here you can find a presentation from Prof. Vogel on the latest developments of his research. This talk is part of the session "Particles empowering tomorrow: Innovations for our global world" at ParTec 2025.
On April 15th Niki presented how structural color works at the science slam »Um uns die Nature« jointly organized by the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung and the Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft e.V. at the Opera house in Frankfurt and was awarded the second Prize for his presentation. Du...
LFG research was showcased at the annual meeting of the DECHEMA/VDI specialist groups on Interface-Dominated Systems and Processes, Crystallization, Mechanical Liquid Separation, and Particle Measurement Technology. This event, held from 27-28 February 2024 at the DECHEMA headquarters in Frankfurt a...
