Research Area: Synthesis of hierarchical porous materials under the framework of CRC 1411 ‘Design of Particulate Products’
- Since 2020: PhD candidate in Prof. Vogel’s group at Institute of Particle Technology (LFG) and Dr. Alexandra Inayat’s group at Institute of Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRT), FAU Erlangen.
- 2015 – 2019: Elite Master’s Program in Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) at FAU Erlangen. Master Thesis: ‘Drying kinetics of spherical colloidal crystals (Photonic Balls)’
- 2011 – 2015: Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Bachelor Thesis: ‘Development and characterization of cobalt based nanostructured super hydrophobic coating’
Recent publications:
A full list can be found here.
- Sultan, U., Kotulla, C., Kefle, K., Fujii, S., & Vogel, N. (2025). Rough and Tough: How Particle Surface Roughness Affects Liquid Marble Formation and Stability. Advanced Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202501378
- Bleyer, G., Uihlein, A., Sultan, U., Ickler, M., Yamashita, R., Pflug, L.,... Vogel, N. (2025). Predictive design of plasmonic color. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 137408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2025.137408
- Madubuko, N., Sultan, U., Carl, S., Lehmann, D., Zhou, X., Soegaard, A.,... Wasserscheid, P. (2024). Controlled Nanopore Sizes in Supraparticle Supports for Enhanced Propane Dehydrogenation with GaPt SCALMS Catalysts. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7(21), 24356-24367. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c03577
- Parinamipura Mahadevappa, N.K., Römling, L., Sultan, U., & Vogel, N. (2024). Fabrication of Spherical Colloidal Supraparticles via Membrane Emulsification. Langmuir, 40(42), 22245−22255. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02803
- Sultan, U., Städtke, K., Göpfert, A., Lemmen, D., Metwali, E., Maiti, S.,... Inayat, A. (2023). Substituting fossil-based with bio-based chemicals: the case of limonene as a greener pore expander for micellar templated silica. RSC Sustainability, 1(6), 1449-1461. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3su00068k
