Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

Humans rely increasingly on sensors to address grand challenges and to improve quality of life in the era of digitalization and big data. For ubiquitous sensing, flexible sensor...

Liposomes and polymersomes: a comparative review towards cell mimicking

Minimal cells: we compare and contrast liposomes and polymersomes for a better<italic>a priori</italic>choice and design of vesicles and try to understand the advantages and sho...

High Electroactivity of Polyaniline in Supercapacitors by Using a Hierarchically Porous Carbon Monolith as a Support

Abstract A high‐performance polyaniline electrode was prepared by potentiostatic deposition of aniline on a hierarchically porous carbon monolith (HPCM), which was carbonized fr...

Titanium Dioxide Tubes from Sol–Gel Coating of Electrospun Polymer Fibers

Electrospun polymer fibers can be coated with amorphous titanium dioxide using a sol–gel coating technique. After removal of the organic material by thermal treatment hollow tit...

Superstructures of Functional Colloids: Chemistry on the Nanometer Scale

Abstract Chemistry is classically concerned with the connection of atoms and molecules into new functional units. The rules of connection are yet to be extended to the generatio...

Collagen: Structure and Mechanics, an Introduction

Mesoporous materials by templating of liquid crystalline phases

The first mesoporous materials (pore diameter between 20 and 100 Å) were discovered just five eyars ago. A new approach to mesoporous materials by direct templating of lyotropic...

Metal−Peptide Frameworks (MPFs):  “Bioinspired” Metal Organic Frameworks

Chiral metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted a growing interest for their potential use in energy technologies, asymmetric catalysis, chiral separation, and on a more b...

Magnetite-Loaded Carrier Erythrocytes as Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) are commonly used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but their fast phagocytosis makes them less than ideal for this applic...

Magnetic nanoparticles line up