Prof. Martin Wegener, research unit chair at the INT, receives, together with Profs. M. Bastmeyer and Ch. Barner-Kowollik, Erwin Schrödinger Prize for cell cultivation in a 3D-laserprinted ultrasmall "Petri dish."

M. Fichtner (Energy Storage Group) and C. Punckt (NanoMat) won a grant, focused on developing a new class of powerful materials for electrochemical energy storage, within the FET Open Call "Novel ideas for radically new technologies."
 

 Highly enriched samples of semiconducting single walled carbon nanotubes have been prepared by combining polymer-wrapping with size-exclusion chromatography. Using this SWCNTs short-channel transistors were built showing the best performance published so far. More see ACS Nano, Article ASAP.

Prof. Peter Gumbsch, research unit chair at the INT, was elected a member of the US NAE for his multiscale modeling research in the fields of fracture mechanics and deformation behavior of materials.

Prof. Carsten Rockstuhl, research unit chair at the INT, was recently elected as an OSA Fellow for his seminal contributions to the field of theoretical and computational nanophotonics.

Prof. Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, who has close collaborative ties with the INT, was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at the KIT.

Prof. Herbert Gleiter, one of the founders of the INT, receives a Cothenius Medal from the Leopoldina.

Prof. Maximilian Fichtner, leader of the research group “Energy Storage Systems,” is succeeding Prof. Horst Hahn as executive director of our partner institute, the Helmholtz-Institut Ulm.

Student volunteers from the INT, Matthias Stegmaier, Daria Bezshlyakh and Patrik Rath, were involved in organizing an international optics and photonics conference at the KIT.

Prof. Harald Fuchs, research unit chair at the INT, was awarded an Honorary Professorship by NanjingTech University for his achievements in Nanotechnology.

At the recent annual university celebration, Horst Hahn, Wolfgang Wenzel, and Denis Danilov were awarded second prize in the exceptional category in the KIT Innovation Contest.

We are looking for a chemist to work on the project "Synthesis of functional building blocks" in the framework of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network.

Our project on mast cell activation for allergy testing is featured in the KIT innovation report.

Our institute's founder is featured in the latest edition of the KIT magazine "lookKIT."

Learn more about Nanoglass in this interview with our institute director, Professor Horst Hahn, on YouTube (German).

Michael Hirtz was awarded the prize for "best talk given by a young researcher" at the 17. Heiligenstädter Kolloquium on technical systems for the life sciences. 

Patrick Müller, Physiker und Doktorand, fährt fünf- bis sechsmal in der Woche mit dem KIT-Shuttle zum Campus Nord, um in den Laboren des Instituts für Nanotechnologie zu experimentieren.

Oct. 22, 2014

Colloquium with Prof. Ferdinand Evers

This talk will offer an overview about new theoretical predictions that reveal other peculiar electronic properties of carbon based matter.

"Light-matter Interaction in a Microcavity-controlled Graphene Transistor," co-authored by  Dr. Michael Engel, Prof. Hilbert v. Löhneysen and Prof. Ralph Krupke and researchers from Cambridge University and IBM, is one of five papers to win this year's Pat Goldberg Memorial Award for the best papers published in 2012.

Professor Herbert Gleiter has been elected to the Academia Europaea, an organization of leading experts across academic fields who collectively promote learning, education and research.

INT scientists Simone Ferrari, Lukas Gerhard, Ralph Krupke, and Jens Mohrmann won second place, out of 18 teams, in the 2014 KIT 10km championship run.

Ben Flavel and his colleagues' work on DWCNTs is covered by the UK based nanotechnology news website Nanotechweb.

Current Honorary Adviser at the INT and former Research Unit Chair, Professor Wölfle has been awarded for his "fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum transport processes in superfluid3 He, heavy fermion superconductors and disordered metals".

Press Release in German

KIT researchers have created the first mechanical invisibility cloak. When placed over an object, the object cannot be felt at all — either by a finger, or a more sensitive measuring device.

Nature Communications June 2014

April 2014

Professor Luisa De Cola has been elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. As well, French President Francois Hollande nominated her as “Chevalier de la Légion d´Honneur.”

Patrik Rath wins the KDOP outstanding publication award in the research area "Photonic Materials & Devices" for his work on diamond optomechanics. Congratulations!

Jul. 09, 2014

Colloquium with Prof. Helmut Baumgart

In this presentation, we expand the potential applications of generic porous templates by utilizing atomic layer deposition (ALD) to create far more complex nested multiple-walled nanostructures within any porous templates. 

Jul. 02, 2014

Colloquium with Prof. Roland Faller

Several techniques to systematically and directly link different length scales are presented where the focus will be on the Iterative Boltzmann Inversion (IBI). Then I will address two important current problems: Organic Photovoltaics and Supported Lipid Bilayers.

Jun. 18, 2014

Colloquium with Prof. Mir Wais Hosseini

The design and construction of periodic architectures in the crystalline phase are attracting considerable interest over the last two decades. 

The Chinese Nanjing University of Science and Technology is establishing a nanoscience institute using the Institute of Nanotechnology as a model.

Jun. 11, 2014

Colloquium with Prof. Markus Morgenstern

Topology is a new paradigm in solid state physics predicting robust physical properties by so-called topological indices which are related to fundamental symmetries of the Hamiltonian.

Jun. 04, 2014

Colloquium with Prof. Eugen Rabkin

We propose a general framework for treating the size and shape evolution in nanocrystalline and nano-particulate solids controlled by diffusion along the interphase boundaries between two immiscible, non-reactive phases.

May 26-30th, 2014

Organized by M. Ruben and F. Schramm

Taking place at the conference of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in Lille, France.

February 18-20th

Organized by S. Klyatskaya

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