We conduct fundamental and applied research with a focus on innovation in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our scientists collaborate within the institute and with partners around the world across the disciplines of physics, chemistry, and materials science, as well as biology and medicine.
We use scanning tunneling spectroscopy with a spin-polarized tip to indirectly read out the spin of a rare-earth atom of a single molecule magnet exploiting the exchange splitting of the Kondo resonance.
Physical Review Letters
A novel strategy based on dip-pen nanolithography generated microarrays of supported lipid membranes allows for highly selective and efficient capture of extracellular vesicles.
Advanced Materials
By growing a metal-organic framework directly onto the graphene of a field-effect transistor device selective sensing of molecules has been demonstrated by a collaboration of groups from IFG and INT.
KIT press release
We present High-Entropy Metal-Organic Frameworks that show much improved stability and near perfect Coulombic efficiency as a storage material based on sodium.
Advanced Materials
The structural patterns of Earth's lithosphere is particularly rich and can inspire innovative designs of structural and architectured materials.
Lithomimetic materials design
The CORAERO project studies the spreading of Corona viruses via aerosols. The INT group of Prof. Hahn is among the four participating KIT groups with their contribution to further Aerobuster development.
CORAERO press release (German)
"KNMFi makes the invisible visible" is the motto of a video which features several KNMF technologies operated by our INT colleagues in Bldg. 640.
Video
Carl Zeiss Foundation Scholarship holder Britta Weidinger talks about her research carried out at INT within the framework of the Excellence Cluster 3DMM2O.
Women in Science video at Youtube
INT research unit heads Prof. Dr. Jürgen Janek and Prof. Dr. Martin Wegener.are among the eight KIT scientists on the 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate / Web of Science.
Press information (in German)
A hybrid physical unclonable function based on metal oxide thin film devices, exploiting the inherent randomness of printed materials, was demonstrated by researchers of KIT.
Nature Communications article
Researchers of KIT developed a simple device to effectively kill the Corona virus in aerosols of ambient air in closed rooms.
Press information (in German)
You can now take virtual lab tours through some of our synthesis, structuring and spectroscopy facilities.
Virtual lab tours
Researchers at INT have detected the minute van-der-Waals force between indium atoms and sub-micron silicon dioxide spheres with matter-wave diffraction.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050401 (2020)
Researchers of KIT have developed a system to print highly precise, centimeter-sized objects with submicrometer details at a so far unmatched speed using small materials building blocks.
Advanced Functional Materials, DOI 10.1002/adfm.201907795
Oxide semiconductors have the potential to increase the performance of inkjet printed microelectronic devices such as field-effect transistors (FETs), due to their high electron mobilities.
IEEE Electron Device Letters Vol. 41/1, 187 (2020)
Interference of higher-order multipole transitions has been theoretically studied for a molecule in close proximity to a resonant plasmonic nanoantenna.
Nat. Commun. 10, 5775 (2019)
Entropy-stabilized multianionic and multicationic oxyhalides have been used as cathodes for Li-ion batteries.
Energy Environ. Sci. 12, 2433 (2019)
Our Executive Director received an award from the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
NAI press release
110 participants from 15 countries enjoyed an inspiring meeting in Bad Herrenalb / Black Forest.
[Graphene & Co - Annual Meeting 2019]
It has been proposed that shot noise in a quantum Hall edge exhibits different types of behavior with varying sample size, depending on the chirality of edge modes.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 137701 (2019)
Matter-wave interference of molecules consisting of up to 2000 atoms has been demonstrated by means of Talbot-Lau interferometry.
Nat. Phys. 15, 1242 (2019)
New class of stable organic electrodes based on metal porphyrines has been reported.
Adv. Mater. 31, 1806599 (2019)
In situ detection and quantification of Alzheimer's drug memantine in blood serum have been reported.
Chem. Sci. 10, 6584 (2019)