Research

What if we could “print” materials with atomic precision—no masks, no lithography, just a nozzle guided by chemistry and motion? During my first year in the MAP program, I had the opportunity to explore this question through a research project at the Chair of Chemistry of Thin Film Materials (CTFM),...

Curious to know more about supraparticles? On YouTube you can find a presentation of MAP Chair Prof. Nicolas 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.

Magnetic nanoparticles for drug delivery Nel Schulte is studying in the Elite Master’s program "Advanced Materials and Processes" (MAP) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In his Master’s thesis at the Section for Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON) under Prof. Dr. m...

This year, the German Association of Crystal Growth (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallzüchtung und Kristallwachstum, DGKK) honors IKZ postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ta-Shun Chou with the Young Scientist Award for his excellent research on the development of a growth process for β-Gallium oxide films...

From 4 September to 15 December 2023, I was able to complete a research project at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química (ITQ). The ITQ is a highly renowned research institute that specializes in catalysis and chemical processes. The ITQ is based at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in Val...

The sun is one of the most important sources for renewable energy, solar energy is a central component of the energy transition. The most efficient solar module in the world at the current time has been developed by a researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in close col...

The German Research Foundation just announced that CRC1411 will receive funding for a second research period until 2028. The long-term vision of CRC1411 is to develop particle systems with controlled size, shape and composition. The innovative approach in CRC1411 is is that these materials are first...

As a contribution to my MAP Additional Qualifications, I was given the opportunity to do a 3-month research internship at KU Leuven starting in May 2023. I had the privilege of being a member in the research groups of Prof. Annabel Braem, who is Associate Professor for Biomaterials and Tissue Engine...

The Faculty of Engineering at FAU has received a distinguished professorship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts: As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Bastian Etzold, Chair of Power-to-X Technologies, has been awarded five million euros in funding. “Bastian Etzold...

MAP student Sahib Abdullayev carried out his miniproject in collaboration with the group of Prof. Nicolas Joly from the Department of Physics and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of the Light (MPI). The goal was the measurement of a chemical reaction catalyzed by an enzyme. During the course...