Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
24-06-2022
Highlight in Phys. Rev. Letters: Amplification of acoustic forces
Highlighted as Physics Focus & Editor's suggestion
The work shows how centimeter-scale objects in liquid can be manipulated using the mutual attraction of two arrays of air bubbles in the presence of sound waves and it is part of an extensive Physics Focus by Philip Ball.
Rahul Goyal
Athanasios Athanassiadis
Zhichao Ma
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
07-06-2022
Work on chiral nanostructures awarded RSC Horizon Prize
Winner Royal Society of Chemistry 2022 Faraday Division Horizon Prize
We are part of a team of scientists that has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Division Horizon Prize for the discovery of chiroptical harmonic scattering, theoretically predicted in 1979 and demonstrated experimentally 40 years later. Our colleagues are in the UK and Belgium - thank you.
Jeong Hyeon-Ho
Johannes Sachs
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
01-03-2022
Dr. Hannah-Noa Barad appointed Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University
Congratulations and good luck to Dr. Barad!
Congrats and good luck to Hannah-Noa Barad, who was a Minerva Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group. Hannah will join the Department of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University, Israel, as an Assistant Professor. Best of luck and lots of success!
Hannah-Noa Barad
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
10-10-2021
Dr. Zhichao Ma appointed Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Congrats and good luck to Dr. Zhichao Ma
Congrats and good luck to Zhichao Ma, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group, who will join the School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as an Associate Professor. Best of luck and lots of success!
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
25-09-2021
Johannes Sachs wins Springer Dissertation Award
Johannes' Ph.D. thesis "Motion, Symmetry & Spectroscopy of Chiral Nanostructures" has been awarded a Springer Dissertation Award. Congratulations!
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Appointment
02-09-2021
Peer Fischer appointed Distiguished Lecturer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
30-08-2021
Dr. Tingting Yu becomes Assistant Professor at the South China University of Technology
Congrats and good luck to Dr. Tingting Yu
Congrats and good luck to Tingting Yu who recently obtained her Ph.D. in the group and who will start her own lab as an Assistant Professor in the Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology. Best of luck and lots of success!
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
25-06-2021
Jan-Philipp Günther wins the Agnes Pockels Ph.D. Award
Jan-Philipp Günther has won the 2021 Agnes Pockels Ph.D. Award, which is awarded annually by the German Bunsen Society for an outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of physical chemistry.
Jan-Philipp Günther
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
01-05-2021
Best Oral Presentation
Congratulations - Vincent Kadiri has won Best Oral Award for his talk entitled “Materials for Magnetically Actuated Micro- and Nanorobots” which he gave at the 2021 MRS Spring meeting. His presentation has been selected by the meeting chairs.
Vincent Mauricio Kadiri
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
22-04-2021
Eunjin Choi wins in "Science as Art" at the 2021 MRS Spring Meeting
The depicted Art piece by Eunjin Choi is called "Snowman-village" and is based on an SEM image adapted from research published in ACS Nano “Arrays of plasmonic nanoparticle dimers with defined nanogap spacers”. It won 2nd place at this year's 2021 MRS Spring Meeting. More information can be found following the link provided by the MRS. Congratulations, Eunjin!
EunJin Choi
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
01-03-2021
Vincent Kadiri receives Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship
Vincent Mauricio Kadiri was recently selected as one of 30 rising activists, community leaders, and young professionals to join the Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship!
The tagline guiding the Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship's inaugural cohort is "Reinventing Democratic Spaces in Times of COVID-19". It is funded through Humanity in Action in partnership with the Alfred Landecker Foundation. With the funding granted through the project, he will spend the coming months building a grassroots science communication network of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC) working in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The name "Na’egbia Iyese" is Etsako and can be translated as „Good Morning Knowledge“. Through this initiative, he hopes to inspire especially Youth of Color to join academia and follow their passion for science by shining the spotlight on the kinds of diverse role models he and many other Scientists of Color often did not have growing up. The website and social media accounts were all launched recently, and if you have questions or want to join and/or support Na’egbia Iyese in any way, then please feel free to contact Vincent (https://naegbia-iyese.org/)!
In addition he has received a Mercator Fellowship on International affairs which will allow him to investigate decolonial approaches to scientific collaboration and research. This prestigious program selects 25 young professionals and provides them with funding to work on a self-selected project in international organizations, NGOs, and think tanks for a year. Congratulations, Vincent.
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
15-09-2020
CMOS chip projects ultrasound movies
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Stuttgart and IMS CHIPS develope ultrasound projector on base of a CMOS chip
Scientists of the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart have developed a digital chip that can be used to project movies with ultrasound. The researchers report on this in an article in the magazine "Nature Communications". The ultrasound projector is based on a special microchip that was developed and manufactured at the Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS). The chip generates targeted micro bubbles that can be switched on and off digitally (via the chip) in rapid succession. This makes it possible for the first time to protect high-resolution holographic images that change over time.
Peer Fischer
Tian Qiu
Kai Melde
Athanasios Athanassiadis
Zhichao Ma
Claudia Daefler
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
09-09-2020
Detecting the handedness of a single nanoparticle
Nature Communications
Stuttgart, 9. September 2020: Scientists from the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a new spectroscopic-microscope, which can be used to observe a single nanoparticle in real time. This enabled the first detection of a nanoparticle’s handedness while it is freely moving in solution. The results of their research paves the way for optical measurements with high detection sensitivities down to single molecules and in samples of ultra-low volumes.
Peer Fischer
Jan-Philipp Günther
Johannes Sachs
Andrew Mark
Claudia Daefler
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
09-07-2020
MaxPlanckForschung reports on our work and the acoustic hologram
Winzige Teilchen mithilfe von Ultraschall zu manipulieren oder gar zu beliebigen Mustern zu arrangieren, das gelingt mit der Methode der akustischen Holografie. Forscher um Peer Fischer vom Stuttgarter Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme haben diese Technik erfunden. Nun arbeiten die Physiker schon an deren Anwendung in der Medizin.
Kai Melde
Zhichao Ma
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
08-05-2020
Magnetic nanopropellers deliver genetic material to cells
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from Stuttgart, Heidelberg, and London developed miniature magnetic nanopropellers that can deliver genetic material to cells. They used a magnetic material that outperforms the strongest known micromagnets, yet is chemically stable, non-toxic and biologically compatible. Such new nanopropellers hold great potential for biomedical applications and minimally invasive surgeries of the future.
Vincent Mauricio Kadiri
Gisela Schütz
Peer Fischer
Kwanghyo Son
Hyunah Kwon
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter
News
05-05-2020
Drops of nanoparticles self-stir and communicate
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have discovered a new mechanism of self-organization of active matter. When photochemically active nanoparticles are enclosed at high density within a drop and are exposed to UV light, a self-organized flow pattern emerges by spontaneous symmetry breaking. Furthermore, each drop communicates with neighbouring drops by exchanging chemicals, and coordination of their internal flows occurs – even when far apart.
Dhruv Pratap Singh
Peer Fischer
Mihail N. Popescu
Siegfried Dietrich
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Appointment
01-05-2020
Peer Fischer wird Gastprofessor am GIST in Südkorea
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
29-04-2020
Eunjin Choi wins Athanasiou ABME Student Paper Award
Eunjin Choi has won the 2020 Athanasiou Student Paper Award for the work, "A High-Fidelity Phantom for the Simulation and Quantitative Evaluation of Transurethral Resection of the Prostate" published in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering. The authors of the work are Eunjin Choi, Stefano Palagi, Peer Fischer, Tian Qiu, and collaborators from the University Hospital Freiburg.
EunJin Choi
Stefano Palagi
Peer Fischer
Tian Qiu
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
05-03-2020
Vincent Kadiri selected to join Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Vincent Kadiri, PhD student in the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab, has been selected by the Lindau Meeting to participate in the 2020 Meeting of Nobel Laureates, which will be held in June.
Vincent Mauricio Kadiri
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
03-02-2020
Peer Fischer appointed Visiting Professor
Peer Fischer has been appointed visiting Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea.
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
21-01-2020
Zhichao Ma receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The scientist working in the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his research on micro- and nano-particles manipulation, on microfluidics and high-frequency ultrasound.
Zhichao Ma
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
26-11-2019
Peer Fischer delivers Distinguished Lecture at CeNSE
Peer delivers the CMTI lecture as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), at the Indian Institute of Science.
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
28-10-2019
Endoscopic prostate surgery performed on a first human-like phantom
Intelligenter Operationssimulator ermöglicht quantitative Bewertung
A team of scientists headed by Dr. Tian Qiu, leader of the Cyber Valley Biomedical Microsystems research group, and Professor Peer Fischer from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have made a decisive contribution to improving complex surgical training by developing a very realistic prostate phantom. They then gave the 3D printed model to a medical team from the University of Freiburg, which practiced the surgical removal of the gland. To quantitatively evaluate the results, the group of scientists developed an automatic system to provide feedback to the trainee surgeon immediately after the training session – something that would be impossible with real tissue.
EunJin Choi
Tian Qiu
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
02-08-2019
Peer Fischer delivers Nianqiang Lecture at Xiamen University
Prof. Fischer delivered the Nianqiang Lecture at the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, and the Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P.R. China.
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
20-07-2019
Congratulations: Dr. Tian Qiu becomes Cyber Valley Research group leader
Tian Qiu has been appointed Cyber Valley Research Group Leader. He will lead the "Biomedical Microsystems" group at the University of Stuttgart. We wish him all the best!
Tian Qiu
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
05-07-2019
Kai Melde wins the 2019 Günter Petzow Prize
The doctoral student in the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Group received this prize during the 2019 Intelligent Systems Summer Colloquium
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Kai Melde
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
01-07-2019
Jan-Philipp Günther receives travel grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
Jan will visit Columbia University (Hess lab) in the US for four months as part of his PhD project on enzyme powered nano systems.
Jan-Philipp Günther
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
06-04-2019
Poster Prize
Winner: Poster Prize at Medical Conference
Zhiguang Wu
Tian Qiu
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
20-03-2019
Xiaolong Lu receives Humboldt Research Fellowship
He joins the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
15-02-2019
Udit Choudhury has his PhD defence in Groningen
Congratulations to Udit Choudhury for defending his thesis on the "Dynamics of self-propelled colloids and their application as active matter", and best of luck as he is leaving the group to start a Postdoc at AMOLF in the Netherlands.
Udit Choudhury
Mariana Alarcon-Correa
Vincent Mauricio Kadiri
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
10-02-2019
Hannah-Noa Barad receives Minerva Fellowship
The Postdoctoral Researcher in the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems lab receives the Fellowship for two years.
Hannah-Noa Barad
Peer Fischer
