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    • Susanne Wintzheimer
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    • Sarah Wenderoth
    • Bastian Fett
    • Philipp Groppe
    • Theodor Raczka
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Mandel group

Professorship for
Inorganic Chemistry
The Supraparticle Group

Logo: The Supraparticle Group

Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel

Karl Mandel
(c) K.Selsam for Fraunhofer ISC

Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Professorship for Inorganic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Mandel)

Room: Room A 2.20
Egerlandstraße 1
91058 Erlangen
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-27396
  • Fax number: +49 9131 85-27367
  • Email: karl.mandel@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.chemistry.nat.fau.eu/mandel-group/

 

Our research

Logo: The Supraparticle GroupWe assemble complex particles, so-called supraparticles, from nano building blocks, typically by means of ­spray‑drying; other methods are employed as well. The (mostly inorganic) nanoparticle building blocks are either tailored by means of wet chemical synthesis approaches by ourselves or are obtained from collaboration partners. A focus is on magnetic, optic and adsorber building blocks.

We are interested in novel, functional properties of such supraparticles to emerge from the cooperative interplay of the combined nano building blocks. We study how the supraparticle`s structure and complex composition determines the unique functionalities. With these supraparticles, we aim at creating smart materials in the field of sustainability; examples of applications include water purification, communicating materials and interactive surfaces. Find out more, here.

Transfer to application is achieved together with the Fraunhofer part of our group at Fraunhofer ISC in Würzburg.

 

 

Our mission

 

  • Welcome Leoni

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    We are happy to welcome Leoni Luthardt as new PhD canditate in our group. Leoni has already conducted her masters thesis in our group and we are glad to have her for a few more years. In her PhD thesis she will work on iductively heatable nanoparticles and their versatile applications. Special focus...

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  • More talks at the end of 2022

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    While Karl Mandel was busy with some national talks, for instance at the Max Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm, Germany about Functional, “communicating” supraparticles via forced assembly of nano building blocks, Stephan Müssig attended the International Conference on Fine Particl...

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  • Huanhuan accepted at ARIADNE TechNat

    Huanhuan was accepted as a participant in the FAU mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat, which is designed for high potential female postdoctoral researchers, doctoral candidates and Masters’s students at the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sciences. Mentoring by an experienced and independen...

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  • New article accepted

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    Joining MOFs and magnetic particles always comes with fascinating new insights - nice collaboration with the group of Klaus Müller-Buschbaum. Find details, here.

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  • Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel appointed to the board of trustees of the Körber foundation

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    Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel was appointed to the board of trustees of the Körber foundation.

    Find the post of the chemistry department site here.

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  • PBM conference in the books

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    Our group had the honor to host the 2022 Particle Based Materials symposium (PBM).

    Find an article about the conference on the department site here.

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  • Department post about our Phoenix particles

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    Our recently published work about supraparticles that can be used to identify an object even after an event of fire and be separated magnetically from the ashes was featured in an article from the FAU department site of chemistry and pharmacy.

    Find the full article here.

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  • Talks Talks Talks

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    Lately, many group members have been busy with visiting exciting conferences and giving talks.

    Find the full list of talks here.

     

    To name a few highlights:

     

    Karl Mandel
    Spray-drying as a versatile tool to create complex and highly functional supraparticle architectures on...

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  • Another article accepted

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    Good news come in pairs. Our article Spray-dried photonic balls with a disordered/ordered hybrid structure for shear stress indication was just accepted in Small. A great collaboration with the Vogel Group. Looking forward to many more collaboration results with the Vogels in future! Find more detai...

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  • New work published

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    We developed a marker particle that can be used to identify an object even after an event of fire. A clever combination of nano building blocks in a highly functional supraparticle makes the particle easily collectable even from ashes and optically identifiable afterwards. The work was was published...

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