Mandel group

Professorship for
Inorganic Chemistry
The Supraparticle Group

Logo: The Supraparticle Group

Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel

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

Room: Room A 2.20
Egerlandstraße 1
91058 Erlangen

 

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

 

  • We are happy to welcome Sara Li as new PhD c anditate in our group. Sara Li has already conducted her masters thesis in our group and we are glad to have her for a few more years. In her thesis she will focus on particulate markers whose magnetic signal is read out using a sensitive and fast measuri...

  • Together with many Fraunhofer colleagues on innovative perovskite solar cell materials:

     

    Songhak Yoon*, Bastian Fett, Alexander Frebel, Sina Kroisl, Bettina Herbig, Marc Widenmeyer, Benjamin Balke, Gerhard Sextl, Karl Mandel, Anke Weidenkaff*

    Sb-substituted Cs2AgBiBr6 – as much as it ...

  • The prestigious journal Advanced Materials has just accepted our work on on “Recording Temperature with Magnetic Supraparticles”! Find out more, here.

  • We are happy to welcome Andreas Zink as new PhD canditate in our group. Andi has already conducted his masters thesis in our group and we are glad to have him for a few more years. In his thesis he will combine inorganic nanoparticle building blocks with organic chemistry in supraprticles to investi...

  • And another article is about to be published: together with our Fraunhofer colleagues, we just got accepted:

    Stefan Lange, Bastian Fett, Angelika Hähnel, Alexander Müller, Bettina Herbig, Volker Naumann, Gerhard Sextl, Karl Mandel, Christian Hagendorf*
    Thin film formation of wet chemically depos...

  • In our latest work, accepted by Nano letters, we report on supraparticles with a unique ID that can report damage on a surface – our particles start to be really smart 🙂 Find out more, here.