Stephan Müssig

Chair of Particle-Based Materials Chemistry (PBMC)

Dr. Stephan Müssig

Chair of Particle-Based Materials Chemistry

Research associates

Address

Egerlandstraße 1-3 91058 Erlangen

00.041, 00

Cauerstraße 3 91058 Erlangen

Contact

Email: stephan.muessig@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85-20152

Stephan Müssig graduated from the University of Wuerzburg with a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Functional Materials in 2017. Afterwards, Stephan worked as a research scientist on silicon-based anodes at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Kjeller near Oslo, Norway. He finished his doctoral degree with summa cum laude honors in March 2023. During his doctoral studies, he received a doctoral scholarship from the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU). Stephan won several prizes for his doctoral thesis. His work focuses on magnetic iron oxide nano- and supraparticles for identification of arbitrary objects with a focus on energy applications. Their tunable magnetic signal response is resolved by Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy (MPS), a powerful yet relatively unknown characterization technique.

Since 2026 Stephan has been Academic Council.

Publications:

2026

Deuso SL., Müssig S., Stephani P., Conan R., Winzer B., Hurle K., Vogel N., Zákutná D., Mandel K.:
Supraparticles with Enhanced Mechanical and Signal Stability for Identification of Objects
In: ACS Applied Nano Materials 9 (2026), p. 5186-5197
ISSN: 2574-0970
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.6c00108
Kämäräinen T., Deuso SL., Müssig S., Luthardt L., Hatanaka Y., Tozuka Y., Kadota K., Mandel K.:
Assembly of filament-like supraparticles in confined vortex rings
In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 703 (2026), Article No.: 139039
ISSN: 0021-9797
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2025.139039
Luthardt L., Müssig S., Hurle K., Zink A., Zhou X., Apeleo Zubiri B., Spiecker E., Mandel K.:
Tailorable Curie Temperature in Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles With Finely Tunable Induction Heating Profiles Between Room Temperature and 250 °C
In: Small (2026), Article No.: e13314
ISSN: 1613-6829
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202513314
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202513314?af=R

2025

Müssig S., Ackers J., Aderhold E., Heinlein M., Kluwe B., Wei H., Mandel K., Bakenecker AC.:
Hybrid supraparticles for combined MPI and magnetic hyperthermia
In: International Journal of Magnetic Particle Imaging 11 (2025), Article No.: 2503034
ISSN: 2365-9033
DOI: 10.18416/IJMPI.2025.2503034
Müssig S., Wolf A., Kämäräinen T., Mandel K.:
Information-Providing Magnetic Supraparticles: Particle Designs to Record Environmental Stimuli with Readout by Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy
In: Accounts of Materials Research 6 (2025), p. 842-852
ISSN: 2643-6728
DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.5c00027
Raczka T., Luthardt L., Müssig S., Kent N., Lan Q., Denneulin T., Dunin-Borkowski RE., Mandel K.:
Magnetically “Programming” Cobalt-Doped Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Localized Induction Heating: Triggering a Collective Effect of Magnetic Moment Alignment on Demand
In: Advanced Materials (2025), Article No.: e07158
ISSN: 0935-9648
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202507158
URL: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202507158
Wolf A., Heinlein M., Kent N., Müssig S., Mandel K.:
Bulk Magnetic Properties Arise from Micron‐Sized Supraparticle Interactions and Can be Modified on the Nanoscale
In: Small 21 (2025), Article No.: 2412311
ISSN: 1613-6829
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202412311

2024

Deuso SL., Ziegler S., Weber D., Breuer F., Haddad D., Müssig S., Flegler A., Giffin GA., Mandel K.:
Magnetic Supraparticles as Identifiers in Single-Layer Lithium-Ion Battery Pouch Cells
In: Chemsuschem (2024)
ISSN: 1864-5631
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202401142
Luthardt L., Raczka T., Hurle K., Müssig S., Mandel K.:
Customizable Induction Heating Profiles: from Tailored Colloidally Stable Nanoparticles Toward Multi-Stage Heatable Supraparticles
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2024), Article No.: 2412296
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202412296
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202412296
Raczka T., Wolf A., Reichstein J., Stauch C., Schug B., Müssig S., Mandel K.:
Influence of magnetic interactions in iron oxide nanoparticle polymer composites on magnetism and induction heating
In: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 598 (2024), Article No.: 172042
ISSN: 0304-8853
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2024.172042
Reichstein J., Raczka T., Stauch C., Schug B., Müssig S., Mandel K.:
Multifunctional Polymer Composites for Automatable Induction Heating with Subsequent Temperature Verification
In: Advanced Engineering Materials (2024), Article No.: 2400744
ISSN: 1438-1656
DOI: 10.1002/adem.202400744
Wolf A., Sauer J., Hurle K., Müssig S., Mandel K.:
Magnetic Supraparticles Capable of Recording High‐Temperature Events
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2024)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202316212

2023

Reichstein J., Müssig S., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.:
Communicating Supraparticles to Enable Perceptual, Information-Providing Matter
In: Advanced Materials (2023), Article No.: 2306728
ISSN: 0935-9648
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202306728
Wolf A., Zink A., Stiegler L., Branscheid R., Apeleo Zubiri B., Müssig S., Peukert W., Walter J., Spiecker E., Mandel K.:
Magnetic in situ determination of surface coordination motifs by utilizing the degree of particle agglomeration
In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2023), p. 633-643
ISSN: 0021-9797
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.05.182

2022

Düsenberg B., Groppe P., Müssig S., Schmidt J., Bück A.:
Magnetizing Polymer Particles with a Solvent-Free Single Stage Process Using Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (SPION)s
In: Polymers 14 (2022), p. 4178
ISSN: 2073-4360
DOI: 10.3390/polym14194178
Müssig S., Reichstein J., Miller F., Mandel K.:
Colorful Luminescent Magnetic Supraparticles: Expanding the Applicability, Information Capacity, and Security of Micrometer-Scaled Identification Taggants by Dual-Spectral Encoding
In: Small (2022)
ISSN: 1613-6829
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202107511
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.202107511
Reichstein J., Müssig S., Bauer H., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.:
Recording Temperature with Magnetic Supraparticles
In: Advanced Materials (2022)
ISSN: 0935-9648
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202202683
Wenderoth S., Müssig S., Prieschl J., Genin E., Heuzé K., Fidler F., Haddad D., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.:
Optically Sensitive and Magnetically Identifiable Supraparticles as Indicators of Surface Abrasion
In: Nano Letters 22 (2022), p. 2762-2768
ISSN: 1530-6984
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04773

2021

Müssig S., Koch V., Cuadrado CC., Bachmann J., Thommes M., Barr M., Mandel K.:
Spray-Drying and Atomic Layer Deposition: Complementary Tools toward Fully Orthogonal Control of Bulk Composition and Surface Identity of Multifunctional Supraparticles
In: Small Methods (2021)
ISSN: 2366-9608
DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202101296
Müssig S., Kuttich B., Fidler F., Haddad D., Wintzheimer S., Kraus T., Mandel K.:
Reversible magnetism switching of iron oxide nanoparticle dispersions by controlled agglomeration
In: Nanoscale Advances 3 (2021), p. 2822-2829
ISSN: 2516-0230
DOI: 10.1039/d1na00159k
Müssig S., Reichstein J., Prieschl J., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.:
A Single Magnetic Particle with Nearly Unlimited Encoding Options
In: Small (2021)
ISSN: 1613-6829
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202101588
Wintzheimer S., Reichstein J., Groppe P., Wolf A., Fett B., Zhou H., Pujales Paradela R., Miller F., Müssig S., Wenderoth S., Mandel K.:
Supraparticles for Sustainability
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2021)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202011089

2020

Foss CEL., Müssig S., Svensson AM., Vie PJS., Ulvestad A., Mæhlen JP., Koposov AY.:
Anodes for Li-ion batteries prepared from microcrystalline silicon and enabled by binder’s chemistry and pseudo-self-healing
In: Scientific Reports 10 (2020), Article No.: 13193
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70001-5
URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-70001-5
Müssig S., Fidler F., Haddad D., Hiller KH., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.:
Tailoring magnetic supraparticles for object identification by magnetic particle spectroscopy
In: International Journal of Magnetic Particle Imaging 6 (2020), p. 1-3
ISSN: 2365-9033
DOI: 10.18416/IJMPI.2020.2009003

2019

Müssig S., Fidler F., Haddad D., Hiller KH., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.:
Supraparticles with a Magnetic Fingerprint Readable by Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy: An Alternative beyond Optical Tracers
In: Advanced Materials Technologies 4 (2019), Article No.: 1900300
ISSN: 2365-709X
DOI: 10.1002/admt.201900300
Müssig S., Granath T., Schembri T., Fidler F., Haddad D., Hiller KH., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.:
Anisotropic Magnetic Supraparticles with a Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy Fingerprint as Indicators for Cold-Chain Breach
In: ACS Applied Nano Materials 2 (2019), p. 4698-4702
ISSN: 2574-0970
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.9b00977
Wintzheimer S., Müssig S., Wenderoth S., Prieschl J., Granath T., Fidler F., Haddad D., Mandel K.:
Hollow Superparamagnetic Nanoparticle-Based Microballoons for Mechanical Force Monitoring by Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy
In: ACS Applied Nano Materials 2 (2019), p. 6757-6762
ISSN: 2574-0970
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.9b01693

2017

Flegler A., Muessig S., Prieschl J., Mandel K., Sextl G.:
Towards core-shell bifunctional catalyst particles for aqueous metal-air batteries: NiFe-layered double hydroxide nanoparticle coatings on gamma-MnO2 microparticles
In: Electrochimica Acta 231 (2017), p. 216-222
ISSN: 0013-4686
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.01.179