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We brought our magnetic ID particles to the next level: we found that a bit of oleic acid is doing the trick to make them much more stable in harsh environments, thus turning them into real permanent markers for objects to be identified. Deuso S.L., Müssig S., Stephani P., Conan R., Winzer B., H…

We now can design magnetic nanoparticles with nearly freely tunable Curie temperature from 250°C down to room temperature – the article describing this was just accepted in Small. Luthardt L., Müssig S., Hurle K., Zink A., Zhou X., Zubiri B.A., Spiecker E., Mandel K.*Tailorable Curie Temperature…

Nice work by the Crisp Group on electrospun Carbon-TiO2 fibers for photoelectrocatalysis that we had the honour to support a bit! Hager S.P., Herbig B., Müller V., Dreßel A.K., Dehm K.E., Mandel K., Wintzheimer S., Crisp R.W.*Electrospun carbon-TiO₂ composite nanofibers for environmental photoel…

Susanne’s work on supraparticles and SCALMS was accepted in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Groppe P., Zimmermann T., Madubuko N., Bürner K., Sheng Y., Wichmann C., Moritz M.S., Czechowsky J., Müller V., Libuda J., Wasserscheid P., Mandel K., Daeneke T., Grunwaldt J.-D., Papp C., Haumann M…

Servus Stephan – as of January 1st, Stephan Müssig was appointed as academic council – congratulations, looking forward to an exciting time together!

We are happy to welcome our new group member Benita. Benita Stein von Kamienski completed her Master of Science in Chemistry at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg in 2025. In her Master’s thesis, conducted in the research group of Prof. Mandel, she focused on the design of iron ox…

We are happy to welcome our new group member Céline. Céline Untch completed her Master of Science degree in Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2025. During her Master’s thesis in the group of Prof. Mandel she worked on multi-stage dye release from polymer-based…

In our latest work that was just accepted in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science we report on a way how to influence the structure of supraparticles by using salt that can easily be removed afterwards via simple thermal treatment. Zink A., Kolb S., Wintzheimer S., Mandel K.Salt ions can…

Excellent ideas for a strong industry – VAA Foundation honors a successful young researcher from FAU in the field of chemistry 2025: At the VAA Annual Conference on November 7, 2025, in Essen, Dr. Jakob Reichstein (at the chair of Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel, FAU), Dr. Maximilian Baur, Dr. Ieva A. Cec…

The STAEDTLER FOUNDATION promotes cutting-edge research and honors doctoral students at FAU at its 2025 annual meeting For the 27th consecutive year, the STAEDTLER Foundation honored doctoral students from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) at its 2025 annual meeting. This y…

Romain won the Materials Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry) poster prize on synthesis methods at the 12th International Conference on Fine Particle Magnetism (ICFPM 2025) in Bariloche, Argentina, where he presented two posters on the correlation of the structural and magnetic morphology of nanop…

Andreas “Junior” Wolf successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Multiscale interactions of magnetic supraparticles upon readout with magnetic particle spectroscopy”. Congratulations, Junior!

Our Chair had a lot of fun being part of the program of the Long Night of Science and we were delighted to see that we could infect the broader public with our fascination for magnetic nanoparticles.

It is a great honor and, at the same time, a responsible task: Karl is now a liaison lecturer at FAU for scholarship holders of the German National Academic Foundation, the scholarship organization for highly gifted students.