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The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces was founded in 1992. Research in Colloid and Interface Science is widely covered by the following Departments: Biomaterials, Biomolecular Systems, Colloid Chemistry, Interfaces as well as Theory and Bio-Systems. Current research topics are polymeric films, membranes, microcapsules, organic and inorganic nano- structures, biomineralization, nano- and microreactors, molecular motors and filaments as well as chemistry and biology of carbohydrates. Biomimetic research is at the core of the Institute’s activity. Common goal is to learn from nature how to build hierarchical materials or active systems with new functionalities, with adaptive, self-healing or self-assembling properties.

News

dokument The Max Planck Society to meet in Potsdam
May 29th, 2013
Dorint Sanssouci
This year’s Annual Meeting of the MPS will be held on 5 and 6 June 2013 in Potsdam. Around 600 guests are expected to attend representing science, politics and industry, among them several of the Max Planck Society’s Nobel laureates. [more]
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dokument Electronics comes to paper
May 14th, 2013
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Paper, being a light and foldable raw material, is a cost-efficient and simple means of generating electrically conducting structures [more]
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dokument Order in the chaos of a cell membrane
March 1th, 2013
Modell einer Zellmembran
Crystalline areas form in model membranes based on a previously unknown mechanism. [more]
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dokument The cradle of the nanoparticle
February 14th, 2013
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A new model facilitates predictions about how nanoparticles form and gives clues about how the process can be controlled. [more]
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dokument The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany has honoured Prof. Scott R. White with the Humboldt Research Award. The award includes prize money of 60,000 Euros.
February 1th, 2013
Scott R. White
From February 2013 on the material scientist will study in Potsdam at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. His research stay lasts for five months. [more]
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dokument First call of the new International Max Planck Research School on "Multiscale Biosystems"
November 27th, 2012
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Interested and sufficiently qualified students can now apply for fellowships of this doctoral program under http://imprs.mpikg.mpg.de. The deadline for this call is February 28th, 2013. [more]
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dokument Daniel Kopetzki is awardee of the Brandenburg post-doc prize 2012
November 1th, 2012
Dr. Daniel Kopetzki
The prize will be awarded on November 12, from the minister of science Sabine Kunst in the house of Brandenburg-Prussian history (HBPG) in Potsdam. [more]
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dokument International conference on biomimetic and biological membranes in Potsdam-Golm Science Park
September 18th, 2012
Biomembrane
„Biomembrane Days” on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Wolfgang Helfrich from September 19th-21st 2012. [more]
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dokument Helmuth Möhwald is elected member of the Academia Europaea
September 11th, 2012
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmuth Möhwald
All, newly elected members of the Academy will participate in the induction ceremony at the 24th Annual Conference on September 11th in Bergen. Helmuth Möhwald is Director of the department of Interfaces at the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm. [more]
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dokument Calcium carbonate templates for drug delivery
July 3th, 2012
Kalkschablone
Microcontainers for medical substances can be produced in different sizes using calcium carbonate microspheres as templates. [more]
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dokument A crowning success for crayfish
May 18th, 2012
Cherax quadricarinatus
Australian freshwater crayfish have a tooth enamel very similar to humans. [more]
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dokument An incisive design solution: the spider's venomous fang
May 11th, 2012
Spinne Cupiennius salei
Among the factors that make spiders successful predators is the ingeniously composed and structured material of their fangs. Although their armour consists of the same material as their predator’s fangs, flies, grasshoppers and other insects that are the usual prey of ... [more]
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dokument Humboldt-Rankings 2012 - Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces among the top three best
April 25th, 2012
Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid und Grenzflächenforschung
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces numbers among the non-university research institutions as one of the three best addresses for foreign scientists in Germany. [more]
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dokument Peter Fratzl elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society
April 5th, 2012
Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Peter Fratzl
The biophysicist Peter Fratzl has been elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). The distinctions will be awarded at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco on April 11. [more]
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dokument Microlens arrays from the test tube
March 14th, 2012
Mikroskopische Linsen aus Kalk
Microlens arrays with uniform size and focal length can be produced by a simple mineral precipitation at ambient conditions. [more]
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dokument Anti-malaria drug synthesised with the help of oxygen and light
January 17th, 2012
Artemisinin
In future it should be possible to produce the best anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, more economically and in sufficient volumes for all patients. [more]
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Events


14th European Student Colloid Conference
10th – 13th June 2013
 
 esc2013.mpikg.mpg.de


MPG Einkäufertagung 2013
03. - 04. Juli 2013
 
 MPG Einkäufertagung 2013


Open Day (Potsdam-Golm Science Park)
September 14, 2013
11.00-17.00 Uhr
 

Multiscale Motility of Molecular Motors
Sept. 23 - 25, 2013
 

 Conference Website


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Seminars & Talks

"Soft and Hard (Nano)Materials "
Prof. Luisa De Cola
19.06.2013 13:15
Seminar Room above Library
"Solubilization of membranes by detergents "
Prof. Dr. Karin do Amaral Riske
08.07.2013 13:30
Theory Seminar Room
"Photo-oxidation and photo protection of lipids in model membranes "
Dr. Omar Mertins
10.07.2013 13:30
Theory Seminar Room
"Saloplastics: Processing Polyelectrolyte Complexes using Salt "
Prof. Joseph B. Schlenoff
17.07.2013 11:00
seminar room above the library