Non-toxic, lubricant-infused coatings deter mussels and prevent their attachment by disrupting their mechanosensory and adhesive systems (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — It all began with a bet at a conference in Italy in 2013. Nicolas Vogel, Ph.D., then a postdoctoral fellow in Joanna Aizenberg’s lab at the Wy... 

For the first time researchers have successfully produced complex crystal lattices known as clathrates from nanoparticles using a new method that employs DNA strands. The programed synthesis of clathrates represents a template for the precision modeling of novel nanomaterials. In cooperation with th... 

Prof. Dr. Aldo Boccaccini, Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials), Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec, Chair of Materials Science (Materials of Electronics and Energy Technology), and Prof. Dr. Patrick Schmuki, Chair of Materials Science (Corrosion and Surface Engineering), are under the world’s 30... 

The MAP Elite Masters Programme is one of the first accredited degree courses at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg. 

In the recently published Shangahi academic subject ranking for 2017, the subject Materials Science and Engineering at the FAU was ranked under the top 100 Universities world wide, in position 75. On the German national level,  Materials Science and Engineering was ranked 5th best. 

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Chair of the Institute of Materials Science (Biomaterials) at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, will hold this year’s Diels-Planck-Lecture at the University of Kiel. For the honorable task, an outstanding and leading scientist in the field of nanosc... 

Prof. Frank Bitzek, the “lord of the fractures”, Chair of General Materials Properties was visited by the Franconian Television Company. He and his team are investigating how cracks in certain materials correlate with microstructural elements. For this purpose, they test the mechanical properties of...