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The research topic is dedicated to our recent activities in magnetic waste water cleaning from Micro-/Nanoplastics with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs – called “smart rust” https://omd.fau.de/home/). Focus of the research is the development and evaluation of a magnetic separatio...

Nicolai Schneider received a prize for the best Master's thesis at the WW summer party. Once again this year, the WW department management awarded prizes for the best Bachelor's and Master's theses as well as for the best doctorates. In 2024, our Master student Nicolai Schneider received one o...

The LSP team took 3rd place in this year's soccer tournament. They were only defeated by the WW2 team in a penalty shoot-out You can see all our players on the photo: Top row from left to right: Harald Rost, Janik Altenhöfer, David Peltner, Adrian Beyer, Michael Kellner, Marko Heyder, Prof....

The latest contribution to "2-Mintuen-Wissen" comes from the Chair of Polymer Materials. The world's oceans are suffocating in plastic waste. Especially in the field of packaging, only a fraction of the material is recycled. That's why 2 minutes of knowledge is all about the possible recycling...

The following video shows the portfolio of the LSP: https://youtu.be/Br6heH-R-iU

Who doesn't know the world-famous Frauenkirche in Dresden ?! - A unique building! The research group at the LSP chair has now dealt with how this structure can be constructed using 3D printing: The file for 3D printing comes from the open source platform Thingiverse With the template, the P...

At the LSP M.Sc. Yijing Qin et al. contributed one chapter of "Studies on recycled Polyester" in the book of Recycled Polyester (Qin Y., Qu M., Kaschta J., Allen V., Schubert D.W. (2020) Studies on Recycled Polyester; Muthu S. (eds) Recycled Polyester. Textile Science and Clothing Technology. Spring...

The Department of Polymer Materials has been working on the characterization and enhancement of the implant shell since the onset of problems with silicone breast implants during the PIP scandal (see silicone breast implants). The video shows a compression test of a silicone breast implant. &n...