The Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials was founded in 2007 in the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich. We are an international team of chemists and materials scientists conducting basic and applied research in various areas of materials chemistry, from liquid phase synthesis of nanoparticles to polymers for corrosion protection, the study of Roman concrete, the preparation of luminescent particles and composites, the design of multifunctional batteries, the production of heatable fabrics, and the development of three-dimensional photocatalysts with the matching reactors for gas-phase reactions.