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Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials

The Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials was established in 2007 in the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich. We are an international team of chemists, physicists and materials scientists working on the wet-chemical synthesis of a broad range of functional materials for possible applications in energy storage and conversion, sensing, optics, and (photo)catalysis. In particular, we are specialized on the nonaqueous synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles.

The various research areas are supervised by the senior researchers in the group:

Prof. Dr. Markus Niederberger

Prof. Dr. Walter Caseri

Prof. Dr. Peter Johann Walde

Dr. Dipan Kundu

Dr. Alessandro Lauria

Multimat Highlights

26.09.2019

Xi's work featured on ETH news

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Xi's work on stretchable batteries was featured on the ETH news and attracted a lot of attention from newspapers, magazines and news channels. Congratulations!

10.09.2019

New paper by Christian

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Christian publishes in collaboration with our former guest Erlantz his work on cellulose based single ion conductors for Li-ion batteries in ACS Applied Energy Materials.

09.09.2019

New paper by Long

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Long published his work about Ta2O5 aerogels for Li+ and Na+ storage in Electrochimica Acta.

09.09.2019

PhD defense Xi

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Xi successfully defended his PhD on "Materials Development and Design Integration Towards a Stretchable Lithium-Ion Battery". Congratulations!

25.07.2019

PhD defense Haijian

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Haijian successfully defended his PhD on "Pseudocapacitive Materials for High-power Li+/Na+ Storage" - Congratulations!

19.07.2019

Markus' review featured as most cited article of Nanoscale

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Prof. Markus Niederberger's article on microwave synthesis ranks among the top 20 most cited reviews published in Nanoscale since the launch of the journal in 2009. Congratulations!

18.07.2019

Best Image Award for Murielle & Xavier

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Congratulations to Murielle and Xavier who won the first prize at this year's MaP Graduate Symposium Best Image Contest!

18.07.2019

Best Poster Award for Tian

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Tian wins the Poster Award at the MaP Graduate Symposium 2019 for her poster about transparent and flexible thin film supercapacitors/hybrid supercapacitors. Congratulations!

18.07.2019

Visit Each Other at ETH Zürich

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We opened our doors for colleagues from EPFL and PSI at this year's "Visit Each Other" event of the Swiss Association of Young Chemists.

17.07.2019

New paper by Haijian

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Haijian's article about layered metal vanadates for high-rate Na-ion storage recently appeared in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

17.07.2019

New paper by Andy

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Our former member Andy publishes his work on fibers, films, foams and microspheres made of multifunctional poly(phenylene methylene) in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering.

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