With its approx. 120 employees the Institute of Functional Interfaces is part of numerous national and international Research Cooperations and Networks.

Four of its scientists are also lecturing at different German Universities and with their under- and graduate students are creating an interface between University and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres' specific research.

In addition, the Institute for Functional Interfaces (IFG) forms a central component of the chemical laboratory assistant training and DHBW training (chemical engineering and process engineering) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and thus provides another important component of qualified research.

Key aspects of research:

• Synthesis, characterization and application of functionalized hybridmaterials and magnetic particles in chemical engineering and biotechnology

   

• Characterization of nano mineralogical surfaces and application of natural nano particles in composites (especially sheet silicates)

   

• Surface functionalizing and structuring 

   

• Characterization of modified surfaces

   

• Development of new laser spectroscopic procedures

   

• Surface coating with silan based polymers and modelling their interactions with this surface 


• Interactions of biofilms with natural and technical surfaces


• Bacterial stress and fitness reactions