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The Rühe group investigates the development of strategies for generating tailormade surfaces. We develop new chemical methods to attach polymers to surfaces and combine them with methods of nano and micro structuring to produce novel metamaterials and interactive materials. Fields of applications are biointerfaces (cell adhesion, biofouling; lab-on-chip, hydrogels), optics, tribology, living materials systems, and surfaces with unusual wetting behavior.
Latest Publications
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Pissarra, M. F., Alpsoy, L., Breyer, M. L., Giossas, V., Jatwani, K., Gkika, K. S., Squire, A., Kuppusamy, M., Oeckinghaus, A., Termathe, M., Pittol, J. R., Gkogkas, C. G., Brandstetter, T., Rühe, J., Rehbein, U., & Thedieck, K. (2026). Hydrogel bead-based 3D multiplex platform for high precision and high throughput quantification of mTORC1-4E-BP1/2-dependent translation. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1425, 346265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2026.346265
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Rusitov, D., Liotier, J., Prucker, O., & Rühe, J. (2026). Fine tuning of thermal activation and C,H-insertion crosslinking of phenyl diazo ester polymers. Macromolecules, 59(20), 11514–11522. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6c00745
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Campaña-Perez, J. F., Bernard, S., Alpsoy, L., Mollerach, M., Brandstetter, T., Lerner, B., Perez, M. S., & Rühe, J. (2026). UV-crosslinked hydrogel beads for yeast encapsulation and fermentation produced by microfluidics. Fermentation, 12(10), 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/fermentation12100456
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