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Illuminating the world with bio-LEDs
Guest article by Prof. Costa on the Bioeconomy Year of Science
Prof. Rubén Costa from the Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials at TUM Campus Straubing has written a guest article on the bioeconomy for the “Science Year” portal, published by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In the section “Heads of Change”, Prof. Costa writes about how bio-LEDs can be used to light up the world and thus protect the environment.
EUROMAT 2021: Sara’s Keynote Presentation on the 16th September 2021
On the 16th of September 2021, Sara held a keynote presentation at EUROMAT 2021 entitled Highly stable bio-phosphors for high power Bio-Hybrid Light-emitting Diodes. She presented an overview on the current status of the application of Fluorescent Proteins in Bio-Hybrid LEDs, focusing on the most promising approaches in the field and presenting our latest results.
Welcome to Prof. Coto!
We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Coto to our Chair as TUM Global Visiting Professor.
He is an expert in the theory and simulation of excited state processes in organic molecules and biomolecules and charge transfer and transport processes in novel materials with applications to nanoelectronics, organic photovoltaics and lighting.
Congratulations to Yanyan for the new paper!
Congratulations to Yanyan for the new review on Recent Progress on Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Metal Halide Perovskites@Metal Oxide. The advance article is highlighted in Advanced Functional Materials.
1st Summer School: Surface-Confined Synthesis and Advanced Surface Characterization Tools
On September 28th and 29th, the first STiBNite Summer Scholl will be held with the following program.
European Climate Pact – Event „Protein-based materials: A sustainable solution for our technological world?”
We are thrilled to announce the virtual European Climate Pact Satellite Event “Protein-based materials: A sustainable solution for our technological world?” supported by the EU project ARTIBLED (No 863170). The event will take place at 1st of October 2021 from 4-7 pm (CEST). International experts in Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and Energy will provide a critical vision about the current actions on protein-based technologies towards shaping a sustainable society. This will be followed by an open round stable discussion.
New group picture!
How fast time flies you can see on these pictures. Within a year, the team has more than doubled!!
The team around Prof. Costa now consists of 2 subgroup leaders, a technical assistant, 2 team assistants, 4 Postdocs, 10 PhD students and on average 2-4 Master/Bachelor students, as well as 2-4 Research-Internship students.
We are still hiring…do you want to be part of us?
New Team Members starting in September!
We are very pleased to welcome M.Sc. Marta Patrian und Dr. Mattia Nieddu to our team.
Marta, our new PhD Student will focus on designing new fluorescent proteins for energy related applications.
Mattia is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. His research focuses on developing Bio-hybrid LEDs based on fluorescent protein-based nanomaterials.
Congratulations to Elisa for the new paper!
Congratulations to Elisa for the new paper on sustainable Copper (I) complexes for low-cost lighting systems based on light-emitting electrochemical cells. The advance article is highlighted in Dalton Transactions.
Fundación Princesa de Girona Award Ceremony…finally!!!
We are all honored that Rubén received the Fundación Princesa de Girona Award from the Spanish royalty in Barcelona on the 1st of July.
New friends and opportunities!!