Exploring
New Materials
for a Better World

We engineer new materials from chemical and living building blocks to overcome frontiers in functionality, performance, and sustainability.

We transfer our materials to drive sustainable technologies and solve societal and technological challenges in synergy with academic and industrial partners.

Research

Transfer

Bio-intelligent Materials

We design materials that can instruct biological systems and program living organisms to inter face materials and augment their properties.

Electro-integrative Materials

We develop materials that integrate high-density ion management and stimulus- responsive conductivity.

Opto-interactive Materials

We develop materials that modulate light be havior, or that are modulated upon interaction with light.

Facts & Figures

28.01

Million Euro in Annual budget 2023

6.03

Million Euro Third-party funding 2023

Peer-reviewed articles 2024

Active patent families

238

Employees in 2024

Nationalities

News

19.12.2025 | News

Oskar Staufer awarded the Alois Lauer Research Prize

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12.12.2025 | Press releases

Mini-tumors from the lab simulate immune responses

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17.11.2025 | News

Material Minds Lindau Nobel Meeting Insights

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24.10.2025 | Colloquia

THURSDAY 23.10.25 13:30 – 14:30

STEM study of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals – quantum dots

Dr. Iurii Ivanov Discover more

17.09.2025 | News

Saarbrücken researchers named as new fellows of the Max Planck School

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05.09.2025 | Public Event

THURSDAY 02.10.25

German Unity Day Citizens Festival

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31.07.2025 | Podcast

Material Minds with Luai R. Khoury

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25.07.2025 | TechTransfer

WEDNESDAY 19.11.25 Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken

Tech Transfer Day – Living Therapeutics

Dr. Claudia Borgmeier, Dr. Lothar Steidler, Dr. Shrikrishnan Sankaran, Prof. Dr. Avi Schröder, Prof. Dr. Aránzazu del Campo, Dr. Steffen Krauser Discover more