Welcome to CPI - Chemistry & Physics of Interfaces

About us

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.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
University of Freiburg - IMTEK
Department of Microsystems Engineering
Chemistry and Physics of Interfaces
Georges-Koehler-Allee 103 / Rm 00 109
D-79110 Freiburg, Germany

Tel.: +49 761  203 7160 (secretary)
Tel.: +49 761  203 7161 (direct)
Fax: +49 761  203 7162
Email: ruehe@imtek.uni-freiburg.de

Recent Publications

Alexander J. Straub, Frank D. Scherag, Mark-Steven Steiner, Thomas Brandstetter, Jürgen Rühe
Single cell separation in microplates through micro patterning of “clickable” hydrogels
Micro and Nano Engineering 2024, 25, 100285
DOI: 10.1016/j.mne.2024.100285

Anil Rajak, Jürgen Rühe
Controlled Trapping and Release of Droplets through Dynamically Reconfigurable Surfaces
Advanced Materials Interfaces 2024, 11, 202301089
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202301089

Gozde Aktas Eken, Yuming Huang, Oswald Prucker, Jürgen Rühe, Christopher K. Ober
Advancing Glucose Sensing Through Auto-Fluorescent Polymer Brushes: From Surface Design to Nano-Arrays
Small 2024, 20, 202309040
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202309040

Atefeh Akbari, Rahman Emamzadeh, Mahboobeh Nazari, Thomas Brandstetter, Jürgen Rühe
Enhancing protein delivery for tissue regeneration: Development of AGR2-loaded hydrogels with controlled release properties
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2024, 259, 128846
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.128846

Carina Ludwig, Jan Leutner, Oswald Prucker, Jürgen Rühe, Manfred Kohl
Miniature-scale elastocaloric cooling by rubber-based foils
Journal of Physics-Energy 2024, 6, 015009
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7655/ad0cff

Mohammad Sadeq Alizadeh, Amir Lohrasebi, Jürgen Rühe
Water droplets jumping on a surface due to hydrophobicity variation: Computational modelling approach
European Journal of Mechanics B-Fluids 2024, 103, 236-245
DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2023.10.007

Dan Song, Ayman Husari, Frederik Kotz-Helmer, Pascal Tomakidi, Bastian E. Rapp, Jürgen Rühe
Two-Photon Direct Laser Writing of 3D Scaffolds through C, H-Insertion Crosslinking in a One-Component Material System
Small 2023, 2306682
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202306682

Lokman Alpsoy, Abanoub Selim Sedeky, Ulrike Rehbein, Kathrin Thedieck, Thomas Brandstetter, and Jürgen Rühe
Particle ID: A Multiplexed Hydrogel Bead Platform for Biomedical Applications
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 48, 55346–55357
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c12122

Anna Luongo, Alexander Ritter von Stockert, Frank D. Scherag, Thomas Brandstetter, Markus Biesalski, and Jürgen Rühe
Controlling Fluorescent Readout in Paper-based Analytical Devices
ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2023, 9, 11, 6379–6389.
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.3c00736

Felix Joachim Gatti, Wanhao Cai, Richard Herzog, Amirmasoud Gharavian, Andreas Kailer, Norman Baltes, Peter Rabenecker, Philipp Mörchel, Bizan N Balzer, Tobias Amann, Jürgen Rühe
Investigation of programmable friction with ionic liquid mixtures at the nano-and macroscales
Lubricants 2023, 11, 376
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants11090376

Dennis Rusitov, Florian Deussen, and Jürgen Rühe
Fast UV- and Visible Light Induced Polymer Network Formation Using Carbene Mediated C–H-insertion Based Crosslinking (CHic) Via Nitrophenyl Diazo Esters
Advanced Materials Interfaces 2023, 10, 2300316
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202300316

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