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

Stefan Müllers, Mara Florea-Hüring, Bernhard von Vacano, Bernd Bruchmann, Jürgen Rühe
Hairy surfaces by cold drawing leading to dense lawns of high aspect ratio hairs
Scientific Reports 2022, 12, 9952
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-13419-3

Tobias A. Weber, Lukas Metzler, Patrick L. Fosso Tene, Thomas Brandstetter, Jürgen Rühe
Single-Color Barcoding for Multiplexed Hydrogel Bead-Based Immunoassays
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c04361

Carmen J. Eger, Martin Horstmann, Simon Poppinga, Renate Sachse, Rebecca Thierer, Nikolaus Nestle, Bernd Bruchmann, Thomas Speck, Manfred Bischoff, Jürgen Rühe
The Structural and Mechanical Basis for Passive‐Hydraulic Pine Cone Actuation.
Advanced Science 2022, 2200458.
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202200458

Nathan Bentley, Frank Daniel Scherag, Thomas Brandstetter, Jürgen Rühe
Protein Repellent, Surface-Attached Hydrogels Through Spray Coating
Advanced Materials Interfaces 2022, 2102359.
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202102359

Julia K. Meinzer, Michael Henze, Chinnayan Kannan Pandiyarajan, Oswald Prucker, Wolfgang Bothe, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Jürgen Rühe
Hemocompatible Surfaces Through Surface-attached Hydrogel Coatings and their Functional Stability in a Medical Environment
ASAIO 2022, 68, 56-63.
DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001426

Patrick L. Fosso Tene, Anne Stumpf, Marc Zinggeler, Volker Reuck, Arif Malik, Wilfried Weigel, Marina Müller, Richard Kneusel, Thomas Brandstetter, Jürgen Rühe
Linear Cryogel Arrays: On the Fast Track for Borreliosis Detection
Analytical Chemistry 2021, 93, 36, 12426–12433
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02561

Patrick L. Fosso Tene, Andreas Weltin, Florian Tritz, Herve J. Defeu Soufo, Thomas Brandstetter, Jürgen Rühe
Cryogel Monoliths for Analyte Enrichment by Capture and Release
Langmuir 2021, 37, 37, 11041–11048,
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01638

Yasaman Tahouni, Friederike Krüger, Simon Poppinga, Dylan Wood, Matthias Pfaff, Jürgen Rühe, Thomas Speck and Achim Menges
Programming sequential motion steps in 4D-printed hygromorphs by architected mesostructure and differential hygro-responsiveness
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 16 055002.
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac0c8e

Jonas Kost, Alexander Bleiziffer, Dennis Rusitov, and Jürgen Rühe
Thermally Induced Cross-Linking of Polymers via C,H Insertion Cross-Linking (CHic) under Mild Conditions
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021, 143, 10108–10119.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c02133

Thananthorn Kanokwijitsilp, Martin Körner, Oswald Prucker, Alexandra Anton, Jan Lübke, and Jürgen Rühe
Kinetics of Photocrosslinking and Surface Attachment of Thick Polymer Films
Macromolecules 2021, 54, 6238–6246.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00121

 Simon Schölch, Jan-Lukas Schäfer, Tobias Meckel, Thomas Brandstetter, Markus Biesalski, and Jürgen Rühe
Diazo-Based Copolymers for the Wet Strength Improvement of Paper Based on Thermally Induced CH-Insertion Cross-Linking
Biomacromolecules 2021, 22, 2864–2873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00249

Konstantinos Roumpos, Sarah Fontaine, Thomas Pfohl, Oswald Prucker, Jürgen Rühe & Günter Reiter
Measurements of periodically perturbed dewetting force fields and their consequences on the symmetry of the resulting patterns
Scientific Reports 2021, 11, 13149.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92544-x

Alexander J. Straub, Frank D. Scherag, Hye In Kim, Mark-Steven Steiner, Thomas Brandstetter, and Jürgen Rühe
“CHicable” and “Clickable” Copolymers for Network Formation and Surface Modification
Langmuir 2021, 37, 6510-6520.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00669

J.-L. Schäfer, Simon Schölch, Oswald Prucker, Thomas Brandstetter, Jürgen Rühe, A. Ritter v. Stockert, T. Meckel & Markus Biesalski
Accessibility of fiber surface sites for polymeric additives determines dry and wet tensile strength of paper sheets
Cellulose 2021, 28, 5775–5791.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-03817-7

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