Year: 2025

On the occasion of the visit of Karl Kalina and Franz Dammaß from TU Dresden, we are organizing a Symposium for scientific exchange. The talks are aligned with the research topics of SOFTFRAC and DISCOVER ERC projects. You are warmly invited to join us on Monday, January 19, for the Symposium. The ...

Soft materials like rubber or silicone tear easily under tensile stress. In SoftFrac we are looking for ways to make such materials more stable. In a current study, we have shown that it depends, at least partly, on how stable the crosslinked bonds are between the polymer molecules. If the crosslink...