The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) and the Institute for Materials Science at the University of Valencia (ICMUV) have recently establish the Max Planck Partner Group on Colloidal Methods for Multifunctional Materials. Headed by Rafael Muñoz-Espí, chemist of the University of Valencia, the ICMUV team will closely work with the German researcher Katharina Landfester, director of the MPI-P. The group will orient its work towards the development of new multifunctional systems for the sustainable use of resources.
The collaborative work will address the development of hybrid multicomponent nanomaterials and will investigate thereby the assembly of the building units as a function of their molecular features. How to apply the confinement provided by colloidal systems for the control of structures and properties of polymer materials and polymer/inorganic hybrids is the key scientific question of the Partner Group.
The cooperation takes place within the Partner Group Program of the Max Planck Society (MPG), financed by the German research institution and aimed to promote an international cooperation network of teams headed by foreign young researcher that have previously worked at a Max Planck Institute for at least one year. The project has an initial duration of three years, extendable up to five.
Rafael Muñoz-Espí worked for more than ten years at the MPI-P and has kept a close scientific collaboration with this institute since his move to the ICMUV in 2015 as a Ramon y Cajal Senior Researcher.
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