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20.04.2026	Congratulations, Ina!
13.04.2026	Welcome Saarthak!
01.12.2025	Hola de nou, Simon!
15.10.2025	Welcome Céline!
01.09.2025	Simon in Barcelona
01.09.2025	Welcome Jianqi!
25.08.2025	Welcome Back Alex!
06.08.2025	Group event-minigolf
02.06.2025	Welcome Jessica!
01.06.2025	Alex’s Research Adventure at UMass Amherst
05.05.2025	Welcome Back Max!
03.03.2025	Optexc Meeting in Australia
20.02.2025	New DFG Project on Sustainable Cooling
02.11.2022	New-paper-out
27.07.2022	Group action on the Wiesent
25.07.2022	Anna defended her thesis
04.07.2022	First week of the Bayreuth International Summer School started
01.07.2022	Max start his master thesis
08.05.2022	Retsch group at MRS spring meeting in Hawaii
01.01.2022	Happy-New-Year-2022
17.11.2021	Layer thickness matters! - Publication in Adv Energy & Sustainability Research
10.11.2021	Publication in Adv. Funct. Mater. on High Temperature Thermal Transport Online
01.10.2021	Alexander Berger starts his Ph.D. thesis
29.09.2021	Joint paper on particle diffusion close to surfaces
21.09.2021	Marius Schöttle wins poster prize at the Bayreuther Polymer Symposium 2021
10.09.2021	Retschgroup is now on Twitter
09.09.2021	SiC particles published in ZAAC
01.09.2021	Thomas Tran presented poster at the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum
21.08.2021	Gradient colloidal crystals published in Advanced Materials
13.08.2021	Bernd Kopera awarded best Ph.D. thesis in Chemistry in 2020
26.02.2021	Photoacoustics publishes work on thermal wave interferometry
25.01.2021	Paper on lock in thermography published
04.01.2021	IR-Emisson tuning published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
01.01.2021	Happy New Year 2021
01.12.2020	Ina Klein start her Ph.D. in the Retsch group
29.09.2020	Patrick successfully defended his thesis
24.06.2020	Thermal Transport in Ampholytic Polymers: The Role of Hydrogen Bonding and Water Uptake
15.05.2020	Bernd successfully defended his thesis
04.05.2020	Flora Bitterlich starts her PhD
28.04.2020	Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Spray-Coated Single-Phase Two-Dimensional Materials: Synthetic Clay Versus Graphene Oxide
25.03.2020	Scalable synthesis of smooth PS@TiO2 core-shell and TiO2 hollow spheres in the (sub) micron size range: understanding synthesis and calcination parameters
26.02.2020	Retsch Group attended the Macromolecular Colloquium Freiburg 2020
09.01.2020	Breathable and Flexible Polymer Membranes with Mechanoresponsive Electric Resistance
08.01.2020	Tunable Thermoelastic Anisotropy in Hybrid Bragg Stacks with Extreme Polymer Confinement
07.01.2020	Happy New Year 2020
02.12.2019	Qimengs starts his postdoctoral research
29.11.2019	The accuracy of laser flash analysis explored by finite element method and numerical fitting
29.11.2019	Tunable daytime passive radiative cooling based on a broadband angle selective low-pass filter
01.10.2019	Thomas starts his PhD
03.09.2019	Group Retreat 2019
02.09.2019	Marius Schöttle starts his PhD thesis
12.07.2019	Kai attended the 20th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena
12.07.2019	Tobias and Dominik poster presentation on the Zsigmondy Colloquium 2019
31.05.2019	Direct measurement of the in-plane thermal diffusivity of semitransparent thin films by lock-in thermography: an extension of the slopes method
02.05.2019	Flora Bitterlich starts her master thesis
11.04.2019	Kishin Matsumori starts his PhD thesis
22.02.2019	Retsch Group attended the Macromolecular Colloquium Freiburg 2019
03.01.2019	Stefan Rettinger joins Retsch Group
01.01.2019	Happy New Year
27.12.2018	Well-defined metal-polymer nanocomposites: The interplay of structure, thermoplasmonics, and elastic mechanical properties
21.12.2018	Christmas Wishes
26.11.2018	Ordered Particle Arrays via a Langmuir Transfer Process: Access to Any Two-Dimensional Bravais Lattice
07.11.2018	Computing the 3D Radial Distribution Function from Particle Positions: An Advanced Analytic Approach
15.10.2018	Thomas Tran starts his master thesis
09.10.2018	Christian defended his thesis
01.10.2018	Mechanochemically Carboxylated Multilayer Graphene for Carbon/ABS Composites with Improved Thermal Conductivity
21.09.2018	Bernd wins poster prize in Erlangen
17.09.2018	Kai Herrmann starts his PhD thesis
12.09.2018	Surface Plasmon Modes of Nanomesh-on-Mirror Nanocavities Prepared by Nanosphere Lithography
01.09.2018	Daewoo Suh starts his postdoctoral research
16.07.2018	Tobias Lauster starts his PhD Thesis
02.07.2018	Dominik Benke starts his PhD Thesis
05.06.2018	Understanding Thermal Insulation in Porous, Particulate Materials
28.05.2018	Prof. Dr. Markus Retsch Head of Physical Chemistry 1
22.05.2018	Frontispiece in Advanced Materials Interfaces
28.03.2018	Fabian defended his thesis
12.03.2018	Nanomeshes at Liquid Interfaces: From Free-Standing Hole Arrays toward Metal–Insulator–Metal Architectures
27.02.2018	Low Thermal Conductivity through Dense Particle Packings with Optimum Disorder
23.02.2018	Retsch Group attended the Macromolecular Colloquium Freiburg 2018
15.02.2018	Thermal transport in binary colloidal glasses: Composition dependence and percolation assessment
06.02.2018	Pia defended her thesis
02.01.2018	Kai Herrmann starts his master thesis
01.01.2018	Happy New Year
13.12.2017	From butterfly wings to new functional materials: Nanostructures control heat transport
13.12.2017	Science as Art Prize at 2017 Fall MRS
01.12.2017	Tanja Feller starts her PhD Thesis
30.11.2017	Simple and High Yield Synthesis of Metal-Polymer Nanocomposites: The Role of Theta-Centrifugation as an Essential Purification Step
17.11.2017	Tailor-made temperature-dependent thermal conductivity via interparticle constriction
10.11.2017	Alexandra wins poster prize in Saarbrücken
10.11.2017	Interface and Morphology Control of the Thermal Conductivity in Core–Shell Particle Colloidal Crystals
04.11.2017	Contact-based and spheroidal vibrational modes of a hexagonal monolayer of microspheres on a substrate
01.10.2017	Argyrios Georgiadis starts his postdoctoral research
04.09.2017	Understanding Thermal Insulation in Porous, Particulate Materials
01.09.2017	Tobias Lauster starts his master thesis
01.09.2017	Nelson Pech May starts his postdoctoral research
24.07.2017	Vibrational dynamics of a two-dimensional microgranular crystal
05.06.2017	Film formation kinetics probed by thermal diffusivity
19.04.2017	Binary plasmonic honeycomb structures: High-resolution EDX mapping and optical properties
22.03.2017	Dynamic control over surface lattice plasmon resonances
17.02.2017	Bernd wins poster prize in Freiburg
15.02.2017	Scientific Reports: Plasmonic nanomeshes and their role in polymer solar cells
31.01.2017	Electrochemistry at the nanoscale
01.01.2017	Anna Lechner starts her PhD thesis
01.01.2017	Happy New Year
16.12.2016	Reversible anisotropic/isotropic thermal conductivity in polyurethane foams
14.12.2016	Ice Nucleation in Hollow Silica Spheres
09.12.2016	ERC Grant Agreement finalized
16.08.2016	Andreas Karg starts his Master thesis
27.07.2016	Publication in PCCP: Plasmonic monolayers in organic solar cells
07.07.2016	Electrostatic focusing of colloids published in Nanoscale
29.06.2016	Publication on binary honeycomb structures
01.06.2016	Anna Lechner starts her Master thesis
18.04.2016	Scattering paper in Nano Research
16.04.2016	Night of the Profs
24.02.2016	Retsch group attends 2016 Makrokolloq in Freiburg
24.12.2015	Merry Christmas
20.10.2015	Bernd Kopera starts his Master thesis
15.10.2015	Paper in Advanced Materials online
30.09.2015	CECAM workshop on hot nanostructures
19.08.2015	Cover in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
17.07.2015	Antireflective monolayers appear in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
08.07.2015	Cover in Chemical Reviews
24.06.2015	Paper on thermal transport in polymer colloidal crystals online
23.06.2015	Review on self-assembly in Chemical Reviews online
20.06.2015	Graduiertentag 2015
15.06.2015	Patrick Hummel starts his PhD
15.05.2015	Thermal transport in hollow silica spheres published in Nanoscale
13.05.2015	Markus Retsch presented at the IRTG seminar at the University of Freiburg
23.04.2015	Markus Retsch gave a presentation at the CBI colloquium in Erlangen
06.04.2015	Retsch group attends the 2015 spring MRS in San Francisco
02.03.2015	Pia Ruckdeschel presented her research at the 2015 Zsigmondy Colloquium
24.11.2014	Review in Materials Today online
01.11.2014	Alexandra Philipp starts her PhD
11.08.2014	Felix Krohn starts his Master thesis
11.08.2014	Patrick Hummel starts his Master thesis
08.07.2014	Prof. Retsch delivered keynote presentation at UK Colloids 2014
01.07.2014	Anna Lechner starts her bachelor thesis
01.06.2014	Dr. Maiti joins Retsch group
15.04.2014	Fabian Nutz starts his PhD
17.03.2014	Pia Ruckdeschel starts her PhD
01.01.2014	Christian Stelling starts his PhD
01.01.2014	Kick-off Lichtenberg professorship of Prof. Markus Retsch
22.07.2013	Prof. Markus Retsch has been awarded a Lichtenberg professorship
31.05.2013	Double hierarchically structured composite materials in Advanced Functional Materials
06.11.2012	High strain rate deformation of layered nanocomposites in Nature Communications
18.10.2012	ENB Alumni Portrait
31.07.2012	Markus Retsch is announced "Juniorprofessor"
18.07.2012	Our publication on plasmonic solar cells appears as backcover in Nanoscale
14.03.2012	Work on multilayer mechanics of hollow sphere arrays accepted in Langmuir

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