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Research from the Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces shows that the sequential assembly of soft polymeric microparticles enables the realization of complex two-dimensional tessellations impossible to realize in a single step. Controlling kinetic pathways during structure formation therefore emerges as a robust strategy to create novel assemblies of microparticles with potential for the development of surfaces with tailored optical, mechanical and wetting properties.

The 15th edition of the MaP Graduate Symposium took place on 01 & 02 July 2020. The D-MATL was extremely (!!) successfully represented this year, with several high-class talks and poster presentations. It is therefore not surprising that many of our awards went to members of D-MATL.

Martina Cihova, currently postdoc at the Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology (LMPT), has been awarded with an Acta Student Award for her primary contribution to the Acta Biomaterialia manuscript "The role of zinc in the biocorrosion behavior of resorbable Mg–Zn–Ca alloys". The work resulted from another great collaboration between LMPT, the Medical University of Graz, and Empa Dübendorf.