Materials Science & Nanobiotechnology

Giersig has made significant contributions to the rational synthesis and fundamental investigation of low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and functional metallic nanostructures with tuneable  electronic structures / interfaces and unique physical properties for advanced energy and biomedical technologies. Some of his most notable research, published to date in  Science, Advances in Physics, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and Nature Communications, has focused on how nanoscience fundamentally affects several key electronics and energy technologies. Since joining the Faculty of Physics at the FU-Berlin in 2009, Giersig has established a first-class research program in nanomaterials science and their applications in electronics and biomedicine. His research group has published numerous effective contributions to various prestigious journals and magazines and has filed numerous patents. He has published over 290 internationally refereed publications covering physics, chemistry, material science, biochemistry, medicine, nanotechnology and engineering. His work has been cited over 20 100 times, quoted in the ISI Index (without self-citations) at an average of over “76” citations per publication, while his h-index is currently “76”.

 â€‹Advances in the controlled growth and characterization of high–quality nanomaterials have been the key enablers in establishing the basis of modern applications of such materials in electronics and live science. The development of a new generation of smart nanosized materials requires the corresponding knowledge. One of the most prominent applications of nanotechnology is the design of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale. The most well-known description of nanotechnology was established by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, which defines nanotechnology as the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers. The impact of nanotechnology extends from its medical, ethical, mental, legal and environmental applications, to fields such as engineering, medicine, chemistry, computing and materials-science. During this lecture we will focus on various nanoparticles prepared by physical and wet chemistry methods and their applications depending on their unusual properties such size, morphology, electronic structures and biocompatibility.