The research groups Smart membranes and Macromolecular and Paper Chemistry at TU Damstadt (https://www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/map/index.en.jsp // https://www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/brunsen/smart_membranes_the_group/index.en.jsp) develop together with the startup company CeraSleeve (https://www.cerasleeve.com/ ), smart paper coatings to optimize physical properties such as wet-strength for example in a sustainable way avoiding plastics. The coatings are based on sol-gel chemistry applied to the paper fibres. The porosity of these coatings can be tuned to finely control paper properties.
The IMBM team at the laboratory for Material Sciences and Physical Engineering (LMGP, http://www.lmgp.grenoble-inp.fr/) at the Grenoble Institute of Technology analyses surface adsorption of proteins and other molecules on different materials to understand the correlations between physico-chemical properties of material surfaces and molecular adsorption profiles.
A research collaboration within the framework of Unite! is initiated to work on protein adsorption on mesoporous as well as dense silica-functionalised papers.