Fabian Meder
Post Doc

About
Fabian Meder graduated in 2008 in Bio- and Nanotechnology from South Westphalia University of Applied Science, Germany and obtained a PhD in Material Science with highest honors from University of Bremen, Germany in 2013 on adsorption processes at biointerfaces and how to guide them by surface functionalization. Before joining IIT in 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany (2016-2017), at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (2016, 6 months), and the Centre for BioNano Interactions at University College Dublin, Ireland (2013-2016), and he worked as a graduate student researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, EMPA, Switzerland (2007-2008). During his career, he collaborated with 14 research groups from 10 institutions and 5 different countries. He supervised a total of 11 PhD, Master, Bachelor and internship students from 6 different countries.
His research interest lies in the edge between materials science and biology and the processes occurring on biological and material surfaces at all scales. His current research as a postdoc at IIT focusses on novel energy sources based on electrical phenomena occurring on plant and material surfaces and new materials for soft robotics.
Interests
Nanotechnology Self-Assembly Plants Bioinspired Materials Energy HarvestingSelected Publications
How generating energy with living plants? Have a look at this paper:
Meder F.*, Must I., Sadeghi A., Mondini A., Filippeschi C., Beccai L., Mattoli V., Pingue P., Mazzolai B.*
Energy Conversion at the Cuticle of Living Plants, Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 28, 51. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201806689
How to create sub-10 nm patterns on colloidal particles? One possibility is given here:
Meder F.*, Thomas S.S., Bollhorst T., Dawson K.A.*
Ordered Surface Structuring of Spherical Colloids with Binary Nanoparticle Superlattices, Nano Letters 2018, 18, 4. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00173
Looking for a light-driven soft actuator? Perhaps this one can be interesting:
Meder F.*, Naselli G.A., Sadeghi A.*, Mazzolai B.*
Remotely Light-Powered Soft Fluidic Actuators Based on Plasmonic-Driven Phase Transitions in Elastic Constraint, Advanced Materials 2019, 31, 51. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201905671
IIT Publications
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Biohybrid Wind Energy Generators Based on Living Plants
9th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, vol. 12413 -
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Living plant-hybrid generators for multidirectional wind energy conversion
Energy Technology, vol. Accepted -
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Nanoparticle Superlattices
21st Century Nanoscience – A Handbook: Exotic Nanostructures and Quantum Systems (Volume Five) - 2019
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Actuators: Remotely Light‐Powered Soft Fluidic Actuators Based on Plasmonic‐Driven Phase Transitions in Elastic Constraint (Adv. Mater. 51/2019)
Advanced Materials, vol. 31, (no. 51), pp. Front Cover -
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Remotely Light-Powered Soft Fluidic Actuators Based on Plasmonic-Driven Phase Transitions in Elastic Constraint
Advanced Materials, vol. 31, (no. 51) -
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Rose-Inspired Micro-device with Variable Stiffness for Remotely Controlled Release of Objects in Robotics
8th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, pp. 122-133 - 2018
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Advances in optoplasmonic sensors - Combining optical nano/microcavities and photonic crystals with plasmonic nanostructures and nanoparticles
Nanophotonics, vol. 7, (no. 1), pp. 1-38 -
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Biological recognition of graphene nanoflakes
Nature Communications, vol. 9, (no. 1) -
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Energy Conversion at the Cuticle of Living Plants
Advanced Functional Materials -
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Ordered Surface Structuring of Spherical Colloids with Binary Nanoparticle Superlattices
Nano Letters, vol. 18, (no. 4), pp. 2511-2518 - 2017
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Locating Reactive Groups on Nanomaterials with Gold Nanoclusters: Toward a Surface Reactive Site Map
Langmuir, vol. 33, (no. 20), pp. 5086–5097 -
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Synthesis, characterization and programmable toxicity of iron oxide nanoparticles conjugated with D-amino acid oxidase
RSC Advances, vol. 7, (no. 3), pp. 1439-1442 - 2016
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Constructing bifunctional nanoparticles for dual targeting: Improved grafting and surface recognition assessment of multiple ligand nanoparticles
Nanoscale, vol. 8, (no. 38), pp. 16969-16975 -
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Labeling the Structural Integrity of Nanoparticles for Advanced in Situ Tracking in Bionanotechnology
ACS Nano, vol. 10, (no. 4), pp. 4660-4671 - 2015
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CHAPTER 7: Protein interactions at liquid/solid interfaces: Protein interactions with colloidal alumina particles functionalized with amino, carboxyl, sulfonate and phosphate groups
RCS Smart Materials - 2014
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Gills are an initial target of zinc oxide nanoparticles in oysters Crassostrea gigas, leading to mitochondrial disruption and oxidative stress
Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 153, pp. 27-38 -
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Physicochemical properties and biodegradability of organically functionalized colloidal silica particles in aqueous environment
Chemosphere, vol. 99, pp. 96-101 - 2013
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Adsorption and orientation of the physiological extracellular peptide glutathione disulfide on surface functionalized colloidal alumina particles
Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 135, (no. 16), pp. 6307-6316 -
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Controlling mixed-protein adsorption layers on colloidal alumina particles by tailoring carboxyl and hydroxyl surface group densities
Langmuir, vol. 29, (no. 40), pp. 12502-12510 -
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Controlling protein-particle adsorption by surface tailoring colloidal alumina particles with sulfonate groups
Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 9, (no. 3), pp. 5780-5787 -
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Functionalized ceramics for biomedical, biotechnological and environmental applications
Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 9, (no. 7), pp. 7115-7150 -
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The role of surface functionalization of colloidal alumina particles on their controlled interactions with viruses
Biomaterials, vol. 34, (no. 17), pp. 4203-4213 - 2012
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Fluorescence labeling of colloidal core-shell particles with defined isoelectric points for in vitro studies
Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 8, (no. 2), pp. 720-727 -
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High virus retention mediated by zirconia microtubes with tailored porosity
Procedia Engineering, vol. 44, pp. 227-228 -
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High virus retention mediated by zirconia microtubes with tailored porosity
Journal of the European Ceramic Society, vol. 32, (no. 16), pp. 4111-4120 -
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Protein adsorption on colloidal alumina particles functionalized with amino, carboxyl, sulfonate and phosphate groups
Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 8, (no. 3), pp. 1221-1229 -
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Virus removal in ceramic depth filters based on diatomaceous earth
Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 46, (no. 2), pp. 1173-1177 - 2010
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Interaction of oxide nanoparticles with bone cells
European Cells and Materials, vol. 20, (no. SUPPL.3), pp. 47 -
Variation of surface functional groups of oxide nanoparticles and their impact on protein interactions
European Cells and Materials, vol. 20, (no. SUPPL.3), pp. 177
Awards
2020 Best paper award Living Machines Conference 2020
2016 – 2016 Early career research fellowship ME4296 1-2 by German Research Foundation (DFG) for 6 months at University of Erlangen, Germany
2014 – 2016 Early career research fellowship ME4296 1-1 by German Research Foundation (DFG) for 24 months at the University College Dublin, Ireland
2014 1st Science Award of Oldenburgische Landesbank (“OLB Wissenschaftspreis 2014”) for PhD thesis, Germany
2014 Award for excellent contribution in natural and engineering sciences for PhD thesis (Bremer Studienpreis 2014), Germany
2012 Best Paper of 2012, Acta Materialia Student Award, Pennsylvania, USA