This project focuses on investigations of Polypyrol (PPy) inside tubular pores in a micro-, meso-, and macro-porous Silicon (PSi). PPy offers the possibility to modify the electrical conductivity of PSi in a controlled way. It furthermore opens up sensoric and actoric applications for the PPy/PSi hybrid system. The experiments with the 1D system will be complemented by investigations in the planar 2D geometry. This combined approach permits to establish PPy/PSi as a multiscale hybrid model system within the SFB 986, and at the same time it opens up application-oriented developments.

Stella Gries, Manuel Brinker, Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Dagmar Rings, Tobias Krekeler, Elena Longo, Imke Gering, and Patrick Huber
 
Fernando Vazquez Luna, Anjani K. Maurya, Juliana Martins de Souza e Silva, Guido Dittrich, Theresa Paul, Dirk Enke, Patrick Huber, Ralf Wehrspohn, and Martin Steinhart
 
Fernando Vazquez LunaMichael GerstenbergerGuido DittrichJuliana Martins de Souza e SilvaPatrick HuberRalf Wehrspohn, and Martin Steinhart
 
Pirmin H. Lakner, Manuel Brinker, Christoph Seitz, Leon Jacobse, Vedran Vonk, Milena Lippmann, Sergey Volkov, Patrick Huber, and Thomas F. Keller

Giant electrochemical actuation in a nanoporous silicon-polypyrrole hybrid material [pdf]
Manuel Brinker, Guido Dittrich, Claudia Richert, Pirmin Lakner, Tobias Krekeler, Thomas F. Keller, Norbert Huber, Patrick Huber
Science Advances 6, eaba1483 (2020).  

Adsorption-induced deformation of nanoporous materials - A review [pdf]
Gennady Gor, Patrick Huber, Noam Bernstein
Applied Physics Reviews 4, 011303 (2017).