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KAINZ Thomas

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Soft Matter Physics

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Office:	A325
Phone:	+41 26 300 8960
Email:	thomas.kainz@unifr.ch

Projects lead

Colloidal self-assembly for fabricating optical materials

Structured materials made from the self-assembly of colloidal particles

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Colloidal Depletion for Sorting and Structural Coloration

We harness depletion forces to control colloidal interactions—enabling precision sorting and the emergence…

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Projects team

Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC)

Discovering hidden correlations in disordered photonic materials

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3D Nonlinear Photonic Crystals from Biotemplating

Investigating the interplay between a 3D linear photonic crystal and a nonlinear optical material

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Inverted 3D Photonic Crystals from Colloidal Self-Assembly

Using templated self-assembly and material inversion, this project creates 3D photonic crystals with…

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Disordered Diamond-Like Colloidal Networks for Photonic Bandgap Materials

We design self-assembled colloidal structures with diamond symmetry and controlled disorder—enabling…

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