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SCHWARZ Niklas

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Soft Matter Physics

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

Phone:	+41 26 300 8965
Email:	niklas.schwarz@unifr.ch
	0009-0004-3551-4535

Projects lead

Hybrid Photonic Materials with Titania-Enhanced Block Copolymer Structures

By integrating titania nanoparticles into self-assembled block copolymers, we create hybrid materials…

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Projects team

Block copolymer self-assembly

Block copolymer self-assembly unlocks large, ordered 3D nanostructures for advanced material applications

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Bio-Inspired Photonic Pigments for Non-Fading, Structural Colouration (Marie-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship)

Inspired by nature’s most vibrant colors, COLOUR project pioneers a new class of photonic pigments that…

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Complete photonic band gap materials

Three dimensional photonic crystals with complete photonic band gap obtained via the self-assembly of…

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Publications

Tunable Photonic Paints via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly and Refractive Index Engineering
Simone Bertucci, Remi Schobinger, Liviana Mummolo, Niklas Schwarz, Paola Lova, Christoph Weder, Davide Comoretto, Ullrich Steiner, Francesco Di Stasio, Andrea Dodero
ACS Applied Polymer Materials 7 , 8743-8754 (2025)

Diffractive order Mueller matrix ellipsometry for the design and manufacture of polarization beam splitting metasurfaces
Victoria M. Bjelland, Nathan Hale, Niklas Schwarz, Daniel Vala, Jens Høvik, Morten Kildemo
Optics Express 32 , 703 (2024)