Polymer Chemistry for Functional and Sustainable Materials

The Calvino Group joined the Cluster of Excellence livMatS at the University of Freiburg in 2021. Our research aims to design materials in which function is encoded through controlled chemical reactivity. By understanding how external stimuli such as light, heat, and mechanical force direct chemical transformations, we seek to create materials that can sense, report, adapt, repair, assemble, or disassemble on demand.