Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

11 years back after the German unification the Science Council evaluated the institutes of the former GDR Academy of Sciences. They concluded that there were most promising activities in the institutes of Physical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof and of former Polymer Chemistry in Teltow that could be integrated into a prospective Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. This proposal was taken up by a committee of the Max-Planck-Society that realized a large potential and need for basic science in this area between physics, chemistry and biology.