Helmuth Möhwald, Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, passed away on March 27, 2018, at the age of 72. Möhwald's scientific achievements included the development of the layer-by-layer (LbL) technique to prepare ultrathin organized organic films, and its application in the coating of colloidal particles.
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