Technische Universität Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung

North Carolina State University

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of Pennsylvania

Duke University

Triangle MRSEC

Funding from the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) is gratefully acknowledged.

We wish to thank the DAAD for additional funding of our graduate program.