EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL TEAM Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. (FH) Antje Hetebrüg, Jan Müller M. A., Dipl.-Des. Thaya Schroeder (picture), Dr. Claudia Vorbeck and the scientists referred to as authors or contact persons. LAYOUT AND PRODUCTION Dipl.-Des. Thaya Schroeder PRINTING Fraunhofer Verlag, Mediendienstleistungen, Stuttgart, Germany EDITORIAL ADDRESS Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB Dr. Claudia Vorbeck Nobelstraße 12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany TRANSLATIONS, PROOFREADING Dr. Stuart Amor, Stuttgart, Germany Sherrie Blackman-Linse, Greußenheim, Germany Textworks Translations, Manchester, UK Dr. Sabine Wacker | Wacker Translation, Aichwald, Germany PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Altmann, Jürgen: page 7 Baden-Württemberg: Connected e. V.: page 29 Canoe: page 79 Doering, Sven: page 78 Fogel, Walter: pages 13, 34, 42 Fotolia: pages 88, 97 iStockphoto: page 76 Krötz, Rafael: pages 37, 46, 84 Michalke, Norbert: pages 23, 27, 35, 39, 87 Müller, Bernd: pages 60, 61, 64 Shutterstock: pages 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 83, 87, 94 All other photographs and igures © Fraunhofer IGB / Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft BioVaSc-TERM®, BoneVaSc-TERM®, GutVaSc-TERM®, LunVaSc-TERM®, OncoVaSc-TERM®, SkinVaSc- TERM®, TraVaSc-TERM®, ePhos®, NANOCYTES®, Morgenstadt® and POLO® are registered trademarks of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V., München, Germany. This annual report was printed climate neutral with mineral oil-free inks. The paper used is 100% recycled and FSC-certiied, as well as awarded the EU Ecolabel AT / 11 / 002 and the Blue Angel. Reproduction of any material requires the editors’ consent. © Fraunhofer IGB, Stuttgart 2017 1 0 5