Highlights – Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics

May 9-11, 2017 Minisymposium: Fluids in Nanoporous Media

organized by Gennady Gor and Patrick Huber at the 9th International Conference on Porous Media (InterPore meeting), May 8-11 2017 in Rotterdam

Weiterlesen: Upcoming Minisymposium: Fluids in Nanoporous Media

24.2.2017 Review on Adsorption-Induced Deformation of Nanoporous Materials (by Gennady Gor, Noam Bernstein and Patrick Huber) published in Applied Physics Reviews.

19.9.2016 Impressions of our Alster canal canoe tour

14.9.2016 Dynamic mechanical analysis of supercooled water in nanoporous confinement published in Europhysics Letters.

22.7.2016 TUHH@DESY

Excursion to the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg. Pictures can be found here.

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News

22.05.2025 Cluster of Excellence "BlueMat: Water-driven materials" approved

BlueMat has been awarded funding through the Cluster of Excellence program (ExStra)!

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and its partner institutions will receive funding totalling 70 million Euro. The application process was challenging: out of a total of 143 draft proposals for new clusters of excellence, only 41 were invited to submit a full proposal. In this second round, the new applications competed with the 57 already established clusters. Of a total of 98 applications submitted, only 70 were approved. The Cluster of Excellence will initially be funded for seven years until 2033.

We would like to thank all of our partners for their hard work. The whole team is energized and eager to begin bringing our vision to life. Stay tuned for updates as we embark on this exciting journey!
26.02.2025 Centre for Molecular Water Science (CMWS) inaugurated

The DESY-initiated CMWS is a Europe-wide research network in the field of molecular water research. The CMWS declaration has been signed by forty-seven founding members from twelve countries – including fourteen German universities and eight Helmholtz Centres. See also the corresponding press release.
18.11.2024 Ultrafast X-ray imaging at the European XFEL of a water droplet sucked into a porous silicon membrane by capillary action
12.09.2024 Article "Deformation dynamics of nanopores upon water imbibition" published in PNAS

Our article shows by a combination of experiments and computer simulations of water imbibition in nanopores that the competition between expansive, surface stress release at pore walls and negative, contractile Laplace pressures of nanoscale menisci lead to an unusual macroscopic behavior of the porous medium, which is generic for any liquid/nanoporous solid combination. The results allow one to quantify surface and Laplace stresses and to monitor nanoscale flow and infiltration states by relatively simple length measurements of the porous medium.
17.05.2024 - New publication: "Self-Assembly of Ionic Superdiscs in Nanopores"

Our study on discotic ionic liquid crystals has been published in ACS Nano - see also the DESY press release.