Article 'Impact of confinement and polarizability on dynamics of ionic liquids' published

08.02.2022 The simulation study 'Impact of confinement and polarizability on dynamics of ionic liquids' by the group of Robert Meißner related to our experimental work was published in the Journal of Chemical Physics and is featured by the editor and on the cover page of the current issue.

 

EHAWEDRY in the DESY research magazine femto

12.2021 Our project on "Energy harvesting via wetting/drying cycles with nanoporous electrodes" (EHAWEDRY) was presented in the DESY research magazine femto (English/German version).

 

DESY Science Day 2021

02.12.2021 During the DESY Science Day 2021, we were introduced as a new research group at DESY.

 

 

Article "Dynamic Kerr and Pockels electro-optics of liquid crystals in nanopores for active photonic metamaterials " published

05.11.2021 Our publication Dynamic Kerr and Pockels electro-optics of liquid crystals in nanopores for active photonic metamaterials appeared in Nanoscale.

 

Article published: Wafer-Scale Electroactive Nanoporous Silicon: Large and Fully Reversible Electrochemo-Mechanical Actuation in Aqueous Electrolytes

22.10.2021 Our article Wafer-Scale Electroactive Nanoporous Silicon: Large and Fully Reversible Electrochemo-Mechanical Actuation in Aqueous Electrolytes has been published in Advanced Materials.

 

  1. Article "How water wets and self-hydrophilizes nanopatterns of physisorbed hydrocarbons" published
  2. Article "Laser-excited elastic guided waves reveal the complex mechanics of nanoporous silicon" published
  3. Article "Synergistic and Competitive Adsorption of Hydrophilic Nanoparticles and Oil-Soluble Surfactants at the Oil–Water Interface" published in Langmuir
  4. Revolutionizing science with Big Data - PhD project featured

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News

  • 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.

  • May 2024 - At this year's PSST conference in Brno (Czech Republic) Stella Gries received the prize for the talk of the day. Congratulations to her and also to Manfred May for the 2nd place in the best poster award of the conference!