Photon Science Highlight 2018

15.1.2019 Discrete supermolecular ring assembly: From nanoscale physics to metamaterials science

published as highlight in the Photon Science Report 2018 of DESY.

 

Elastocapillarity in Nanopores

31.8.2018 Elastocapillarity in Nanopores

Study on sorption strain from the actions of surface tension and surface stress published in Physical Review Materials.

 

Oil Imbibition in Nanopores

5.8.2018 Oil Imbibition in Nanopores
Study on silicone oil imbibition has been published online in "Transport in Porous Media": Capillarity-Driven Oil Flow in Nanopores: Darcy Scale Analysis of Lucas-Washburn Imbibition Dynamics.


 

TUHH@DESY 2018

25.6.2018 TUHH@DESY
Students and staff of Hamburg University of Technology visited Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and enjoyed a tour across the campus and the PETRA III beamlines guided by Milena Lippmann and Oliver Seeck. A few impressions can be found here.

 

Quantized Formation of Nano Rings in Nanopores

5.2.2018 Quantized self-assembly of liquid-crystalline nano rings, pubished in Physical Review Letters. See the press release of TUHH (English, German) and DESY (English, German).

 

  1. Minisymposium on InterPore 2018 in New Orleans
  2. Ferroelectric liquid crystal confined in cylindrical nanopores
  3. Impressions of our Luhe canoe trip
  4. Excursion to DESY

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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!