AdsorptionInducedDeformationNanopores

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

 

IWW Canoe tour

19.9.2016 Impressions of our Alster canal canoe tour

 

Dynamic mechanical analysis of supercooled water in nanoporous confinement

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

 

Excursion to DESY

22.7.2016 TUHH@DESY

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

SXNS 14 at Stony Brook, NY

10.7.-14.7.2016 SXNS 14 - 14th International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering at Stony Brook, New York
Pictures of the conference and banquet honouring Peter Pershan's and Ian Robinson's contributions to the field can be found here.

 
  1. Karl H. Ditze-Prize
  2. Chiral Phases of a Confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystal: Anchoring-Dependent Helical and Smectic Self-Assembly in Nanochannels
  3. Minisymposium on "Fluids in Nanoporous Media"
  4. Formation of Periodically Arranged Nanobubbles in Mesopores

Page 10 of 21

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!