01.09.2022 Aqueous Electrolytes in Nanoporous Media: Structure, Dynamics and Electrochemo-Mechanical Actuation: See press release of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on a new collaborative DFG-NSF project between the group of Gennady Gor (NJIT), Michael Fröba (University of Hamburg) and us.

 

 

12.04.2022 Feierliche Eröffnung des Centre for X-ray and Nano Science (CXNS) Gebäudes in der Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld. Hier gibt es eine Aufzeichnung des offiziellen Teils mit den Forschungsministerinnen Stark-Watzinger, Prien und Fegebank. DESY-Pressemitteilung. Three research ministers open Centre for X-ray and Nano Science at DESY, see the DESY press release here.

 

31.03.2022 Our web page moved to a new domain: www.mxp.tuhh.de. Update your bookmarks!

 

 

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.

 

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).

 

  1. DESY Science Day 2021
  2. Article "Dynamic Kerr and Pockels electro-optics of liquid crystals in nanopores for active photonic metamaterials " published
  3. Article published: Wafer-Scale Electroactive Nanoporous Silicon: Large and Fully Reversible Electrochemo-Mechanical Actuation in Aqueous Electrolytes
  4. Article "How water wets and self-hydrophilizes nanopatterns of physisorbed hydrocarbons" published

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News

  • 15.02.2023 Our article on the fabrication of hierachically porous silicon and silica has been published in the jorunal 'Small'. See also DESY's press release.

     

  • 28.11.2022 A study on in operando high-resolution X-ray diffraction and electron tomography-based micromechanical computer simulations of electrochemical actuation in pSi-polypyrrole composites was published in Physical Review Materials.

     

  • 14.11.2022 Hamburg scientists win North German Science Prize: The Centre for Multiscale Integrated Materials Systems (CIMMS), a materials science centre in which our institute is involved, receives the North German Science Award 2022. Here you can find the corresponding press release in German and here a short summary on Instagram.

     

  • 09.11.2022 Our joined work with the research group of Philippe Coussot (Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris) on drying of mesoporous silica glass using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was published in Physical Review Applied.

     

  • 08.09.2022 Poster Prize for Zhuoqing Li: Congratulations to Zhuoqing Li for winning the poster prize with his presentation entitled "Structure and Textural Transitions of an Ionic Liquid Crystal in Nanoporous Solids" at the annual meeting of the Condensed Matter division of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) in Regensburg, Germany.