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.

 

Karl H. Ditze-Prize

6.7.2016 Karl H. Ditze-Prize 2016
Birthe Kist received the Karl H. Ditze-Prize for her outstanding Bachelor thesis "Design of a Crystal Bender for a Spectrum Analyser at the Materials Imaging and Dynamics Beamline of the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser", performed in cooperation with Anders Madsens's research group at European XFEL (see also the press release of TUHH).

 

Chiral Phases of a Confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystal: Anchoring-Dependent Helical and Smectic Self-Assembly in Nanochannels

24.5.2016 Chiral Phases of a Confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystal: Anchoring-Dependent Helical and Smectic Self-Assembly in Nanochannels was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

 

Minisymposium on "Fluids in Nanoporous Media"

10.5.2016 Minisymposium on "Fluids in Nanoporous Media" in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA)

Pictures of the symposium jointly organized by Gennady Gor and Patrick Huber at the 8th International Conference on Porous Media (InterPore - International Society for Porous Media) can be found here.

 

 

Formation of Periodically Arranged Nanobubbles in Mesopores

4.3.2016 Formation of Periodically Arranged Nanobubbles in Mesopores: Capillary Bridge Formation and Cavitation during Sorption and Solidification in an Hierarchical Porous SBA-15 Matrix, published in Langmuir.

 

  1. Hydraulic transport across hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanopores: Flow experiments with water and n-hexane
  2. pH-Dependent Selective Protein Adsorption into Mesoporous Silica
  3. Capillary rise dynamics of liquid hydrocarbons in mesoporous silica as explored by gravimetry, optical and neutron imaging
  4. 26.9.2015 Photowalk at Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg (Germany)

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News

  • 05.06.2026 Water, Clay and Carbon: A New Route to Sustainable Energy Storage

    🌎 Water, Clay and Carbon: A New Route to Sustainable Energy Storage - we demonstrate an all-water supercapacitor stable over 60,000 charging cycles. 

    💧⚡Can pure water store electrical energy? A research team within the Cluster of Excellence BlueMat – Water-Driven Materials has now shown that it can.

    🔋 By confining water within nanometer-sized channels in clay minerals, the team developed a supercapacitor capable of efficiently storing and transporting electrical charge with remarkable stability.

    💡 Read more in our latest press release ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dttmcBcQ

    Publication:
    Artemov, V. et al., All-water supercapacitor enabled by 1-nm clay channels, Nat Commun 17, 5014 (2026).

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73924-1

  • 23.04.2026 Lehmann Prize awarded to Patrick Huber

    🏆 Congratulations to Patrick Huber on receiving the Volker Lehmann Prize for the most outstanding talk at the 2026 Porous Semiconductors Science and Technology Conference (PSST2026) in Naples, Italy.

    💧 His presentation, “Nature’s Blueprint: Water-Enabled Functions in Hierarchically Porous Silicon,” showcased key research directions of the Cluster of Excellence BlueMat: Water-Driven Materials. 

    🏆 The Lehmann Prize honors Volker Lehmann, who—together with Leigh Canham and Ulrich Gösele - co-discovered the quantum confinement effect in silicon.

  • 22.10.2025  Water as an energy carrier: nanoporous silicon generates electricity from friction with water

    Exciting news! Our new publication in Nano Energy presents a novel way for converting mechanical energy into electricity – by harnessing water confined in nanometre-sized pores of silicon as the active working fluid (press release).

  • 29.09.2025 Colossal Effect of Nanopore Surface Ionic Charge on the Dynamics of Confined Water

    In a recent publication, we report a particularly rewarding result from a French-German collaboration linking Hamburg, Rennes, Grenoble and Paris, with key neutron scattering experiments carried out at the high-flux neutron reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. 

    We show that water behaves very differently when confined to tiny nanopores—and that surface charge makes all the difference. Adding ionic charges to pore walls dramatically slows down water motion, not just in the vicinity of the pore wall but throughout the entire pore. This long-range control goes far beyond simple wetting effects and highlights surface charge as a powerful tool for using water as a nanoscale working fluid in water-driven materials, membranes, and nanotechnologies.

  • 09.09.2025 When symmetry breaks in tiny spaces

    Nanopores unlock hidden chirality in exotic liquid crystals – with the observation now made by us within an international cooperation with Ukraine, France and Poland, they might find even wider usage in energy storage or conversion or tunable lenses (see press release).