Invited Talks

Title Hits
Keynote Lecture at the VDI/VDE Workshop "Intelligente Sensorik", Beuth Hochschule für Technik, Berlin (10.10.2018) 2243
Dynamics Days Europe 2018, Loughborough, Great Britain (6.9.2018) 2743
Seminar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany (25.5.2018) 2693
Seminar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (14.2.2018) 3536
PETRA IV Workshop on Imaging of surfaces, interfaces and nano-objects at DESY, Germany (11.10.2017) 3291
Physico-Chemical Colloquium at University of Stuttgart (24.07.2017) 3293
Seminar in the Physics Department at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (10.04.17) 3662
DESY Workshop on Surface and Interface Diffraction in Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry, Hamburg, Germany (10.3.2017) 3412
Physics Colloquium at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany (20.01.2017) 3783
Kick-Off Meeting of the Collaborative Research Center 1194: Interaction between Transport and Wetting Processes at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany (13.12.2016) 3396
Colloquium Materials Modelling at University of Stuttgart, Germany (3.11.2016) 3608
German Conference on Neutron Scattering 2016, Kiel, Germany (21.9.2016) 3653
Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, Wuerzburg, Germany (16.6.2016) 3812
Keynote Lecture at the 7th Panhellenic Symposium on Porous Materials, Ioannina, Greece (3.6.2016) 3521
Seminar of the European Spallation Source (ESS), Lund, Sweden (13.4.2016) 4197

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News

  • 22.05.2025 Cluster of Excellence "BlueMat: Water-driven materials" approved

    BlueMat has been awarded funding through the Cluster of Excellence program (ExStra)!

    The application process was challenging: out of a total of 143 draft proposals for new clusters of excellence, only 41 were invited to submit a full proposal. In this second round, the new applications competed with the 57 already established clusters. Of a total of 98 applications submitted, only 70 were approved. The Cluster of Excellence will initially be funded for seven years until 2033.

    We would like to thank all of our partners for their hard work. The whole team is energized and eager to begin bringing our vision to life. Stay tuned for updates as we embark on this exciting journey!

  • 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.