Invited Talks

Title Hits
Colloquium, Chemical-Physical Society of Austria, Vienna (5.10.2010) 3387
Seminar of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (7.9.2010) 3435
Seminar of the Biomaterials Department (Prof. Peter Fratzl) Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam (9.8.2010) 3897
Seminar of the Center of Smart Interfaces, Technical University Darmstadt (28.5.2010) 3111
Séminaire de la physique statistique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (28.4.2010) 3286
Spring School of the DFG Priority Program "Interphases & Interfaces", Fulda (10.3.2010) 3337
Colloquium, Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam (9.3.2010) 3240
Physics Seminar, AG Prof. Oskar Paris, University of Leoben, Austria (13.1.2010) 3923
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, AG Prof. Kurt Binder, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (pdf, 30.11.2009) 3575
Softmatter Colloquium, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg (20.10.2009) 3376
Kolloquium, Department of Complex Matter, Josef-Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (10.09.2009) 3453
Physikalisches Kolloquium TU Ilmenau (19.05.2009) 3415
Symposium ''Functional Nanoporous Materials'', Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Dresden (24.03.2009) 3468
Physikalisches Kolloquium, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (15.01.2009) 3279
Physikalisches Kolloquium, Universität Graz (09.12.2008) 3083

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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)!

    Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and its partner institutions will receive funding totalling 70 million Euro. 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.