News | Dept. Bonn

Xiaoyu Jia, Xiaoqing Yu, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper on Kinetic Ionic Permeation and Interfacial Doping of Supported Graphene in Nano Lett. more

Our paper showing that CF₃-groups critically enhance the binding of thiourea catalysts to ketones – a NMR and FT-IR study has been accepted for publication in J. Mol. Liq. more

Our paper showing that the Hydrophobic pattern of alkylated ureas markedly affects water rotation and hydrogen bond dynamics in aqueous solution has been accepted for publication in PhysChemChemPhys. more

Bence Kutus wins the youth award for the best oral presentation at the 36th ICSC. Congratulations! more

MaxWater postdoc Jenée Cyran received the 2019 PHYS Division Young Investigator Award at the Fall 2019 national ACS meeting in San Diego, USA. more

Jonas Pfisterer won the poster prize at the 70^th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Durban, South Africa from 4 to 8 August 2019.

Heng Zhang, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper with the University of Strasbourg entitled Water-Dispersed High-Quality Graphene: A Green Solution for Efficient Energy Storage Applications in ACS Nano. more

Alexander Tries, Heng Zhang, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang with a team of researchers from Shanghai Jiaotong University have published a paper entitled Tunable Superstructures of Dendronized Graphene Nanoribbons in Liquid Phase in JACS. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

The PhD thesis "Structures and Dynamics of Interfacial Water - Input from Theoretical Vibrational Sum-frequency Spectroscopy" of Fujie Tang, supervised by Yuki Nagata, has been published as an "Outstanding PhD research thesis" by Springer.

Grazia Gonella and Vladimir Grachev have published a collaborative paper entitled Anchoring of Aminophosphonates on Titanium Oxide for Biomolecular Coupling in J. Phys. Chem. C. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

A team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam and MPIP in the MaxWater consortium have published a paper entitled On the origin of the extremely different solubilities of polyethers in water in Nat. Commun. (Image: © Nature Publishing Group) more

Hao Lu, Arne Schäfer, Helmut Lutz, Mischa Bonn, and Tobias Weidner have published a collaborative paper entitled Peptide-Controlled Assembly of Macroscopic Calcium Oxalate Nanosheets in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Our paper showing that the Hydrogen bond structure and dynamics of TADDOL asymmetric
organo-catalysts correlate with catalytic activity has been accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal.

Xiao Ling, Mischa Bonn, Katrin Domke and Sapun Parekh have a paper entitled Correlated interfacial water transport and proton conductivity in perfluorosulfonic acid membranes accepted at PNAS. (Image: © National Academy of Sciences) more

Christian Malm won the poster prize at the 21th JCF-Frühjahrssymposium (20-23 March 2019) in Bremen, Germany.

Yuki Nagata, Ellen Backus, Markus Mezger and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with the University of Amsterdam and Hokkaido University entitled The Surface of Ice under Equilibrium and and Nonequilibrium Conditions published in Accounts of Chemical Research. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Konrad Meister has published a collaborative paper with US, Indian, Danish and Dutch colleagues entitled Molecular structure of a hyperactive antifreeze protein adsorbed to ice in J. Chem Phys. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC) more

Konrad Meister has a collaborative paper with US colleagues and AMOLF entitled Effect of Antifreeze Glycoproteins on Organoid Survival During and After Hypothermic Storage accepted in Biomolecules. (Image: © MDPI) more

Peng Han, Hao Lu, Klaus Müllen, Mischa Bonn, Akimitsu Narita, and Enrique Canovas have published a collaborative paper entitled Chemisorption of Atomically Precise 42-Carbon Graphene Quantum Dots on Metal Oxide Films Greatly Accelerates Interfacial Electron Transfer in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Our paper on Dynamics of Dicyanamide in Ionic Liquids Are Dominated by Local Interactions has been accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem B. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Jenée Cyran, Michael Donovan, Doris Vollmer, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have published a collaborative paper on Molecular Hydrophobicity at a Marcoscopically Hydrophilic Surface in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Image: © National Academy of Sciences) more

Jenée Cyran, Ellen Backus, Marc-Jan van Zadel and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Comparative Adsorption of Acetone on Water and Ice Surfaces published in Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Lisa Dreier, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper entitled Hydration and Orientation of Carbonyl Groups in Oppositely Charged Lipid Monolayers on Water accepted in J. Phys. Chem. B. (Image: © American Chemical Society)

Konrad Meister has published a paper with US colleagues and AMOLF entitled Determination of the Solution Structure of Antifreeze Glycoproteins Using Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Christoph Bernhard, Mischa Bonn and Grazia Gonella have published a paper entitled Interfacial Conformation of Hydrophilic Polyphosphoesters Affects Blood Protein Adsorption in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more