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Xiaomin Liu and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper entitled Nonlinearity-tailored fiber laser technology for low-noise, ultra-wideband tunable femtosecond light generation published in Photonics Research. (Image: © The Optical Society) more

Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich are part of a collaboration that has published a paper in Nature Nanotechnology on electron-phonon interactions in graphene/Boronnitride stacks: Out-of-plane heat transfer in van der Waals stacks through electron–hyperbolic phonon coupling. (Image: © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.) more

Mike Donovan, Helmut Lutz, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have a collaborative paper with the Pfaendtner group at the University of Washington entitled LK peptide side chain dynamics at interfaces are independent of secondary structure published in PCCP. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

Christoph Bernhard, Johannes Franz, Tobias Weidner, Mischa Bonn and Grazia Gonella have a collaborative paper on Repelling and ordering: the influence of poly(ethylene glycol) on protein adsorption published in PCCP. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

Mischa Bonn has been elected a 2017 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives upon the recommendation
of the Division of Chemical Physics (DCP).

Johannes Hunger and Mischa Bonn have a paper  Picosecond orientational dynamics of water in living cells published in Nat. Commun. It is a collaborative paper with the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences and the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam. more

Fujie Tang, Alejandra Sánchez, Ellen Backus, Taisuke Hasegawa, Mischa Bonn, and Yuki Nagata have published a collaborative paper A maximum in interfacial hydrogen bonding occurs at 200 K at the single crystalline ice – air interface in PRL. (Image: © American Physical Society) more

Keno Krewer, Ke Jiang, Zuanming Jin, Zoltan Mics, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper with the Landfester group and collaborators from Mainz, Erlangen, Bingen, Shanghai on Large area conductive nanoaperture arrays with strong optical resonances and spectrally flat terahertz transmission published in APL. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC)

Hai Wang, Alexander Tries and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper with the Müllen group and other collaborators from Mainz, Dresden, Leuven and Modena on Lateral Fusion of Chemical Vapor Deposited N = 5 Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons in JACS. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Hai Wang, Zoltan Mics, Dmitry Turchinovich and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper with the Müllen group and MAINZ graduate school on Photoswitchable Micro-Supercapacitor Based on a Diarylethene-Graphene Composite Film in JACS. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Johannes Hunger and Sapun Parekh have published a perspective on A water window on surface chemistry in Science. (Image: © AAAS) more

Lisa Dreier won 2nd place in the Best Poster Presentation competition at the Lorentz & Psi-k Workshop "Fundamental Electrocatalysis: Theory Meets Experiments" in Leiden, Netherlands from 26 to 30 June 2017.

Christoph Bernhard won an honorable mention for his talk at the 9th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS-9) in Victoria, Canada from 11 to 16 June.

Jan Schäfer, Grazia Gonella, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper on Surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy of the water/silica interface: screening and interference accepted to PCCP. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

Helmut Lutz, Lars Schmüser, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have published a paper in Angewandte Chemie entitled The structure of the diatom silaffin peptide R5 within freestanding two-dimensional biosilica sheets. The article is a collaboration with researchers at the University of Washington (Seattle) and the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Christian Malm, Heejae Kim, Manfred Wagner, and Johannes Hunger have a paper on Complexity in acid-base titrations: Multimer formation between phosphoric acids and imines accepted to Chem. Eur. J. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Johannes Franz, Tobias Weidner and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper with partners at the University of Mainz and the Polymer Theory Department at the MPIP on Nitrated fatty acids modulate the physical properties of model membranes and the structure of transmembrane proteins in Chem. – Eur. J. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Vasilis Balos wins the poster prize at the 116th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society. more

Ivan Ivanov, Hai Wang, Dmitry Turchinovich and Mischa Bonn have a paper on Role of Edge Engineering in Photoconductivity of Graphene Nano-ribbons just accepted to JACS. This synthetic-spectroscopic-theoretical study of the effect of edge engineering in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) on their photoconductivity is a collaboration with the Müllen and Narita groups (MPIP) and the University of Mons. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with the Nakamura group from the University of Tokyo entitled Conical Ionic Amphiphiles Endowed with Micellization Ability but Lacking Air– and Oil–Water Interfacial Activity accepted to JACS. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Hao Lu, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner published an article entitled Thiolated Lysine-Leucine Peptides Self-Assemble into Biosilica Nucleation Pits on Gold Surfaces in Advanced Materials Interfaces. The work is a collaboration with the Pfaendtner lab at the University of Washington, Seattle. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Simon Bretschneider and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with Frédéric Laquai (KAUST) entitled Trap-Free Hot Carrier Relaxation in Lead-Halide Perovskite Films accepted to J. Phys. Chem. C. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Johannes Franz and Tobias Weidner have published a paper in Biointerphases entitled Identifying the selectivity of antimicrobial peptides to cell membranes by sum frequency generation spectroscopy. The work is a collaboration with the group of Joe Baio at Oregon State University. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC) more

Johannes Franz, Marc-Jan van Zadel and Tobias Weidner have published a paper in Review of Scientific Instruments entitled A trough for improved SFG spectroscopy of lipid monolayers. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC) more

On 15 March 2017 Ellen Backus was appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam.

Dmitry Turchinovich was appointed Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen on 1 April 2017.

Ulmas Zhumaev has been selected to participate in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting taking place in Lindau from 25 to 30 June 2017. more

Vasilis Balos, Mischa Bonn, and Johannes Hunger have a paper showing that Anionic and Cationic Hofmeister Effects Are Non-Additive for Guanidinium Salts accepted to PhysChemChemPhys. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

Ellen Backus, Alejandra Sánchez, Jenée Cyran and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Surface charge-induced orientation of interfacial water suppresses heterogeneous ice nucleation on α-alumina (0001) just accepted to ACPD. (Image: © IMKAAF / MPI-P) more

Ivan Ivanov, Dmitry Turchinovich and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with the Müllen group on Ultra-Narrow Low-Bandgap Graphene Nanoribbons from Bromoperylenes - Synthesis and Terahertz-Spectroscopy just accepted to Chem. - Eur. J. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Hai Wang, Ivan Ivanov, Dmitry Turchinovich and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with the Müllen group on Chemical vapor deposition synthesis and terahertz photoconductivity of low-bandgap N = 9 armchair graphene nanoribbons just accepted to JACS. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Dmitry Turchinovich, Francesco D'Angelo and M. Bonn have published a paper on Femtosecond-timescale buildup of electron mobility in GaAs observed via ultrabroadband transient terahertz spectroscopy in APL. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC) more

Hai Wang, Zoltan Mics, Hao Lu, Dmitry Turchinovich and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Reversible Photochemical Control of Doping Levels in Supported Graphene accepted to J. Phys. Chem. C. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

A paper by Tatsuhiko Ohto, Johannes Hunger, Ellen Backus, Mischa Bonn, Yuki Nagata and collaborator entitled Trimethylamine-N-oxide: its hydration structure, surface activity, and biological function, viewed by vibrational spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations has been accepted at Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. The article was chosen for the front cover. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

Helmut Lutz, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have published an article jointly with collaborators at the University of Washington and the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry entitled Acetylation dictates the morphology of nanophase biosilica precipitated by a 14-amino acid leucine–lysine peptide. The paper is part of a special issue in the Journal of Peptide Science. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more