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Alejandra Sánchez, Marc-Jan van Zadel, Jenée Cyran, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper Experimental and theoretical evidence for bilayer-by-bilayer surface melting of crystalline ice published in PNAS. It is a collaborative paper with University of Toyama, Tufts University, University of Mainz, FOM Institute AMOLF, Tohoku University, Kyoto University and University of California. (Image: © National Academy of Sciences) more

Tobias Weidner has published a paper entitled Predicting the orientation of protein G B1 on hydrophobic surfaces using Monte Carlo simulations in Biointerphases. The article is a collaboration with researchers at the University of Washington. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC) more

Jan Schäfer, Ellen Backus, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Both Inter- and Intramolecular Coupling of O–H Groups Determine the Vibrational Response of the Water/Air Interface published in J. Phys. Chem. Letters. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Grazia Gonella has published a collaborative paper with the Roke Group at EPFL entitled Optical label-free and model-free probe of the surface potential of nanoscale and microscopic objects in aqueous solution in Phys. Rev. B. (Image: © American Physical Society) more

Ruth Livingstone, Zhen Zhang, Johannes Hunger, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a collaborative paper entitled Water in Contact with a Cationic Lipid Exhibits Bulklike Vibrational Dynamics published in JPCB. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

The European Research Council (ERC) supports the project Fundamentals of ASymmeTric Organo-CATalysis (FASTO-CAT) by Johannes Hunger with an ERC Starting Grant of 1.9 million euros. more

Kathrin Stadelmann, Amala Elizabeth, Natalia Martin Sabanés and Katrin Domke have published a paper entitled The SERS signature of PbS quantum dot oxidation in Vibrational Spectroscopy. (Image: © Elsevier B. V.) more

Hao Lu and Tobias Weidner have published a paper in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry entitled The Interaction of 1,1’-Diphosphaferrocenes with Gold: Molecular Coordination Chemistry and Adsorption on Solid Substrates. The work is a collaboration with the Siemeling lab at the University of Kassel. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Jenée Cyran has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers on Shedding Light on the Mechanism of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Reactions on Ice Surfaces.

Johannes Hunger and Richard Buchner from the University of Regensburg have published a book chapter on Femto- to Nanosecond Dynamics in Ionic Liquids: From Single Molecules to Collective Motions in Advances in Dielectrics. (Image: © J. Hunger, MPI-P) more

Saman Hosseinpour will be awarded The Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award 2016 for the best doctoral thesis in corrosion science and electrochemistry world-wide at the PRiME2016 meeting on Honolulu in October. more

Frederik Fleissner, Mischa Bonn and Sapun Parekh have published a paper entitled Microscale spatial heterogeneity of protein structural transitions in fibrin matrices in Science Advances. (Image: © American Association for the Advancement of Science) more

Dmitry Turchinovich has just been selected as one of the 2016 Senior Members of The Optical Society (OSA). more

Vasileios Balos, Heejae Kim, Mischa Bonn, and Johannes Hunger have a study entitled Dissecting Hofmeister Effects: Direct Anion–Amide Interactions Are Weaker than Cation–Amide Binding accepted to Angewandte Chemie. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
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Grazia Gonella has a joint paper with collaborators at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) entitled Second Harmonic and Sum-Frequency Generation from Aqueous Interfaces Is Modulated by Interference published in J. Phys. Chem. C. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Johannes Franz, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have a joint paper with collaborators at the University of Washington and the University of Jena entitled SAP(E) – A Cell-Penetrating Polyproline Helix at Lipid Interfaces accepted in BBA Biomembranes. (Image: © Elsevier B. V.) more

Dmitry Turchinovich has a collaborative paper entitled Stain-free histopathology by programmable supercontinuum pulses published in Nature Photonics. (Image: © Macmillan Publishers Limited) more

Dmitry Turchinovich has a collaborative paper on Efficient metallic spintronic emitters of ultrabroadband terahertz radiation published in Nature Photonics. (Image: © Macmillan Publishers Limited) more

Fujie Tang, Mischa Bonn and Yuki Nagata have published a collaborative paper entitled Vibrational Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Water in Chemical Reviews. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Francesco D'Angelo, Sapun Parekh, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a paper on Self-referenced ultra-broadband transient terahertz spectroscopy using air-photonics accepted to Optics Express. (Image: © The Optical Society) more

Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper entitled Water orientation and hydrogen-bond structure at the fluorite/water interface accepted to Scientific Reports. (Image: © Macmillan Publishers Limited) more

Ice crystals: Max Planck researchers discovered that certain bacteria can affect the ordering and the dynamics of water molecules in water droplets. Thus, ice crystals develop already at zero degrees Celsius or just below, and not at minus 37 degrees Celsius as in pure water. Protein molecules at the surface of the bacteria are responsible for this process. (Image: © American Association for the Advancement of Science) more

Yuki Nagata, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Molecular Modeling of Water Interfaces: From Molecular Spectroscopy to Thermodynamics accepted to JPCB. The article was both selected as the cover art article as well as the ACS Editor's choice article. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Mike Donovan, Ellen Backus, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have a collaborative paper with the Pfaendtner group at the University of Washington  entitled Ultrafast reorientational dynamics of leucine at the air-water interface just accepted to the Journal of the American Chemical Society. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Helmut Lutz, Hao Lu and Tobias Weidner have published a paper entitled The interaction with gold suppresses fiber-like conformations of the Amyloid beta (16-22) peptide with the Corni group at the CNR-NANO Istituto Nanoscienze and the Parrinello group at the ETH Zürich in Nanoscale. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

Lars Schmüser and Tobias Weidner have published a paper with groups at the University of Mainz and the University of Münster about Kinetically Controlled Sequential Growth of Surface-Grafted Chiral Supramolecular Copolymers in Angewandte Chemie. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
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Tobias Weidner has published a joint paper entitled Differential surface activation of the A1 domain of von Willebrand factor with researchers at the University of Washington and Oregon State University. The article is part of a focus issue of Biointerphases about blood-material interactions. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC) more

Xiao Ling, Mischa Bonn, Sapun Parekh and Katrin Domke have a paper entitled Nanoscale Distribution of Sulfonic Acid Groups Determines Structure and Binding of Water in Nafion Membranes accepted to Angewandte Chemie Int. Edition. (Image: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

Philipp Schäfer, Monique van der Veen and Katrin Domke have a paper on Unraveling a two-step oxidation mechanism in electrochemical Cu-MOF synthesis accepted to ChemComm. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

Ellen Backus, Johannes Franz, Manfred Wagner, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Oppositely Charged Ions at Water–Air and Water–Oil Interfaces: Contrasting the Molecular Picture with Thermodynamics accepted to JPCL. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

Maksim Grechko, Grace Gonella and Mischa Bonn have published a Comment on "Enhancement of Second-Order Nonlinear-Optical Signals by Optical Stimulation" in Phys. Rev. Lett. (Image: © Americal Physical Society) more

Kamila Rock and Johannes Hunger together with researchers from the TU Delft have published a paper in ChemSusChem showing that the Organic Linker Defines the Excited-State Decay of Photocatalytic MIL-125(Ti)-Type Materials. (Image: © WILEY-VCH Verlag) more

Zoltan Mics, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper on Multiscale Self-Assembly of of Silicon Quantum Dots into an Anisotropic Three-Dimensional Random Network accepted to NanoLetters. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more