A collaboration between departments at the MPIP, AMOLF and the University of Würzburg has revealed the differences and similarities of the photoconductive properties between carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons. Photoexcitation produces short-lived mobile electrons in both carbon nanostructures, with higher conductivity in the tubes.more
November 2013
Qianli Chen has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers to look at the Electrolyte chemistry on the nanoscale - An in-situ TERS study of quantum dot sensitized solar cell interfaces under working conditions.
Cho-Shuen Hsieh, Ellen Backus, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a paper on the Mechanism of Vibrational Energy Dissipation of Free OH Groups at the Air/Water Interface accepted to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesmore
October 2013
Tobias Weidner has been named Affiliate Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering by the University of Washington in Seattle (USA).
The NanoPV group in collaboration with TOYOTA published a work in NanoLetters showing how charge transfer can be tuned between semiconductor nano-crystals by proper control of inter-facial chemistry.more
October 2013
Samet Varol wins 3rd place at the MPIP poster competition for his poster about spectroscopic and microscopic studies of nanocomposite materials.
Denise Schach, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have a collaborative paper with the Food Science group of Thomas Vilgis (MPIP) on The Role of Intact Oleosin for the Stabilization and Function of Oleosomes accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.more
Katrin Domke received an Initial Training Network (ITN) grant of the European Union (EU).more
September 2013
As of Sept. 1, 2013, Mischa Bonn has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Chemical Physics. Chemical Physics is an Elsevier Journal reporting experimental and theoretical research in the molecular, biological and materials sciences.
September 2013
Tobias Weidner and collaborator Jim Pfaendtner at the University of Washington have been awarded a transatlantic research grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Aim of the grant is understanding molecular mechanisms of protein-driven biomass conversion.
Victor Volkov and Mischa Bonn have a paper on Structural Properties of gp41 Fusion Peptide at a Model Membrane Interface published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.more
Will Rock, Sapun Parekh and Mischa Bonn have a paper on CARS Microspectroscopic Kinetic Study of Fast Hydrogen Bond Formation in Microfluidic Devices accepted to Analytical Chemistrymore
Ruth Livingstone was awarded the Poster Prize at the "Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of Liquids” in Holderness, New Hampshire (USA) from 4 to 9 August 2013.more
Tobias Weidner and Joe Baio have a paper on Probing the orientation of electrostatically immobilized cytochrome C by time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and sum frequency generation spectroscopy accepted to Biointerphases.more
Tobias Weidner's article on SFG determination of protein structure is selected as the cover for PCCP.more
July 2013
Ruth Livingstone has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers to look at proton transfer dynamics at aqueous interfaces.
June 2013
Ronald Ulbricht has obtained a highly prestigious Rubicon grant from the Dutch science foundation for postdoctoral work that he will do in Boulder aimed at developing new techniques that can visualize and control very fast (femtoseconds) processes in molecules and nanostructures using nanometer-sized optical antennae.
Splitting Water with Sunlight - Ellen Backus receives ERC grant.more
June 2013
Ruben Pool successfully defended his thesis in Amsterdam on June 28, 2013. Title: Molecular orientation at biological interfaces - Water and lipids studied through interface-specific spectroscopy. The PhD committee was unanimous in its praise for Ruben’s performance.
Tobias Weidner has a paper on SFG analysis of surface bound proteins: a route towards structure determination accepted to Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.more
The group of Dmitry Turchinovich has a paper on Density-dependent electron scattering in photoexcited GaAs in strongly diffusive regime published in Applied Physics Letters.more
May 2013
Yuki Nagata, Cho-Shuen Hsieh, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a paper on Water Bending Mode at the Water–Vapor Interface Probed by Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy: A Combined Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Study accepted to J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Tobias Weidner and Joe Baio have a paper on Multiplexed Orientation and Structure Analysis by Imaging NEXAFS (MOSAIX) for Combinatorial Surface Science accepted to Analytical Chemistry.more
The group of Dmitry Turchinovich has a paper on Single-pulse THz coherent control of spin resonance in the canted antiferromagnet YFeO3 published in Phys. Rev. B.more
February 2013
Ellen Backus and Tobias Weidner are invited for European Research Council Starting Grant interviews.
