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March 2024

A collaborative paper Elucidating the role of water in collagen self-assembly by isotopically modulating collagen hydration has been published in PNAS (Illustration: Laura Canil & Giulia Giubertoni). more

February 2024

Yongkang Wang, Takakazu Seki, Paschalis Gkoupidenis and Mischa Bonn have published the paper Aqueous chemimemristor based on proton-permeable graphene membranes in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A more

January 2024

Yair Litman, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Takakazu Seki, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have published the paper Surface stratification determines the interfacial water structure of simple electrolyte solutions in Nat. Chem. more

January 2024

Daizong Qi, Hao Lu and Mischa Bonn have published the collaborative paper Role of Water during the Early Stages of Iron Oxyhydroxide Formation by a Bacterial Iron Nucleator in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. more

January 2024

Our collaborative study entitled Comparative analysis of dielectric spectra in protic ionic liquids: Experimental findings and computational molecular decomposition has been published in J. Mol. Liq. more

December 2023

Our joint paper showing that Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of the Intrinsically Disordered Domain of the Fused in Sarcoma Protein Results in Substantial Slowing of Hydration Dynamics has been accepted to J Phys Chem Lett. more

September 2023

September 05, 2023

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ERC Starting Grant for Daniel Keefer more

August 2023

Our collaborative paper studying Charge transport in protic ionic liquids: Effect of protonation state in 1-methylimidazolium – acetate/trifluoroacetate mixtures has been published in J Mol Liq. more

July 2023

A collaborative paper on a Stable Molybdenum(0) Carbonyl Complex for Upconversion and Photoredox Catalysis has been published in JACS. more

June 2023

A collaborative paper showing that Chemistry governs water organization at a graphene electrode has been published in Nature. more

June 2023

Xiaoqing Yu has been awarded the 2023 CGCA Young Researchers Award at the 35th Annual Conference of the Chinese German Chemical Association in Mainz.

February 2023

Shuai Fu, Xiaoyu Jia, Aliaa Hassan, Heng Zhang, Wenhao Zheng, Lei Gao, Lucia di Virgilio, Sven Krasel, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper Reversible Electrical Control of Interfacial Charge Flow across van der Waals Interfaces in Nano Letters. more

February 2023

Shuai Fu has published a collaborative paper entitled 3D-printed Lunar regolith simulant-based geopolymer composites with bio-inspired sandwich architectures in Journal of Advanced Ceramics. more

February 2023

Shuai Fu has published a collaborative paper Additive manufacturing of geopolymers with hierarchical porosity for highly efficient removal of Cs⁺in Journal of Hazardous Materials. more

January 2023

A collaborative paper on a Direct Probe of Electrochemical Pseudocapacitive pH Jump at a Graphene Electrode has been published in Angewandte Chemie. more

January 2023

Wenhao Zheng, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Unveiling Charge Transport Mechanisms in Electronic Devices based on Defect-engineered MoS₂ Covalent Networks in Advanced Materials. more

January 2023

Shuai Fu, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper on Semiconducting Conjugated Coordination Polymer with High Charge Mobility Enabled by “4 + 2” Phenyl Ligands in JACS. more

January 2023

Wenhao Zheng, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper Targeted Synthesis of Isomeric Naphthalene-Based 2D Kagome Covalent Organic Frameworks in Angewandte Chemie. more

December 2022

Our paper evidencing ion-specific binding of cations to the carboxylate and of anions to the amide of alanylalanine has been published in Communications Chemistry. more

10 Million Euros for Nanoscale Water Research

October 25, 2022

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European Research Council supports "n-AQUA" collaboration more

October 2022

Shuai Fu published a collaborative paper on 3D Printing of Damage-tolerant Martian Regolith Simulant-based Geopolymer Composites in Additive Manufacturing. more

October 2022

Our paper showing that the Nature of Cations Critically Affects Water at the Negatively Charged Silica Interface has been published in JACS. more

September 2022

Shuai Fu, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang published a collaborative paper entitled Vinylene-Linked 2D Conjugated Covalent Organic Frameworks by Wittig Reaction in Angewandte Chemie. more

October 2022

Our paper on Elucidating Conformation and Hydrogen-Bonding Motifs of Reactive Thiourea Intermediates has been published in ACS Catalysis. more

August 2022

A collaborative paper on The dielectric function profile across the water interface through surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy and simulations has been published in PNAS. more

August 2022

A collaborative paper entiteled Ion Adsorption and Desorption at the CaF₂-Water Interface Probed by Flow Experiments and Vibrational Spectroscopy has been published in Angewandte Chemie. more

July 2022

Our paper on Ion-pairing equilibria and kinetics of dimethyl phosphate: A model for counter-ion binding to the phosphate backbone of nucleic acids has been published in J Mol Liq. more

April 2022

Our paper showing that A single methyl group drastically changes urea’s hydration dynamics has been published in J Chem Phys. more

April 2022

Shuai Fu, Heng Zhang, Shuai Chen, Wenhao Zheng, Mischa Bonn, and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Solution-Processed Wafer-Scale Ag₂S Thin Films: Synthesis and Excellent Charge Transport Properties in Advanced Functional Materials. more

April 2022

Shuai Fu, Wenhao Zheng, Heng Zhang, Lucia di Virgilio, Akimitsu Narita, Mischa Bonn, and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Outstanding Charge Mobility by Band Transport in Two-Dimensional Semiconducting Covalent Organic Frameworks in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

April 2022

Shuai Fu, Xiaomin Liu, Akimitsu Narita, Mischa Bonn, and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Small Size, Big Impact: Recent Progress in Bottom‐Up Synthesized Nanographenes for Optoelectronic and Energy Applications in Advanced Science. more

March 2022

Wenhao Zheng, Paniz Soltani, Alexander Tries, and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Band Structure Modulation by Methoxy-Functionalization of Graphene Nanoribbons in J. Mater. Chem. C. more

March 2022

Wenhao Zheng, Hai Wang, and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper entitled Redox-Active Metaphosphate-Like Terminals Enable High-Capacity MXene Anodes for Ultrafast Na-Ion Storage in Adv. Mater. more

March 2022

Wenhao Zheng, Shuai Fu, and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Nonplanar Rhombus and Kagome 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks from Distorted Aromatics for Electrical Conduction in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

January 2022

Max Lukas, Ralph Schwidetzky, Mischa Bonn, and Konrad Meister have published a new paper entitled Towards Understanding Bacterial Ice Nucleation in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. more

January 2022

Yuling Sun, Daria Maltseva, Mischa Bonn, and Konrad Meister have published a new paper with colleagues from the MPIP, Denmark and the US entitled Ice Recrystallization Inhibition Is Insufficient to Explain Cryopreservation Abilities of Antifreeze Proteins in Biomacromolecules. more

January 2022

Konrad Meister has published a new paper with colleagues from the University Oregon and MPIP entitled Cryofouling avoidance in the Antarctic scallop Adamussium colbecki in Communications Biology. more

November 2021

Ralph Schwidetzky, Prerna Sudera, Mischa Bonn, and Konrad Meister have published a new paper with colleagues from the MPIC entitled Membranes Are Decisive for Maximum Freezing Efficiency of Bacterial Ice Nucleators in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. more

October 2021

A collaborative paper on Probing Water State during Lipidic Mesophases Phase Transitions has been published in Angewandte Chemie. more

October 2021

Shuai Fu, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper on Molecularly Engineered Black Phosphorus Heterostructures with Improved Ambient Stability and Enhanced Charge Carrier Mobility in Advanced Materials. more

October 2021

Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Solution-Processed Graphene–Nanographene van der Waals Heterostructures for Photodetectors with Efficient and Ultralong Charge Separation in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

September 2021

A collaborative paper on how the Interfacial Water Structure of Binary Liquid Mixtures Reflects Nonideal Behavior has been published in J Phys Chem B. more

September 2021

Konrad Meister has published a new paper with colleagues from University Münster entitled pH effects on the molecular structure and charging state of β-Escin biosurfactants at the air-water interface in the Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. more

September 2021

Shuai Fu has published a collaborative paper entitled Direct ink writing of geopolymer with high spatial resolution and tunable mechanical properties in Additive Manufacturing. more

September 2021

Shuai Fu, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Exceptional electron conduction in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks in Chem. more

June 2021

Grace Gonella, Ellen Backus, Yuki Nagata, and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper entitled Water at charged interfaces in Nat. Rev. Chem. more

May 2021

Shuai Fu, Xiaoyu Jia, Mischa Bonn, and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Decoupling the effects of defects on efficiency and stability through phosphonates in stable halide perovskite solar cells in Joule. more

May 2021

Yuling Sun and Konrad Meister have published a new paper
with international colleagues entitled Disaccharide Residues are Required for Native Antifreeze Glycoprotein Activity in Biomacromolecules. more

April 2021

Albert Cortijos í Aragonès won the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Travel Award for Young Electrochemists 2021 for participation at the 72nd ISE Annual Meeting on Jeju Island, Korea from 29 August to 3 September 2021.

April 2021

Ralph Schwidetzky, Yuling Sun, Mischa Bonn, and Konrad Meister have published a new paper with colleagues from the MPI-C entitled Ice Nucleation Activity of Perfluorinated Organic Acids in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. more

March 2021

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How molecules can help miniaturize electronics in the future more

March 2021

Ralph Schwidetzky, Max Lukas, Azade Yazdan Yar, Katrin Domke, Mischa Bonn, Yuki Nagata and Konrad Meister have published a new paper with colleagues from the MPIC and Uni Bielefeld entitled Specific Ion-Protein Interactions Influence Bacterial Ice Nucleation in Chemistry - A European Journal. more

March 2021

Heng Zhang, Hai Wang and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper with KU Leuven entitled Highly Mobile Large Polarons in Black Phase CsPbI₃ in ACS Energy Lett. more

March 2021

Shuai Fu, Xiaoyu Jia, Jingyin Xu, Xiaoqing Yu, Heng Zhang, Wenhao Zheng, Sven Krasel, Mischa Bonn, and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Long-lived charge separation following pump-wavelength–dependent ultrafast charge transfer in graphene/WS2 heterostructures in Science Advances. more

February 2021

Ben and Johannes have published a collaborative paper on the Dielectric Response of Light, Heavy and Heavy-Oxygen Water: Isotope Effects on the Hydrogen-Bonding Network’s Collective Relaxation Dynamics in PCCP. more

February 2021

Our paper on Association Equilibria of Organo-Phosphoric Acids with Imines from a Combined Dielectric and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Approach has been published in Analytical Chemistry. more

January 2021

Hao, Johannes, and Mischa have published a collaborative paper on the Role of Water in CaCO₃ Biomineralization in JACS. more

January 2021

Mischa and Johannes have published a perspective entitled Between a hydrogen and a covalent bond in Science. more

January 2021

Check out the latest collaborative paper by Daria Maltseva and Grace Gonella on the Effect of H2O/EtOH ratio on location & conformation of LK⍺14 just published in Langmuir. more

January 2021

Shuai Fu, Xiaoqing Yu, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have recently published a collaborative paper entitled Geopolymer-Encapsulated Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Potential Display Applications in ACS Appl. Nano Mater. more

January 2021

Max Lukas, Ralph Schwidetzky, Ellen Backus, Mischa Bonn and Konrad Meister have published a new paper with colleagues from the MPIC entitled Interfacial Water Ordering Is Insufficient to Explain Ice-Nucleating Protein Activity in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. more

December 2020

Chun-Chieh Yu, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Masanari Okuno, Takakazu Seki, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Xiaoqing Yu, Mischa Bonn, Johannes Hunger and Yuki Nagata have published a collaborative paper entitled Vibrational couplings and energy transfer pathways of water’s bending mode in Nat. Commun. more

October 2020

Hai Wang and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper entitled Bottom-Up, On-Surface-Synthesized Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons for Ultra-High-Power Micro-Supercapacitors in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

October 2020

Paniz Soltani, Wenhao Zheng, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled A Curved Graphene Nanoribbon with Multi-Edge Structure and High Intrinsic Charge Carrier Mobility in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

October 2020

Jonas Pfisterer, Ulmas Zhumaev and Katrin Domke have published a collaborative paper entitled Role of OH Intermediates during the Au Oxide Electro-Reduction at Low pH Elucidated by Electrochemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Implicit Solvent Density Functional Theory in ACS Catal. more

October 2020

Giovanni Giuzio, Natalia Martin Sabanes and Katrin Domke have published a paper entitled Beam Modulation for Aberration Control and Signal Enhancement in Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Applied Spectroscopy. more

September 2020

Congratulations to Yuki Nagata, who has been recognized as one of the Top Reviewers for J. Chem. Phys. for the third time (2014, 2018, 2019). more

August 2020

Wenhao Zheng, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have a paper entitled Photoconductivity Multiplication in Semiconducting Few-Layer MoTe₂ accepted at Nano Lett. more

July 2020

Our collaborative paper on the Enhancement of Ion Pairing of Sr(II) and Ba(II) Salts by a Tritopic Ion‐Pair Receptor in Solution has been accepted at ChemPhysChem. more

July 2020

Konrad Meister has published a book chapter with a colleague from TU Eindhoven entitled Interaction of Antifreeze Proteins with Water in Antifreeze Proteins Volume 2 from Springer. more

July 2020

Prerna Sudera, Jenée Cyran, Malte Deiseroth, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Interfacial Vibrational Dynamics of Ice I_h and Liquid Water accepted at J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

July 2020

Ellen Backus, Jan Schäfer and Mischa Bonn have published a paper entitled The mineral/water interface probed with nonlinear optical spectroscopy in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. more

July 2020

Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have published a collaborative paper with the Universities of Mainz and Vienna on Surface Charges at the CaF₂/Water Interface Allow Very Fast Intermolecular Vibrational‐Energy Transfer in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. more

May 2020

Konrad Meister has published a paper with AMOLF entitled Freezing of Aqueous Carboxylic Acid Solutions on Ice in J. Phys. Chem. B. more

May 2020

Ralph Schwidetzky, Mischa Bonn and Konrad Meister have published a paper with the MPIC and international collaborators entitled Inhibition of Bacterial Ice Nucleators is Not an Intrinsic Property of Antifreeze Proteins in J. Phys. Chem. B. more

May 2020

Malte Deiseroth, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper entitled Orientation independent vibrational dynamics of lipid-bound interfacial water accepted at Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. more

April 2020

Alexander Tries, Hai Wang and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper entitled Hysteresis in graphene nanoribbon field-effect devices in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. more

April 2020

Heng Zhang, Shuai Chen, Mischa Bonn and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper on Kinetic Control over Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoplatelets in Nano Lett. more

April 2020

Alexander Tries and Hai Wang have published a collaborative paper entitled Experimental Observation of Strong Exciton Effects in Graphene Nanoribbons in Nano Lett. more

April 2020

Max Lukas, Ralph Schwidetzky, Mischa Bonn and Konrad Meister have published a collaborative paper with the MPIC entitled Electrostatic Interactions Control the Functionality of Bacterial Ice Nucleators in JACS. more

April 2020

Grace Gonella is organizing the Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC) 2020 VIRTUAL WORKSHOP - Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics from 15.-19.06.2020. more

March 2020

Our study showing that Macroscopic conductivity of aqueous electrolyte solutions scales with ultrafast microscopic ion motions has been published in Nature Communications. more

February 2020

Marco Ballabio, Mischa Bonn and Enrique Cánovas have published a collaborative paper entitled Composition‐Dependent Passivation Efficiency at the CdS/CuIn_1-_xGa_xSe₂ Interface in Adv. Mater. more

January 2020

Bence Kutus has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers on Exploring the fundamentals of ion-pairing relevant to phase transfer catalysis.

January 2020

Saman Hosseinpour and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper with the Universities of Aarhus and Amsterdam entitled Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Peptides and Proteins from Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy in Chem. Rev. more

January 2020

Xiaomin Liu, Sachin Kumar, Sapun Parekh and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper with other MPIP departments and IMB on Nanographenes: ultrastable, switchable, and bright probes for super-resolution microscopy in Angewandte Chemie Int. Edition. more

January 2020

Stefan Kraus, Mischa Bonn and Enrique Cánovas have published a paper entitled Room-temperature solution-phase epitaxial nucleation of PbS quantum dots on rutile TiO 2 (100) in Nanoscale Advances. more

January 2020

Sudipta Das, Sho Imoto, Shumei Sun, Yuki Nagata, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have published a paper entitled Nature of excess hydrated proton at the water-air interface in JACS. more

January 2020

Shumei Sun, Jan Schäfer, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have published a paper entitled How surface-specific is 2nd-order non-linear spectroscopy? in J. Chem. Phys. more

November 2019

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

October 2019

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

September 2019

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

August 2019

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

August 2019

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

August 2019

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.

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

August 2019

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

July 2019

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.

July 2019

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

June 2019

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

May 2019

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

May 2019

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.

April 2019

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

April 2019

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

April 2019

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

April 2019

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

March 2019

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

March 2019

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

February 2019

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

February 2019

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

February 2019

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

January 2019

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)

January 2019

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

January 2019

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

November 2018

Konrad Meister has published a paper with AMOLF entitled Surface Structure of Solutions of Poly(vinyl alcohol) in Water in J. Phys. Chem. B. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

November 2018

Our paper on Specific Ion Effects on an Oligopeptide: Bidentate binding matters for the Guanidinium Cation has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. (Image: ©John Wiley & Sons, Inc) more

October 2018

Our collaborative paper on the Large Hydrogen-Bond Mismatch between TMAO and Urea Promotes Their Hydrophobic Association has been published in Chem. (Image: © Elsevier B. V.) more

September 2018

Lisa Dreier, Christoph Bernhard, Grazia Gonella, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Surface Potential of a Planar Charged Lipid–Water Interface. What Do Vibrating Plate Methods, Second Harmonic and Sum Frequency Measure? accepted at J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

September 2018

Hassan Hafez, Zoltan Mics, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have published a collaborative paper entitled Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions in Nature. The collaboration involved the University Duisburg-Essen, MPIP, Helwan University, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, University of Groningen and ICFO. (Image: © Springer Nature Ltd.) more

August 2018

Jan Schäfer, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have published a paper entitled Evidence for auto-catalytic mineral dissolution from surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy in Nature Communications. (Image: © Springer Nature Ltd.) more

August 2018

Maksim Grechko, Simon Bretschneider, Laura Vietze, Heejae Kim and Mischa Bonn have a paper on Vibrational coupling between organic and inorganic sub‐lattices of hybrid perovskites accepted in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. (Image: ©John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

August 2018

Zuanming Jin and Dmitry Turchinovich have published a collaborative paper entitled Observation of Dicke cooperativity in magnetic interactions in Science. (Image: © American Association for the Advancement of Science) more

August 2018

Jenée Cyran was awarded the Victoria Buch Memorial Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference for Water and Aqueous Solutions in Holderness, New Hampshire, USA.

August 2018

Lisa Dreier won the poster prize at the Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy in Biddeford, USA.

August 2018

Jonas Pfisterer won the poster prize at the SurfCat Summer School in Kysthusene, Denmark.

August 2018

Laura Vietze won the poster prize at CMDS 2018 - The 9th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy in Seoul, Korea.

July 2018

Hai Wang, Enrique Canovas and Mischa Bonn have published a paper entitled Efficient Hot Electron Transfer in Quantum Dot-Sensitized Mesoporous Oxides at Room Temperature in Nano Letters. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

May 2018

Simon Bretschneider, Ivan Ivanov, Hai Wang and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper with Columbia University on Quantifying Polaron Formation and Charge Carrier Cooling in Lead‐Iodide Perovskites in Advanced Materials. (Image: ©John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) more

May 2018

Yuki Nagata, Fujie Tang, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper entitled Molecular Insight into the Slipperiness of Ice in J. Phys. Chem. Letters. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

May 2018

Maksim Grechko, Michael Schleeger and Mischa Bonn have published a paper on Resolution along both infrared and visible frequency axes in second-order Fourier-transform vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy in Chemical Physics. (Image: © Elsevier B. V) more

May 2018

Samet Varol, Mischa Bonn and Sapun Parekh have published a collaborative paper entitled Genetically encoded lipid–polypeptide hybrid biomaterials that exhibit temperature-triggered hierarchical self-assembly in Nature Chemistry. (Image: © Springer Nature Ltd.) more

May 2018

Hai Wang, Dmitry Turchinovich and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper on The ultrafast dynamics and conductivity of photoexcited graphene at different Fermi energies in Science Advances. (Image: © Springer Nature Ltd.) more

May 2018

Christian Malm and Johannes Hunger have published a collaborative paper on Tritopic ion-pair receptors based on anion-π interactions for selective CaX₂ binding in Dalton Transactions. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

April 2018

Jenée Cyran, Ellen Backus, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Structure from Dynamics: Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Water as a Probe of Aqueous Heterogeneity in J. Phys. Chem. B. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

April 2018

Lisa Dreier, Yuki Nagata, Helmut Lutz, Grazia Gonella, Johannes Hunger, Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have published a paper entitled Saturation of charge-induced water alignment at model membrane surfaces in Science Advances. (Image: © American Association for the Advancement of Science) more

March 2018

Hao Lu, Helmut Lutz, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner together with researchers from the Universitat de València have published a paper in JACS entitled Calcium-Induced Molecular Rearrangement of Peptide Folds Carbonate. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

March 2018

Ellen Backus, Jenée Cyran, Maksim Grechko, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Time-Resolved Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy: A Quantitative Comparison Between Intensity and Phase-Resolved Spectroscopy published in J. Phys. Chem. A. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

February 2018

Maksim Grechko, Taisuke Hasegawa, Francesco D'Angelo, Dmitry Turchinovich, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have just published a paper entitled Coupling between intra- and intermolecular motions in liquid water revealed by two-dimensional terahertz-infrared-visible spectroscopy in Nature Communications. (Image: © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.) more

February 2018

Keno Krewer, Zoltan Mics, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper entitled Accurate terahertz spectroscopy of supported thin films by precise substrate thickness correction accepted at Optics Letters. (Image: © The Optical Society) more

January 2018

Kota Usui, Johannes Hunger, and Mischa Bonn have published together with Marialore Sulpizi a paper on Dynamical heterogeneities of rotational motion in room temperature ionic liquids evidenced by molecular dynamics simulations in the Journal of Chemical Physics. (Image: © AIP Publishing LLC) more

December 2017

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

December 2017

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

November 2017

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

October 2017

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

October 2017

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).

October 2017

October 12, 2017

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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

October 2017

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

August 2017

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)

August 2017

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

August 2017

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

August 2017

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

July 2017

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.

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.

June 2017

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

June 2017

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

June 2017

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

June 2017

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

May 2017

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

May 2017

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

May 2017

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

May 2017

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

May 2017

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

May 2017

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

May 2017

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

April 2017

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

April 2017

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

March 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

March 2017

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

March 2017

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

March 2017

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

March 2017

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

March 2017

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

February 2017

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

February 2017

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

January 2017

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

December 2016

December 12, 2016

Dept Bonn

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

December 2016

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

November 2016

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

November 2016

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

October 2016

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

September 2016

September 13, 2016

Dept Bonn

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

September 2016

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

September 2016

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

August 2016

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.

August 2016

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

July 2016

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

July 2016

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

July 2016

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

June 2016

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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June 2016

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

May 2016

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

May 2016

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

May 2016

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

May 2016

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

May 2016

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

April 2016

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

April 2016

April 22, 2016

Dept Bonn

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

April 2016

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

April 2016

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

March 2016

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

March 2016

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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March 2016

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

March 2016

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

March 2016

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

March 2016

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

March 2016

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

February 2016

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

February 2016

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

December 2015

Zuanming Jin, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper entitled Efficient formation of excitons in a dense electron-hole plasma at room temperature accepted to Physical Review B. (Image: © Americal Physical Society) more

December 2015

Xiaomin Liu and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper entitled Progress in Cherenkov femtosecond fiber lasers published in Journal of Physics D. (Image: © IOP Publishing) more

December 2015

Enrique Canovas, Hai Wang, Melike Karakus and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Hot electron transfer from PbSe quantum dots molecularly bridged to mesoporous tin and titanium oxide films accepted to Chemical Physics. (Image: © Elsevier) more

December 2015

Tobias Weidner has published a paper about a nanometer thin ordered lipid layer at the surface of snake scales. Ordered lipids help the slithering locomotion of snakes. The article, which was a collaboration with researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Kiel and NIST, was accepted for publication in Journal of the Royal Society Interface. The story is highlighted in National Geographic and the BBC. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

December 2015

Yuki Nagata, Kota Usui and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Molecular Mechanism of Water Evaporation accepted to PRL. (Image: © Americal Physical Society) more

November 2015

Helmut Lutz, PhD student in the Molecular Spectroscopy Department, was awarded a two-month DAAD fellowship to visit Jim Pfaendtner’s group at the University of Washington (Seattle).

November 2015

Ruth Livingstone, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper entitled Two types of water at the water – surfactant interface revealed by time resolved vibrational spectroscopy accepted to JACS. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

November 2015

Tatsuhiko Ohto, Ellen Backus, Cho-Shuen Hsieh, Mischa Bonn and Yuki Nagata have published a collaborative paper on Lipid Carbonyl Groups Terminate the Hydrogen Bond Network of Membrane-Bound Water in JPCL. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

October 2015

A paper by Hao Lu, Sergio Mauri, Mischa Bonn, Tobias Weidner and collaborators entitled Biomimetic vaterite formation at surfaces structurally templated by oligo(glutamic acid) peptides has been published in ChemComm. The article was chosen for the back cover. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Joe Baio, Tobias Weidner and the Gorb lab at the University of Kiel have recently discovered a lubricating lipid layer at the surfaces of snake scales. A talk about the discovery is highlighted on posters by the organizers at the AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition in San José. (Image: © AIP Publishing) more

October 2015

Vasilis Balos, Mischa Bonn and Johannes Hunger have published a paper on Quantifying Transient Interactions between Amide Groups and the Guanidinium Cation in PCCP. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry)

October 2015

Ivan Ivanov, Mischa Bonn, Zoltan Mics and Dmitry Turchinovich have published an invited perspective paper on the occasion of the International Year of Light on Perspective on terahertz spectroscopy of graphene in EPL. (Image: © Royal Society of Chemistry) more

October 2015

Heejae Kim, Manfred Wagner, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn and Johannes Hunger have published a collaborative paper on The Role of Ion-Pairs in Brønsted Acid Catalysis in ACS Catalysis. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Dept Bonn

Cho-Shuen Hsieh, Masanari Okuno, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn and Johannes Hunger have published a collaborative paper on Strong frequency dependence of vibrational relaxation in bulk and surface water reveals sub-picosecond structural heterogeneity in Nature Communications. (Image: © Nature Publishing Group) more

September 2015

Helmut Lutz, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner published a collaborative paper with the Pfaendtner lab at the University of Washington in Advanced Materials Interfaces entitled Biomimetic Growth of Ultrathin Silica Sheets Using Artificial Amphiphilic Peptides. (Image: © WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA) more

September 2015

September 10, 2015

Dept Bonn

Ellen Backus speaks at the Annual Meeting of New Champions at the 2015 World Economic Forum. more

September 2015

Denise Schach, Will Rock, Johannes Franz, Mischa Bonn, Sapun Parekh and Tobias Weidner have published a paper entitled Reversible Activation of a Cell-Penetrating Peptide in a Membrane Environment in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. (Image: © American Chemical Society)

August 2015

Kota Usui, Johannes Hunger, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Mischa Bonn and Yuki Nagata have published a collaborative paper about Ab initio Liquid Water Dynamics in Aqueous TMAO Solution in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. The paper has been chosen for the cover art of the corresponding issue. (Image: © American Chemical Society) more

July 2015

Hao Lu, Tobias Weidner and collaborators at the University of Washington and Oregon State University have published a paper entitled “Enhanced Performance of Self-Assembled Monolayer Field-Effect Transistors with Top-Contact Geometry through Molecular Tailoring, Heated Assembly, and Thermal Annealing” in Advanced Functional Materials. (Image: © WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA) more

July 2015

On the way to breaking the terahertz barrier for graphene nanoelectronics - Zoltan Mics, Søren Jensen, Ivan Ivanov, Mischa Bonn, and Dmitry Turchinovich have published a collaborative paper on the Thermodynamic picture of ultrafast charge transport in graphene in Nature Communications. (Image: © Nature Publishing Group) more

July 2015

Accessing the fundamentals of magnetotransport in metals with terahertz probes - Zuanming Jin, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have published a collaborative paper in Nature Physics on the successful employment of ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy determining the basic properties of spintronics components. (Image: © Nature Publishing Group) more

July 2015

Sergio Mauri, Ravindra Pandey, Hao Lu, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have jointly published a paper with Izabela Rzeznicka (Tohoku University, Japan) about surprising structural differences of bovine and human insulin when interacting with lipid membranes in Frontiers in Physics. (Image: © Frontiers) more

May 2015

Background-Free Fourth-Order Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy - Michael Schleeger, Maksim Grechko and Mischa Bonn report on the implementation of a time-domain 2D SFG spectroscopy in a noncollinear beam geometry in a paper accepted at the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. (Image: © ACS) more

May 2015

Vasilis Balos wins the poster prize at the 114th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society in Bochum from 14 to 16 May 2015.

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Dept Bonn

Hai Wang receives the prestigious "Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad". more

May 2015

IM30 triggers membrane fusion in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts - Lars Schmüser, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have published a collaborative paper with partners at the Universities of Mainz and Amsterdam about proteins involved in the plant photosynthesis machinery in Nature Communications. (Image: © Nature Publishing Group) more

April 2015

Ellen Backus, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a paper entitled Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Water at the Water–Air Interface Studied with Surface‐Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy accepted to Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. (Image: © GDCh) more

April 2015

Hai Wang, Enrique Canovas and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Boosting Power Conversion Efficiencies of Quantum-Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells Beyond 8% by Recombination Control accepted to JACS. (Image: © ACS) more

April 2015

Yuki Nagata, Seiji Yoshimune, Cho-Shuen Hsieh, Johannes Hunger and Mischa Bonn have a paper on Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Water Disentangled by Reverse Nonequilibrium Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations published in Phys. Rev. X. (Image: © APS) more

February 2015

Johannes Franz, Lars Schmüser, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have published a collaborative paper with partners at the University of Washington and Oregon State University about Full membrane spanning self-assembled monolayers as model systems for UHV-based studies of cell-penetrating peptides in Biointerphases. The article has been highlighted as a Most Read Article and was chosen as the Editors Pick. (Image: © AIP Publishing) more

February 2015

February 10, 2015

Dept Bonn

Heejae Kim, postdoc researcher in the Molecular Spectroscopy Group, was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship by the European Commission. more

February 2015

Saman Hosseinpour, postdoc researcher in the Backus group, received a grant from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for a collaboration with the University of Zagreb to work on "Self Assembled Monolayers of Organic Molecules as Corrosion Inhibitors in Marine Environments".

February 2015

Masanari Okuno, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a collaborative paper entitled Interaction of a Patterned Amphiphilic Polyphenylene Dendrimer with a Lipid Monolayer: Electrostatic Interactions Dominate accepted to Langmuir. (Image: © ACS) more

January 2015

Ivan Ivanov, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper entitled Controlled Folding of Graphene: GraFold Printing accepted to Nano Letters. (Image: © ACS) more

January 2015

Kamila Mazur, Mischa Bonn and Johannes Hunger have published a paper entitled Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in Primary Alcohols: a Femtosecond Infrared Study in JPCB. (Image: © ACS) more

December 2014

Sergio Mauri, Tobias Weidner (MPIP) and Heike Arnolds (University of Liverpool) have published a paper entitled The structure of insulin at the air/water interface: monomers or dimers? in PCCP. (Image: © RSC) more

November 2014

Zhuanping Zheng, Soham Roy, Kamila Mazur, Mischa Bonn and Johannes Hunger have a collaborative paper on Ionic Liquids: Not only Structurally but also Dynamically Heterogeneous published in Angewandte Chemie. (Image: © Wiley VCH) more

November 2014

Denise Schach, Ellen Backus, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have published a paper with collaborators at the Universities of Amsterdam and Konstanz on Sticky water surfaces: Helix–coil transitions suppressed in a cell-penetrating peptide at the air-water interface in the Journal of Chemical Physics. (Image: © ACS) more

October 2014

Michael Schleeger, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a paper on Quantifying Surfactant Alkyl Chain Orientation and Conformational Order from Sum Frequency Generation Spectra of CH Modes at the Surfactant-Water Interface accepted to the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. (Image: © ACS)

October 2014

Philipp Schäfer has been awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

October 2014

Zuanming Jin, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a collaborative paper with NIST on Ultrafast THz Photoconductivity of Photovoltaic Polymer-Fullerene Blends: a Comparative Study Correlated with Photovoltaic Device Performance accepted to the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. (Image: © ACS) more

October 2014

Joe Baio, Helmut Lutz and Tobias Weidner have a joint paper with their collaborators at the University of Washington (Seattle) about Diatom mimics: directing the formation of biosilica nano-particles by controlled folding of lysine-leucine peptides accepted to JACS. (Image: © JACS) more

October 2014

Joe Baio, Denise Schach, Lars Schmüser, Nils Billecke, Mischa Bonn and Tobias Weidner have a collaborative paper with the Landfester department and the KIT about the Reversible activation of pH-sensitive cell penetrating peptides attached to gold surfaces accepted in ChemComm. (Image: © RSC) more

September 2014

Søren Jensen, Zoltan Mics, Ivan Ivanov, Samet Varol, Dmitry Turchinovich and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with ICFO on Competing Ultrafast Energy Relaxation Pathways in Photoexcited Graphene accepted in Nano Letters. (Image: © ACS) more

September 2014

Hai Wang, Mischa Bonn and Enrique Cánovas have a collaborative paper with the University of Alicante on the effect of quantum dot stoichiometry on electron transfer processes in sensitized oxides accepted in Nano Letters. (Image: © ACS) more

August 2014

Johannes Hunger has a collaborative paper with AMOLF on the Effect of Cations on the Hydrated Proton accepted to JACS. (Image: © JACS) more

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Dept Bonn

Saman Hosseinpour was awarded the Poster Prize at the "Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy” in Biddeford, Maine (USA) from 3 to 8 August 2014. more

August 2014

Johannes Hunger, Kamila Mazur and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with AMOLF on Water-Mediated Interactions Between Trimethylamine-N-Oxide and Urea accepted to PCCP. (Image: © PCCP) more

July 2014

Joe Baio and Tobias Weidner have a collaborative paper with their NIST partners on High Throughput Analysis of Molecular Orientation on Surfaces by NEXAFS Imaging of Curved Sample Arrays accepted to ACS Combinatorial Science. (Image: © ACS) more

July 2014

July 09, 2014

Dept Bonn

Qianli Chen has been awarded the Young Scientist Prize of the Swiss Neutron Scattering Society (SGN) more

June 2014

Ellen Backus, Johannes Hunger, Sapun Parekh and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with Dan Lis on Liquid flow along a solid surface reversibly alters interfacial chemistry published in Science. (Image: © Science) more

June 2014

Ellen Backus, Johannes Hunger, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Aqueous Heterogeneity at the Air/Water Interface Revealed by 2D-HD-SFG Spectroscopy published in Angewandte Chemie. (Image: © Angewandte Chemie) more

June 2014

Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Extreme surface propensity of halide ions in water published in Nature Communications. (Image: © Nature Communications) more

June 2014

June 12, 2014

Qianli Chen presents her research at the Annual Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on June 4, 2014. more

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Dept Bonn

Samet Varol wins the Gold Prize at the NANOSMAT-USA 2014 meeting in Houston for his presentation on spectroscopic and mechanical characterization of nanocomposites. more

May 2014

May 15, 2014

Dept Bonn

Katrin Domke, head of an Emmy Noether research group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), has been called to the Elisabeth Schiemann-Kolleg. more

May 2014

Francesco D'Angelo, Zoltán Mics, Mischa Bonn and Dmitry Turchinovich have a paper on "Ultra-broadband THz time-domain spectroscopy of common polymers using THz air photonics" accepted for publication in Optics Express. more

April 2014

April 03, 2014

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Ellen Backus has been appointed to the Minerva Program by the Max Planck Society (MPS) as of April 1, 2014. more

April 2014

Amala Elizabeth received the OSI (Optical Society India) award for the best oral presentation of the paper entitled "Self healing of Azimuthally polarized beams" at the ICOL-2104 conference in Dehradun, India from March 5 to 8, 2014.

April 2014

Johannes Hunger and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with AMOLF on Observation of Water Separated Ion-Pairs between Cations and Phospholipid Headgroups accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. more

April 2014

Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with AMOLF on Probing ultrafast temperature changes of aqueous solutions with coherent terahertz pulses accepted to Optics Letters. more

January 2014

Kamila Mazur, Mischa Bonn and Johannes Hunger have a paper on Hydration of sodium alginate in aqueous solution accepted to Macromolecules. more

December 2013

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.

November 2013

November 19, 2013

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Tobias Weidner received the Early Career Investigator Award from the Biomaterial Interface Division of the AVS Society. more

November 2013

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 Sciences more

October 2013

Tobias Weidner has been named Affiliate Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering by the University of Washington in Seattle (USA).

October 2013

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.

October 2013

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

September 2013

September 18, 2013

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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.

August 2013

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

August 2013

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 Chemistry more

August 2013

August 15, 2013

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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

August 2013

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

July 2013

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.

June 2013

June 18, 2013

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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.

June 2013

Tobias Weidner has a paper on SFG analysis of surface bound proteins: a route towards structure determination accepted to Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. more

June 2013

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.

April 2013

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

March 2013

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.

January 2013

Søren Jensen and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on carrier multiplication in graphene accepted to Nature Physics. more

December 2012

Yuki Nagata, Ruben Pool, Ellen Backus, and Mischa Bonn have a paper accepted to PRL on the nuclear quantum effect. more

December 2012

Ellen Backus and Dmitry Turchinovich have been awarded European Career Integration Grants.

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