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Check out Katrin’s News & Views in Nature Catalysis on the Ren Group fantastic MoS₂ EC-TERS work! more

Dua’a and Detlef together with collaborators from UDE have their work on the electrochemical oxidation of ATMP published in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry! Congrats, and we look forward to the cake! more

Welcome our new PhD student Annika! Her RESOLV PhD project aims to unravel the influence the electrolyte has on MOF nucleation and growth. more

We’ve had a fun TeamTag 2024 with inspiring talks in the morning and a delicious lunch at Heimliche Liebe.

Welcome, Özge! It’s great to have you on board as a new TERS postdoc with the NatWat project. more

Katrin has received the Lehrpreis (best-lecturer award) of the Faculty of Chemistry at UDE. Apparently, the students enjoyed her quantum chemistry & spectroscopy class :)

Happy to announce that we are part of Prof. Corina Andronescu’s Natural Water to H2- consortium at UDE. 10 Postdocs, 3 years, 3 Mio EUR to explore how water quality affects electrolysis with anion exchange membranes. more

Well done, Dr. Ohm! Congratulations on your sucessful defense of your thesis, great work!

Ana has received a prestigious Capes-Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers. The fellowship will allow her to return to the AK Domke for 18 months in 2025/26 to study nanoscale electrochemistry at catalytically active interfaces. Congratulations, Ana! more

Yongkang’s insights into how water organization is governed at a graphene electrode has been published in Nature - fantastic work! more

Yongkang has published his first @MPIP paper evidencing the local molecular-level effects of pseudocapacitive charging at a graphene/water electrolyte interface. Exciting results! more

Congratulations, Albert, on your SM catch-and-release work that shows how the nearfield can manipulate the kinetics of the SM capture and release processes. more

Awesome news: Katrin has been appointed as Chair in Physical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. more

Check out our Current Opinion in Electrochemistry discussing the actuator role that electric fields can play in unimolecular contacts! Great work, Albert! more

Glad we could contribute some Raman knowledge to an interesting study by the Tremel group at JGU Mainz on defect-controlled halogenating properties of lanthanide-doped ceria nanozymes. Great work, Phil and Olga! more

Albert has received a prestigious Beatríu de Pinós reserach fellowship to start his own group. Congratulations, success with your new adventure and many happy returns! more

Albert's latest work shows that electrochemical gating increases the nearfield trapping lifetime of an Azurin junction by a factor 40, accepted for publication in J. Mat. Chem. C. Great job, Al! more

Great news: Albert has been awarded an ISE Travel Award for Young Electrochemists 2021 for participation at the 72nd ISE Annual Meeting in Jeju, Korea. Congratulations, Al!

Daniel's paper on Pd and Ir catalyst island formation on Au(111) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. Excellent work, Daniel! more

Congratulations, Albert, on your latest publication about bias-induced cis/trans isomerization of individual carotene molecules, a prime example for a great international collaboration with colleagues from Brazil, Chile, Korea and the UK! more

Read more about Albert's exciting finding that nearfield trapping enhances single-molecule junction lifetimes by one order of magnitude in our latest Cell Reports Physical Science publication. Outstanding work! more

Congratulations, Ralph, Azade, Konrad & collaborators, on the new publication unraveling how ion-protein interactions influence ice nucleation! Exciting work! more

Our research has been featured in the MPG Jahrbuch 2020! Excellent work, TERS groupies! more

Katrin has been elected to serve as Chair-Elect for Division 7 "Physical Electrochemistry" of the International Society of Electrochemistry for the 2021/22 term. more

Our collaborative work on the role of OH intermediates during AuOx reduction at low pH with researchers at EPFL and Alicante University has just been accepted for publication in ACS Catalysis. Congratulations to Jonas and Francesco, the lead authors of this work! more

The ISE Annual Meeting 2020 - Belgrade Online - has started. Check out the program and our Symposium 19 "Electrochemical Surfaces and Interfaces"! more

Congrats, Giovanni and Natalia, on your Applied Spectroscopy publication about how to enhance TER signals with spatial light modulation! more

Congratulations to Jonas, Masoud, and Giovanni for their publication in Nature Communications entitled "Reactivity mapping of nanoscale defect chemistry under electrochemical reaction conditions." In March 2020, it was named one of the Top 50 read articles of 2019!

Congrats to Albert for winning a poster prize at the WE-Heraeus Seminar.

Jonas successfully defended his thesis (summa cum laude).

Congratulations to Jonas for winning a poster prize at the ISE 70th Annual Meeting in Durban, South Africa.

Welcome to our new Postdoc, Albert. He received a Marie Curie fellowship for "TECh-MoDe” and a Humboldt fellowship for "Nanoscale-enhanced Spectroscopies in Electrochemically-Gated Single-Molecule Devices."

Welcome to our new Postdoc, Azade.

For this publication in Electrochimica Acta, the team provides a quantitative electrochemical and SPRS study of sputtered thin film Au/Pt surfaces that allows designing hybrid films optimized for stable electrochemical Pt behavior and efficient Au plasmonic excitation.

For this work appearing in Ionics, novel nanocomposite polymer electrolytes bearing boehmite (Bh) cored polyvinylphosphonic acid (PVPA) were successfully produced and characterized.

Xiao's PNAS publication discusses correlated interfacial water transport and proton conductivity.

Jonas teaches a group of students how to make a solar cell with blackberries on Girls' Day at MPIP.

Welcome to Benjamin, our new Bachelor Student.

Welcome to our new Master student, Daniel.

Leonie successfully defended her thesis.

Congratulations to Jana for being a Deutschland Stipendium recipient. She will be partially sponsored by Altana AG.

^{Photo © Stefan Sämmer}

Welcome, Jana and Nils, our two new TERS group Master students.

Together with Juan Feliu's group in Alicante, we disentangled the contributions of Stark shift and coverage dependence on the vibrational shift of sulfate on Au(111) with EC-SEIRAS. The work has been accepted for publication in the Special Issue on Interfacial Electrochemistry in J. Chem. Phys. Great work, Jonas.

Congratulations, Jonas, on winning the SurfCat poster prize.

The Domke group is growing again: welcome, Ricardo, Giovanni and Masoud.

Jonas teaches a group of students how to make a solar cell with blueberries on Girls' Day at MPIP.

Jonas has been selected as new Junior member of the Gutenberg Akademie at JGU Mainz.

Together with colleagues from MPI Eisenforschung, Xiao quantifies the hydration forces in PEM mimicking surfaces (accepted for publication in PCCP).

Jonas' Current Opinion in Electrochemistry discusses the potential that EC-TERS entails for the field of electrocatalysis.

Xiao successfully defended her thesis at the UvA.

Natalia successfully defended her thesis "Electrochemical TERS - development and application."

Natalia's contribution to this year's SERS Faraday Discussion about the effect of STM parameters on TERS has been published.

Outreach activities: Gabi and Katrin carried out exciting water experiments with year-2 kids at the Erich Kästner Grundschule in Mainz-Bretzenheim.

Katrin organized a very successful Tango-meets-Leadership workshop for MPIP group leaders lead by Incendo Berlin.

Philipp's latest work on the growth mechnism of CuBTC MOF has been accepted for publication in Crystal Growth & Design.

Jonas helped MPIC scientists establish the origin of Mg crusts on Gothic cathedrals. Read about it in Atmospheric Environment.

Join the Summer School on Electrosynthesis and the 7th German-Japanese Symposium on Electrosynthesis at JGU Mainz.
^{(Photo: https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb09akwaldvogel/GJSE/)}

Katrin has received a prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Plus 3 fellowship of ca. 900 kEUR to expand the TERS group activities toward studying the (electro)chemical behaviour of individual metallo-proteins in the coming three years.

Ulmas' invited article on Surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy (SEIRAS) has been accepted in Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry - Surface Science and Electrochemistry.

Natalia's fantastic first EC-TERS adenine/Au(111) results have been published as VIP in Angewandte Chemie.

TERS Group Trip to CERN