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15.02.2024
Welcome, Özge! It’s great to have you on board as a new TERS postdoc with the NatWat project. more
29.11.2023

29.11.2023

Katrin has received the Lehrpreis (best-lecturer award) of the Faculty of Chemistry at UDE. Apparently, the students enjoyed her quantum chemistry & spectroscopy class :)
20.10.2023
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
23.6.2023

23.6.2023

Well done, Dr. Ohm! Congratulations on your sucessful defense of your thesis, great work!
12.6.2023
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
2.3.2023
Yongkang’s insights into how water organization is governed at a graphene electrode has been published in Nature - fantastic work! more
2.1.2023
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
13.11.2022
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
9.6.2022
Awesome news: Katrin has been appointed as Chair in Physical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. more
26.5.2022
Check out our Current Opinion in Electrochemistry discussing the actuator role that electric fields can play in unimolecular contacts! Great work, Albert! more
25.2.2022
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
1.11.2021
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
27.5.2021
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
26.4.2021

26.4.2021

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!
19.4.2021
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
7.4.2021
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
26.3.2021
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
19.1.2021
Congratulations, Ralph, Azade, Konrad & collaborators, on the new publication unraveling how ion-protein interactions influence ice nucleation! Exciting work! more
1.1.2021
Our research has been featured in the MPG Jahrbuch 2020! Excellent work, TERS groupies! more
1.11.2020
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
1.10.2020
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
31.8.2020
The ISE Annual Meeting 2020 - Belgrade Online - has started. Check out the program and our Symposium 19 "Electrochemical Surfaces and Interfaces"! more
15.6.2020
Congrats, Giovanni and Natalia, on your Applied Spectroscopy publication about how to enhance TER signals with spatial light modulation! more
13.12.2019

13.12.2019

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!
13.12.2019

13.12.2019

Congrats to Albert for winning a poster prize at the WE-Heraeus Seminar.
15.10.2019

15.10.2019

Jonas successfully defended his thesis (summa cum laude).
08.08.2019

08.08.2019

Congratulations to Jonas for winning a poster prize at the ISE 70th Annual Meeting in Durban, South Africa.
01.08.2019

01.08.2019

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."
27.06.2019

27.06.2019

Welcome to our new Postdoc, Azade.
15.05.2019

15.05.2019

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.
12.05.2019

12.05.2019

For this work appearing in Ionics, novel nanocomposite polymer electrolytes bearing boehmite (Bh) cored polyvinylphosphonic acid (PVPA) were successfully produced and characterized.
15.04.2019

15.04.2019

Xiao's PNAS publication discusses correlated interfacial water transport and proton conductivity.
28.03.2019

28.03.2019

Jonas teaches a group of students how to make a solar cell with blackberries on Girls' Day at MPIP.
08.01.2019

08.01.2019

Welcome to Benjamin, our new Bachelor Student.
02.01.2019

02.01.2019

Welcome to our new Master student, Daniel.
18.12.2018

18.12.2018

Leonie successfully defended her thesis.
06.12.2018

06.12.2018

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

Photo © Stefan Sämmer
23.11.2018

23.11.2018

Welcome, Jana and Nils, our two new TERS group Master students.
21.08.2018

21.08.2018

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.
13.08.2018

13.08.2018

Congratulations, Jonas, on winning the SurfCat poster prize.
04.2018

04.2018

The Domke group is growing again: welcome, Ricardo, Giovanni and Masoud.
26.04.2018

26.04.2018

Jonas teaches a group of students how to make a solar cell with blueberries on Girls' Day at MPIP.
23.04.2018

23.04.2018

Jonas has been selected as new Junior member of the Gutenberg Akademie at JGU Mainz.
07.04.2018

07.04.2018

Together with colleagues from MPI Eisenforschung, Xiao quantifies the hydration forces in PEM mimicking surfaces (accepted for publication in PCCP).
21.03.2018

21.03.2018

Jonas' Current Opinion in Electrochemistry discusses the potential that EC-TERS entails for the field of electrocatalysis.
02.03.2018

02.03.2018

Xiao successfully defended her thesis at the UvA.
16.02.2018

16.02.2018

Natalia successfully defended her thesis "Electrochemical TERS - development and application."
05.12.2017

05.12.2017

Natalia's contribution to this year's SERS Faraday Discussion about the effect of STM parameters on TERS has been published.
10.11.2017

10.11.2017

Outreach activities: Gabi and Katrin carried out exciting water experiments with year-2 kids at the Erich Kästner Grundschule in Mainz-Bretzenheim.
19.-20.10.2017

19.-20.10.2017

Katrin organized a very successful Tango-meets-Leadership workshop for MPIP group leaders lead by Incendo Berlin.
12.10.2017

12.10.2017

Philipp's latest work on the growth mechnism of CuBTC MOF has been accepted for publication in Crystal Growth & Design.
09.10.2017

09.10.2017

Jonas helped MPIC scientists establish the origin of Mg crusts on Gothic cathedrals. Read about it in Atmospheric Environment.
10.08.2017

10.08.2017

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.
06.07.2017

06.07.2017

Ulmas' invited article on Surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy (SEIRAS) has been accepted in Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry - Surface Science and Electrochemistry.
24.06.2017

24.06.2017

Natalia's fantastic first EC-TERS adenine/Au(111) results have been published as VIP in Angewandte Chemie.
30.01.2017-01.02.2017

30.01.2017-01.02.2017

TERS Group Trip to CERN
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