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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 6d

Don't miss this opportunity!

Also, check out the upcoming lecture with our director, Silvia Vignolini ( @vignolinilab.bsky.social ) , on 15 October.

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to welcoming Dr Ho Seong Hwang to the Molloy Lab ( @molloylab.bsky.social ) from Chung-Ang University as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

More about the Molloy Lab: www.mpikg.mpg.de/6499394/synt...

#HumboldtFellowship

Synthetic Methodology and Reaction Design

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 10d

🎉 Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes!
Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions.

📍 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/

@ewerslab.bsky.social @mpici.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 12d

Replicas of fungal #sugars decode the immune system’s 1st response to dangerous #Candida bloodstream infections.
This enables a non-invasive #test that delivers reliable results in minutes—a breakthrough vs. rising health threat.

Press release: tinyurl.com/3aychk8u
Paper: tinyurl.com/26pkne4u

Sugar Fingerprints to Fight Fungal Infections

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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 15d

Major cool membrane conference coming up next week! The Biomembrane Days 2025, organized by an amazing team from the MPI for Colloids and Interface Science @mpici.bsky.social: Rumy Dimova (@dimovalab.bsky.social), Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl. I'm so very much looking forward to attending! 🤩 🧪

Biomembrane Days 2025

Membranes form the intricately shaped compartments of life. The Biomembrane Days are a triannual workshop that highlights recent advances in understanding the morphology and molecular organization of ...

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 16d

🌧️ Regen in Sicht? Raus und Schnecken bestaunen! 🐌
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Dr. Franziska Jehle erzählt, wie #Schnecken unterschiedliche Schleimarten zum Gleiten, Schützen & Schmieren sekretieren.
Daraus entsteht Inspiration für neue #Biomaterialien.
#Biomimetik
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Schneckenschleim: Wie uns der Glibber in Medizin oder Industrie nutzen kann

Die Natur ist eine beliebte Inspirationsquelle für Materialentwicklung - zum Beispiel Schneckenschleim. Den erforscht die Biochemikerin Franziska Jehle am Max-Planck-Institut in Potsdam. Von Anna Corv...

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EXPeditions @expeditions.bsky.social · 20d

Silvia Vignolini (@vignolinilab.bsky.social), Director at the @mpici.bsky.social and Professor at @cam.ac.uk, explores how natural structures interact with light to produce vivid color.

🔗 www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1157

#PLPEXPeditions

Understanding the role of color in nature

Colors are very important as communication. This is true in our society – something you say, "we dress to impress" – but this is also true in other systems.

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 22d

Professor @vignolinilab.bsky.social works at the interface of chemistry, physics and biology studying light’s interaction with materials in order to understand how it produces optical effects. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4580 @mpici.bsky.social @chemlibcam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 26d

🌸Flower Power for the #EnergyTransition🔋 on @zdfde.bsky.social

#Lavender oil + sulfur to optimize sodium-sulfur #batteries (=nanocages to trap #polysulfites).

Greener solutions for #EnergyStorage by @paologiusto.bsky.social w. an ingredient from our balconies.

#ChemSky

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moma future: Batterien mit Lavendel

Für die Energiewende wird es darauf ankommen, wie grüner Strom gespeichert wird. Ein Forscherteam aus Potsdam arbeitet an einer Technologie mit einer Pflanze, die wir alle kennen, Lavendel.

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology 🌱🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌞🔬 Big step for #sustainability in science: Today the Max Planck Campus at @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social inaugurated new #SolarPower systems – including a 6,000 m² agri-PV plant.

Thank you to @manjaschuele.bsky.social & @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de for making this milestone possible!

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Aug 15

Check out this 1-year (+possible extension) postdoctoral opening if you're interested in advancing the boundaries of sustainable, high-performance electrochemical #EnergyStorage through #materials design, precision #interface #engineering, & deep mechanistic insight.
#chemsky
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Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d) in Interfaces and Protective Layers for Room–Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Aug 20

Entdecke im MaxWissen, wie Manuel Häußler #Kunststoffe neu denken will:

1️⃣ Herstellung aus unkritischen #Rohstoffen
2️⃣ Vielseitige Einsatzmöglichkeiten
3️⃣ #Abbaubar – ohne Mikroplastik
4️⃣ Vollständig #recycelbar

www.max-wissen.de/max-hefte/te...

Techmax 38: Kunststoffe im Kreislauf | max-wissen.de

Der Bedarf an Kunststoffen wird sich bis 2050 verdoppeln. Doch noch immer werden über 90% davon aus Erdöl hergestellt – rechnet man den Altkunststoff mit ein. Allein durch die Produktion von Plastik ...

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Aug 15

Check out this 1-year (+possible extension) postdoctoral opening if you're interested in advancing the boundaries of sustainable, high-performance electrochemical #EnergyStorage through #materials design, precision #interface #engineering, & deep mechanistic insight.
#chemsky
tinyurl.com/4m6huvm4

Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d) in Interfaces and Protective Layers for Room–Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congrats to the newly minted Doctor, Sue-Faye Ng.
Her dissertation at Xiamen Univ. Malaysia explored the potential of a specific form of #CarbonNitride (C3N5) for solar-to-chemical production of green fuels.
We look forward to her next breakthroughs in #photocatalysis at our inst.
#PhDone #ChemSky

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · Aug 6

1/3 📢 New work from our lab 📢 We uncover a unifying dielectric principle for biomolecular condensates! 💦Contrary to intuition, we find that it is not a condensate’s absolute polarity, but the permittivity contrast with its surroundings, that governs its affinity for membranes. #GUV #condensates

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Biological materials have smart ways to generate, store, amplify & release elastic energy (for different functions).
Shahrouz Amini & co. explore how nature uses these “elastic energy batteries” — and how they inspire #materialsscience & engineering.
#MatSci #ChemSky

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Elastic Energy Storage in Biological Materials: Internal Stresses and Their Functionality

Harnessing and storing internally generated elastic energy is a clever strategy by biological materials to perform functions like shape transformation, movement, and predation. This review explores h...

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 31

Humify turns organic waste into "superhumus"= #soil enhancer that traps CO₂ &restores damaged soils in weeks, not millennia. Humic substances=natural #carbon polymers that hold💦, bind nutrients,&support biodiversity.Humify mimics them w. controlled synthesis (Idea: M.Antonietti)
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Humify – superfood for the soil

The start-up Humify has developed a technology that can reactivate soil as a carbon sink—a potential climate savior. The artificial humic substances (A-HS) produced by Humify, known as “Humify Humus,”...

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hot off the press!

A new design for a #photocatalyst for #WaterSplitting (specifically the water #oxidation reaction), developed through theoretical predictions & validated by lab experiments.

tinyurl.com/4337vfmv

More about the Methasol project: methasol.eu

#ChemSky

Tunability of Carbon Nitrides for Enhanced Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

This study presents a systematic theoretical and experimental investigation aimed at optimizing the photocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance of poly(heptazine imides) containing meta...

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 25

🏆 John J. Molloy (@molloylab.bsky.social) has done it again!

For the second year in a row, he’s been awarded the Preis für #guteLehre (Award for Excellence in #Teaching) by the Student Association for Chemistry at the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

#ChemSky

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 22

We’re thrilled to host guest scientist Dr. Viktoriia Kamska, whose research on blue sharks' #structuralColor reveals their potential for dynamic color-change 🦈—and promises ripple effects far beyond the world of sharks.

#ChemSky #MatSci

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Novel nanostructures in blue sharks reveal their remarkable potential for dynamic color-change

New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue coloration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential capa...

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UniSysCat @unisyscat.bsky.social · Jul 18

#UniSysCat member Peter Seeberger was re-elected as Vice President of @dfg.de. The director at @mpici.bsky.social & founder of #CTC is starting his second term in office. We're pleased about his election, as Seeberger is very committed to the green transformation of #chemistry.

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Peter Seeberger re-elected as Vice President of the DFG

On July 2, the Vice Presidents of the German Research Foundation (DFG) have been elected. UniSysCat member Prof. Dr. Peter Seeberger, director at the MPICI and the CTC, has been re-elected for his sec...

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 17

Keen on pushing the frontiers of sulfur-based #battery technology?

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Hybrid Sulfur #Cathodes and Electrochemical #Interfaces for Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur #Batteries.

Apply by August 1st

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Postdoctoral Position in Hybrid Sulfur Cathodes and Electrochemical Interfaces for Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries (m/f/d)

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations to Hao Fang on successfully defending his thesis, "Generation of Complex 3D #Organoboron Molecules Leveraging Visible Light".

We’re proud to welcome him as our newest Doctor!

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

#PhDone #ChemSky

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 9

#Glycans are central to the #carbon cycle.
Understanding their turnover in the ocean is key to ecosystem science.
In this paper: innovative chemical tools to trace glycans in complex marine microbiome.
#glycotime #chemsky

@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
@unibremen.bsky.social
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Activity-Based Tracking of Glycan Turnover in Microbiomes

Glycans shape microbiomes in the ocean and the gut, driving key steps in the global carbon cycle and human health. Yet, our ability to track microbial glycan turnover across microbiomes is limited, as...

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · Jul 7

Extremely light, highly insulating & with vast surface area,
#aerogels — or “frozen smoke” — could aid the climate transition.
Ernesto Scoppola shares insights on ambient pressure drying (APD), an energy-efficient way to fine-tune aerogel #porosity and performance.

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How can aerogels be used as a positive impact solution? - Springwise

Our latest Technology Briefing delves into how innovators are leveraging a space-age wonder material to create solutions across sectors

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