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Our paper on Deciphering Spectroscopic Signatures of Competing Ca²⁺ - Peptide Interactions has been accepted to J Phys Chem B. more

Our collaborative paper on Fast Collective Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics in Hexafluoroisopropanol Related to its Chemical Activity is online at Angewandte Chemie. more

Our paper on Ion Association and Hydration of Some Heavy-Metal Nitrate Salts in Aqueous Solution has been accepted to J Phys Chem B. more

Our paper on Flipping Water Orientation at the Surface of Water-in-Salt and Salt-in-Water Solutions has been accepted to J Phys Chem Lett. more

A collaborative paper with the Krossing group on Pushing redox potentials to highly positive values using inert fluorobenzenes and weakly coordinating anions is online at Nature Communications. more

A collaborative paper on Ion and Molecular Sieving With Ultrathin Polydopamine Nanomembranes has just appeared in Advanced Materials. more

Yongkang Wang, Fujie Tang, Xiaoqing Yu, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Yuki Nagata, and Mischa Bonn have published a paper entitled Heterodyne-Detected Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Reveals Aqueous Molecular Structure at the Suspended Graphene/Water Interface in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
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Shuai Fu, Hai Wang, and Mischa Bonn have published a collaborative paper Control of the Hydroquinone/Benzoquinone Redox State in High-Mobility Semiconducting Conjugated Coordination Polymers in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. more

Ze-Hua Wu, Xingfu Zhu, Qiqi Yang, Mischa Bonn, and Xiaomin Liu have published a collaborative paper entitled Near-Infrared Perylenecarboximide Fluorophores for Live-Cell Super-Resolution Imaging in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

Yelena Kan, Sapun Parekh, and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper A solid beta-sheet structure is formed at the surface of FUS droplets during aging published in Nat. Chem. Biol. more

Hao Wu, Yanwei Gu, Ze-Hua Wu, Martin Baumgarten, Klaus Müllen, and Akimitsu Narita have published a collaborative paper Stable π-Extended Thio[7]helicene-Based Diradical with Predominant Through-Space Spin–Spin Coupling in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

Xingfu Zhu, Qiqi Yang, Sapun Parekh, Mischa Bonn, Akimitsu Narita, and Xiaomin Liu have published a collaborative paper entitled Intrinsic Burst-Blinking Nanographenes for Super-Resolution Bioimaging in J. Am. Chem. Soc. more

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

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

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

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

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

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

ERC Starting Grant for Daniel Keefer more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

European Research Council supports "n-AQUA" collaboration more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

How molecules can help miniaturize electronics in the future more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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