29/07/2021: The last paper from Christoph's Thesis is out in JPCB
24/06/2021: Finally the Review on Water at Charged Interfaces is out on Nature Reviews Chemistry
17/12/2020: Daria's & Grace's work in collaboration with colleagues from MPIP and the University of Regensburg (Germany) has been accepted for publication in Langmuir!
1/9/2020: Welcome Kevin & Malte to the group!
15-22/06/2020: Daria & Grace deliver two oral presentations at the live virtual TSRC workshop on "Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics".
15-22/06/2020: Grace organizes a live virtual TSRC workshop on "Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics": first time, but amazing experience!
27-28/02/2020: Daria attends the Water Course during the DESY Water Week in Hamburg and she presents a poster
25-26/02/2020: Grace is @ DESY in Hamburg for the Center for Molecular Water Science Workshop
24-26/02/2020: Daria attends the Third Infinity Conference in Göttingen and presents her results in a talk
2-7/02/2020: Grace attends SASP2020 (XXII. Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics) in St. Moritz!
21/01/2020: Grace co-organizes and attends the Max Water Meeting on Biological Water in Mainz
1/10/2019: Congratulations! Christoph, Mischa and Grace publish a collaborative paper with Kristin Bauer, Fred Wurm, Steven Roeters and Tobias Weidner in Langmuir entitled "Both Poly(ethylene glycol) and Poly(methyl ethylene phosphate) Guide Oriented Adsorption of Specific Proteins"! DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02275
8-13/09/2019: Grace attends ECIS 2019 in Leuven Belgium where she delivers a talk entitled: "Interaction of Blood Proteins with Polyphosphoesters for Nanocarrier Functionalization"
8-12/07/2019: Grace attends the ECOF16 in Paris where she delivers an invited keynote talk.
30/06-5/07/2019: Daria attends the FEBS Summer School "Biological surfaces and interfaces: the mechanistic view" in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain where she presents a poster on our collaborative work with Ute Hellmich @ JGU Mainz
16-19/06/2019: Grace attends ACS Colloids 2019 in Atlanta (USA) where she delivers a talk.
14/06/2019: Vladimir & Grace publish a collaborative paper with the University of Genova (Italy) on JPCC entitled "Anchoring of Aminophosphonates on Titanium Oxide for Biomolecular Coupling"!
31/05/2019: after almost 4 years Christoph leaves the group: Good luck with your future!
24/04/2019: Christoph successfully defends his thesis "Protein Adsorption at Functionalized Surfaces": Congratulations!!! (click here for some pics)
8/04/2019: Luca Sorridente joins the group as an Erasmus+ student: welcome!
31/03/2019: Vladimir leaves the group: Good luck with your future career!
10-14/12/2018: Paolo Canepa from the Department of Physics at the University of Genova visits our group for a week during which he will perform experiments with Vladimir on phosphonate monolayers.
5/12/2018: Christoph, Mischa and Grace publish a collaborative paper with Kristin Bauer & Fred Wurm on ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces entitled "Interfacial Conformation of Hydrophilic Polyphosphoesters Affects Blood Protein Adsorption" ! DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b17146
21-22/11/2018: School "Proteins @ Interfaces". Here you can find more information!
Christoph & Vladimir presented posters!
7-9/11/2018: Grace attends the 2018 Sino-German Symposium on „Polymers and Interfaces: Construction, Characterization and Functionalization” in Mainz
1/11/2018: Daria joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome!
13/9/2018: Christoph & Grace publish with Lisa, Ellen and Mischa a paper in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. entitled "Surface Potential of a Planar Charged Lipid–Water Interface. What Do Vibrating Plate Methods, Second Harmonic and Sum Frequency Measure?" ! DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02093
15/7/2018: Vladimir joins the group for a research stage: Welcome!
10-21/6/2018: Grace is traveling to the US to participate at the ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium at Penn State and the TSRC Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics in Telluride.
7/5/2018: Alex starts as HiWi in our group: Welcome Alex!
17/4/2018: Grace publishes a collaborative review in Angewandte Chemie entitled "Engineering Proteins at Interfaces: From Complementary Characterization to Material Surfaces with Designed Functions"! DOI: 10.1002/anie.201712448
28/3/2018: Grace publishes a paper with Lisa, Yuki, Helmut, Johannes Ellen and Mischa entitled "Saturation of charge-induced water alignment at model membrane surfaces" on Science Advances! DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aap7415
16/3/2018: Grace visits the Dept. of Physics at the University of Genova where she gives a department semina talk.
5-9/3/2018: Christoph attends the DPG Meeting in Erlangen where he gives an oral presentation
09/10/2017: Christoph's paper entitled: "Repelling and Ordering: The Influence of Poly(ethylene glycol) on Protein Adsorption" has been published in PCCP! DOI: 10.1039/C7CP05445A
09/10/2017: Marina Kurbasic from the Marchesan Group at the University of Trieste joins our group for a 3 week stay during which she will perform experiments with Christoph on new antimicrobial peptides.
31/7/2017: Dimitra leaves our group: Good luck with your future career!
13/6/2017: Grace publishes a paper in PCCP with Jan, Mischa and Ellen entitled "Surface-Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Water/Silica Interface: Screening and Interference". DOI: 10.1039/C7CP02251D
11-16/6/2017: Christoph attends ICAVS2017 (9th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy) in Victoria, BC, Canada where he gives an oral presentation and is awarded an honourable mention for the presentation!
6-9/6/2017: Christoph & Dimitra attend the Summer School in Solvation Science hosted at the Ruhr University in Bochum
5-7/4/2017: Christoph attends the 13th Zsigmondy Colloquium of the German Colloid Society in Saarbrücken where he gives an oral presentation
27-29/3/2017: The group attends the Department retreat and Dimitra's poster wins the second prize
1/2/2017: Dimitra Kanta joins the group
10-12/11/2016: Grace gives a talk at the “First Sino-German Young Scientist Symposium” in Beijing
10/11/2016: The paper on the determination of surface potential of droplets and liposomes is published in PRB
9/11/2016: Grace gives a talk at the “Miniworkshop on Functional Soft Matter” at Tsinghua University in Beijing
24-28/10/2016: Christoph attends the MPGC retreat in Hamburg and gives a talk
28/10/2016: the group participates with a poster at the MPI-P Poster-day
17-22/7/2016: Grace is invited to give a talk at the “Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics Workshop” in Telluride
10/7/2016: MPI-P Open Haus
9/5/2016: Grace is invited to give a talk to the AK Butt/Palberg group seminar
28/04/2016: Christoph presents a poster at the MPGC Poster-day
5/4/2016: The paper on Surface Potential in JPCC is out
3/2/2016: The Comment in PRL with Maksim and Mischa is finally out!
6-12/9/2016: Grace is invited to give a talk to the “Surface potentials - Facts, Findings and Fantasies” Workshop at EPFL
02/10/2015: the group participates with a poster at the MPIP Poster-day
1/8/2015: Christoph joins the group
30/6/2015: Guan-Yu joins the group
1/1/2015: Grace joins the Molecular Spectroscopy Department @ MPIP