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- Observing hidden electron interactions in graphene at room temperature
An international team of researchers led by Dmitri Efetov , Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at LMUs Faculty of Physics and MCQST co-coordinator for Research Area Quantum Matter, built... - How proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure
Many proteins do not only consist of stably folded components. They also contain flexible parts known as intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), which do not form any stable three-dimensional stru...
- Molecular fine tuning increases efficiency of tandem solar cells
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells are considered a key technology for photovoltaics. Because of their design, they use sunlight more efficiently than conventional silicon cells. While the u... - Programmable nanorobots made of DNA
It is the nanotechnological vision: tiny little robots performing highly specific tasks in the human body, such as delivering pharmaceutical agents or repairing defective cells. Such programmable n...
- Nanotechnology: DNA origami with cargo function
In the world of nanotechnology, the development of dynamic systems that respond to molecular signals is becoming increasingly important. The DNA origami technique, whereby DNA is programmed so as t... - Synthetic pathway for promising nitride compounds discovered
Ruddlesden-Popper compounds are a class of materials with a special layered structure that makes them interesting for numerous applications - as superconductors or catalysts, for example, or for us... - Biophysics: Testing how well biomarkers work
LMU researchers have developed a method to determine how reliably target proteins can be labeled using super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Modern microscopy techniques make it possible to exa... - Microscopy: Overcoming the traditional resolution limit for the fast co-tracking of molecules
Processes within our bodies are characterized by the interplay of various biomolecules such as proteins and DNA. These processes occur on a scale often within a range of just a few nanometers. Cons...
- Harvesting more solar energy with supercrystals
Hydrogen is a building block for the energy transition. To obtain it with the help of solar energy, LMU researchers have developed new high-performance nanostructures. The material holds a world re...
- How bacteria gain energy through CO2 fixation
Acetic acid-producing bacteria (acetogens) are very interesting for the biotech industry: They fix the climate gas CO2 and at the same time produce not only acetic acid, but also substances such as...
- PCR: Activated by light
DNA polymerases and other enzymes that modify DNA are essential tools in biotechnology and diagnostics. They are the key component for COVID-19 diagnostics by PCR. As useful as they are, DNA proces... - On the leap to new antiviral agents
The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) has announced the participants of the first SPRIND Challenge "A Quantum Leap for New Antiviral Agents". From 45 applications from Germany and E...
- Coaxing cancer cells to commit suicide
An LMU team has identified an enzyme that is essential for DNA repair. Loss of this factor leads to cell death when cancer cells accumulate DNA damage. Chemical inhibition of the target protein off... - Sponges as biomonitors of micropollution
Pollution of the world's oceans owing to anthropogenic input of plastics and other industrial wastes represents an increasing threat to the viability of marine ecosystems. - And because such pollut... - Lifting the lid on beta-barrels
The interaction between biotin and streptavidin is a well-established experimental tool in bionanotechnology. LMU physicists have now shown that the mechanical stability of the complex is dependent...
- Environment and resource saving process for industrial formaldehyde production
Formaldehyde is one of the most important feedstocks employed in the chemical industry, and serves as the point of departure for the synthesis of many more complex chemical products. Industrial pro... - Snapshots of carbon molecules C60
When carbon molecules C60 are exposed to an intense infrared light, they change their ball-like structure to a more elongated version. This has now been observed via laser-induced electron diffrac...
- Nanoscale probes for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
In a pioneering study, an LMU team led by Ralf Jungmann has demonstrated that the use of chemically-modified DNA aptamers as protein markers allows one to enhance the power of super-resolution fluo... - Chemical evolution - Progenitors of the living world
RNA was probably the first informational molecule. Now LMU chemists have demonstrated that alternation of wet and dry conditions could have sufficed to drive the prebiotic synthesis of the RNA nucl...
- A space-time sensor for light-matter interactions
LMU-Physicists have developed an attosecond electron microscope that allows them to visualize the dispersion of light in time and space, and observe the motions of electrons in atoms. The most b... - Progress on the way to smart nanomachines
LMU chemists led by Dr. Henry Dube have developed a new method to synthesize a next generation of molecular motors. Using this method "we were able to reduce the speed of our molecular motor suffic...
- How the process of chemical evolution could have proceeded
Biological evolution was preceded by a long phase of chemical evolution during which precursors of biopolymers accumulated. LMU chemists have discovered an efficient mechanism for the prebiotic syn...
- Organic framework serves as a catalyst for the photocatalytic conversion of water into hydrogen
Humanity's need for energy is ever-increasing. However, the traditional energy sources are finite. In contrast, water and sunlight are available in vast abundance. Scientists at the Max Planck Inst... - Scientists developed a light-activated molecular motor
Molecular motors are synthetic chemical compounds that can convert externally supplied energy into mechanical motion. Such molecules, which are specifically designed to execute directional movement... - Novel porous materials called provides a basis for the design of polymeric photocatalysts
Chemical systems that are capable of generating hydrogen gas by light-activated scission of water molecules (often termed artificial photosynthesis) represent a promising technology for the efficie...