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- Fighting cell death with sulfur
Antioxidants are well covered in advertising. They protect cells by neutralizing free radicals before these can cause cellular damage. While some antioxidants, such as certain vitamins, are obtaine... - More Than Just Ions: What Causes Droplet Charging?
Whether on a windowpane at home or during the industrial cleaning of computer chips: Droplets sliding over solid surfaces become electrically charged. Yet the physical mechanism behind this chargin... - New software visualizes biological processes in motion
Chemical reactions drive life. They ensure that cells obtain energy, proteins perform their functions, and DNA changes under certain conditions. However, many of these processes occur on extrem... - X-ray laser permits insights into anomalies of water.
Using x-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University and of the MPI for Polymer Research have been able to determine the existence of a critical point in supercooled water at around -63 °C and 1...
- Overcoming a limitation of STED microscopy
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, including STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion) microscopy. This method can be used to ob...
- New insight into the bonds between water molecule
Icebergs float on liquid water, 4°C cold water sinks to the bottom: With its anomalies, water still poses a number of scientific puzzles. Researchers led by Johannes Hunger at the Max Planck Instit... - The mechanism of ice-nucleating bacteria
Particular "Ice-nucleating proteins" produced by certain bacteria have the ability to control the freezing point of water - so efficiently that no other known material can compete. An interdiscipli... - Nanomembrane allows efficient sieving of ions from liquids
Filters play an important role in many areas of life - from coffee filters to the purification of liquids. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now produced a filter ma...
- New insights into the utilization of nanotechnology-based drugs
Novel drugs, such as vaccines against covid-19, among others, are based on drug transport using nanoparticles. Whether this drug transport is negatively influenced by an accumulation of blood prote...
- Electrostatic influences the movement of drops on surfaces
Something as simple as the motion of water drops on surfaces should actually be understood - one would think. In fact there are still numerous unanswered questions about the forces acting on a slid...
- Understanding the texture of food with microscopy and mechanics
Many delicacies are based on animal products. Artisan products - i.e. those with natural and identical ingredients - often have a different mouthfeel. This is among others also a big challenge in t... - How molecules can help miniaturize electronics in the future
There are worlds between the Zuse Z3, the first functioning digital computer from 1941, and modern microprocessors - both in terms of speed and size. But the further miniaturization of current sili...
- How the energy stored in a bent water molecule is dissipated into heat
The water on Earth makes our planet inhabitable. It absorbs the Sun's energy and releases it in the form of heat. An international research collaboration headed by the Max Planck Institute for Poly...
- How graphene nanoparticles improve the resolution of microscopes
Conventional light microscopes cannot distinguish structures when they are separated by a distance smaller than, roughly, the wavelength of light. Superresolution microscopy, developed since the 19... - Solution-processable ferroelectric nylons
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) led by Dr. Kamal Asadi in cooperation with colleagues of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (JGU) have solved a four-decade c...
- Novel spectroscopy technique reveals water molecule dance
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have developed the novel 2D TIRV spectroscopy technique to observe coupling between intramolecular and intermolecular vibrations that mak...
- How does ice melt? Layer by layer!
We all know that ice melts at 0°C. However, already 150 years ago the famous physicist Michael Faraday discovered that at the surface of frozen ice, well below 0°C, a thin film of liquid-like water... - Solvent-free processing and re-processing plastics with light
Azobenzene polymers, currently used in research as potential, future coating and ink material, can be transitioned from solids into liquids by means of light enabling an environmentally friendly pr... - Borophene holds the electronic properties which researchers try to implement in graphene
In the latest issue of Science, Hermann Sachdev, a researcher from Professor Müllen's department at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz, Germany discusses the outlooks of...
- Working mechanism of novel perovskite solar cells deciphered
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, jointly with scientists from Switzerland and Spain, have investigated the working mechanism of a new type of solar cells in ... - Microscopic mechanism behind the puzzling co-non-solvency effect of Smart Polymers unveiled
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz Kurt Kremer and Debashish Mukherji, together with their collaborator Carlos Marques from the French Centre national de l... - Award for characterizing mechanical and chemical interactions
Samet Varol has been awarded with the Gold prize in the "Young Scientist Lecture Competition Award" for his lecture about the relation between chemical and mechanical properties of nanocomposites a... - Diverging thermal conductivity
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research show unlimited heat conduction in graphene. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and the Natio... - Atomic surface structure made visible in viscous fluids
Stefan Weber, physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP), has presented a method to measure and image surface structures in different liquids with unprecedented resolution. H...
- Successful graphene synthesis out of single molecules
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) working with Xinliang Feng and Klaus Müllen succeeded in producing remarkably long, structurally well-defined and liquid-phase...