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Friday, 04 April, 2025
Nanotechnology: DNA origami boosts sensitivity of rapid tests
An LMU team has developed a technology that can amplify the signals of biomarkers in conventional test strips more than a hundredfold. Now the researchers are commercializing the method. more …
Friday, 06 December, 2024
Election of the CeNS board 2025/26
Prof. Frédéric Laquai and Prof. Steffen Rulands join the CeNS board more …
Friday, 06 December, 2024
CeNS Publication Awards 2024
Each year, CeNS recognizes outstanding publications by its members that were published in the past 12 months. On Friday, December 6, the winners of this year's CeNS Publication Awards were revealed at the CeNS Get-together. A total of eleven awards were given in the categories of "Best more …
Tuesday, 05 November, 2024
ERC Synergy Grant to CeNS member Dieter Braun
Origin of life in heated gas bubbles more …
Thursday, 19 September, 2024
Quantum physics: A magic twist
A group led by CeNS member Dmitri Efetov has successfully detected single photons in the infrared range more …
Thursday, 19 September, 2024
Welcome!
Dr Erkan Aydin and Prof. Elena Sturm are new CeNS members more …
Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
Nanotechnology: DNA origami with cargo function
CeNS chemists present two studies that open up new possibilities for biotechnological applications. more …
Thursday, 29 August, 2024
Cytophysics: how cell nuclei squeeze through
How do cells manage to migrate through tiny gaps smaller than their nucleus? A team of LMU researchers led by Joachim Rädler has investigated this question. more …
Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
Biophysics: from filament pick-up sticks to active foams
CeNS physicists have developed a new model that describes how filaments assemble into active foams. more …
Friday, 12 July, 2024
Application welcome - Nano Innovation Award 2024
The LMU Center for NanoScience and four LMU spin-off companies jointly award prizes for innovative doctoral theses. more …
Friday, 12 July, 2024
Polymer library for RNA-based therapeutic approaches
The research group of LMU pharmacist Olivia Merkel has optimized the synthesis of polymer nanoparticles to facilitate the targeted distribution of RNA agents in the body. more …
Thursday, 11 July, 2024
Proof of Concept Grant for Thomas Carell
The European Research Council has awarded the LMU chemist a grant for the preclinical development of a new drug for treating leukemia in high-risk patients. more …
Monday, 08 July, 2024
Crystals as superlenses: The catcher of light
CeNS member Emiliano Cortés develops novel, clever materials to generate sustainable energy more …
Monday, 17 June, 2024
Watching energy materials as they form
Eyes glued to a live transmission from inside a reaction vessel, LMU researchers watch chemical reactions at work. Their results will improve the manufacture of the next generation of energy materials. more …
Friday, 17 May, 2024
Diamond glitter: a play of colors with artificial DNA crystals
Using DNA origami, LMU researchers have built a diamond lattice with a periodicity of hundreds of nanometers – a new approach for manufacturing semiconductors for visible light. more …
Thursday, 04 April, 2024
Heat flows the secret to order in prebiotic molecular kitchen
LMU biophysicists have demonstrated how heat flows through rock fissures could have created the conditions for the emergence of life. more …
Wednesday, 03 April, 2024
Self-assembly of complex systems: hexagonal building blocks are better
Physicists at LMU Munich show that the shape of components is a major determinant of how quickly and efficiently complex structures self-assemble. more …
Thursday, 28 March, 2024
New synapse type discovered by spatial proteomics
Researchers led by Ralf Jungmann have developed a super-resolution imaging method (SUM-PAINT) to map protein distributions in neurons and discovered a new type of synapse. more …
Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
EIC Transition Grant for Qlibri GmbH
Qlibri's project QlibriNANO was selected for the prestigious EIC Transition grant from the European Innovation Council. Within this project, the company will develop the world's most sensitive absorption microscope, enabling new scientific discovery and innovation. Congratulations!
For more more …
Thursday, 15 February, 2024
Theoretical chemistry: simulation of molecular origins of life
Using a so-called computational hyperreactor, LMU chemists have managed to calculate highly complex chemical reaction networks efficiently under realistic conditions. more …
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
Microscopy: Overcoming the traditional resolution limit for the fast co-tracking of molecules
CeNS researchers at LMU have developed an innovative method to simultaneously track rapid dynamic processes of multiple molecules at the molecular scale more …
Thursday, 01 February, 2024
Excellence Strategy: CeNS members successful with draft proposal for Cluster of Excellence
An important decision has been made in the new proposal phase for the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments: LMU and its partners can submit full proposals for three new Clusters of Excellence by this summer.
Since the excellence competition was launched in 2006, LMU has been more …
Thursday, 25 January, 2024
CeNS turns 25!
The Center for NanoScience celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary more …
Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
"Slow motion" recordings of biomolecules
Scientists from the Department of Chemistry at LMU Munich led by Prof. Philip Tinnefeld have developed a new method to watch biomolecules such as proteins and DNA at work. more …
Thursday, 18 January, 2024
Two new ERC grants for CeNS members
Tim Liedl and Emiliano Cortés have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) funding more …
Friday, 15 December, 2023
CeNS Publication Awards 2023
Every year, CeNS awards prizes for excellent publications of CeNS members which have been published during the past 12 months. On Friday, December 15, the winners of this year's CeNS Publication Awards were announced at a festive Get-together in Heppel&Ettlich. Ten awards were presented in more …
Thursday, 07 December, 2023
Leibniz Prize for CeNS researcher Dmitri Efetov
LMU physicist Dmitri Efetov obtains premier research award in Germany for his work on graphene. more …
Friday, 24 November, 2023
Origins of life: new CRC at LMU
The German Research Foundation is funding a new Collaborative Research Centre on the origins of molecular evolution. more …
Thursday, 23 November, 2023
ERC Consolidator Grants for CeNS researchers Benjamin Fingerhut and Amelie Heuer-Jungemann
The European Research Council supports innovative projects through Consolidator Grants. more …
Thursday, 16 November, 2023
DPG Max Planck Medal to Erwin Frey
CeNS member Erwin Frey receives award for his fundamental contributions to theoretical biophysics more …
Friday, 27 October, 2023
ERC Synergy Grant for CeNS researcher Knut Müller-Caspary
The funded project will develop approaches for the structural analysis of very small proteins. more …
Monday, 25 September, 2023
Functional architecture that builds itself
A CeNS research team is combining traditional lithographic methods with the self-organization of DNA origami to create organic 3D nanostructures on surfaces. more …
Tuesday, 05 September, 2023
A matter of perseverance
Since the start of her career, Olivia Merkel has been researching methods for transporting therapeutic RNA segments precisely to their target location in the lungs. A portrait from our science magazine EINSICHTEN more …
Friday, 21 July, 2023
From basic research to application - Nano Innovation Award 2023
The LMU Center for NanoScience and four LMU spin-off companies jointly award prizes for innovative doctoral theses. more …
Friday, 23 June, 2023
Nanophotonics: coupling light and matter
CeNS researchers have developed a metasurface that enables strong coupling effects between light and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). more …
Friday, 26 May, 2023
Beyond the limits of light
The research team led by LMU physicist Ralf Jungmann is using a new technique to enhance fluorescence microscopy to the Ångstrom scale – far below the resolution limit of conventional light microscopy. more …
Thursday, 25 May, 2023
Welcome: Prof. Benjamin Fingerhut becomes new CeNS member
Prof. Benjamin Fingerhut has been appointed in June 2022 as W2 Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and is now a new member of CeNS. He studied chemistry at the LMU and received his PhD degree from the LMU in 2011. Afterwards he joined as a more …
Thursday, 27 April, 2023
Prof. Alena Khmelinskaia becomes new CeNS member
Alena Khmelinskaia received her PhD in Physics from the LMU München for her research work at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. She moved to the University of Washington as a postdoctoral fellow before taking up an Argelander Junior Professorship at the University of Bonn.
Within 2023, her more …
Friday, 21 April, 2023
HSFP grant to Dieter Braun
Together with two international partners, CeNS member Dieter Braun has received funding worth around a million euros from the Human Frontier Science Program. more …
Monday, 17 April, 2023
ERC grant to CeNS member Andreas Tittl
Early-career scientist at LMU obtains prestigious Starting Grant from European Research Council for work on metasurfaces. more …
Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
Nanophysics: the right twist
Stacked layers of ultrathin semiconductor materials feature phenomena that can be exploited for novel applications. A team led by CeNS member Alexander Högele has studied effects that emerge by giving two layers a slight twist more …
Monday, 27 March, 2023
Biomolecules: Trying nanometer measurement for size
As part of a comparative international study, CeNS researchers have successfully tested and validated a method of investigating dynamic protein structures. more …
Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
Biophysics: Droplets in motion
CeNS members investigate the dynamics of active protein droplets in cells more …
Thursday, 02 February, 2023
New technology to generate green hydrogen
CeNS member Emiliano Cortés about a novel strategy for the production of chemicals in a cleaner and zero-carbon emission manner more …
Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
ERC Consolidator Grant to CeNS member Olivia Merkel
Pharmacist Olivia Merkel has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). It is the third ERC grant of her career, having already obtained a Starting Grant in 2014 and a Proof of Concept Grant in 2022. more …
Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
Proof of Concept Grant to CeNS member Alexander Högele and his team
Physicist Prof. Alexander Högele has already been supported by the European Research Council (ERC) with a Starting Grant and an Advanced Grant. Now he has received a Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant. With this funding, the ERC helps researchers translate their results into practice. The grant is worth more …
Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
The fingerprint of structural dynamics in biomolecules
Latest paper from the group of Philip Tinnefeld more …
Friday, 06 January, 2023
Positions in nanoscience and biophysics
International call for applications at CeNS more …