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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, 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 …

Tuesday, 07 March, 2023

New CeNS Student Representatives

Results of the online election 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 …

Friday, 25 November, 2022

CeNS Publication Awards 2022

Every year, CeNS awards prizes for excellent publications of CeNS members which have been published during the past 12 months. On Friday, November 25, the winners of this year's CeNS Publication Awards were announced at the CeNs colloquium. Ten awards were presented in the categories more …

Monday, 21 November, 2022

Self-organization: What robotics can learn from amoebae

LMU researchers have developed a new model to describe how biological or technical systems form complex structures without external guidance. more …

Wednesday, 09 November, 2022

A new nanoparticle to act at the heart of cells

A team from UNIGE and LMU developed a transport nanoparticle to make an anti-inflammatory drug much more effective and less toxic. more …

Wednesday, 26 October, 2022

Welcome to CeNS!

Steffen Rulands appointed at LMU's Faculty of Physics  more …

Friday, 22 July, 2022

From a logic gate for ultrafast electronics to miniaturized optical data links - Nano Innovation Award 2022

LMU Center for NanoScience and four spin-off companies jointly honor innovative PhD students more …

Monday, 18 July, 2022

Photonics and Optoelectronics of Nanosystems

Special issue on the occasion of Prof. Jochen Feldmann's 60th birthday more …

Thursday, 14 July, 2022

Dr. Sophia Gruber wins Klartext Award 2022

Science Communication Award to former CeNS Student Representative more …

Friday, 24 June, 2022

DNA with a twist and a pinch of salt

A team of biophysicists led by Prof. Jan Lipfert has measured how the twist of DNA depends on the concentration and type of ions in its environment. more …

Wednesday, 15 June, 2022

International Nanoscience Students Conference 2022 in Munich

Submit your abstract by June 15, 2022 more …

Saturday, 07 May, 2022

CeNS Spin-off PHIO Scientific successful at Start?Zuschuss!

With the Start?Zuschuss! funding program, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs supports technology-oriented start-ups from all over Bavaria. In the current round, a total of 36 start-ups were selected - among them PHIO Scientific GmbH, a spin-off of the Center for NanoScience. PHIO builds more …

Monday, 14 March, 2022

One million euro for understanding skin formation

How does a single layer of cells transform into a multilayer tissue such as the skin? LMU physicist Dr. Friedhelm Serwane (Center for NanoScience & Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology) together with two international collaborators has been awarded an HSFP grant to investigate this question. more …

Friday, 11 March, 2022

Self-organization of complex structures: a matter of time

LMU researchers have developed a new strategy for manufacturing nanoscale structures in a time- and resource-efficient manner more …

Wednesday, 09 March, 2022

New CeNS Student Representatives

Results of the online election more …

Friday, 11 February, 2022

Theodor-Hänsch-Promotionspreis 2021 to CeNS Alumnus Dr. Florian Schüder

For his outstanding dissertation entitled "Advancing and applying Next-Generation DNA-based super-resolution microscopy" more …

Friday, 11 February, 2022

Proof of Concept Grant for Olivia Merkel

The LMU pharmacist has received a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to implement a new approach for treating asthma. more …

Tuesday, 18 January, 2022

LMU researcher Dmitri Efetov: Exotic physics in the second dimension

New appointment at LMU Munich: Professor Dmitri Efetov holds the Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics at the Faculty of Physics more …

Monday, 17 January, 2022

Early Earth: Evolution in the abiotic world

LMU chemists have shown that organocatalysts go through an evolution and could have played an important role in the emergence of life. more …

Tuesday, 21 December, 2021

CeNS welcomes a new member!

Dr. David Konrad studied chemistry and biochemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich and received his M.Sc. in 2013. During Master's studies, he worked as a visiting researcher in the group of Dean Toste at the University of California, Berkeley and the group of Benjamin List at the more …

Tuesday, 07 December, 2021

Evolution of structural dynamics in proteins

A team led by LMU biophysicist Thorben Cordes reports in PNAS. more …

Monday, 06 December, 2021

Gas bubbles in rock pores – a nursery for life on Early Earth

Munich and Dresden based researchers create compelling scenario for the evolution of membraneless microdroplets as the origin of life. more …

Friday, 26 November, 2021

CeNS Publication Awards 2021

Every year, CeNS awards prizes for excellent publications of CeNS members which have been published during the past 12 months. On Friday, November 26, the winners of this year's CeNS Publication Awards were announced at the CeNs colloquium. Eleven awards were presented in the categories "Best more …

Wednesday, 24 November, 2021

In the nano-aquarium: Infrared super-resolution microscopy of living cells

Physicists at LMU have developed a method for visualizing chemical patterns on unstained living cells in the nanometer range. more …

Friday, 12 November, 2021

Energy Conversion: Make carbonate not carbon dioxide

LMU scientists at the Nano-Institute Munich developed a technique to avoid CO2 in energy conversion processes with carbon-containing fuel more …

Friday, 22 October, 2021

Welcome!

Prof. Knut Müller-Caspary becomes new CeNS member more …

Thursday, 21 October, 2021

Postdoctoral Researchers receive CeNS Young Investigator Fund

To promote the scientific independence of postdoctoral researchers, CeNS has launched the CeNS Young Investigator Fund. The CeNS Young Investigator Fund comes with up to €10.000 to support the postdocs’ own research projects. From all nominations, the CeNS board selected five recipients based on more …

Tuesday, 05 October, 2021

Cellular physiology: Molecular scales on biological membranes

Scientists have developed a new method to determine location and size changes of unlabeled proteins on membranes via their mass. more …

Monday, 04 October, 2021

Physics: Structure formation in mini-organs

The development of alveoli in organoids derived from mammary-gland tissue follows the same physical principles as the formation of discrete droplets in a water jet.  more …

Thursday, 16 September, 2021

Honor for Prof. Emiliano Cortés

CeNS member Prof. Emiliano Cortes, W2 tenure-track Professor at the Chair of Hybrid Plasmonics at the Faculty of Physics, has been selected for a special issue of "2021 Emerging Scientist" from Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

The 2021 Emerging Investigators themed issue gathers some of more …

Wednesday, 01 September, 2021

One-way for thermal radiation

LMU physicists have developed a novel method for contactless cooling of objects more …

Friday, 16 July, 2021

From capturing viruses to bioprinting - Nano Innovation Award 2021

CeNS and four LMU spin-off companies jointly award prizes for innovative doctoral theses. more …

Monday, 12 July, 2021

Molecular gastronomy

Origin of life: What was the recipe for the "Ursuppe" from which life emerged? LMU chemists Thomas Carell and Oliver Trapp, and physicist Dieter Braun, discuss the early steps in the evolution of life some four billion years ago. more …

Wednesday, 23 June, 2021

CeNS Annual Report 2020 online

Read about research and activities more …

Friday, 11 June, 2021

Graphene unlocks its potential for superresolution microscopy

Scientists from LMU have unlocked the full potential of graphene for fluorescence microscopy. The study shows a microscopy resolution world record of 3 nanometer. This might turn graphene into the new standard platform for state-of-the art microscopy. more …

Tuesday, 25 May, 2021

Stimulating the immune system with sponges made of silica

Silica nanoparticles developed by a team from the University of Geneva and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität have significantly increased the effectiveness and precision of immunotherapies. more …

Thursday, 29 April, 2021

ONE MUNICH Strategy Forum: TUM and LMU to jointly explore new research fields

As global competition among metropolitan regions intensifies, the two Universities of Excellence LMU and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are consolidating their scientific strengths in future-oriented and high-potential research fields. more …

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