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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 …
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 …
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 …
Thursday, 08 April, 2021
Energy transmission by gold nanoparticles coupled to DNA structures
Using DNA structures as scaffolds, Tim Liedl has shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy transmitters more …
Thursday, 25 March, 2021
Small pieces of a bigger picture
PhD students Tamara Ehm and Jana Steuer start Physics Podcast "Entropia" more …
Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
Wavelength selection by interrupted coarsening in reaction-diffusion systems
How does a macroscopic length scale emerge as a result of a collective pattern formation process from microscopic dynamics? This question is of great interest in a broad class of far-from-equilibrium systems, including active matter, granular media, and intracellular phase separation. In our work, more …
Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
Electrochromic materials: Rapid color change
Smart glass can change its color through electricity. A new material developed by an e-conversion team has now set a speed record for such a color change. more …
Tuesday, 02 March, 2021
Origin of life: The chicken-and-the-egg problem
A LMU team has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can replicate information exponentially. tRNAs are key elements in the evolution of early life-forms. more …
Friday, 26 February, 2021
Hermann Gaub honored by the Biophysical Society
Biophysical Society recognizes Class of 2021 Fellows more …
Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
Duality in cellulose-degrading complexes
Using single-molecule fluorescence techniques, scientists at the LMU has discovered how cellulose-degrading complexes arrange themselves for optimal efficiency and how they change their enzymatic composition to adapt to their substrate. Plants produce over 200 billion tons of cellulose per year, more …
Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
Did Darwinian evolution begin before life itself?
LMU physicists demonstrate that fundamental characteristics of polymeric molecules, such as their subunit composition, are sufficient to trigger selection processes in a plausible prebiotic setting. more …
Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
Cells use concentration gradients as a compass
LMU biophysicists have developed a new theory, which accounts for the observation that cells can perceive their own shapes, and use this information to direct the distribution of proteins inside the cell. more …
Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
It takes two to tango: when cells interact
Normal, motile cells typically avoid collision, cancer cells behave differently. A new statistical analysis sheds light on that difference. more …
Monday, 15 February, 2021
Detecting single molecules and diagnosing diseases with a smartphone
LMU researchers show that the light emitted by a single molecule can be detected with a low-cost optical setup. Their prototype could facilitate medical diagnostics. more …
Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
Isabella Graf receives Theodor Hänsch PhD Award
Dr. Isabella Graf is the second recipient of the Theodor Hänsch PhD Award by the Faculty of Physics. She received the award for her outstanding dissertation in theoretical biophysics. The Theodor Hänsch PhD Award is donated by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation for the Faculty of Physics and more …
Tuesday, 09 February, 2021
How kinesin motors can reverse their direction
In this interdisciplinary work, we have combined experimental and theoretical approaches to reveal the mechanism underlying directionality switching of kinesin motors – a long-standing problem in the field of motor proteins. more …
Monday, 01 February, 2021
Basement membrane stiffness determines metastases formation
Extraordinary CeNS member Prof. Hauke Clausen-Schaumann and his co-workers from Erler Group at the Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) in Copenhagen have discovered that the rigidity of a thin membrane structure encompassing cells and lining all vessels regulates how easily cancer cells can more …
Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
The toolbox always at hand
Self-regeneration and self-healing of DNA-based molecular structures more …
Friday, 15 January, 2021
Fluorescence microscopy at highest spatial and temporal resolution
LMU researchers simplify the MINFLUX microscope and have succeeded in differentiating molecules that are extremely close together and tracking their dynamics. more …
Thursday, 31 December, 2020
Positions in nanoscience and biophysics
International call for applications at CeNS more …
Wednesday, 09 December, 2020
Two ERC grants for CeNS members
Jan Lipfert and Ralf Jungmann receive Consolidator Grants more …
Wednesday, 09 December, 2020
PHOENIX awards the "Oscar of Pharmacy"
Prof. Olivia Merkel wins PHOENIX Pharmaceutical Science Award more …
Friday, 04 December, 2020
Election of the CeNS board
Prof. Emiliano Cortés and Prof. Joachim Rädler join the CeNS board more …
Friday, 04 December, 2020
CeNS Publication Awards 2020
Every year, CeNS awards prizes for excellent publications of CeNS members which have been published during the past 12 months. On Friday, December 4, the winners of this year's CeNS Publication Awards were announced online. Ten awards were presented in the categories "Best Interdisciplinary more …
Thursday, 03 December, 2020
Römer Awards 2020 go to CeNS associates and member
For the 15th time, the Roemer Prize for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and chemistry was awarded this year at the LMU Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
Prof. Hanna Engelke, now University of Graz, was one of the three winners in the category "Junior Research Groups".Among the more …
Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
Geometry supersedes simulations
LMU physicists have introduced a new method that allows biological pattern-forming systems to be systematically characterized with the aid of mathematical analysis. The trick lies in the use of geometry to characterize the dynamics. more …
Friday, 20 November, 2020
CeNS scientists among most highly cited interdisciplinary researchers
Citation analysis more …
Thursday, 29 October, 2020
Smart bottle brushes
Neutrons make structural changes in molecular brushes visible
They look like microscopic bottle brushes: Polymers with a backbone and tufts of side arms. This molecular design gives them unusual abilities: For example, they can bind active agents and release them again when the temperature more …
Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
Soak up the sunlight and swim in the dark
Microswimmers are small particles that actively move in liquids. But they need a continuous energy supply. A team from the e-conversion cluster of excellence led by LMU chemist Bettina Lotsch has now equipped the particles with a sophisticated charging function that allows them to continue swimming more …