Sept 28 - Oct 1, 2020: 5th international Workshop on Dynamics in Confinement at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

13.03.2020 Book "Soft Matter in Geometrical Confinement" published.

The book "Soft Matter in Geometrical Confinement: From Fundamentals at Planar Surfaces and Interfaces to Functionalities of Nanoporous Materials"  has been published within the part  "Soft Matter and Biomaterials on the Nanoscale: The WSPC Reference on Functional Nanomaterials" of the World Scientific Series in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Aug 31 - Sept 3, 2020 Minisymposium: Fluids in Nanoporous Media

organized by Gennady Gor and Patrick Huber at the 12^th International Conference on Porous Media (InterPore meeting), Aug 31 - Sept 3 2020 in Qingdao, China.

20.11.2019 Study on the Self-Assembly of Liquid Crystals in Nanoporous Solids for Adaptive Photonic Metamaterials published in Nanoscale.

X-ray scattering and optical polarimetry evidence in agreement with Monte Carlo computer simulations that confinement-controlled self-assembly of liquid crystals in nanopores allows for designing photonic metamaterials with adaptive birefringence. Movies illustrating 3-D reciprocal space mapping of a nanopore-confined columnar liquid crystal based on synchrotron-based X-ray scattering along with the peculiar textures found in the study can be downloaded from the TORE repository of Hamburg University of Technology. This work is dedicated to Prof. Peter S. Pershan (Harvard University), a pioneer in the field of soft-condensed-matter physics, on his 85th birthday, remembering his mentoring in synchrotron-based X-ray scattering from liquids. See also the press release "Tuneable self-organisation of liquid crystals in nano pores" (in English) or Steuerbare Selbstorganisation von Flüssigkristallen in Nanoporen (auf Deutsch). 

DASHH Ph. D. Student Position

There is a Ph.D. student position available in our research group, embedded in the Data Science HELMHOLTZ Graduate School Hamburg for the Structure of Matter (DASHH).

10.9.2019 Nondestructive high-throughput screening of nanopore geometry in porous membranes by imbibition published in Applied Physics Letters