Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
Exploring the world of 'hidden dimensions' ( #colloids & #interfaces ) and bridging the gap between #molecules, #MultiScaleMaterials, and #BioSystems. In Potsdam, #Germany.
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#chemsky #Forschung #Research
- PhDs & PostDocs at MPICI: get to your keyboards & register for the MPICI #Symposium to get a glimpse into what everyone’s up to in the labs. ➡️ Register by 15 Feb. events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/21 ⬅️ 🗓️ 15 April FLASH TALKS | PITCH YOUR RESEARCH | POSTER SESSION | NETWORKING
- De novo design of glycan foldamers with programmable tertiary structure out today in @jacs.acspublications.org Congrats to Yadiel! With Nishu Yadav, Martin Rosenthal and Yu Ogawa @mpici.bsky.social @cermav.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
- 🔬Heute entdeckte eine Klasse der #Voltaireschule in #Potsdam die Geheimnisse der #Strukturfarbe. Der beste Moment blieb off-camera: Wir waren einfach zu begeistert, im Labor zu sehen, wie #Zellulose mit periodischen #Nanostrukturen Licht lenkt – und Farbe ganz ohne Pigmente entsteht. 🌈
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- From plant-based linalool, our scientists made sulfur-rich polymers that form a #sulfur–carbon hybrid—confining & stabilising sulfur. Result: a high-performance room-temp #sodium–sulfur#cathode from abundant, sustainable resources. 🔋Better #nanoscale design ➡️ better #batteries tinyurl.com/4avfnb8u
- What does a "self-driving lab" look like & how could #sugars shape the future of #medicine? In BMS labs, #AI & #automation predict & execute #carbohydrate synthesis, enabling new #vaccines & diagnostic tools. Long-term vision: remote drug factories w/ limited infrastructure. tinyurl.com/535pvpm4
- Exciting news @vignolinilab.bsky.social: 4 scientists have secured prestigious fellowships to explore nature’s design principles. 🎉Congrats to: Antonio Carone (Code𝛘 Priority Programme @dfg.de) & @humboldt-foundation.de Fellows: Gaoyuan Hou, Jingjiang Wei, & Ran Zhao🎉 www.mpikg.mpg.de/sbm
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- ❗Deadline extended: 1st February❗ On your marks, steady, apply and shape the future of #EnergyConversion & #EnergyStorage with @paologiusto.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y5crap7n #ChemSky #PostDoc #AcademicJobs #ResearchCareer #AcademicLife #ScienceJob
- Is it possible to conceive & manufacture #polyester with built-in recyclability for a sustainable future & #CircularEconomy? Manuel Häußler is tackling the challenge at #WissenschaftLive by @maxplanck.de 📆Tue, 20 Jan 🕒3:30 - 4:45 pm CET 📍Online (registration required) ➡️ tinyurl.com/2ncte899
- New week, new paper out: mirror-image #glycans are still rarely used to design #carbohydrate materials, but they can reveal the rules of how these materials form & help researchers control their synthesis. #glycotime #chemsky
- Happy & proud: @molloylab.bsky.social is joining @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social in March, where John will take up a professorship. We look forward to the next collaborations! 1) Molloy group recap: tinyurl.com/5duwhfus 3) LUMIBOR @erc.europa.eu project tinyurl.com/c27hvn8x
- In our #MediaLibrary, our scientists share their work in behind a mic or a camera. Explore last year’s selection: rethinking #plastics, nature-inspired #materials, greener #batteries, and a 2025 highlights roundup. www.mpikg.mpg.de/media
- Congratulations! #ChemSky & #MatSci interested in strategies & schemes (defect&crystal engineering, spatial charge separation, heteroatom doping, cocatalyst engineering, Z-scheme formation) for #CarbonNitride -based #photocatalyst systems: Dr. Pelicano's research agenda: tinyurl.com/ywv7rm7p
- … and so it’s 2026! 🎉 Stay tuned as we study nature to inspire new technologies, cleaner energy, and medical applications. Facts & Highlights: ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdhpssjz • a new International Research School • new projects for #SusMax: www.susmax.org • 5th dept.: director search underway
- We'll be taking a break on BlueSky until the New Year, but you can follow us on #LinkedIn, where we've scheduled a review of 2025 to keep you company over the holidays! ➡️ www.linkedin.com/company/3823...
- An event to look forward to in #2026: our PhDs & postdocs are organizing a symposium to share research approaches, pitch ideas, & connect. Researchers from >40 countries & 4 depts—all drawing inspiration from nature to tackle technological challenges = perfect recipe for an inspiring get-together!
- 🎓 Studentische #Hilfskraft gesucht 🎓 ❗Bewerbung bis 04.01.2026❗ ✔ #Qualitätskontrolle: Einträge prüfen (Alt- #Datenbank) ✔ Fehler korrigieren, #Daten ergänzen/aktualisieren ✔ #Sicherheitsdatenblätter eingeben & pflegen (Neu- #Datenbank) tinyurl.com/2j5krevf
- "Vll. sieht das nächste große Ding ja aus wie Kaffeesatz und riecht eigentümlich nach Karamell. Künstlicher #Humus, hergestellt aus #Pflanzenresten, soll den Landwirten Ernten bringen & das #Klimaretten. Alles auch #MadeInGermany" -Sebastian Balzter #FAZ zum Start-Up #Humify tinyurl.com/32u4vmv9
- Last week, the visit of the #ScientificAdvisoryBoard gave us the chance to showcase & discuss our research– w. external reviewers, but also w. 200+ scientists from across our 4 depts & more than 40 nations. 🧪 Looking forward to what international & interdisciplinary cooperation will bring in 2026! 🧪
- Our automatic weighing station got a #Xmas make-over 🎄 Besides controlling temperature and humidity, it’s busy analyzing #biodegradable #plastic samples – showcasing how our technical units support scientists with customized solutions. Big thanks to our technical & electronic teams!
- We use #cellulose everywhere–yet don't fully grasp how nature spins its architecture. With an #ERCCoG, Yu Ogawa will uncover this mechanism & rebuild it to blueprint cellulose manufacturing from scratch, testing structures that nature can’t form. @erc.europa.eu #MatSci #ChemSky tinyurl.com/463hdp6a
- Before you tiptoe into the end of the year, make sure you apply for this #PostdoctoralPosition. You may start 2026 joining @paologiusto.bsky.social to design & synthesize 2D covalent #semiconductor thin films for #EnergyStorage & #EnergyConversion solutions. ‼️ Deadline: 12 Dec ‼️ tinyurl.com/yeyk22fp
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- Next Monday, 8 Dec at 2 pm CET (Berlin time), join a 2h online lecture on drug development involving biomolecular #condensates by Dr. Diana Mitrea (Dewpoint Therapeutics) & organized by @comeincell.bsky.social 🔗 info & registration: tinyurl.com/3xsd9tmu
- Making our institute look a little Christmassy. This is how our library team does it. Some fun facts from 2025: • most borrowed book: Carbohydrate Chemistry, B. G. Davis • 170 publications • most of our publications in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social, @jacs.acspublications.org, @natcomms.nature.com
- Congrats to Mateusz Odziomek, who will join AGH University of Krakow as an assistant professor on 5 January 2026! Looking forward to seeing how you’ll keep developing #carbon materials for organic #electrosynthesis in your new role. www.mpikg.mpg.de/6782651/adv-...
- European Spinouts Report 2025: Max-Planck leads the way in Germany. In the top 20 research organisations in #Europe for research-driven #deeptech and life science #spinoffs, the Max Planck Society ranks second, just behind France’s CNRS. www.mpg.de/25797163/eur... #technologytransfer
- Monday blues no more with these online events by @comeincell.bsky.social (coordination: @dimovalab.bsky.social) · 8 Dec, 2pm CET: “Drugging #Condensates & Drug Discovery” Dewpoint workshop · 15 Dec 2pm CET: “Life in #Biotech” Dewpoint workshop tinyurl.com/39rpaf84 #CellBiology #Biophysics
- On your keyboards: set, go! This is the very last week for researchers across the @maxplanck.de to submit projects to #SusMax & rethink #materials with built-in #sustainability for a #CircularEconomy. ‼️ Deadline: 5 December 2025 ‼️ ➡️ All info: www.susmax.org/%E2%AC%85%EF...
- Keen to contribute to the 1st network within @maxplanck.de nck.de devoted to rethinking #materials for a more sustainable future? #SusMax is looking for a #ProjectCoordinator. Workplace: our inst. in #Potsdam-Golm or MPI for Sustainable Materials #Düsseldorf. Apply by 15 Jan tinyurl.com/484t9kmt
- Nature is the cleverest architect: with a few components & smart design, it builds materials w. astonishing functionality. Patrick Huber develops intelligent materials with water-driven movement, transport, color & light scattering. We’re excited to see his impact on #EnergyStorage & #conversion
- Hats off to our latest #PhDone: Nishu Yadav explored how #carbohydrates can be engineered to fold into defined, stable structures. Just as in proteins and DNA, in carbohydrates too “form follows function”. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Supervisor: @delbiancom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5hdm53px
- Sing Teng C. uses 3D #bioprinting to build multilayered communities of #cyanobacteria and study how they absorb and share different wavelengths of light (including far-red light). These insights are crucial for designing more efficient #photobioreactors. #biomimicry #bioinspired #chemsky
- Hot off the press by @delbiancom.bsky.social & her colleagues in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social #chemsky #glycotime
- @paologiusto.bsky.social is hiring a #Postdoc to design & synthesize 2D covalent #semiconductor thin films & study their surface processes for light-induced #energy conversion. ‼️Deadline: 12 Dec‼️ tinyurl.com/y5crap7n #ChemSky #PostdoctoralPosition #ResearchJobs #ScienceJobs
- We're hiring. #PR #WissKomm #Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Bewerbung bis: 07.01.2026 jobs.mpikg.mpg.de/jobposting/e...
- 📢For all researchers across the @maxplanck.de keen on rethinking #materials w. built-in #sustainability for a #CircularEconomy: Before you slide into a well-deserved end-of-year break, make sure you submit your project to #SusMax ❗ Deadline: 5 December 2025 ❗ ➡️ All info: www.susmax.org ⬅️
- Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack
- In his #PhD, Surusch Djalali examined structure-property correlations in #oligosaccharides to create #carbohydrate #foldamers & self-assembling materials. We are late in celebrating his achievement, but his paper on the 1st prototype for de novo #glycan design is here to stay! tinyurl.com/bdfed6vz
- An image can tell 1000 stories if viewed through the lens of mathematics. Carola B. Schönlieb (UniCambridge) uncovers underlying structures, reconstructs missing parts, &reveals info. invisible to the naked eye. She shared her vision for mathematical #imaging in the era of #AI & broad applications.
- @vignolinilab.bsky.social is looking for a #Postdoc: "Hydration-Governed #Colloidal Stability for Sustainable #Nanocellulose". The project contributes to the ambitious mission of #SusMax, a @maxplanck.de interdisciplinary network to #sustainable #materials #chemSky #MatSci tinyurl.com/2hv2zh5t
- Shorter days? Perfect excuse for a #museum visit. Meet #mucus —winter’s nemesis & a versatile natural material. 📍 Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum 📅 until Sep 2026 Explore 3D #biofilm & snail-mucus models and find out how scientists turn them into #biomaterials. bmm-charite.de/ausstellunge...
- @elenist.bsky.social shared with us her 2-way approach: biology repurposed for technology & technology to enhance biology. She showed that: 1)plants can synthesize their own conductors 2)be augmented w. electronic roots. Next: plant cells+3D printing→sustainable, photosynthetic #biohybrids #chemsky
- Welcome to Stellacci (EPFL)! He joined the Dept. of #Biomaterials as a #Humboldt Fellow for a 1-year stay. We're looking forward to translating nature's design principles into #materials for a #CircularEconomy. More on his @erc.europa.eu project here: tinyurl.com/cwv9wb2f tinyurl.com/5dn4wk6z
- Fresh off the press by Yu Ogawa ( @vignolinilab.bsky.social )
- Im @tagesspiegel.de: P. Seeberger setzt auf #Zuckermoleküle gegen den zunehmend resistenten #Krankenhauseim #Candida Auris–eine #Pilzinfektion, vor der die #WHO warnt. Ansatz: Zucker-„Fingerabdrücke“ trainieren das Immunsystem & ermöglichen neue Diagnosetests. tinyurl.com/4zwd4ssv
- Hot off the press in @chemicalscience.rsc.org "Fused 3D #Boron Heterocycles via EnT #Catalysis: Synthesis, Modification & Validation as Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors" Thanks to @erc.europa.eu, @chemieverband.bsky.social, Daimler&Benz for supporting @molloylab.bsky.social's research tinyurl.com/3dm6ep43
