🌊🎧 Did you know we can hear polymer-water interactions? Researchers from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign turned PNIPAM’s collapse into sound, revealing water’s role. A new way to ‘see’ molecular changes! Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #SolvationScience

"Think.Try.Transform" RESOLV spokesperson Martina Havenith meets former RUB rector Elmar Weiler on the new podcast of Ruhr Innovation Lab. The two researchers explain how an idea became a cross-university research cluster and how it works. thinktrytransform-der-podcast.podigee.io/2-vom-antrag...

Start of RESOLV’s third funding period With the beginning of the new year, the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV has officially started its third funding period (2026 to 2032) with new Research Areas. Learn more about our new Research Areas: www.solvation.de/research #SolvationScience

Our next step applying non-statistical self-assembly to ⚡️light-driven charge separation in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! Donors and acceptors in heteroleptic coordination cages, electrochemistry, time-resolved spectroscopy! @grk2376.bsky.social @solvationsci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Research opportunities for researchers at risk RESOLV supports at-risk researchers who can no longer pursue their work in their home countries due to persecution or violence. You can apply at any time. Details how to apply can be found here: www.solvation.de/education/re... #SolvationScience

Congrats to Juliana! She measures in ACS Nano the rate constants of nanosensors on the single molecule level. She found two kinetic pathways and one can use this knowledge for Kinetically Improved Sensor Selectivity (KISS). @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de tinyurl.com/738ypxf9

Check out Valeriia's elegant photochemistry approach in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social to incorporate quantum defects in nanomaterials without compromising quantum yield or making later biofunctionalization more challenging. Congrats! lnkd.in/eaxaECt6 @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Right in time for X-mas 🎄: find #JustAccepted in @jacs.acspublications.org how @shingkwam.bsky.social stuffs crown ether-decorated Pd2L4 cages with cations and anions at the same time! Happy Holidays! @tu-dortmund.de @solvationsci.bsky.social @grk2376.bsky.social doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

🎄 Season's Greetings 🎄 We did it again! This has been a very successful year for the RESOLV team. Thank you all for your continued support and numerous contributions. Looking forward to the start of a new era in 2026. 🚀 We wish you all the best and a successful new year! 🍀

Check out Björn's cool insights into near infrared signals from photosensitizers. It is correlated but does not origin from singlet oxygen. The signal is present in all samples we looked at (labeled vesicles, plants,...). @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de tinyurl.com/5dvsrnde

NRW Science Minister Ina Brandes visits RESOLV Last week, the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Culture and Science visited us. A laboratory tour and discussions with our scientists provided insights into solvation research and plans for speeding up the transfer of research results into practice.

Academia meets industry Yesterday, we welcomed around 100 scientists and company representatives to celebrate the World Science Day for Peace and Development at our annual networking event. This year’s focus: young researchers and career opportunities in industry. #SolvationScience #WorldScienceDay

New opportunity for Early Career Researchers! 🚀 Our Integrated Graduate School Solvation Science (iGSS) and DAAD offer again two PhD scholarships for international doctoral students. ❗Complete your application by December 7, 2025! ➡️ More information: www.solvation.de/career/gradu...

Dual degree graduation at RESOLV Recently, our first dual degree student completed successfully his master’s degree. Congratulations! www.solvation.de/news/current... #SolvationScience

Out now in @pccp.rsc.org 🥳: Deborah tackles the challenge of computing the VCD spectra of tartaric acid and the dianionic tartrate in water. She shows that few water molecules and a micro-solvation approach are not sufficient! doi.org/10.1039/D5CP... @solvationsci.bsky.social #VCDspectroscopy

The tour continues in Switzerland!🇨🇭Thanks to Dr. Schörgenhumer at the University of Zurich for the afternoon tour and his helpful conversations as @solvationsci.bsky.social builds up their HTE and Automation capabilities!

The last stop of the tour was an excellent visit to EPFL and the SwissCat+ West team. Thanks to Dr. Miéville and Dr. Di Leone for the constructive chat and a tour of their remarkable lab! @solvationsci.bsky.social #Chemsky 🧪

A paper with a Queen song title? Check! (Even though that was an easy one). We've investigated the high pressure behavior of halogen bonding and found some unexpected solvent @solvationsci.bsky.social dependence: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Finally out in @pccp.rsc.org: Our VCD study on Ace-Trp-nPr describes an approach to guide the micro-solvation based spectra analyis with data on conformational and solvation preferences obtained from MD simulations. ▶️ doi.org/10.1039/D5CP... @grk2376.bsky.social @solvationsci.bsky.social

Proudly presenting our new🔥paper in @chemcomm.rsc.org : We characterize halogen-bonded complexes of ITFE and various phosphines by means of matrix isolation IR spectroscopy in para-hydrogen. doi.org/10.1039/D5CC... @grk2376.bsky.social @solvationsci.bsky.social

Our manuscript from the Gessner group showing a new strategy to isolate anionic NHOs via ligand exchange is now published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....). Thanks to all coauthors. @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. #chemsky #maingroup #research

Now online as 🌶️ Hot Paper 📄 in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: see how we combine Pd(II) and Pt(II) nodes with dynamic covalent chemistry to assemble highly robust interpenetrated double cages capable of abstracting halides from organic substrates: doi.org/10.1002/anie... @solvationsci.bsky.social

Welcome to RESOLV Last week we welcomed new members to the RESOLV community to introduce the program and offer the opportunity to meet new colleagues. We wish you all a good start! www.solvation.de/news/current... #SolvationScience #iGSS #iMOS

Klimaneutrale Chemie kommt bald aus Herne: Gemeinsam mit der Stadt Herne und Herne.Business wollen wir Spitzenforschung aus dem @solvationsci.bsky.social schneller in die Anwendung bringen. 👉 news.rub.de/transfer/202...

On 08th July RESOLV hosted the Summer Optica Summit. Thanks to all the participants and speakers! www.solvation.de/news/current...

Check out Jan's paper @acs.org Anal. Chem. We developed a simulation to quantify advantages of the near infrared and use the insights to create a diagnostic test/device for levodopa in blood serum for better Parkinson's treatment. @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @solvationsci.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2zvhtxcr

"Hydrogen-Producing Catalysts Based on Ferredoxin Scaffolds" was published yesterday in Advanced Science. news.rub.de/english/pres...

RESOLV research results spotlighted in Physics World: physicsworld.com/a/supercriti...

"Terahertz-calorimetry spotlights the role of water in biological processes" Published May 2025 in Nature Reviews Chemistry. news.rub.de/english/pres...

Last week, RESOLV hosted its 11th Summer School. Thanks to all the participants and contributors! www.solvation.de/news/current...

We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join our lab as Humboldt fellow via the Henriette Herz scouting program as soon as possible. If you are interested in optical spectroscopy/microscopy, biosensing or nanomaterials please contact me. Please RT! @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Despite its abundance, there are still many unanswered questions about water's behaviour. RESOLV doctoral researcher Adrian Buchmann explains in his Science Slam how science is trying to unravel the mystery of water. Watch the full video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FJ...

Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster! 🎉 Wir gratulieren den Forschenden der Cluster CASA und @solvationsci.bsky.social zu ihrem verdienten Erfolg.

We made it! Thanks to everybody in this wonderful team!

A RESOLV team, led by E. Sanchez-Garcia, G. Sadowski, and R. Winter, uncovered how TMAO and sorbitol influence the catalytic power of C. boidinii formate dehydrogenase. Their study made it to the Hot Topic section of ChemCatChem! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Don't miss this article from RESOLV researchers, led by Thomas Happe and Lars Schäfer, published in May 2025 in JACS: "Protein Dynamics Affect O2-Stability of Group B [FeFe]-Hydrogenase from Thermosediminibacter oceani" news.rub.de/english/pres...

Forschende haben ein Wasserstoff-produzierendes Bakterienenzym entdeckt, dem Sauerstoff nichts anhaben kann. ... weiterlesen

Aus der Nische an die Spitze: Die Lösungsmittelchemie war lange kein Mainstream-Thema. Inzwischen ist unser Exzellenzcluster @solvationsci.bsky.social international dafür bekannt.

RESOLV International Faculty member and Director of RESOLV’s sister institute CALSOLV at UC Berkeley, Teresa Head-Gordon, received one of the prestigious Humboldt Research Awards for internationally leading researchers. We look forward to her visit in October 2025! www.solvation.de/news/current...

#GirlsDay2025: RESOLV opened its labs for 21 girls. They had fun listening to a lecture, touring the RUB Campus, and spending a few hours in our labs, experiencing what science is made of. Thanks to all the participants! We are looking forward to seeing you again! #krusslab.bsky.social

Juliana's workflow to 3D print carbon nanomaterials is now published online in CARBON Trends. Very cool to illustrate their properties, biosensing as well as teaching basic concepts in physics/chemistry. @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de tinyurl.com/9fuxe5f2

Thanks to the teams at ROAR at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and Solve Chemistry for a great day of discussing HTE and automation chemistry! Thanks specifically to Dr Eldosoky for organizing and @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social for the great insights! @solvationsci.bsky.social

Check out our collaborative work with the @kargesgroup.bsky.social. We found that reactive oxygen species trigger either apoptosis or NETosis in human immune cells in a concentration/distance dependent manner. @solvationsci.bsky.social tinyurl.com/49twx79a

Congrats to Christina! She reviewed novel strategies and challenges to diagnose sepsis. We hope it helps the field to join forces and develop better optical tools for early and fast diagnostics. @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de tinyurl.com/mrsufmau

Great collaboration with the Borchardt group. It is possible to incorporate tiny numbers of quantum defects in nanotubes using mechanochemistry and tune their fluorescence. Congrats Miriam and Justus. @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @angewandtechemie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4dws5c7c

Congrats to Alex. He shows in J. Phys. Chem. C how to incorporate two different types of quantum defects in fluorescent carbon nanotubes. It opens new dimensions to tailor photophysics and surface chemistry. @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de tinyurl.com/4ruw3wc3

The combined power of halogen bonding and asymmetric counteranion-directed catalysis = XB-ACDC: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/.... Thanks to @mertenlab.bsky.social for structure elucidation and to the List group for this beautiful cooperation! A perfect #RESOLV project! @solvationsci.bsky.social

Last Wednesday I had the honor of receiving the @solvationsci.bsky.social PhD award from the hands of Dr. Klaus Engel during the new year's reception of RESOLV at the TU Dortmund. It rewards my contribution on studying solvation effects on caged with @cleverlab.bsky.social 🧑‍🔬🕺🏻🙏🏻

Überkritisches Wasser könnte als umweltverträgliches Lösungsmittel für chemische Reaktionen interessant sein. Um es besser nutzbar zu machen, muss man seine Struktur verstehen. Das ist Forschenden von @solvationsci.bsky.social nun gelungen.

Congratulations to Chen. She shows in JPC C that solvatochromic dyes on carbon nanotubes modulate/improve their biosensing performance. For example for pH sensing or detection of lipids, which is often a challenge. @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de tinyurl.com/3kyy3zu6