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

Don't miss this opportunity for a #MA Thesis in #ChemSky #MasterThesis #StudentResearch #ThesisProject

@paologiusto.bsky.social proved he’s worth... his salt—sharing his sodium-ion #battery research w. Paula&Kara, Berlin high-school students interested in #energy-storage. We’re happy to support students at every stage—today’s curiosity sparks tomorrow’s scientific advances. #chemsky #outreach

Thanks to @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social for letting me showcase my research carried out in @cmbidan.bsky.social group at @mpici_potsdam. I could explain how E. coli 🦠 can become 'as strong as a rock' 💪. #womeninSTEM #soapboxberlin @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

Glenna Drisko (@icmcb.bsky.social) lit up the room, sharing insights from her @erc.europa.eu -funded project, "Scatter". She showed a bottom-up route to silicon #nanomaterials (tunable size/shape/ #SurfaceChemistry) and how to tailor #silica/#titania for #StructuralColor. #ChemSky

Unsere Verwaltung sucht für das #Personalteam zum 01.01.2026 bzw. zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, eine #Leitung des Fachgebiets #Personal &#Travelmanagement Bewerbung bis: 30.11.2025 #BrandenburgJobs #Personalmanagement #jobsinpotsdam #karrierepotsdam #JobInBrandenburg tinyurl.com/3fb4sjpm

Exciting Opportunity for #Master 's Students to build an innovative application and design #carbohydrate structures as part of the @erc.europa.eu -funded GlycoRoads project led by @delbiancom.bsky.social #glycotime #MolecularDesign #Bioinformatics

If you know me, I have probably told you how E.coli 🦠 can accumulate hydroxyapatite. In this preprint, I show that Zinc is colocalized with the mineral accumulation www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7... Thanks to @cmbidan.bsky.social and all the other co-authors and to @mpici.bsky.social

🧫Laura Zorzetto @laurazorzetto.bsky.social, a biomaterials scientist from the @mpici.bsky.social who will explore how the bacterium E. coli uses clever strategies to become as strong as bone

Our free info session starts soon: Join us at 7 pm CEST! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Can't make it? We offer another info session tomorrow, October 24th, at 7 am CEST 🙌 Simply register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... We're looking forward to your questions!

Are you a researcher across the @maxplanck.de keen on rethinking #materials & contributing to a #CircularEconomy ? As of today, you can submit your projects to #SusMax, the 1st #MaxPlanck research #network dedicated to #sustainable #materials. Deadline: 5 Dec.2025 www.susmax.org #CallForProposals

Our scientists made it to the #CoverArt of @pubs.acs.org with a paper on #CAR-T cells that combine traditional antigen recognition with a new cysteine-based sensor to detect cancer cells’ altered redox state—overcoming #TumorEvasion. Read it here: tinyurl.com/ycxzd4se #CancerResearch

Susmax kickoff meeting at @mpici.bsky.social here we go! I am presenting here a poster with @ioviso.bsky.social to illustrate how our services can be applied to design, develop and manufacture sustainable materials #iovisoGmbH #SusMax #startup #MPICI #sustainability #circular_economy #womeninSTEM

Congratulations to our newest doctor in the house, Haijian Tong, for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, “Boosting the Quantum Efficiency of poly(heptazine imides) for Solar Fuel Production,” at @unipotsdam.bsky.social #PhDone #SolarFuels

🚀 Our Interdisciplinary Lecture Series begins on Nov 3, 16:00 (Berlin)! Carlos Marques will talk about Lipid Membranes, and the first 45 min are open to all — join us! 👉 www.comeincell.org/interdiscipl... #MSCA #HorizonEurope #Biophysics #ComeInCell #LipidMembranes #MembraneCondensates

Send you abstract for " #Microscopy #Characterization of Soft-Hard #Interfaces” (29 Sep-1 Oct.'26, Darmstadt, part of the #MSE-2026 congress of the @dgm-ev.bsky.social ky.social Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All ingo: dgm.de/mse/2026 #chemsky #biology #physics #geology #electronicstructure

The lecture series »Matters of Activity: Material Agency and Interdisciplinary Knowledge« kicks off on 22 Oct. Find out how the Cluster Matters of Activity challenges the understanding of materials as passive, ahistorical substances. & pursues new perspectives for a sustainable material culture.

Well done Yadiel! Rapid and Reliable Conformational Analysis of Glycans by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Guided Molecular Dynamics Simulations @mpici.bsky.social @cermav.bsky.social @chemistryeurope.bsky.social chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We are #hiring: #Postdoc in #Interfaces & Protective Layers for Room–Temperature #Sodium–Sulfur #Batteries tinyurl.com/4436zr4v Deadline: 15 Nov. #BatteryResearch #GermanyJobs #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #CareersInScience

This Thursday we have a new #MaterialsforEnergy Seminar! 📌Biomimetic Colour Engineering: from nature to applications 🗣️Silvia Vignolini, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany @mpici.bsky.social 📆Thursday 16 October 2025 🕛12.00 PM icmab.es/biomimetic-c...

Join us for the next Matter to Life lecture with our new MtL faculty member Silvia Vignolini @vignolinilab.bsky.social from @mpici.bsky.social, who will explore the fascinating world of biomimetic colour engineering! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Opportunity for a #Master' s Student. #Glycotime #Chemsky

SusMax—the first #MaxPlanck research network dedicated to #sustainable #materials and founded through an interdisciplinary collaboration of six MPIs—is inviting new partners from across the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de Call for Proposals: 23 Oct–5 Dec 2025 tinyurl.com/36t22wju

Don't miss this opportunity! Also, check out the upcoming lecture with our director, Silvia Vignolini ( @vignolinilab.bsky.social ) , on 15 October. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Looking forward to welcoming Dr Ho Seong Hwang to the Molloy Lab ( @molloylab.bsky.social ) from Chung-Ang University as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. More about the Molloy Lab: www.mpikg.mpg.de/6499394/synt... #HumboldtFellowship

🎉 Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes! Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions. 📍 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/ @ewerslab.bsky.social @mpici.bsky.social

Replicas of fungal #sugars decode the immune system’s 1st response to dangerous #Candida bloodstream infections. This enables a non-invasive #test that delivers reliable results in minutes—a breakthrough vs. rising health threat. Press release: tinyurl.com/3aychk8u Paper: tinyurl.com/26pkne4u

Major cool membrane conference coming up next week! The Biomembrane Days 2025, organized by an amazing team from the MPI for Colloids and Interface Science @mpici.bsky.social: Rumy Dimova (@dimovalab.bsky.social), Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl. I'm so very much looking forward to attending! 🤩 🧪

🌧️ Regen in Sicht? Raus und Schnecken bestaunen! 🐌 tinyurl.com/2p9tsx89 Dr. Franziska Jehle erzählt, wie #Schnecken unterschiedliche Schleimarten zum Gleiten, Schützen & Schmieren sekretieren. Daraus entsteht Inspiration für neue #Biomaterialien. #Biomimetik @rbb24.de

Silvia Vignolini (@vignolinilab.bsky.social), Director at the @mpici.bsky.social and Professor at @cam.ac.uk, explores how natural structures interact with light to produce vivid color. 🔗 www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1157 #PLPEXPeditions

Professor @vignolinilab.bsky.social works at the interface of chemistry, physics and biology studying light’s interaction with materials in order to understand how it produces optical effects. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4580 @mpici.bsky.social @chemlibcam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

🌸Flower Power for the #EnergyTransition🔋 on @zdfde.bsky.social #Lavender oil + sulfur to optimize sodium-sulfur #batteries (=nanocages to trap #polysulfites). Greener solutions for #EnergyStorage by @paologiusto.bsky.social w. an ingredient from our balconies. #ChemSky tinyurl.com/yd6f4mts

🌞🔬 Big step for #sustainability in science: Today the Max Planck Campus at @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social inaugurated new #SolarPower systems – including a 6,000 m² agri-PV plant. Thank you to @manjaschuele.bsky.social & @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de for making this milestone possible!

Check out this 1-year (+possible extension) postdoctoral opening if you're interested in advancing the boundaries of sustainable, high-performance electrochemical #EnergyStorage through #materials design, precision #interface #engineering, & deep mechanistic insight. #chemsky tinyurl.com/4m6huvm4

Entdecke im MaxWissen, wie Manuel Häußler #Kunststoffe neu denken will: 1️⃣ Herstellung aus unkritischen #Rohstoffen 2️⃣ Vielseitige Einsatzmöglichkeiten 3️⃣ #Abbaubar – ohne Mikroplastik 4️⃣ Vollständig #recycelbar www.max-wissen.de/max-hefte/te...

Check out this 1-year (+possible extension) postdoctoral opening if you're interested in advancing the boundaries of sustainable, high-performance electrochemical #EnergyStorage through #materials design, precision #interface #engineering, & deep mechanistic insight. #chemsky tinyurl.com/4m6huvm4

Congrats to the newly minted Doctor, Sue-Faye Ng. Her dissertation at Xiamen Univ. Malaysia explored the potential of a specific form of #CarbonNitride (C3N5) for solar-to-chemical production of green fuels. We look forward to her next breakthroughs in #photocatalysis at our inst. #PhDone #ChemSky

1/3 📢 New work from our lab 📢 We uncover a unifying dielectric principle for biomolecular condensates! 💦Contrary to intuition, we find that it is not a condensate’s absolute polarity, but the permittivity contrast with its surroundings, that governs its affinity for membranes. #GUV #condensates

‪ Biological materials have smart ways to generate, store, amplify & release elastic energy (for different functions). Shahrouz Amini & co. explore how nature uses these “elastic energy batteries” — and how they inspire #materialsscience & engineering. #MatSci #ChemSky tinyurl.com/3nrjxcpj

Humify turns organic waste into "superhumus"= #soil enhancer that traps CO₂ &restores damaged soils in weeks, not millennia. Humic substances=natural #carbon polymers that hold💦, bind nutrients,&support biodiversity.Humify mimics them w. controlled synthesis (Idea: M.Antonietti) tinyurl.com/yck936bx

Hot off the press! A new design for a #photocatalyst for #WaterSplitting (specifically the water #oxidation reaction), developed through theoretical predictions & validated by lab experiments. tinyurl.com/4337vfmv More about the Methasol project: methasol.eu #ChemSky

🏆 John J. Molloy (@molloylab.bsky.social) has done it again! For the second year in a row, he’s been awarded the Preis für #guteLehre (Award for Excellence in #Teaching) by the Student Association for Chemistry at the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #ChemSky

We’re thrilled to host guest scientist Dr. Viktoriia Kamska, whose research on blue sharks' #structuralColor reveals their potential for dynamic color-change 🦈—and promises ripple effects far beyond the world of sharks. #ChemSky #MatSci phys.org/news/2025-07...

#UniSysCat member Peter Seeberger was re-elected as Vice President of @dfg.de. The director at @mpici.bsky.social & founder of #CTC is starting his second term in office. We're pleased about his election, as Seeberger is very committed to the green transformation of #chemistry. ➡️ shorturl.at/Kx1di

Keen on pushing the frontiers of sulfur-based #battery technology? We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Hybrid Sulfur #Cathodes and Electrochemical #Interfaces for Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur #Batteries. Apply by August 1st jobs.mpikg.mpg.de/jobposting/f...

Congratulations to Hao Fang on successfully defending his thesis, "Generation of Complex 3D #Organoboron Molecules Leveraging Visible Light". We’re proud to welcome him as our newest Doctor! @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #PhDone #ChemSky

#Glycans are central to the #carbon cycle. Understanding their turnover in the ocean is key to ecosystem science. In this paper: innovative chemical tools to trace glycans in complex marine microbiome. #glycotime #chemsky @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4x9h3v73

Extremely light, highly insulating & with vast surface area, #aerogels — or “frozen smoke” — could aid the climate transition. Ernesto Scoppola shares insights on ambient pressure drying (APD), an energy-efficient way to fine-tune aerogel #porosity and performance. tinyurl.com/ycxybyea