✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #13 – Answer! ✨ Tiny water droplets naturally form perfect spheres. If droplets look too perfectly round and evenly sized, you’re often looking at physics doing its thing. Stay tuned for the next MMM! 🔬🕵️ #AcademicSky

Dominik S. Schmidt et al published about "Conductive emulsions with selective filler distribution as volume exclusion strategy in electrofluids" Find full text in Journal of Physics: Materials 9 (2026) 015019 doi.org/10.1088/2515...

Bettina Zimmer et al published about Carbon black (CB)-elastomer composites. Find full text and more information in Carbon Trends 23 (2026) 100623 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Today we celebrate all our #womeninscience who are creating new materials for a better world #womeninstem #girlsinstem #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery Monday #13 🔬🕵️ Can you guess what this beautiful image belongs to? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #12 – Answer! ✨ S. gordonii is a pioneer colonizer of dental plaque. It’s one of the first bacteria to settle on clean tooth enamel and helps other microbes move in later. Basically, it throws the house party 🦠🦷 Stay tuned for the next MMM! 🔬🕵️ #AcademicSky

Wie künstliche Zellen den #Krebs besiegen könnten. Darüber spricht @ostaufer.bsky.social vom @leibnizinm.bsky.social in der neuen Folge von #TonspurWissen, dem #Podcast von Leibniz-Gemeinschaft und Rheinischer Post. 🎧 👉 pod.fo/e/388f21 #Biologie #Medizin #Immuntherapie #Gesundheit #Wissenschaftsjahr

Microscopy Mystery Monday #12 🔬🕵️ Can you guess what this beautiful construct belongs to? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

POV: Your cells died again! 😅 Occupational safety office, please close your eyes 🫣 #lablaughs #memesky #academicsky

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #11 – Answer! ✨ The tiny hairs on Frauenmantel leaves, together with a wrinkled micro-surface, trap air and make the leaf extremely water-repellent — that’s why droplets sit on top instead of soaking in! Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬🕵️ #AcademicSky

There goes my week's worth of work down the drain! ✌️😐🔫 #lablaughs #memesky #academicsky

What's the environmental impact of an entire human life? In the latest Material Minds, Matthias Finkbeiner @tuberlin.bsky.social explores the first ‘LCA of a Human Being,’ lithium mining in Chile, and more. A fascinating look at sustainability beyond carbon. Full video - youtu.be/GmG77iWN17o?...

Microscopy Mystery Monday #11 🔬🕵️ Can you guess what this beautiful construct belongs to? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Thanks to everyone who supports and shapes our work - our researchers, partners, collaborators & friends who turn curiosity into knowledge and ideas into new materials. 🔬✨ Have a peaceful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring start into the new year! #academicsky #HappyHolidays

🎄✨Microscopy Mystery Christmas Edition - Answer Electrochemically grown silver dendrites Just like ice crystals, these are crystals formed when silver solidifies very quickly from a solution, for example, during electrolysis Watch out for the next Microscopy Mystery in the new year! #academicsky

...and nothing prepares you for the thesis writing stage at the bottom 😅 #memesky #academicsky

🎄 ✨ Microscopy Mistery Monday- Christmas Edition ✨🎄 Behind today's Microscopy Quiz lies a beautiful structure. Its shape can be seen everywhere at the moment, but what is it? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Excited to share our latest paper in ACS Energy Letters: “Interlayer-Tailored Alkyl-MXenes for Selective Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Extraction” 🔋⚡ Read the full paper here ➡️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @leibnizinm.bsky.social #MaterialChemistry #MXene #LithiumExtraction #EnergyStorage

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #10 – Answer! ✨ 🦎 Gecko foot!! Gecko feet stick using van der Waals forces — the same weak forces that let DUST cling to surfaces! Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

New paper out in NatureComm: We built synthetic immune cells that self-assemble with cancer cells into hybrid tumoroids, enabling bottom-up reconstruction of the tumor immune microenvironment. rdcu.be/eUmRM @leibnizinm.bsky.social

Microscopy Mystery Monday #10 🔬🕵️ Can you guess what this textured surface belongs to? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #9 – Answer! ✨ 📄 Paper fibers! Paper is made of tiny interlocking cellulose fibers — the same natural polymer that gives plants their strength. ✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

We are one step closer to realise living materials for ocular use! We investigated cytocompatibility of these devices during extended contact lens wear time. Check it out! 🧪 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @leibnizinm.bsky.social

New Materials is what we do, so you can be sure to find us at the @materials-mrs.bsky.social Fall Meeting #F25MRS! Find talks from Tobias, @wilfriedweber.bsky.social, and @shrikrishnans.bsky.social over the next few days - eppro01.ativ.me/web/planner.... #academicsky

Roland Bennewitz, head of the Interactive Materials group, co-authored the publication "Transient Formation of Single Layer Diamond During Friction Force Microscopy of SiC-Supported Epitaxial Graphene" More Information and Full Text: doi.org/10.1002/admi...

Microscopy Mystery Monday #9 🔬🕵️ Looks fibrous and tangled — can you guess what this is? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #8 – Answer! ✨ 🐭 Murine tympanic membrane under polarized light The mouse eardrum is few micrometers thick. Thin enough for light to reveal its intricate fiber pattern. ✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Oskar Staufer, Head of Immuno-Materials, is co-author of the new publication about "Restoring NK Cell Cytotoxicity Post‐Cryopreservation via Synthetic Cells" More information and full text available at: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

p < 0.05 gives feelings of power, joy, validity, vitality, rebirth, and so much more! Ironically, this graph has no distribution to perform such statistical analysis on 😅 #lablaughs #memesky #academicsky

What do Nobel Laureates look for in PhD and Post-doc candidates? What's needed to win a #NobelPrize? What do Nobel prize winners think about #AI? Find out from Anna, Mingren, and Delvina, who share insights and anecdotes from this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting - youtu.be/mP6y6Yj3zFE?...

Microscopy Mystery Monday #8 🔬🕵️ Under the microscope, nature’s designs can look almost engineered — can you guess what this one is? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

For the fifth time, Prof. Volker Presser has received the Clarivate Highly Cited Research Award in 2025. More information: www.webofscience.com/wos/author/r... Congratulations, Volker!

Cansu Kök published in dx.doi.org/10.1021/acss.... The study demonstrates layered Al-LDH synthesis/characterization for lithium recovery─highly selective, electrochemically regenerable, and reducing sodium coextraction for sustainable energy systems.

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #7 – Answer! ✨ 🐝 Bee stinger! Fun fact: The bee stinger’s barbed design inspired microneedles for painless drug delivery! 💉✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

It's so exciting to start a new research lab until you realize that science is expensive and your budget ran out after installing the benches 😅 Any junior PIs out there who can relate? #memesky #lablaughs #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery Monday #7 🔬🕵️ Looks like something you wouldn’t want to step on… what could it be? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #6 – Answer! ✨ 🦋 Insect wing membrane! Fun fact: Insect wings have vein networks that give them strength, flexibility, and airflow regulation during flight! 🦋✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Well done! For the second time, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a funding application from the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials as part of the “Open Access Publication Funding” project and has granted material resources to finance open access publications from 2026-2028

Microscopy Mystery Monday #6 🔬🕵️ Magnified mystery — can you guess what’s in the picture? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #5 – Answer! ✨ Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVECs) HUVECs are a key model for studying how blood vessels grow and interact with materials! 🩸✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Happy Halloween from the Ghosts in our lab! 🎃 The lab has claimed many a scientists' soul and on Halloween, they come out to play 👻👻👻 #Halloween #Ghostphotoshoot #academicsky #memesky

Building tissues from the bottom up! In Advanced Healthcare Materials @wiley.com, @ostaufer.bsky.social and co-authors show synthetic cells forming lymph-node-like tissues that host immune cells -towards building synthetic organs. doi.org/10.1002/adhm... #academicsky 🧪

Science is hard. Often the success rate of anything we try is only 10%, not unlike some of the toughest games out there! But it's all worth it, since every little success gets us closer to the next level (of knowledge and technology) #LabLaughs #memesky #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery Monday #5 🔬🕵️ Under the lens: what’s in the picture? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

That feeling when your supervisor replies to your half-page long email containing multiple question with "OK"! 😂 Any students out there experiencing this? #LabLaughs #memesky #academicsky

Microneedles + conductive ink = sturdier on-skin sensing INM co-authors show a fenestrated shell that protects the sensing layer for transdermal pH readout. Out now in Advanced Functional Materials - doi.org/10.1002/adfm... @nicovoelcker.bsky.social @wiley.com #academicsky

How to help soft robots “feel” better? Align the flakes! Graphite–silicone films show stronger, tunable piezoresistivity for dielectric elastomer switches in our latest work in Advanced Robotics Research. doi.org/10.1002/adrr... #academicsky #robots

A PhD is an amazing opportunity but it's also really tough, especially in the final years. If you're planning to start one or have started one, be prepared for an emotional roller coaster. Anyone out here with a doctorate who hasn't experienced this? #LabLaughs #memesky #academicsky

We recently discovered that our engineered lactobacilli are far more obedient when confined in a gel - doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... If you want the highlights of the story, check out the LinkedIN post image. @marcblanch.bsky.social @varunsays.bsky.social @leibnizinm.bsky.social