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September 16, 2025
A Journey into Nature’s Structural Colors
In video interviews, Silvia Vignolini shows how nature’s hidden architecture creates colours that never fade – and how her department is harnessing them for sustainable new materials. [video interviews]

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Scientist operates electron microscope, analyzing images on multiple screens in laboratory setting

We still don’t understand how nature spins simple sugar chains into the ultra-strong cellulose… more

Program booklet for Biomembrane Days 2025, placed on a yellow folder, featuring event details with a stylized membrane illustration and Berlin skyline.

An internationally renowned triennial conference, Biomembrane Days 2025 gathered over 200… more

SusMax logo depicts earth with leaves and circular arrows symbolizing sustainability; adjacent Max Planck Institute emblem shows Minerva's profile.

SusMax is the first Max Planck network for circular, sustainable materials—founded through an… more

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collage of pictures at EBSA award, showing awardee Rumiana Dimova

A prestigious award goes to our scientist for advancing synthetic membrane research and… more

Potsdam Science Day 2025

We left the lab coat hanging for a day—but brought our lab equipment with us to meet more than… more

To stick or not to stick:<br>a new understanding of condensates-membranes interactions

Challenge: It's not just whether a membrane is in a "solid" or "liquid" state that matters—how… more

<span><span><span><span><span>ComeInCell Launches:<br />A European Doctoral Network to Train the Next Generation of Cell Scientists</span></span></span></span></span><br /> 

Supported by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the UK Guarantee Scheme, the '… more

<span>Revealing Bacteria’s True Colors:</span><br /><span>Shimmering from Collective Patterns</span>

 Scientists can now predict structural colors in bacteria. By sequencing a wide range of… more

<span><span><span><span><span><span><span>From Nanotubes to Disks: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>How Droplets Remodel Cell Membranes</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /> 

Biomolecular condensates may play a crucial but overlooked role in remodeling membrane… more

Mina Aleksanyan and Agustín Mangiarotti recording the membrane response at the confocal microscope

Imagine switching on a light and being able to understand and control the inner dynamics of amore

When a membrane meets a droplet

Little is known yet about the interaction between these biomolecular condensate droplets and the… more

Silvia Vignolini appointed as new and first female Director of MPICI

Prof Silvia Vignolini, Ph.D. is establishing the new Department "Sustainable and Bio-inspired… more

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