Qiao, X.; Wang, L.; Shao, Z.; Sun, K.; Miller, R.: Stability and rheological behaviors of different oil/water emulsions stabilized by natural silk fibroin. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 475, pp. 84 - 93 (2015)
Vysotsky, Y. B.; Kartashynska, E. S.; Belyaeva, E. A.; Fainerman, V. B.; Vollhardt, D.; Miller, R.: Quantum chemical analysis of thermodynamics of 2D cluster formation of alkanes at the water/vapor interface in the presence of aliphatic alcohols. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17 (43), pp. 28901 - 28920 (2015)
Vysotsky, Y. B.; Kartashynska, E. S.; Belyaeva, E. A.; Vollhardt, D.; Fainerman, V. B.; Miller, R.: Quantization of the molecular tilt angle of amphiphile monolayers at the air/water interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119 (10), pp. 5523 - 5533 (2015)
Vysotsky, Y. B.; Kartashynska, E. S.; Belyaeya, E. A.; Vollhardt, D.; Fainerman, V. B.; Miller, R.: Analysis of temperature and alkyl chain length impacts on the morphological peculiarities of nonionic surfactant clusterization. A quantum chemical approach. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119 (32), pp. 18404 - 18413 (2015)
Aidarova, S.; Sharipova, A.; Krägel, J.; Miller, R.: Polyelectrolyte/surfactant mixtures in the bulk and at water/oil interfaces. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 205, pp. 87 - 93 (2014)
Bykov, A. G.; Noskov, B. A.; Loglio, G.; Lyadinskaya, V. V.; Miller, R.: Dilational surface elasticity of spread monolayers of polystyrene microparticles. Soft Matter 10 (34), pp. 6499 - 6505 (2014)
Dan, A.; Wüstneck, R.; Krägel, J.; Aksenenko, E. V.; Fainerman, V. B.; Miller, R.: Interfacial adsorption and rheological behavior of β-casein at the water/hexane interface at different pH. Food Hydrocolloids 34 (1), pp. 193 - 201 (2014)
Dieter-Kissling, K.; Karbaschi, M.; Marschall, H.; Javadi, A.; Miller, R.; Bothe, D.: On the applicability of Drop Profile Analysis Tensiometry at high flow rates using an interface tracking method. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 441, pp. 837 - 845 (2014)
Dutschk, V.; Karapantsios, T.; Liggieri, L.; McMillan, N.; Miller, R.; Starov, V. M.: Smart and green interfaces: from single bubbles/drops to industrial environmental and biomedical applications. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 209, pp. 109 - 126 (2014)
Fainerman, V. B.; Aksenenko, E. V.; Mucic, N.; Javadi, A.; Miller, R.: Thermodynamics of adsorption of ionic surfactants at water/alkane interfaces. Soft Matter 10 (36), pp. 6873 - 6887 (2014)
Fainerman, V. B.; Lotfi, M.; Javadi, A.; Aksenenko, E. V.; Tarasevich, Y. I.; Bastani, D.; Miller, R.: Adsorption of proteins at the solution/air interface influenced by added nonionic surfactants at very low concentrations for both components. 2. Effect of different surfactants and theoretical model. Langmuir 30 (43), pp. 12812 - 12818 (2014)
Fomina, E. S.; Vysotsky, Y. B.; Belyaeva, E. A.; Vollhardt, D.; Fainerman, V. B.; Miller, R.: On hexagonal orientation of fatty alcohols in monolayers at the air/water interface: quantum-chemical approach. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (8), pp. 4122 - 4130 (2014)
Gochev, G.; Retzlaff, I.; Exerowa, D.; Miller, R.: Electrostatic stabilization of foam films from beta-lactoglobulin solutions. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 460, pp. 272 - 279 (2014)
Javadi, A.; Karbaschi, M.; Bastani, D.; Ferri, J. K.; Kovalchuk, V. I.; Kovalchuk, N. M.; Javadi, K.; Miller, R.: Marangoni instabilities for convective mobile interfaces during drop exchange: experimental study and CFD simulation. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 441, pp. 846 - 854 (2014)
Karbaschi, M.; Javadi, A.; Bastani, D.; Miller, R.: High frequency oscillatory flow in micro channels. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 460, pp. 355 - 360 (2014)
Karbaschi, M.; Orr, R.; Bastani, D.; Javadi, A.; Lotfi, M.; Miller, R.: A novel technique to semi-quantitatively study the stability of emulsions and the kinetics of the coalescence under different dynamic conditions. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 460, pp. 327 - 332 (2014)
Kartashynska, E. S.; Vysotsky, Y. B.; Belyaeva, E. A.; Fainerman, V. B.; Vollhardt, D.; Miller, R.: Quantum-chemical analysis of hexagonal crystalline monolayers of ethoxylated nonionic surfactants at the air/water interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (45), pp. 25129 - 25142 (2014)
Lotfi, M.; Bastani, D.; Ulaganathan, V.; Miller, R.; Javadi, A.: Bubble in flow field: a new experimental protocol for investigating dynamic adsorption layers by using capillary pressure tensiometry. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 460, pp. 369 - 376 (2014)
Lotfi, M.; Karbaschi, M.; Javadi, A.; Mucic, N.; Krägel, J.; Kovalchuk, V. I.; Rubio, R. G.; Fainerman, V. B.; Miller, R.: Dynamics of liquid interfaces under various types of external perturbations. Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 19 (4), pp. 309 - 319 (2014)
Thanks to a collaboration agreement with battery manufacturer Gelion and with Markus Antonietti acting as an advisor, nanomaterials developed in the Department of Colloid Chemistry are now being used to produce longer-lasting sodium-sulfur batteries.
With a prestigious Max Planck Fellowship (2025–2028), microbiologist Gabriele Berg from the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) is launching a research collaboration with Markus Antonietti. Together, they’re developing a solution to soil exhaustion and infertility: a custom-made soil created in the lab from plant residues, enriched with carefully selected microorganisms.
Scientists have long sought to understand the exact mechanism behind water splitting by carbon nitride catalysts. For the first time, Dr. Paolo Giusto and his team captured the step-by-step interactions at the interface between carbon nitride and water, detailing the transfer of protons and electrons from water to the catalyst under light. This…
The German Colloid Society’s Young Investigator Award acknowledges Zeininger's work in predicting and controlling the behavior of soft materials outside of thermodynamic equilibrium, as well as his establishment of guidelines for next-generation smart materials capable of responding to external stimuli in real time.
The secret ingredient for a groundbreaking sodium-sulfur battery with improved energy performance and longer lifespan grows in our gardens: lavender. By combining lavender oil with sulfur, Dr. Paolo Giusto's team has created a unique material that solves a persistent failure problem – polysulfide shuttling. This research marks an important step toward developing more powerful and sustainable batteries for the next-generation large-scale energy storage systems.
The prestigious 25,000-euro prize recognizes Prof. Markus Antonietti's groundbreaking research in carbon catalysis. He is developing materials with tailored properties for more sustainable chemical synthesis: carbon materials are abundant in nature, consume less energy than metal catalysts, and can be reused. The same Académie once hosted Antoine Lavoisier, the 'father of modern chemistry,' who also marveled at carbon’s versatility.
Our director, Markus Antonietti, received the prestigious Solvay Chair in Chemistry. The common thread of his lectures was the "black magic" of carbon materials, which can replace transition metals as catalysts for some of the most relevant reactions, thus revolutionizing chemistry and making it greener.
The German Research Foundation is supporting the research on novel artificially intelligent emulsion systems in Dr. Lukas Zeininger's Emmy Noether Junior Research Group for another three years with additional funding of about one million euros.
Aleksandr Savateev has developed a unique online database. To do so, he has analyzed and standardized research data from 300 papers published over the past forty years in the field of photocharged semiconductors.
Using targeted gamma radiation, researchers at the Institutehave revealed the appearance and the specific role of non-crystalline phases during the formation of mesocrystals. Their findings provide fundamental insights for the controlled development and design of new mesocrystalline materials.
Soils are the basis of life and climate protectors at the same time - but things are not good for them. Due to overfertilization, deforestation, salinization and overgrazing, nearly two billion hectares of arable and pasture land worldwide are affected by moderate to severe soil degradation.