Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

Researchers at the University of Hamburg, the University of Toulouse, and the DESY and ESRF research institutes have observed for the first time in real time how iron-sulfur nanostructures form in solution. Using time-resolved X-ray methods, the researchers were able to visualize the entire reaction pathway – from the...

Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) and partner institutes have developed a general and experimentally realistic method to create square-lattice moiré materials by twisting two-dimensional semiconductors with rectangular unit cells by 90 degrees. This simple geometric...

An international research team has observed in detail how the vital iron protein ferritin makes its way in highly dense environments. In the journal Nature Communications, the researchers report a surprising pattern they discovered using the novel technique of megahertz X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy.

Hybrid materials made of magnets and superconductors give rise to fascinating quantum phenomena, which are so sensitive that it is crucial to measure them with minimal interference. Researchers at the University of Hamburg and the University of Illinois Chicago have now demonstrated, both experimentally and theoretically...

The German Physical Society (DPG) has honored Prof. Dr. Andrea Cavalleri with the Stern-Gerlach Medal for outstanding achievements in experimental physics. Cavalleri is founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) and principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence “CUI...

A team of scientists from the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” at the University of Hamburg and from DESY has been awarded a prestigious Synergy Grant from the European Research Council, receiving €14 million to combine atomic-scale imaging with the Nobel Prize-winning field of attosecond science, the...