Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

How much time do scientists actually spend in the laboratory? What do they study there? On Girls' Day and Boys' Day on April 23, 2026, the school laboratories “Molecules & Schools” and “Light & Schools” as well as various working groups from the Department of Physics will provide insights into scientific research, the...

Valence electrons determine a crystal’s material and chemical properties, shaping how solids conduct electricity, interact with light, and form chemical bonds. Yet directly measuring how these electrons rearrange and move on atomic length scales remains a major experimental challenge. In Physical Review X, an international...

How exactly does unconventional superconductivity arise? In the journal Nature, an international research team involving the University of Hamburg describes a direct microscopic connection between a correlated normal state and the resulting superconductivity in so-called moiré materials.

A research team comprising scientists from DESY, the University of Hamburg, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, the University of Rostock, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology have been awarded a 14 million euro grant for the project IFuEL (short for Inertial Fusion Energy Laser Development and...

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...