Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

CUI member Prof. Henry Chapman and researchers at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL at DESY have developed a new room-temperature X‐ray crystallography technique that could significantly accelerate structure-based drug discovery—a process where drug candidates are tailored using the 3D structure of proteins.

Ferroic materials, like ferromagnets and ferroelectrics, are central building blocks of modern data storage technology. Yet, current platforms face fundamental limits. Ferromagnets suffer from low switching speed, while the ferroelectric polarization is generally unstable because of the depolarizing response of the...

In quantum physics, many events are random. Classical determinism does apply to other areas no longer apply here, and yet these concepts form the basis of modern technologies. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has now awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to three quantum researchers.

There has been enormous progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Even highly sophisticated microscope images can now be faked with ease. These manipulated images are indistinguishable from real ones, even to experts. In a recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology, an international team of nanoscientists...

Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical conduction, caused by strong repulsion between electrons in neighboring metal atoms. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD)...

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts” – even in quantum physics. Quantum objects, even simple ones such as atoms with only two possible energy states, can behave completely differently in a group than they do on their own.