Research Highlights

The formation and properties of polarons drastically influence the conductivity of technologically relevant materials. Examples include the organic...

Using the X-ray laser European XFEL, a research team has investigated how water heats up under extreme conditions. In the process, the scientists were...

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DESY and Universität Hamburg has succeeded for the first time in building...

Coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 drastically remodel infected cells by building special membrane structures that accommodate virus replication. It is...

A research cooperation between Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Hamburg and the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), has realized a new concept...

Zero electrical resistance at room temperature? A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power...

In recent years two-dimensional quantum materials have provided a platform for the realization of novel correlated and topological phases of matter...

Magnetic materials have been a mainstay in computing technology due to their ability to permanently store information in their magnetic state. Current...

Semiconductors play an important role in electronics, optoelectronics or photovoltaics. But like other solids they are quantum many-particle systems...