Baumchen Group

04-23-2015 Future day 2015 at the MPI-DS

Today we welcomed 26 students for the future day 2015 at the MPI-DS. After visiting the wind tunnel, the mechanical workshop and a microscopy laboratory we had a little refreshment in the kind of strawberry ice-cream, which we "cooked" ourselves with liquid Nitrogen.

04-17-2015 Cover of Physical Review Letters shows image from our research

The actual cover of the Physical Review Letters of April 17, 2015 shows two ellipsoidal pills in contact. Our publication Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 158001, from which the image is extracted, deals with the detailed investigations of packings of ellipsoidal geometries. The paper is a joint work of Fabian M. Schaller, Max Neudecker, and Matthias Schröter from our group and Gerd E. Schröder-Turk from the University Erlangen and the Murdoch University (Australia), Mohammad Saadatfar from the Australien National Universität in Canberra (Australia) and Gary W. Delaney from CSIRO Mathematics in Clayton South (Australia).

04-17-2015 MaxSynBio started for the research on artificial cells

Today the joint research project "MaxSynBio", a research network on synthetic Biology, was launched in Berlin. The long-term goal of the work is the production of artificial cells. In this project we investigate the basics for this. Nine Max Planck institutes and the university Erlangen-Nuremberg are involved in this network, which is funded by the Max Planch society and the BMBF (German ministry for education and research) for three years. From our department the group of Oliver Bäumchen is involved in the project.

03-20-2015 Prenumbral solar eclipse observed

A cloudless sky enables us today to observe the solar eclipse in the morning. Equipped with safety goggles and self-made pinhole cameras, a couple of our group members met on the roof-deck of the institute to watch the event and cerebrate it with some snacks.

01-17-2015 Göttingen's Science Night inspires 19,000 visitors

During today's Science Night we presented our micro-swimmers. Visitors had the opportunity to observe the green algae Chlamydomonas as active swimmers under the microscope. From about 19,000 visitors of the Science Night, approx. 8-9,000 came to the Max Planck Institute for solar research, where our exhibit was also shown.

01-15-2015 January issue of the Physik Journal presents our research

The cover of the Physik Journal in January 2015 shows the image of a Gecko. The related publication, describing the forces which hold the Gecko onto walls and ceilings, was written by Oliver Bäumchen from our department and his co-authors Peter Loskill from the University of California in Berkeley and Hendrik Hähl and Karin Jacobs, both from the Saarland University. Physik Journal 14 (2015) 37

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12-12-2014 10 years anniversary of the MPIDS

10 years ago the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization was founded. In 2004 it emerged from the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics and was re-oriented towards new research topics by the appointments of Prof. Stephan Herminghaus and Prof. Eberhard Bodenschatz. The anniversary was celebrated by today's symposium.

11-29-2014 ZDFtivi shows pur+ broadcast about sand

Today in the early morning at 6:30 am and on tomorrow, Sunday at 7:25 pm, the Kinderkanal KiKa broadcast a pur+ program about sand. Stephan Herminghaus shows experimentally the special properties of sand and explains the differences between various kinds of sand.
Link to the episode (in german)

11-28-2014 Soft Matter cover shows our micro-caterpillars for cargo transportation

Today’s cover of the journal "Soft Matter" shows artificial caterpillars usable for the controlled transport of micro-cargo. The paper entitled "Colloidal carterpillars for cargo transportation" describes the joint work of Venkata Jampani, Christian Bahr, and Stephan Herminghaus from MPIDS, Yuji Sasaki, Yoshinori Takikawa, Hikaru Hoshikawa, Takafumi Seto, and Hiroshi Orihara from Hokaido University, and Yoshiki Hidaka from Kyushu University, and reports the cotrolled motion of colloidal chains and their use as micro-traction engines in a liquid crystal matrix. Soft Matter 10 (2014) 8813

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