DCF News

18-11-21 EcoBus wins special environmental prize

Our EcoBus team has successfully applied for the Innovation Award 2018 of the district of Göttingen: The project "EcoBus - a needs-based public transport system" was awarded the special prize Environment, the environmental prize of the State of Lower Saxony, as mentioned by Environment Minister Olaf Lies (far left in the picture). Congratulations!

18-11-08 Pariamentary evening in Berlin

On a parliamentary evening, the EcoBus was presented to invited members of the German Bundestag. Near the Reichstag the event took place under the patronage of Thomas Oppermann, Vice President of the German Bundestag, in rooms of the German Parliamentary Society. After film contributions and lectures on the subject of EcoBus, the digital revolution in local public transport was discussed in detail.

18-10-(2-12) Journey to India by Prof. Herminghaus

At the beginning of October Prof. Herminghaus visited our alumni Shashi Thutupalli, Sravanti Uppaluri and Junaid Laskar in Bangalore and Chennai, India, who lead research groups there. In several lectures our research projects on the EcoBus and the microswimmers were presented and discussed scientifically. The highlight of the trip was a visit to the new capital Amaravati in the state of Andhra Pradesh, where our EcoBus is being discussed as the transport system of the future.

18-08-01 Marco Mazza becomes Lecturer in Loughborough, UK

After six years as head of our "Soft Matter Far from Equilibrium" research group, Marco Mazza has accepted a call for a lecturer position at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical Modelling at Loughborough University (UK).

18-06-21 Paper published in Soft Matter

The journal Soft Matter publishes our paper "Maximum in density heterogeneities of active swimmers" by Fabian Schwarzendahl and Marco Mazza in today's issue (Soft Matter 14 (2018) 4666-4678). The inside front cover shows a schematic of active microswimmers with flagellae in a fluid. (image (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry) more

18-04-26 How's it dripping there? - Future day at the MPIDS

On this year's Future Day, our researchers Stefan Karpitschka, Markus Benderoth and Diana Strüver showed the pupils experiments with drops. Under the motto "How's it drippig there?", water and vinegar drops that meet each other were examined, thus providing a playful insight into the fascinating world of capillary effects. At the end of the day we had strawberry ice made with liquid nitrogen for refreshment.

18-04-20 Corinna Maass et al. received poster prize

At this year's Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC) 2018 in Sorrento, Italy, the team of Corinna C. Maass, Babak V. Hokmabad, Kyle A. Baldwin and Chenyu Jin received one of 3 Soft Matter poster prizes for their poster entitled "Self-propelled oil emulsions: an active matter model system". Congratulations!

18-04-(16-18) Retreat of the MPIDS on Ludwigstein castle

Again, the scientists of the MPIDS met on Ludwigstein castle at the Werra river for their annual retreat. During three days they informed each other in numerous talks and posters about the current research at the MPIDS. In the breaks they could take up new forces under blooming cherry trees.

18-02-14 New publication in Soft Matter and front cover showing our research

Today's issue of the journal Soft Matter contains the new publication "A modular approach for multifunctional polymersomes with controlled adhesive properties", published by our researchers Julien Petit, Marcin Makowski, Stephan Herminghaus and Oliver Bäumchen together with colleagues from Mainz. The cover picture of today's edition shows polymeric vesicles in our laboratory, which are visible in the fluorescence microscope due to the usage of different dyes. (image (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry) more

17-11-16 Christian Kreis defends his PhD thesis

With his talk "Milcoalgal adhesion to model substrates - A quantitative in vivo study on the biological mechanisms and surface forces", today Christian Kreis defended his PhD thesis, which he prepared in the group of Oliver Bäumchen. Due to the exceptional and surprising results of his work he received the grade "summa cum laude". Congratulations!