Baumchen Group

12-28-2015 Soft Matter cover shows our research

On today's cover the journal "Soft Matter" shows fragments of a thin polystyrene film on a silicon wafer. The colorful image arises from optical interference effects on these thin films. Homogeneous films of the same kind are used in our group to investigate liquid-air interfaces and contact lines on smooth substrates. Together with colleagues from the ESPCI Paris, Marco Rivetti and Oliver Bäumchen describe self-similarities for different fluids and film thicknesses in their paper "Universal contact-line dynamics at the nanoscale". Soft Matter 11 (2015) 9247

10-31-2015 One of our articles among the most important papers in 30 years of 'Langmuir'

The scientific journal 'Langmuir' is celebrating its 30th anniversary. For this occasion a virtual issue with the most important articles was released. The contribution 'How Plants Keep Dry: A Physicist's Point of View' by Alexander Otten and Stephan Herminghaus (Langmuir 20 (2004) 2405), describing the physical basics of the wettability of herbal leaves, is in the list of the most important articles of the 2000's.

10-13-2015 Oliver Bäumchen received "Joliot Chair" at the ESPCI Paris

A "Joliot Chair" of the ESPCI has been offered to our group leader Oliver Bäumchen. He will become a "Visiting Faculty" (guest scientist) for two weeks in November and December 2015.

10-09-2015 Stephan Herminghaus becomes managing director of the MPIDS

Since October 01st, 2015, Prof. Stephan Herminghaus is the managing director of the MPIDS. He took the duty over from his colleague Prof. Theo Geisel, who symbolically handed over the institute's key as well as robe emphasizing the importance of the function.

10-01-2015 We provide the image of the month in 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft' in October 2015

The image of the month in the journal 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft' in October 2015 shows the structure of a drying colloid images by a polarization microscope. The pattern is generated by shear forces produced by drying-out in a thin layer. The related scientific paper has been published in Physical Review Letters 115 (2015) 088302 on August 18, 2015.

09-21-2015 Photo from our reasearch on cover of the Soft Matter journal

A photo out of our research laboratories decorates the cover of the current issue of the 'Soft Matter' journal. It illustrates a polystyrene droplet receding on a hydrophobized fiber. Oliver Bäumchen from our research group published the scientific paper together with Sabrina Haefner and Karin Jacobs, both from the Saarland University. Soft Matter 11 (2015) 6921

07-13-2015 Cooperation agreement "EcoBus embassadors" signed

The co-operation agreement "Embassadors for the EcoBus" has been signed today at the MPIDS. EcuBus will become a sustainable integrated and public supported mobility system for the country and the city. Representatives from cities and municipalities from the south of Lower Saxony and the initiators of the project (among others Stephan Herminghaus from our department) signed the co-operation agreement. (German Press release)

06-12-2015 Liquids on a silk fiber - Nature Communications published our research results

Scientists dicover different dynamics of droplet generation on fibers. The related publication from Oliver Bäumchen of our department and his colleagues from the Saarland University, the ESPCI Paris and the McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, has been published on today in Nature Communications. Nature Communications 6 (2015) 7409

05-27-2015 Lucas Goehring habilitates sucessfully

Today Lucas Goehring performed the last examination of his habilitation procedure successfully by giving a test lecture about "Climate Sensitivity: Why do we have Ice Ages". With the habilitation he receives the license to teach (venia legendi) of the Georg-August-University Göttingen.

05-24-2015 Excellent rank achieved at Physics contest PLANCKS

Wieland Lüher, bachelor student in our research group “Pattern formation in the Geosciences” participated with his four-men team “Take it Ising” in the international Physics contest PLANCKS (Physics League Across Numerous Countries for Kick-ass Students) on May 22-24, 2015 in Leiden, Belgium and received the sixth grade. The 28 international teams solved exercises from different areas of the theoretical physics. More information at http://2015.plancks.org/index.html

DCF News

10-09-2015 Stephan Herminghaus becomes managing director of the MPIDS

05-27-2015 Lucas Goehring habilitates sucessfully