News

  • Ahmad Murad joined the team to work on semiconducting LCs.
  • Checkout our new paper on self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles in nematics
  • Hajnalka Nádasi was selected Physikerin der Woche 2020 by DPG
  • New DFG Project "Filled Polar Liquid Crystals from Umbrella-Shaped Mesogens" together with Matthias Lehmann (University Würzburg) started. We are starting new collaboration with the Dept of Material Physics at OvGU. DhD Position is opened: Link for Applications
  • Alexander Jarosik defended his BSc Thesis on bioconvection of swimming Algae.
  • Hajnalka Nádasi started her new DFG project "Dynamic Properties of Anisotropic Magnetic Fluids". It is joint project with the workgroup of Frank Ludwig (Braunschweig University).
  • New DFG Project "Long-distant transport in characean algae" started! It is a joint DFG-RFFI project with the workgroups of Anna Alova and Alexander Bulychev at Moscow State University (Dept. of Biophysics).
  • Alexander Jarosik joined the team. He is going to be working on gravitates and phototaxis of Chlamydamonas swimming algae.
  • Active Matter and Biophysics in Magdeburg: we have a new DFG Project: "Long-distant transport in charatial algae"!
  • New paper released: "Efficient ferronematic coupling with polymer-brush particles", PCCP, 10.1039/C9CP06245A, (Project: SPP 1681)
  • Florian von Rüling is awarded to be the best Master Student 2019
  • New Paper "PH-dependent cell–cell interactions in the green alga Chara" just appeared in Protoplasma.
  • Gusav Jäger aus Werner-von-Siemens Gymnasium is making his MINT research on Active Matter in our Lab!
  • Lucas Scharbrodt joined our team.
  • New paper "Liquid crystalline self-assembly of 2,5-diphenyl- 1,3,4-oxadiazole based bent-core molecules and the influence of carbosilane end-groups" in collaboration with Carsten Tschierske has been published! (Project: DFG ER467/8-2)
  • Florian has successfully defended his Master thesis on 28.11.2018
  • Our new paper on NTB droplets have been accepted in Langmuir!
  • Tina Reuter is going to defend her BS thesis about the dynamics of organoferrogels on 8.11.2018!

Events


  • German Liquid Crystal Conference, 17.03.2019 - 19.03.2019, Magdeburg
  • Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Conference in Boulder (USA), 04.8.2019 - 07.8.2019
  • European Liquid Crystal Conference, 30.06.2019 - 05.07.2019, Wrotclaw, Poland (http://eclc2019.pl)
  • German Liquid Crystal Conference, 27.03.2019 - 29.03.2019, Paderborn