Article selected for the prestigious Horizons Community Board collection!!!

Our recent work entitled ‚Biogenic fluorescent protein-silk fibroin phosphors for high performing light-emitting diodes‘ (Mater. Horiz., 2020, 7, 1790-1800) has been specially selected by the Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards to be featured in a Horizons Community Board collection focusing on optical and photonic materials and devices.

This is a great honor that highlights the high level of interest and quality of our work!

Congrats to JP for his new publication in Nature Biotech!!

Nature Biotechnology features JP’s work developed at the Cell engineering group (Helmholtz Zentrum München). This paper shows the engineering of a new family of photo-switchable protein sensors for applications in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and optoacoustic imaging methods. Please enjoy here a less-technical explanation on the article by JP for the general public.

Congratulations to Sara for winning the Best Presentation Award at E-MRS Spring Meeting 2021!

Sara was awarded the Best Presentation Award for her talk „Towards highly stable eco-friendly squaraine-protein phosphors for Bio-HLEDs“, held on the 3rd of June 2021 at EMRS Spring 2021 Meeting.

Congratulations to Elisa and Luca for the new paper!

Congratulations to Elisa and Luca for their last contribution on novel red emitting Copper (I) complexes, toward sustainable white emitting lighting sources. This is a great piece of the great collaboration with Prof. Galliard from U. Caen. The advance article is freely available in Advanced Optical Materials.

Special Issue in Advanced Energy Materials about Recent Advances Towards Sustainable Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage

Together with Prof. De la Peña O’Shea (IMDEA Energy) we have settled a special issue focused on Sustainable Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage.

This special issue highlights: i) the design/use of multifunctional hybrid systems as operational compounds/components in solar fuels, air purification, thermoelectric, water splitting, CO2 reduction, NH3 production, photovoltaic, storage, etc. ii) the development of novel heterojunctions for the smart management of photons and carriers, and iii) the distinctive ecological features of bio-compounds for energy technologies.

These contributions honor our efforts towards material and design models of sustainability without losing device performance for energy applications.

If you are interested, click below to get access to the editorial as well as our review on “How Nature helps sun-catching” that was highlighted by the cover of this special issue.

New Team Member: Dr. Nesibe A. Dogan – TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship

We are very pleased to welcome our new TUM Global Postdoc Fellower.

Welcome Nesibe!