RESOLV researchers have made an unexpected observation: Light can slow down movements in the nanoworld. This is due to quantum friction, a phenomenon that has been hitherto poorly understood.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: RESOLV member Prof. Rasmus Linser, and other contributors investigated how dye-macrocyclic host molecules regulate the binding behavior and the photophysical properties of oxazine fluorophore ATTO655 at single-molecule level.

PNAS: RESOLV member Prof. Müge Kasanmascheff and collaborators have shown that DOPA• is redox-tuned by a low-barrier hydrogen bond (LBHB), with a delocalized proton that provides the catalytic power for the ribonucleotide reduction.

Chem. Sci.: RESOLV member Prof. Dominik Marx and other researchers have shown that water self-dissociation in graphene slit pores depends sensitively on confinement conditions and water filling, exhibiting even non-monotonic changes due to how well confined water layers can solvate hydroxide ions.

A research team led by RESOLV spokeperson Prof. Havenith demonstrates that hydrophobic cations such as tetrabutylammonium cation form a voltage-dependent interfacial film at the gold/water interface, as revealed by THz ATR pectroelectrochemistry. Supporting molecular dynamics simulations quantify the balance of electrostatics and hydrophobic solvation driving forces that dictate the film…

A research team led by RESOLV Spokeperson Prof. Havenith and RESOLV member Dr. Vila Verde demonstrate that perfluorination fundamentally modifies hydrophobic solvation mechanisms and provide insights for improving predictive models of fluorinated compound solubility.

RESOLV member Prof. Linser's group were able to use liquid NMR spectroscopy to uncover an allosteric link between the lipid pocket in the C-lobe and the functionally important elements in the protein kinase p38alpha.

RESOLV member Prof. Xijie Wang and a team of researchers publish their results on their investigation of how materials conduct electricity under warm dense matter conditions in Nature Communications.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has selected an article of RESOLV member Prof. Martina Havenith and her group for the collection of the most popular articles from 2025 in the field of physical chemistry.

It is not easy to follow the interactions of large molecules with water in real time. But this can be easier to hear than to see. This is how an international team deciphered the role of water in the collapse of PNIPAM.