RESOLV member Prof. Happe, in collaboration with researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, has created a miniature biocatalyst for hydrogen production. It works efficiently with electrons from photosynthesis.

Water is not just a background - it’s an active player," says Professor Martina Havenith-Newen, spokesperson of RESOLV. With their new terahertz calorimetry method, her team reveals water’s hidden role in driving life’s chemistry - in real time.

JACS: Two RESOLV researchers from RUB, Prof. Schäfer and Prof. Happe, newly detected that [FeFe]-hydrogenase from a thermophilic bacterium is not degraded by oxygen.

ChemCatCem: Three RESOLV research groups, led by Prof. E. Sanchez-Garcia, Prof. R. Winter, and Prof. G. Sadowski, teamed up to uncover how TMAO and sorbitol influence the catalytic power of Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase. Their cutting-edge study made it to the journal’s Hot Topic section - don’t miss it!

J. Phys. Chem.: Joint publication RESOLV members Prof. M. Sulpizi and Prof. S. Ebbinghaus. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), one of the biologically most important molecules, offers certain anomalous behavior during folding and liquid–liquid phase separation of proteins and RNAs. ATP can act as a “biological hydrotrope”, i.e., it solubilizes hydrophobic proteins or other biomolecules. However, upon…

Adv. Mater. Interfaces: Joint publication RESOLV members Prof. R. Kramer Campen and Dr. M. Rabe. Metal nanoparticles (NPs) immobilized on molecularly modified supports form versatile hybrid materials, offering extensive combinatorial flexibility and synergistic interactions between the organic and inorganic components, making them ideal for applications such as catalysis, and sensing. In…

Surf. Sci.: Joint publication RESOLV members Prof. U. Bovensiepen and Prof. K. Morgenstern. Light is a preeminent spectroscopic tool for investigating the electronic structure of surfaces. Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy has mainly been developed in the last 30 years. It is therefore not surprising that the topic was hardly mentioned in the issue on “The first thirty years” of surface…

Phys. Rev. B.: Joint publication RESOLV members Prof. W. Sander and Prof. K. Morgenstern.

They introduce inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy to distinguish between the weak and strong electronic coupling of a bistable molecule to a metal electrode. Ab initio electronic structure calculations demonstrate that the electronic coupling strength is related to the hybridization of molecular…

Sci. Adv.: Two RESOLV groups, led by Prof. Havenith and Prof. Marx, published their results about supercritical water. When exposed to high temperatures and pressure, water enters a state in which liquid and gas can no longer be distinguished. For a long time, there has been controversy about how this looks like on a molecular level.

JACS: Three RESOLV research groups, led by Prof. Huber, Prof. List, and Prof. Merten, combined their expertise to reveal the first highly enantioselective example of Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Halogen Bonding Catalysis.