J. Mol. Biol.: Joint publication RESOLV members Prof. J. Tatzelt and Prof. K. F. Winklhofer. Several proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as the mammalian prion protein (PrP), undergo liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS), which led to the hypothesis that condensates represent precursors in the formation of neurotoxic protein aggregates. However, the mechanisms that trigger…

J. Phys. Chem. Lett.: Joint publication RESOLV members Prof. D. Marx and Prof. J. Behler. Isotopic substitution, which can be realized in both experiment and computer simulations, is a direct approach to assess the role of nuclear quantum effects on the structure and dynamics of matter. However, the impact of nuclear quantum effects on the structure of liquid water as probed in experiment by…

Adv. Sci.: Researchers, led by RESOLV PI Prof. K. Tschulik published their findings. Covalent organic framework compounds are more active as catalysts than one would expect. Researchers have now discovered why.

JACS: RESOLV Principal Investigators Prof. G. Clever and Prof. L. Schäfer and their teams were able to show that social chiral self-sorting of coordination cages was dependent on specific solvent interactions.

Biophys. J.: Joint publication RESOLV members Prof. M. Havenith and Prof. R. Winter. In order to achieve a comprehensive understanding of protein aggregation processes, an exploration of solvation dynamics, a key yet intricate component of biological phenomena, is mandatory. In the present study, we used Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and terahertz spectroscopy complemented by atomic…

Nat. Commun.: Researchers, led by RESOLV Spokesperson Prof. Havenith, published astonishing insights about the hydrogen bonding of H2S. Water and the bad-smelling molecule hydrogen sulphide do not seem to have much in common at first sight. However, when investing a little energy, some differences disappear.

Adv. Energy Mater.: RUB researchers, including RESOLV scientists Prof. K. Tschulik and Prof. M. Muhler, published their results on mechanistic insights into how dynamic surface reconstruction and transformation affect the activity and stability of mixed CoMn cubic spinels toward the oxygen evolution reaction (OER).

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: A collaboration between the research groups of RESOLV PIs Prof. G. Clever (experimental) and Prof. S. Kast (theory) provided new insights into the solvent dependence of a thermodynamic equilibrium between coordination assemblies.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: The group of RESOLV scientist Prof. G. Clever has used ingenious strategies to enable the selective incorporation of two different types of ligands into three- and four-membered rings. They showed that the central cavity can host a guest molecule and that the host-guest complexes exhibit interesting optical properties that differ from those of the isolated ring and guest.

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. : RESOLV member Prof. Dominik Marx presents terahertz (THz) spectroscopy methods to study the solvation dynamics of open-shell molecular radicals in water. Focusing on the nitroxide spin probe HMI (2,2,3,4,5,5-HexaMethylImidazolidin-1-oxyl), the study generalizes established spectral decomposition techniques—supermolecular solvation complex (SSC) and cross-correlation…