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… Summer School was a great success! We had the pleasure to welcome more than 60 participants in RUB Conference Center. Read more INSIGHT COURSES Three Insight Courses were held in the afternoon that offered an overview of the research done and methods used in the 3 main Research Areas of RESOLV. Each student attended 2 out of 3 courses, which did not coincide with his/her own Research Area. Insight into Research Area A :  Understanding and Exploiting Solvation in Chemical Processes Insight into Research Area B :  Connecting Solvation Dynamics with Biomolecular Function…

… of Solvation Science. Please see below for a list of the speakers.  GSS Summer School 2014 Summer School Program INSIGHT COURSES Three Insight Courses were held in the afternoon that offered an overview of the research done and methods used in the 3 main Research Areas of RESOLV. Each student attended 2 out of 3 courses, which did not coincide with his/her own Research Area. Insight into Research Area A :  Understanding and Exploiting Solvation in Chemical Processes Insight into Research Area B :  Connecting Solvation Dynamics with Biomolecular Function…

… of solvent properties and function without changing of the solvent itself. Therefore, in this area, we consider high pressure, low temperature, and strong confinement as key stressors that enable us to rigorously modulate solvation properties without changing the chemical identity of the solvent. RESOLV tackles the challenge of how to control conformational dynamics and chemical reactivity under stressed solvent conditions, which is of key importance for the development and optimization of chemical processes. Advancing the understanding of solvation under extreme conditions will grant access to new…

… of homogeneous bulk systems at thermodynamic equilibrium conditions. However, it is intriguing to see how local solvation phenomena in nanoheterogeneous environments determine the reactivity and selectivity in solution as well as the function of electrocatalysts, receptors, and enzymes.  In RESOLV we wish to extend those global concepts into spatially and time-resolved properties and establish new concepts of relevance to Solvation Science. We will tackle this grand theme by introducing local perspectives of (i) solvation thermodynamics including entropy, (ii) site-specific polarity, proticity…