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Active droplets are droplets regulated by chemical reaction cycles. Such droplets are common in our cells as membraneless organelles. Due to their non-equilibrium nature, these droplets are endowed with properties we do not observe for in-equilibrium self-assembly. Their relevance in biology and their exciting new properties are good reasons to build them from the bottom up. Therefore, we developed a....

The lecture will introduce the basic concept of photovoltaic energy conversion using semiconductor materials. To this end, we will talk about photon absorption and the generation, transport and recombination of charge carriers. Then we will cover how a typical current-voltage characteristic of a solar cell looks like (and why!) followed by discussing what fundamental factors limit .....

The talk will revolve around a deceptively simple-sounding but notoriously challenging question at the nexus of condensed matter, statistical and nonlinear physics: „When far from equilibrium, in the presence of fluctuations, and faced with multiple steady states with small energy differences, how does a system evolve?“ I will argue that...

In this talk, I report on the design and fabrication of deployable electrode arrays through a square centimeter burr hole using soft robotic actuation called 'eversion'. The deployable system consists of up to six pre-folded soft legs which...

Rapid preparation of polysaccharides is by automated glycan assembly (AGA) using a synthesizer provides access to diverse glycans as large as 151-mers. Accelerated synthesis methods now used to synthesize complex glycans including challenging cis-linked polysaccharides are enabling fundamental investigations into ...