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The new episode of the podcast "Exzellent erklärt" deals with the way children and their education are affected by the pandemic. Listen in!

This time with the Tübingen Cluster CMFI and "Bacteria in the Gut - How Drugs Affect our Microbiome". Listen in!

e-conversion attracts more and more top scientists: We warmly welcome two new members, Prof. Knut Müller-Caspary and Dr. Thomas Lunkenbein!

Finally! Science communication live again at the FORSCHA 2021 in Munich! We really enjoyed to present our research to the public and hope to see you again next year.

Not as planned at the conference in Venice, but at home in Munich: In September 2021 the e-conversion PhD students discussed their research projects - and no less enthusiastically!

At the Kunstareal-Fest we offered an experiment booth for kids. Enthusiastically they built batteries with lemons, pickles or graphite. The next generation of experts in renewable energy is growing up!

"Plasmonic Catalysis: From Fundamentals to Applications" is the title of a brand-new book by e-conversion member Emiliano Cortes and his colleague Pedro H.H. Camargo. Have a look...

We are happy that again two of our members host Fischer Senior Fellows within a renown TUM-IAS program. Together they will explore new topics in the field of energy conversion.

What is established for inorganic semiconductors stays a challenge for the organic ones: Tuning the energy gap by blending different molecules for an optimized performance. Here´s how it can work...

The ions in a solid state battery need to travel through multiple material interfaces which comes along with several challenges. Nano-scale coating at these interfaces may stabilize the battery.

With a resolution world record of 3 nm our scientists unlocked the full potential of graphene for fluorescence microscopy. This might turn graphene into a new standard platform for microscopy. 

Biologists led by Dario Leister want to give photosynthesis a helping hand. To increase yields, they are using algae to accelerate the genetic adaptation of crop plants to environmental changes.

“You are a professor? And in chemistry???” See what else Corinna Hess has experienced as being a female scientist - in the second edition our video series "Women in Science".

On the first Munich School Lab Days e-conversion presented its school program to about 60 teachers. Our cluster is one of the founders of the MUC-labs association organising the event.

Tightly wound nanomolecules respond to external forces faster than classical springs - discovered by e-conversion scientists. They can be extended and rapidly return to their original form releasing mechanical energy.

In an interview with Advanced Science News Prof. Bettina Lotsch tells about her way into science, her enthusiasm for energy research and how we might overcome the global energy crisis.

With a single synthetic step e-conversion scientists produce a new class of stable and functionalizable COF structures with active anchoring sites for catalysis. A key to success: Formic acid.

With this series we will give our female scientists the platform to talk about their profession with focus on their gender related experiences and challenges. Enjoy watching!

Smart glass can change its color through electricity. A new material developed by e-conversion scientists has now set a speed record for such a color change.

Organic semiconductors as used for OLEDs constantly lose excited electrons by annihilation processes. Now e-conversion scientists could count the chromophoric molecules hosting the electron packets and disclose how they move and extinguish each other.