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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.

Our second Mysterious Science Quiz is solved. The solar powered bluetooth loudspeaker goes to Simon Qian from TU Munich. Stay alert! The third one is to follow soon...

Our cluster keeps growing! We are pleased to welcome two very talented young scientists:
Dr. Johanna Eichhorn and Dr. Dominik Bucher.

How do you repair the world's smallest machines? Let them do it on their own! A new e-conversion publication gives an example on how this works for DNA origami nano-machines.

Supercapacitors store and release energy very fast but have a low energy density. This might change due to a powerful graphene hybrid material developed by the team of Roland Fischer.

If the stacking structure of the “miracle material” COF is slightly shifted, its properties change dramatically. This happens more often than assumed, as chemists from e-conversion could demonstrate.

Two offers for a W3 professorship reached the e-conversion scientist Alexander Holleitner in 2020. To our delight, he accepted the offer of the TU Munich and remains in the cluster.

Microswimmers are particles that activly move in liquids when supplied with energy. By a new light charging mechanism, they can now move in the dark and get interesting for medicine.

How are electrons “ticking”? And why is their behavior so important for efficient solar cells? Learn more about it in the research portrait of our new member Prof. Frank Ortmann.

Even for experienced catalysts, matchmaking is not always easy. Some partners bind too strong, others leave too early. Read here how a copper electrode solves this problem by itself.

A payload module of perovskite and organic solar cells from the lab of e-conversion member Prof. Müller-Buschbaum proved successful on a rocket flight in space.

With this Bavarian expression for "welcome" we happily introduce two outstanding scientists as new members of our cluster: Prof. Alessio Gagliardi and Prof. Frank Ortmann.

In our series "e-conversion cosmos" we present key topics of energy research on the basis of current cluster publications and give an insight into the daily work of our members.

Learn more about the idea behind e-conversion and why the research of our members is of such importance for the future of energy supply.

One year ago David Egger became professor for “Theory of Functional Energy Materials” at TU München and member of e-conversion. We asked him about his research, his ideas for the cluster and why he loves being a scientist.