Author: Hieronymus Hölzig

The group of Kirill Monakhov (IOM, Leipzig) in collaboration with the Institute of Spintronics and Quantum Information of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), the Quantum Chemistry Group of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), and colleagues from the University of Leipzig discovers unique electron-transport compounds with bio-inspired crosstalk. The obtained results pave the way for tailoring and control of lanthanide-dependent charge-separated states and relaxation dynamics as well as of electron hopping between active building blocks of these solution-processable compounds.

The results have now been published in the journal Inorganic Chemistry and featured on the Front Cover.

Photo: Christian Hüller

The Wiegand lab recently contributed a chapter with the title “Solid-state NMR spectroscopy and dynamic nuclear polarization” to the book “Integrated Structural Biology”, which has just been accepted for publication at RCS. Several aspects of solid-state NMR and DNP, including recent advances and applications to integrated structural biology are discussed. A particular focus is also put on the role played by these techniques in concert with other experimental approaches.

HYP*MOL member Christoph Tegenkamp spoke on “Electronic transport along chiral nanostructures” at the CISSORs seminar (March 15 2023), which is held regularly by the CISS Effect community initiated by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Our highly esteemed colleague Yossi Paltiel is one of the essential minds behind this network. Feel free to take a look at the talk:

Our 15th Status Report Meeting took place on Zoom, hopefully for the last time online!

In January 2023, an extraordinarily comprehensive review article on hyperpolarized magnetic resonance was published in Chemical Reviews by Igor Koptyug. Among the 13 international authors is HYP*MOL member Jörg Matysik. One may expect that this review with more than 1000 references will be the central access source to the topic in the coming years.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has decided to establish the research group “Printed & Stable Organic Photovoltaics with Non-Fullerene Acceptors” – Spokesman of the project, which is funded with about five million euros, is Prof. Dr. Carsten Deibel from the Institut für Physik at Technische Universität Chemnitz.

Our Collaborators Jean-Philippe Ansermet and Yossi Paltiel gave invited talks on the 775. WE-Heraeus-Seminar in Bad Honnef “Towards Comprehension of Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity”.