Conveners
Soft Matter Interfaces
- Adrian Rennie (Uppsala University)
- Henrich Frielinghaus (JCNS)
The importance of sustainable human nutrition is growing with the increasing effects of the climate change. Usually, emulsions systems like milk are composed of unsustainable, animal derived milk proteins, phospholipids, oil and water. To increase the sustainability of emulsion systems, milk proteins are substituted with sustainable plant proteins, whereby the stabilization mechanisms, and the...
Energy storage – with its fundamental: electrochemistry - has become a key element of society. The making of cheaper, lighter and safer batteries or the synthesis of novel functional materials relies on understanding dynamic processes. Many of those take place at so-called “buried-interphases”, which require advanced characterisation techniques with high penetration depth and sufficient...
Polymer-based organic solar cells receive a growing interest and achieve a substantial progress concerning device efficiency and lifetime during the last years. Moreover, the potential low fabrication costs, fast energy payback times and the use of lightweight materials make them very appealing. In terms of champion device efficiency, values above the 18% limit were reported recently. Mainly...
Atmospheric aerosol particles can be coated with organic materials, impacting aerosol atmospheric lifetime and urban air quality. Coatings of organic materials are also found on indoor surfaces such as window glass. Oleic acid is a fatty acid surfactant that is abundant in cooking and marine aerosol emissions. Under ambient conditions it can self-assemble into lamellar bilayers (stacks) with...
