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Nano-sized hydrogel drug carriers with tailored hydro- and lipophilicity are designed and their encapsulation and structure forming capabilities investigated in real-time. These nano-carriers are built from cellulose and peptide hydrogels in tandem with a nano-stacked interwoven design and alternating hydro- and lipophilicity, thus enabling for tuning the lipophilicity of the carriermesh for drugs of complementary lipophilicities. [...]

This article reports the room-temperature synthesis of ZIF-8 monoliths, systematically varying synthesis parameters while maintaining a constant metal:ligand ratio of 1:7.9. The washing procedure, aging time, centrifugal speed, precursor concentration, solvent type, ammonia concentration, and metal salt were changed to investigate their effect on the water stability of the resulting monolith. [...]

Protein function depends on their conformational flexibility. Complementary to temperature-dependent studies, high-pressure (HP) macromolecular crystallography is well suited to explore the conformational space of proteins at atomic resolution. [...]

Electron-ion equilibration dynamics in samples driven into superheated stateswith multi-eV electron temperatures represent a fundamental process innonequilibrium physics. A clear picture of the evolving ion temperature isessential for understanding the strength of the electron-ion coupling [...]

Ultrafast control of lattice motion in metals is a central challenge for high-frequency strain engineering and spintronic applications. Coherent strain control at terahertz (THz) frequencies in metals has remained elusive because free electrons are expected to delocalize energy beyond the optical penetration depth, preventing rapid and efficient stress generation. [...]

Scattering processes are essential for understanding the structure of matter, yet their real-time dynamics remain challenging to simulate classically. Quantum computers offer a promising path toward efficient simulation of such physical systems. [...]

Self-injection-locked (SIL) narrow-linewidth lasers based on high-Q microresonators are promising sources for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR, but the SIL mechanism as well as its key characteristics such as the frequency sweep range and the noise performance are often determined by uncontrolled backscattering in the resonator. Here, we investigate a tunable SIL laser based on a corrugated photonic-crystal (PhC) microresonator in which the feedback strength is set by design. [...]

This review explores different colloidal systems and their crystals as well as their special case namely - mesocrystals. First, we highlight recent advances in fabrication methods of colloidal crystals (mesocrystals) and then describe small-angle and ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS and USAXS) from colloidal assemblies organized from particles of different shape. [...]