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Amino acids helped build RNA at the dawn of life, a new study shows.

LMU researchers are developing ultrathin optical components made of atomically layered systems, which capture light much better than previous materials. This could pave the way for considerably smaller and more efficient photonic components in the future.

Five Clusters with CeNS participation will be funded for seven years as of 2026

A team led by LMU physicist Dmitri Efetov has shown that two graphene layers twisted at an angle to each other behave like heavy-fermion metals. This opens up possibilities for the development of new applications.

Biophysicists figure out how bacteria form robust patterns despite changing environmental conditions and fluctuating protein concentrations.

Philip Tinnefeld from CeNS is coordinating a new doctoral training network at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering.

The researcher has been elected as a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Researchers from Munich developed a new way to design three-dimensional nanomaterials

An LMU team has developed a technology that can amplify the signals of biomarkers in conventional test strips more than a hundredfold. Now the researchers are commercializing the method.

CeNS member Olivia Merkel researches nanocarriers for the targeted delivery of drugs to their site of action. Now the company she co-founded, RNhale, has been awarded a lucrative EU grant to bring a new anti-asthma therapy to clinical readiness.

An international research team explores how tiny metal vacancies improve solar hydrogen technologies.

Biophysicists have elucidated why unexpected structures can sometimes arise during protein design.

An interdisciplinary study conducted within the e-conversion Cluster of Excellence demonstrates the huge potential of the crystalline semiconducting structures.

Prof. Frédéric Laquai and Prof. Steffen Rulands join the CeNS board

Publication analysis reveals 18 LMU researchers as among the most successful in their field.

Dr. Erkan Aydin, Prof. Frédéric Laquai, Prof. Lukas Milles, and Prof. Elena Sturm join the network

LMU researchers have developed a new method for capturing structural changes and interactions of DNA and proteins at high resolution.

LMU researchers have developed a strategy that enables biosensors to be easily adapted for a wide range of applications.

Dieter Braun and Petra Schwille have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) funding

CeNS researchers find a plausible geological setting that may have sparked life on Earth.

A group led by LMU physicist Dmitri Efetov has successfully detected single photons in the infrared range

LMU chemists present two studies that open up new possibilities for biotechnological applications.

How do cells manage to migrate through tiny gaps smaller than their nucleus? A team of LMU researchers led by Joachim Rädler has investigated this question.

CeNS physicists have developed a new model that describes how filaments assemble into active foams.

The research group of LMU pharmacist Olivia Merkel has optimized the synthesis of polymer nanoparticles to facilitate the targeted distribution of RNA agents in the body.

Eyes glued to a live transmission from inside a reaction vessel, CeNS researchers watch chemical reactions at work. Their results will improve the manufacture of the next generation of energy materials.

Using DNA origami, researchers have built a diamond lattice with a periodicity of hundreds of nanometers.

Professor Alena Khmelinskaia, a biophysicist who recently joined LMU, is creating novel proteins that can be configured to suit different practical applications.

LMU researchers have developed a method to determine how reliably target proteins can be labeled using super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

Physicists at CeNS show that the shape of components is a major determinant of how quickly and efficiently complex structures self-assemble

Researchers led by Ralf Jungmann have developed a super-resolution imaging method (SUM-PAINT) to map protein distributions in neurons and discovered a new type of synapse.

A new study shows how the chemical properties of RNA molecules could have facilitated the emergence of complex life.

Professor Petr Sulc is new extraordinary CeNS member

Using a so-called computational hyperreactor, LMU chemists have managed to calculate highly complex chemical reaction networks efficiently under realistic conditions.

CeNS researchers have developed an innovative method to simultaneously track rapid dynamic processes of multiple molecules at the molecular scale.

CeNS members successful with draft proposal for Cluster of Excellence

The Center for NanoScience celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary

CeNS scientists led have developed a new method to watch biomolecules such as proteins and DNA at work

Tim Liedl and Emiliano Cortés have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) funding