We dedicated some of our research efforts to understanding microplastics and we are in good company at Strathclyde www.strath.ac.uk/research/sma...

Happy Birthday Pacman!

@robinsall.bsky.social, @zuyaoxiao.bsky.social, @micromotility.bsky.social, @danielgordon.bsky.social, @continiclau.bsky.social, @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social ...

In May 2024 we had a great workshop on chemotaxis in the MPI PKS in Dresden! The social impressions are in the picture below, and the scientific discussions are summarised in Angewandte Chemie lnkd.in/d6ymRhGK
What a nice way to remember!

Congrats to Kelly for her beautiful Janus image in that was among the first 3 in the scientific image contest cfaed.tu-dresden.de/media-commun...

We congratulate David Nescholta for his successful Master defense and Jasmin Wetzlich for her Bachelor thesis! Well done both and we look forward to keep collaborating!

Intelligent soft matter: towards embodied intelligence Intelligent soft matter lies at the intersection of materials science, physics, and cognitive science, promising to change how we design and interact with materials. This transformative field aims to ...

Our perspective paper is out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Halogen–copper redox chemistry as a driving force for spherical Janus microswimmers Most Janus particle microswimmers use catalytic reaction mechanisms, including hydrogen peroxide or hydrazine degradation, to generate gradients for self-propulsion. However, several alternative…

New from Juliane Simmchen (@jsimmchen.bsky.social) and colleagues:

'Halogen–copper redox chemistry as a driving force for spherical Janus microswimmers'

#OpenAccess 🔓

Great core-to-core office at Kyoto University, Katsura Campus thanks to @molinajohnj.bsky.social for hosting us

With @YeYuan 's presentation we conclude our session at ECC1 in Tokyo, thanks to all of our speakers! Great talks everybody @KellyHenze, @SimonSchnyder

ECC11 The aim of this conference is to review and discuss the most recent scientific breakthroughs and findings in complex systems research with a particular emphasis on complex chemical systems and their r...

Few hours missing to start our exciting symposium on active matter in ECC11 sites.google.com/edu.k.u-toky...

www.wissenschaftsnacht-dresden.de/programm/det...

Dresden Long Night of Science! #LNdW

Last preparations for the LNdW in our new team T-shirts! Join us on Friday 20th of June for the long night of science

come and see our new team T-shirts and our new science simmchenresearch.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/l...

Programming Tactic Behaviors of Active Colloids via Surface Charge Self-diffusiophoretic colloids move autonomously by creating chemical gradients. These self-generated gradients lead to fluid motion at the particle surface, also known as phoretic slip, which determi...

Congrats @zuyaoxiao.bsky.social ! The last work for your thesis is out pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Cryogenic milling of consumer plastics for high-throughput characterization of polydisperse, amorphous microplastics Microplastics - defined as tiny polymer fragments less than 5 mm in size - pose a clear threat to a wide range of small organisms through ingestion, leading to starvation. In addition, there are many...

First work done mostly at Strathclyde: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr..., congrats Charlie!

Cryogenic milling of consumer plastics for high-throughput characterization of polydisperse, amorphous microplastics

Authors: Charlie Maslen, Purnesh Chattopadhyay, Marie Theres Kühne, Gail McConnell, Juliane Simmchen
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-102pn

Active Colloids Moving by Critical Demixing A unique type of self-propelled active colloid converts light into a temperature gradient across its body, locally demixing a solvent, and moves by self-ph

Great to see that our book is finally out in RSC Soft Matter Series on Active Colloids

If you want to learn more about how active colloids move and can be designed, this is a great starting point.

@wuspal.bsky.social @jsimmchen.bsky.social @WeiWang

#softmatter #activematter 🧪⚛️💡

Ein RISE Weltweit Praktikum finden

Join us next summer in beautiful Scotland: www.daad.de/rise/de/rise...