Prof. Ernst Rank and the TUM-IAS team invite the scientists of TUM and their guests for coffee each Wednesday! Just come over to the TUM-IAS after lunch between 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. and have a coffee with us, meet other scientists and listen from time to time to a short talk (10-15 mins) on a recent major TUM publication or issue – aimed specifically at a non-expert audience.
On January 30, 2019, Prof. Job Boekhoven (Supramolecular Chemistry) will talk about the fact that it was possible for the first time to show that phase separation is an extremely efficient way of controlling the selection of chemical building blocks and providing advantages to certain molecules. Using phase separation, Chemist Job Boekhoven and his team at TUM have succeeded in finding a mechanism in simple molecules that enables extremely unstable molecules such as those found in the primordial soup to have a higher degree of stability. They could survive longer, even if they had to survive a period without external energy supply (TUM press release).
Relevant Publication:
Marta Tena-Solsona, Caren Wanzke, Benedikt Riess, Andreas R. Bausch, Job Boekhoven; “Self-selection of dissipative assemblies driven by primitive chemical reaction networks”, Nature Communications, May 23, 2018 – DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04488-y
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