Author: Maximilian Horn

Our new paper is out in Advanced Materials; a collaboration with the Prof. Kevin Sivula group in EPFL! We’re excited to share these results on semiconducting spacers in layered perovskites and delighted for this fruitful collaboration. Thank you to everybody involved!

Heinzen et al. investigated the structure-driven ion transport in conjugated polymers with crown ether side chains. Read about her findings probing from the nano- to microscale, now in Chemistry of Materials!

Yesterday, we had the pleasure to visit the Swiss Free Electron Laser at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Aargau! We then enjoyed a lovely dinner alongside the Aare in Bern. Thank you to everybody involved for making this exceptional day possible!

We are very happy to announce our new PhD in the house! Kaishuai defended his thesis about temperature dependence of electrochemical reactions in organic mixed ionic–electronic conductors phenomenally. We are very proud of you and wish you all the best for the future Kaishuai!

Last week, Diego and Maxi traveled to beautiful Tuscany to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials. They were able to connect with other students and PIs from the field through engaging poster sessions, talks and social activities. Thank you to all the organizers for this…

In our new, more technical paper, we present our implementation of the B Matrix referencing scheme for Transient Absorption. The B Matrix suppresses white-light fluctuations and reduces noise in TA system, and thus benefits setups with successive nonlinear processes in the probe path. In our case, a 2080 nm beam…

Natalie attended the MRS Spring Meeting 2026 in Honolulu and gave two invited talks about organics photocatalysis and highly doped polymers!

Last Friday, Gopika presented the first results of her PhD at the Swiss Photochemistry Symposium in Fribourg. Very well done Gopika! Anouk and Maxi joined as participants, and we had enriching discussions with the other members of the field based in Switzerland. Thanks a lot to the organizers for this…

Tom van der Pol et al., report a new operation regime in BBL, a polymer deswelling driven by water expulsion owed to polymer-cation interactions upon n-type electrochemical doping. Congrats to the team, we are proud to have contributed with terahertz spectroscopy. Now in Nature Materials!

Why do some polymers tolerate high doping levels and keep increasing their conductivity, while others decay at similar doping levels? Our PhD student, Basil, explores this in his first paper as first author, now published in Advanced Materials.