On November 3 and 4, RESOLV celebrated its 10th anniversary with a large symposium. Under the title “Fully RESOLVed?-One Decade is not enough!” the top “Solvation Scientists” came together at Zeche Zollverein in Essen to celebrate.

Solvent chemistry was not at all in the air as a topic. In the meantime, the Cluster of Excellence has become internationally renowned for it.

We were very happy to welcome the US Consul General Pauline Kao on 20.10.2022 to our research building ZEMOS. Together with the rector Martin Paul of Ruhr-Universität Bochum we spoke about the importance of international cooperations and how to strengthen them.

This Account aims to provide rationales for the effects of solvation on tunneling reactions derived from experiments performed in cryogenic matrices.

From 7 to 10 June 2022, the Solvation Science Summer School took place in Bochum. For the first time after 2 years, about 100 participants met in person to discuss news in Solvation Science and to learn new skills - from spectroscopy to Intercultural competence.

PNAS.:When charged particles enter the boundary layer between a liquid and an electrode, they first have to strip off their water shells.

PNAS: Researchers have developed a strategy to use supercomputers to tackle the threat of diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has awarded to Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 to Benjamin List and David W.C. Macmillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.

With these fitting words, Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith, spokesperson of the RESOLV cluster, welcomed the over 100 participants from RESOLV and their highly respected guests at the wonderful location of Hotel-Residence Klosterpforte near Bielefeld.

JACS: Nanosized cages offer way to stabilize and study reactive fullerene radicals in solution.