Welcome to the PNM Outreach Website!

We are the research group Physics of Nanostructured Materials (PNM) from the University of Vienna. Our group is part of the research focus Complex Nanoscale Matter of the Faculty of Physics. You can find everything about our research by clicking on the button below. On this website, we present press releases, media appearances, participation in events and anything else where our research goes public.

  • Giga-indentation
    Nano world made large. Here in the Giga-indentation exhibit we show what our materials are madeout of and what holds the building blocks called atoms together, using a model of…
  • Catalysis & Curious
    In this exhibit, we show how a chemical reaction works with the help of a simple marble run. For a chemical reaction to happen the reactants need to have enough…
  • Moiré Wheel of Fortune
    Have you ever noticed beautiful wave patterns when stack multiple kitchen strainers or other types of mesh? Then you have already seen moiré patterns first hand. Here you will learn how we can create and measure such patterns at the atomic level in bilayer graphene.
  • Dimensionenduell
    Hallo Dimensions-Reisende!In der Wissenschaft untersuchen wir Dinge vom winzigkleinen, bis hin zum riesengroßen. Diese Größenordnungen sind so unvorstellbar zum Teil, dass wir uns schon gar nichts mehr darunter vorstellen können….
  • A journey into the nanoworld – Jani Kotakoski featured in Audimax podcast
    Jani Kotakoski, head of the PNM group, is featured in an episode of the German-language science podcast “Audimax” by Rudolphina, a science magazine of the University of Vienna, alongside chemist…
  • Kimmo Mustonen featured in Rudolphina: 2D crystals in a graphene sandwich
    Kimmo Mustonen gave an interview in the research magazine Rudolphina about his research on 2D crystals in a graphene sandwich, the basis for exciting future materials. 2D crystals, e.g., synthesized…
  • Playfully discover atom manipulation
    Online simulation game makes graphene research available to the public The team of Toma Susi at the University of Vienna uses a state-of-the-art electron microscope, the UltraSTEM, to manipulate strongly…
  • Buckyball sandwiches
    The study of molecules via transmission electron microscopy is extremely challenging, because they tend to break apart under the intense electron irradiation required for imaging. In our recently published study,…
  • “Weighing” atoms with electrons
    The chemical properties of atoms depend on the number of protons in their nuclei, placing them into the periodic table. However, even chemically identical atoms can have different masses –…