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  1. Polymeric liquids in mesoporous photonic structures: From precursor film spreading to imbibition dynamics at the nanoscale

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  2. Dynamics of water confined in mesopores with variable surface interaction

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber, Denis Morineau

  3. Precursor Film Spreading during Liquid Imbibition in Nanoporous Photonic Crystals

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  4. Electrochemical Actuation in Porous Silicon

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, November 2020, The Electrochemical Society

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  5. Electrolyte Transfer at a Liquid-Solid Polypyrrole Interface Quantified By in Situ X-Ray Reflectometry

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, November 2020, The Electrochemical Society

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  6. Probing the Electrolyte Transfer in Ultrathin Polypyrrole Films by In Situ X-ray Reflectivity and Electrochemistry

    Article • Langmuir, November 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  7. Electrical Conductivity and Multiple Glassy Dynamics of Crown Ether-Based Columnar Liquid Crystals

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, September 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  8. Giant electrochemical actuation in a nanoporous silicon-polypyrrole hybrid material

    Article • Science Advances, September 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  9. Ionic liquid dynamics in nanoporous carbon: A pore-size- and temperature-dependent neutron spectroscopy study on supercapacitor materials

    Article • Physical Review Materials, May 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  10. Natural and Chemically Modified Post-Mining Clays—Structural and Surface Properties and Preliminary Tests on Copper Sorption

    Article • Minerals, November 2019, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  11. Nondestructive high-throughput screening of nanopore geometry in porous membranes by imbibition

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, September 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  12. Self-assembly of liquid crystals in nanoporous solids for adaptive photonic metamaterials

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  13. Collective orientational order and phase behavior of a discotic liquid crystal under nanoscale confinement

    Article • Nanoscale Advances, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  14. Multiple glassy dynamics in dipole functionalized triphenylene-based discotic liquid crystals revealed by broadband dielectric spectroscopy and advanced calorimetry – assessment of the molecular origin

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  15. Capillarity-Driven Oil Flow in Nanopores: Darcy Scale Analysis of Lucas–Washburn Imbibition Dynamics

    Article • Transport in Porous Media, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  16. Quantized Self-Assembly of Discotic Rings in a Liquid Crystal Confined in Nanopores

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  17. Application of retardation-modulation polarimetry in studies of nanocomposite materials

    Article • February 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  18. Dynamics and ionic conductivity of ionic liquid crystals forming a hexagonal columnar mesophase

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  19. The structural and surface properties of natural and modified coal gangue

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, April 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  20. Adsorption-induced deformation of nanoporous materials—A review

    Article • Applied Physics Reviews, March 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  21. A ferroelectric liquid crystal confined in cylindrical nanopores: reversible smectic layer buckling, enhanced light rotation and extremely fast electro-optically active Goldstone excitations

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  22. Dynamic mechanical analysis of supercooled water in nanoporous confinement

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), August 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  23. Two-Step Freezing in Alkane Monolayers on Colloidal Silica Nanoparticles: From a Stretched-Liquid to an Interface-Frozen State

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, July 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  24. Chiral Phases of a Confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystal: Anchoring-Dependent Helical and Smectic Self-Assembly in Nanochannels

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, May 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  25. Capillary rise dynamics of liquid hydrocarbons in mesoporous silica as explored by gravimetry, optical and neutron imaging: Nano-rheology and determination of pore size distributions from the shape of imbibition fronts

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, May 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  26. Formation of Periodically Arranged Nanobubbles in Mesopores: Capillary Bridge Formation and Cavitation during Sorption and Solidification in an Hierarchical Porous SBA-15 Matrix

    Article • Langmuir, March 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  27. Surface Morphology of Vapor-Deposited Chitosan: Evidence of Solid-State Dewetting during the Formation of Biopolymer Films

    Article • Biomacromolecules, February 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  28. Hydraulic transport across hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanopores: Flow experiments with water andn-hexane

    Article • January 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  29. Annealing effect on thermodynamic and physical properties of mesoporous silicon: A simulation and nitrogen sorption study

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  30. pH-Dependent Selective Protein Adsorption into Mesoporous Silica

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, November 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  31. High-resolution dielectric study reveals pore-size-dependent orientational order of a discotic liquid crystal confined in tubular nanopores

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  32. Elastic response of mesoporous silicon to capillary pressures in the pores

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, June 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  33. Soft matter in hard confinement: phase transition thermodynamics, structure, texture, diffusion and flow in nanoporous media

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, February 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  34. Inhomogeneous relaxation dynamics and phase behaviour of a liquid crystal confined in a nanoporous solid

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  35. Thermotropic interface and core relaxation dynamics of liquid crystals in silica glass nanochannels: a dielectric spectroscopy study

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  36. Molecular dynamics of pyrene based discotic liquid crystals confined in nanopores probed by incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering

    Article • RSC Advances, November 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Ronan Lefort, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  37. Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles at the Oil–Vapor Interface: From Mono- to Multilayers

    Article • Langmuir, October 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  38. Molecular ordering of the discotic liquid crystal HAT6 confined in mesoporous solids

    Article • Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, October 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  39. Towards bio-silicon interfaces: Formation of an ultra-thin self-hydrated artificial membrane composed of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and chitosan deposited in high vacuum from the gas-phase

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  40. Spontaneous Formation of Nanopatterns in Velocity-Dependent Dip-Coated Organic Films: From Dragonflies to Stripes

    Article • ACS Nano, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  41. Switchable imbibition in nanoporous gold

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  42. Paranematic-to-nematic ordering of a binary mixture of rodlike liquid crystals confined in cylindrical nanochannels

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  43. Spatial Variation of Molecular Dynamics in the Nanoconfined Glass-Former Methanol

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, June 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  44. Protein Adsorption into Mesopores: A Combination of Electrostatic Interaction, Counterion Release, and van der Waals Forces

    Article • Langmuir, March 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  45. Solid phases of spatially nanoconfined oxygen: A neutron scattering study

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  46. Vibrational density of states of triphenylene based discotic liquid crystals: dependence on the length of the alkyl chain

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  47. Thermotropic orientational order of discotic liquid crystals in nanochannels: an optical polarimetry study and a Landau–de Gennes analysis

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Ronan Lefort, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  48. Thermotropic nematic order upon nanocapillary filling

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  49. Structure and Phase Behavior of a Discotic Columnar Liquid Crystal Confined in Nanochannels

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, August 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Ronan Lefort, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  50. Influence of nanoconfinement on the nematic behavior of liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  51. Anomalous front broadening during spontaneous imbibition in a matrix with elongated pores

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  52. Molecular dynamics of n-hexane: A quasi-elastic neutron scattering study on the bulk and spatially nanochannel-confined liquid

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  53. Capillary condensation, freezing, and melting in silica nanopores: A sorption isotherm and scanning calorimetry study on nitrogen in mesoporous SBA-15

    Article • Physical Review B, February 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  54. Imbibition in mesoporous silica: rheological concepts and experiments on water and a liquid crystal

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, April 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  55. Transition from van der Waals to H Bond Dominated Interaction inn-Propanol Physisorbed on Graphite

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  56. Absolute determination of the orientational order quality in a columnar discotic liquid crystal

    Article • MRS Proceedings, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  57. Orientational order in liquids upon condensation in nanochannels: An optical birefringence study on rodlike and disclike molecules in monolithic mesoporous silica

    Article • Physical Review B, December 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  58. Evidence of a Sticky Boundary Layer in Nanochannels: A Neutron Spin Echo Study of n-Hexatriacontane and Poly(ethylene oxide) Confined in Porous Silicon

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, October 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  59. Polymer Dynamics in Nanochannels of Porous Silicon: A Neutron Spin Echo Study

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  60. Thermotropic nematic and smectic order in silica glass nanochannels

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, October 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  61. Size-dependent freezing of n-alcohols in silicon nanochannels

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  62. Collective molecular reorientation of a calamitic liquid crystal (12CB) confined in alumina nanochannels

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Ronan Lefort, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  63. Polymorphism of the glass former ethanol confined in mesoporous silicon

    Article • Philosophical Magazine Letters, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  64. Criticality of an isotropic-to-smectic transition induced by anisotropic quenched disorder

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Ronan Lefort, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  65. Quenching of Reducing Properties of Mesoporous Silicon and Its Use as Template for Metal/Semiconductor Deposition

    Article • Journal of The Electrochemical Society, January 2010, The Electrochemical Society

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  66. Spontaneous Imbibition Dynamics of ann-Alkane in Nanopores: Evidence of Meniscus Freezing and Monolayer Sticking

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  67. Comparison of the Monolayer Formation of Fluorinated and Nonfluorinated Amphiphilic Block Copolymers at the Air−Water Interface

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, September 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  68. Liquid n-hexane condensed in silica nanochannels: A combined optical birefringence and vapor sorption isotherm study

    Article • Physical Review B, July 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  69. Erratum: Short-range wetting at liquid gallium-bismuth alloy surfaces: X-ray measurements and square-gradient theory [Phys. Rev. B68, 085409 (2003)]

    Article • Physical Review B, June 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  70. Capillary rise of water in hydrophilic nanopores

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  71. Phase transitions and molecular dynamics ofn-hexadecanol confined in silicon nanochannels

    Article • Physical Review B, March 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  72. Preferred orientation ofn-hexane crystallized in silicon nanochannels: A combined x-ray diffraction and sorption isotherm study

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  73. Continuous Paranematic-to-Nematic Ordering Transitions of Liquid Crystals in Tubular Silica Nanochannels

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Ronan Lefort, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  74. Dynamics and critical damping of capillary waves in an ionic liquid

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  75. Rich polymorphism of a rod-like liquid crystal (8CB) confined in two types of unidirectional nanopores

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  76. Melting and Freezing of Argon in a Granular Packing of Linear Mesopore Arrays

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  77. Crystallization of medium-length 1-alcohols in mesoporous silicon: An x-ray diffraction study

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  78. Knudsen Diffusion in Silicon Nanochannels

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  79. Thermodynamic and Structural Investigations of Condensates of Small Molecules in Mesopores

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, February 2008, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  80. Tuning the pore wall morphology of mesoporous silicon from branchy to smooth, tubular by chemical treatment

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, January 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  81. Nucleation and growth of copper on mesoporous silicon by immersion plating

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, April 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  82. Preferred orientations and stability of medium lengthn-alkanes solidified in mesoporous silicon

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  83. Rheology of liquids in nanopores: A study on the capillary rise of water, n-Hexadecane and n-Tetracosane in mesoporous silica

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  84. Effect of Etching Parameter on Pore Size and Porosity of Electrochemically Formed Nanoporous Silicon

    Article • Journal of Nanomaterials, January 2007, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  85. Structural transformations of even-numberedn-alkanes confined in mesopores

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  86. Small-angle x-ray diffraction of Kr in mesoporous silica: Effects of microporosity and surface roughness

    Article • Physical Review B, August 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  87. Triple Point Behavior of Ar and N2 in Mesopores

    Article • Journal of Low Temperature Physics, July 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  88. Faraday Instability in a Surface-Frozen Liquid

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  89. Capillary sublimation of Ar in mesoporous glass

    Article • Physical Review B, February 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  90. High-pressure Raman study of the potassium-doped silicon clathrateK8Si46

    Article • Physical Review B, August 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  91. Quenching of lamellar ordering in an n -alkane embedded in nanopores

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), February 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  92. Are solidified fillings of mesopores basically bulk-like except for the geometric confinement?

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, September 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  93. Short-range wetting at liquid gallium-bismuth alloy surfaces: X-ray measurements and square-gradient theory

    Article • August 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  94. Freezing and melting of Ar in mesopores studied by optical transmission

    Article • April 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  95. X-ray study of the liquid potassium surface: Structure and capillary wave excitations

    Article • March 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  96. How do rod-like molecules freeze and arrange in mesopores?

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, December 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  97. Wetting behavior at the free surface of a liquid gallium–bismuth alloy: an X-ray reflectivity study close to the bulk monotectic point

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, July 2002, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  98. Wetting of hydrocarbon liquid surfaces by fluorocarbon vapor: a microscopic study

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, July 2002, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  99. Tetra Point Wetting at the Free Surface of Liquid Ga-Bi

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  100. Diffraction study of solid oxygen embedded in porous glasses

    Article • October 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  101. Pairing Interactions and Gibbs Adsorption at the Liquid Bi-In Surface: A Resonant X-Ray Reflectivity Study

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  102. Article • Journal of Low Temperature Physics, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  103. Adsorption-desorption isotherms and x-ray diffraction of Ar condensed into a porous glass matrix

    Article • November 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  104. SolidN2and CO in nanoporous glasses

    Article • November 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber

  105. Phases and phase transitions of KPF6

    Article • Ferroelectrics, November 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Patrick Huber