Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus
Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus
T: +43-1-4277-52440
M: +43-664-8176714
Summer term 2024
270025 VO Physical Chemistry III - Physical Chemistry of condensed materials (macromolecular chemistry, structural chemistry) and mixtures) and statistical thermodynamics
270105 PR Bachelor Laboratory Course C - Physical Chemistry and Materials Chemistry
270219 VO Physical Chemistry I - (Introduction)
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van der Veen, M. A., Canossa, S., Wahiduzzaman, M., Nenert, G., Frohlich, D., Rega, D., Reinsch, H., Shupletsov, L., Markey, K., De Vos, D. E., Bonn, M., Stock, N., Maurin, G., & Backus, E. H. G. (2024). Confined Water Cluster Formation in Water Harvesting by Metal–Organic Frameworks: CAU-10-H versus CAU-10-CH3. Advanced Materials, 36(12), Article 2210050. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202210050

Backus, E. H. G., Hosseinpour, S., Ramanan, C., Sun, S., Schlegel, S. J., Zelenka, M., Jia, X., Gebhard, M., Devi, A., Wang, H. I., & Bonn, M. (2024). Ultrafast Surface-Specific Spectroscopy of Water at a Photoexcited TiO2 Model Water-Splitting Photocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 63(8), Article e202312123 . https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202312123


Zelenka, M., & Backus, E. H. G. (2024). Investigating aqueous mineral interfaces using sum frequency generation spectroscopy. In K. Wandelt, & G. Bussetti (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Solid-Liquid Interfaces (Vol. 1, pp. 148–157.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85669-0.00016-7


Naghilou, A., Peter, K., Millesi, F., Stadlmayr, S., Wolf, S., Rad, A., Semmler, L., Supper, P., Ploszczanski, L., Liu, J., Burghammer, M., Riekel, C., Bismarck, A., Backus, E. H. G., Lichtenegger, H., & Radtke, C. (2023). Insights into the material properties of dragline spider silk affecting Schwann cell migration. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 244, Article 125398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.125398






Sosso, G. C., Sudera, P., Backes, A. T., Whale, T. F., Froehlich-Nowoisky, J., Bonn, M., Michaelides, A., & Backus, E. H. G. (2022). The role of structural order in heterogeneous ice nucleation. Chemical Science, 13(17), 5014-5026. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1sc06338c

Vaillard, A.-S., El Haitami, A., Dreier, L. B., Fontaine, P., Cousin, F., Gutfreund, P., Goldmann, M., Backus, E. H. G., & Cantin, S. (2022). Vertically Heterogeneous 2D Semi-Interpenetrating Networks Based on Cellulose Acetate and Cross-Linked Polybutadiene. Langmuir, 38(8), 2538-2549. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03084


Turetta, N., Stoeckel, M.-A., de Oliveira, R. F., Devaux, F., Greco, A., Cendra, C., Gullace, S., Gicevicius, M., Chattopadhyay, B., Liu, J., Schweicher, G., Sirringhaus, H., Salleo, A., Bonn, M., Backus, E. H. G., Geerts, Y. H., & Samori, P. (2022). High-Performance Humidity Sensing in π-Conjugated Molecular Assemblies through the Engineering of Electron/Proton Transport and Device Interfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(6), 2546-2555. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10119

Hunger, J., Schaefer, J., Ober, P., Seki, T., Wang, Y., Prädel, L., Nagata, Y., Bonn, M., Bonthuis, D. J., & Backus, E. H. G. (2022). Nature of Cations Critically Affects Water at the Negatively Charged Silica Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(43), 19726-19738. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c02777

Vasileiadis, T., D'Alvise, T. M., Saak, C.-M., Pochylski, M., Harvey, S., V. Synatschke, C., Gapinski, J., Fytas, G., Backus, E. H. G., Weil, T., & Graczykowski, B. (2021). Fast Light-Driven Motion of Polydopamine Nanomembranes. Nano Letters, 22(2), 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03165


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P11 – Fundamentals of the Structure of Liquid/Oxide Interfaces: Progress and Plans

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Speaker)

23 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Miscibility of Polymer Blends at the Air-Water Interface

Bence Kovago (Speaker), Aurély Araminthe (Contributor), Zhengyuan Peng (Contributor), Alae El Haitami (Contributor), Sophie Cantin (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

12 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Miscibility of polymers as Langmuir films at the air-water interface

Bence Kovago (Speaker), Aurély Araminthe (Contributor), Zhengyuan Peng (Contributor), Alae El Haitami (Contributor), Sophie Cantin (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

12 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cooperativity of Amphiphilic Molecules on Model Aerosol Surfaces

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Lars Höhner (Contributor), Sofie Melanie Mika (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

3 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cooperativity of Amphiphilic Molecules on Model Aerosol Surfaces

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Lars Höhner (Contributor), Sofie Melanie Mika (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

20 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wetting on the molecular level viewed by sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

1 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water at interfaces along Danube and Rhine

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

28 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water at photocatalytic interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

3 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The MgO-H2O interface and its dependence on liquid flow

Moritz Zelenka (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

21 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Understanding PMAA/PEGMA switchable emulsifiers at a molecular scale

Mirela Encheva (Speaker), Robert Woodward (Contributor), Emina Muratspahic (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

21 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biological Lipid Hydration: Distinct Mechanisms of Interfacial Water Alignment and Charge Screening for Model Lipid Membranes

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Lisa B. Dreier (Contributor), Kevin Machel (Contributor), Mischa Bonn (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

25 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Investigation of the ice nucleation properties of birch pollen

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Speaker), Friederike Strahl (Contributor), Clara-Magdalena Saak (Contributor), Markus Mezger (Contributor), Florian Reyzek (Contributor) & Hinrich Grothe (Contributor)

17 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Molecular insights in mineral-water interfaces with sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker) & Moritz Zelenka (Contributor)

17 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reactions at the solid-water interface

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

25 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reactions at the solid-water interface studied by sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

23 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Let’s take a look at vibrational spectra… but make it multidimensional!

Sofie Melanie Mika (Speaker), Carola Krevert (Contributor), Johannes Hunger (Contributor), Maksim Grechko (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

19 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Exploring the interfacial water molecular behaviour in the vicinity of iron oxide thin films at the solid-liquid interface

Harsharan Kaur (Speaker), Moritz Zelenka (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

11 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Investigating sputter deposited iron oxide thin films

Harsharan Kaur (Speaker), Moritz Zelenka (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

14 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Laser Spectroscopy and the Interfacial Structure at the Spinel‐Water Interface

Moritz Zelenka (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

28 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


pH-induced poly (methacrylic acid) / poly (ethylene glycol) restructuring on the molecular level

Mirela Encheva (Speaker), Robert Woodward (Contributor), Emina Muratspahic (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

28 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ultrafast Surface-Specific Spectroscopy of Water at the TiO2-Water Interface

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Speaker), Saman Hosseinpour (Contributor), Charusheela Ramanan (Contributor), Shumei Sun (Contributor), Simon Schlegel (Contributor), Xiaoyu Jia (Contributor), Hai I. Wang (Contributor) & Mischa Bonn (Contributor)

24 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biological Lipid Hydration: Distinct Mechanisms of Interfacial Water Alignment and Charge Screening for Model Lipid Membranes

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker), Clara-Magdalena Saak (Contributor), Lisa B. Dreier (Contributor), Kevin Machel (Contributor) & Mischa Bonn (Contributor)

20 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Molecular structure, surface charge and dissolution of the MgO-water interface influenced by liquid flow

Moritz Zelenka (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

27 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Towards understanding the mechanism of water splitting

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker), Saman Hosseinpour (Contributor) & Shumei Sun (Contributor)

11 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Surface Structure and Cooperative Interaction on Aqueous Aerosol Surfaces

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Sofie Melanie Mika (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

5 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Effect of pH on pyruvic acid in bulk and at the air/liquid interface

Veronika Wank (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

23 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ion specific Interactions and Surface Enrichment on Mixed Aerosol Surfaces

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Sofie Melanie Mika (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

23 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Investigation of the ice nucleation properties of birch pollen

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Speaker), Friederike Strahl (Contributor), Clara-Magdalena Saak (Contributor), Florian Reyzek (Contributor) & Hinrich Grothe (Contributor)

22 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Molecular picture of the pH-induced poly (methacrylic acid) / poly (ethylene glycol) restructuring

Mirela Encheva (Speaker), Robert T. Woodward (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

20 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Upside down and downside up water molecules at the MgAl2O4 spinel surface

Moritz Zelenka (Speaker), Wendelin Wimmer (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

20 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A peek at the spinel-water interfacial structure

Moritz Zelenka (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

12 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water at interfaces: from atmospheric chemistry towards photocatalytic water splitting

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

29 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ion specific Interactions and Surface Enrichment in Mixed Aerosol

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Sofie Melanie Mika (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

21 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Influence of Flow on the MgO-Water Interface

Moritz Zelenka (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

19 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water structure at the interface with photocatalytic polymers

Martin Buessler (Speaker), Moritz Zelenka (Contributor), Andreas STÜHLER (Contributor), Lyons RICHARD (Contributor), Reiner Sebastian SPRICK (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

19 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Towards water splitting at oxide water interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Speaker)

14 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Orientation independent vibrational dynamics of lipid-bound interfacial water

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

11 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ion specific Interactions and Surface Enrichment in Mixed Aerosol

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Sofie Melanie Mika (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

7 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Unravelling the interfacial water structure at the photocatalyst Strontium Titanate by sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Martin Buessler (Speaker), Shingo MARUYAMA (Contributor), Hiroshi Onishi (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

7 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water Induced Polymer Reorientation at a Polystyrene/Polyacrylic Acid Surface

Mirela Encheva (Speaker), X. Li (Contributor), R. Berger (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

7 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Unravelling the interfacial water structure at the photocatalyst Strontium Titanate by sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Martin Buessler (Speaker), Shingo MARUYAMA (Contributor), Hiroshi Onishi (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

22 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy at the solid/liquid interface

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

6 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water Induced Polymer Reorientation at a Polystyrene/Polyacrylic Acid Surface

Mirela Encheva (Speaker), X. Li (Contributor), R. Berger (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

26 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water at interfaces: from wetting to atmospheric chemistry

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Unravelling the interfacial water structure at the photocatalyst Strontium Titanate by sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Martin Buessler (Speaker), Shingo MARUYAMA (Contributor), Hiroshi Onishi (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

31 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Insights into aqueous interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

30 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water structure at the lipid monolayer

Clara-Magdalena Saak (Speaker), Lisa B. Dreier (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

23 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water at interfaces: a scientific view on everyday challenges

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Keynote speaker)

21 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A spectroscopic view on wetting, dissolution, and vibrational energy transfer in ice

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

11 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


MgO and Spinels: Skiing on the interface

Moritz Zelenka (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

3 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Effect of interfacial charge on the structure and dynamics of water

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

20 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Ice Ih

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

19 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ion adsorption at environmental relevant aqueous interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

17 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Molecular Adsorption at Biological Interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

22 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATION OF THE ORIENTATION OF PYRUVIC ACID AT AN AQUEOUS INTERFACE AS FUNCTION OF PH

Veronika Wank (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

17 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


WATER INDUCED POLYMER REORIENTATION AT A POLYSTYRENE/POLYACRYLIC ACID SURFACE

Mirela Encheva (Speaker), X. Li (Contributor), R. Berger (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

17 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water Induced Polymer Reorientation at a Polystyrene/Polyacrylic Acid Surface

Mirela Encheva (Speaker), Xiaomei Li (Contributor), Rüdger Berger (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

8 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Structure and Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Ice Ih

Prerna Sudera (Contributor), Mischa Bonn (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

26 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A molecular view at the interface between water and a photocatalyst

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

21 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interfacial structure and vibrational dynamics of ice Ih

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

22 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The surface of ice, liquid water, and acidic water

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

8 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interfacial vibrational spectroscopy at liquid and solid aqueous interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

29 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interfacial vibrational dynamics of ice Ih and liquid water

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

14 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water at the interface with the photocatalyst Strontium Titanate

Martin Buessler (Speaker), Shingo MARUYAMA (Contributor), Hiroshi Onishi (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

6 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interfacial vibrational dynamics of soft matter probed with time-resolved sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

25 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Effect of pH on pyruvic acid in bulk and at the air/liquid interface

Veronika Wank (Speaker), Jenée D. Cyran (Contributor), Mischa Bonn (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

10 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Following surface reactions along a flow channel

Patrick Ober (Speaker) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

10 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Counteracting Interfacial Energetics and Superspreaders

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

7 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Surface activity of hydroxide and the hydrated proton

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

1 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Ice Ih and Liquid Water

Prerna Sudera (Speaker), Jenée D. Cyran (Contributor), Malte Deiseroth (Contributor), Marc-Jan van Zadel (Contributor), Mischa Bonn (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

1 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interfacial vibrational dynamics of ice Ih and liquid water

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

26 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A molecular view of soft matter at interfaces by surface specific vibrational spectroscopy

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

15 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Chemical characterization of Strontium titanate (SrTiO3) Water-Solid interface

Martin Buessler (Speaker), Shingo MARUYAMA (Contributor), Hiroshi ONISHI (Contributor), Shumei Sun (Contributor) & Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor)

24 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sum frequency generation - from the principles to carbonate mineral interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

2 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wasser und Eis – So alltäglich und doch etwas ganz Besonderes

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

31 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ultrafast SFG Study towards Water Splitting on TiO2

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

4 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Static, 2D, and time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy in bulk and at interfaces

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

25 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Water at the silica interface in rest and under flow

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

20 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Physical Chemistry at the University of Vienna – Recent Research Highlights

Peter Lieberzeit (Invited speaker), Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Contributor) & Wolfgang Kautek (Contributor)

24 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A spectroscopic view on water at charged solid interfaces

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

2 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ultrafast SFG Study towards Water Splitting on TiO2

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

16 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Structure and dynamics of interfacial salty water

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

8 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ultrafast SFG Study towards Water Splitting on TiO2

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

23 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A spectroscopic view on water at solid-liquid interfaces - from ice nucleation to water splitting

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

5 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Elucidating how trace gases interact with ice surfaces

Jenee D. Cyran (Speaker), Ellen H. G. Backus (Contributor), Marc-Jan van Zadel (Contributor) & Mischa Bonn (Contributor)

30 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A molecular view of water at the SiO2 and TiO2 interface

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

13 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A molecular view of water at the SiO2 and TiO2 interface disturbed by flow and photons

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

9 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interfacial water reorientation after UV irradiation of TiO2

Shumei Sun (Speaker), Saman Hosseinpour (Contributor), Simon Schlegel (Contributor), Mischa Bonn (Contributor) & Ellen H. G. Backus (Contributor)

31 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A molecular view of soft matter at interfaces

Ellen H. G. Backus (Invited speaker)

17 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Proton release at the TiO2-water interface

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

3 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Proton release at the TiO2-water interface

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

26 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Vibrational dynamics at the solid-liquid interface

Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda Mezger-Backus (Invited speaker)

26 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science




Die molekulare Ebene schaltbarer Benetzung

Mezger-Backus, E. H. G.

1/11/2031/10/23

Project: Research funding


REWIRE: REinforcing Women In REsearch

Benetton, S., Schaschl, H., Zinner, L., Vidnes, T., Grabner, L., Fuchslueger, L., Richter, A., Johnston, R., Calori, A., Ther, P., Schmidt Cernohorska, M., Dammermann, A., Spisiakova, E., Kaindl, K., Batstone, L., Jobst, K. S., Sposini, V., Likos, C., Kahn, R. J., Andrews, T., Molchanova, A., Stefanelli, U., Axyonova, V., Lecheler, S., Vider, J., Schweitzer, P., Miklaszewska, M., Weckwerth, W., Castejon Caballero, N., Marko, D., Mrovlje, M., Marchart, O., Saak, C., Mezger-Backus, E. H. G., Schnorr, S. L. & Berry, D.

1/06/2031/05/25

Project: Research funding



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