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The targeted design of materials with previously unused properties should make new applications possible.
Carbon-based bipolar plates have the potential to replace titanium bipolar plates in proton exchange membrane electrolysis.
Researchers are constantly pushing the limits of technology by breaking new ground in CO2 conversion. Their goal is to turn the harmful greenhouse gas into a valuable resource.
A new research network aims to understand and design the surfaces of complex metallic solid solutions with atomic precision.
Improving safety and durability of batteries requires a better understanding of processes that take place inside them at the atomic level. Tong Li intends to lay the foundations for this as part of a Consolidator Grant.
Isabel Pietka is an avid physicist. And just an avid supporter of early career researchers. As co-organizer of an early career conference, she knows how important it is to be allowed to make and to learn from mistakes.
A new algorithm measures materials libraries up to four times faster than before. It’s based on machine learning.
Catalysts should be efficient and durable. To find them, four teams are systematically working together on new concepts. They are being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with 10 million euros.
PhD student Teslin Thomas is fascinated by solid-state physics, by how properties are created and by how they change in certain types of materials.
By implementing an innovative technology, any wastewater treatment plant would be able to produce methane from carbon dioxide in an environmentally friendly way.
“We live in a world where energy demand is rising day by day”, says Vineetha Vinayakumar. That’s why the materials scientist focuses on developing efficient and environment-friendly ways to produce hydrogen.
Abbas El Moussawi is a PhD student in the DFG Research Group 2284. He works with lasers, mirrors and cameras, analyzing what happens inside reactors that are used to create materials with new, unusual properties.
“I want my research to have impact,” says the PhD student. That’s why he prefers to work on topics that help to solve the pressing questions of our time. And he does so with a lot of enthusiasm.
Big data – at first glance, the term sounds like a promise. But a lot of data is useless unless someone provides structure. Someone like Markus Stricker.
The Titanic broke apart when it collided with the iceberg. One of several reasons for the catastrophe: the steel used was extremely brittle. Phase transitions in the solid state explain this brittleness of metals.
Girls in grade 10 and older had the opportunity to attend a summer school in materials science this June. And they were allowed to try their hand at experiments set up for destruction.
A new project aims to aid the fast and efficient production of customised steel workpieces.
The renowned physicist receives the most highly endowed research award in Germany. In Bochum, he is to open up new fields of research in materials science and establish a research centre.
The new device will benefit the work of more than 100 researchers at Ruhr University Bochum.
Three new professorships have been filled in Bochum and Duisburg-Essen, two of them with top-class female researchers.
The potential for energy and material savings offered by additive manufacturing compared to conventional processes is enormous. But the devil is in the details.