Research Department Materials Gerät (EN)
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Matter, Materials & Energy

Whether sustainable materials, plasma research, astrophysics, terahertz or laser technology: understanding the basics and being equipped for the challenges of the future - this is the aim of the focus area.

Whether the interplay of cosmic matter, the complex interaction of plasmas with their environment, research into the fundamental properties of complex materials, laser-matter interactions, new approaches for mobile material detectors or the goal of making energy- and resource-intensive large-scale industrial production processes more efficient or producing chemicals sustainably and efficiently in the post-fossil age - this focus is always about the big questions in the natural and engineering sciences and the major challenges of the 21st century. These strongly interdisciplinary research topics find an excellent environment in the Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems of the UA Ruhr and in the research building Center for Interfacially Dominated High Performance Materials (ZGH).

Research building

Forschungsbau ZGH Außenansicht

At the Center for Interface-Dominated High Performance Materials, materials for extreme conditions are analysed and continuously optimized.

DFG-funded measures

Collaborative Research Centers

This Collaborative Research Centre explores how the non-equilibrium property of plasma can be transferred on contact with liquids and solids.

The Collaborative Research Centre combines the subfields of astrophysics, plasma physics, astroparticle physics and particle physics.

The team at this Collaborative Research Centre aims to understand and design the surfaces of complex metallic solid solutions with atomic precision.

The aim is to produce chemicals sustainably and efficiently in the post-fossil age.

By using computer simulations, the teams intend to render energy and resource-intensive large-scale industrial production processes more efficient.

The team at this Collaborative Research Centre develops detectors capable of identifying the material properties of any object.

Research group

Porträt Wolfgang Schuhmann

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schuhmann is speaker of the research group "Unusual Anode Reactions".

Unode research group

ERC Grants

In order to improve the safety and durability of batteries, for example those used in electric cars, it is necessary to understand the processes that take place inside them down to the atomic level. Tong Li intends to lay the foundations for this as part of a Consolidator Grant.

Dislocations have a major impact on the properties of metals. Markus Stricker is trying to get to the bottom of them using simulations.

Astrophysicist Dr Elisa Pueschel wants to penetrate a still unexplored mass range of dark matter particles.

Clara Saraceno will use her ERC Consolidator Grant to develop new methods for adjusting air plasma composition using ultrafast lasers. This revolutionizes light generation, but also other areas.

As part of her ERC Starting Grant, Anna Böhmer is researching specific electron states in superconductors. The recently discovered phenomenon raises many questions.

Neutron stars may be much heavier than predicted by theory. This is possibly due to hyperons, i.e. poorly understood elementary particles. John Bulava aims at reconciling theory and experiment with new simulations.

Catalysts should be efficient and durable. To find them, four teams are systematically working together on new concepts.

A super tightly spaced periodic array of laser pulses to cut, weld, or 3D print materials.

We generally take for granted that the particles inside atomic nuclei stick together. However, the interactions between the nuclear constituents are, for the most part, not fully understood.

Discrepancies between measurements give rise to questions about physics beyond the standard model.

Cooperation

The Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems of the University Alliance Ruhr is dedicated to sustainable materials for the energy applications of the future.

RC Future Energy Materials and Systems

Porträt F. Omer Ilday

Humboldt Professorship for F. Ömer Ilday

Prof. Dr. F. Ömer Ilday joined the Department of Materials Science at Ruhr-Universität as a specialist in laser-matter interactions.

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