- Over 80 professors and postdocs
- Over 100 early career researchers
- 64 research groups
- Collaborations with Max Planck Institutes, German Aerospace Center, Forschungszentrum Jülich
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Materials Research Department
The Materials Research Department is an integral part of the cutting-edge research at the Ruhr-Universität in the Key Research Area Matter, Materials & Energy.
A long service life under extreme conditions - this is a key requirement for high-performance materials. High temperatures and pressures or aggressive environments are the challenge, whether in turbines for aviation, in battery cells, in car drives or fuel cells and catalysis.
High-performance materials are multifunctional. Their surfaces and interfaces improve their mechanical properties and open up new chemical or electronic functionalities.
The Materials Research Department is concerned with fundamentally understanding and specifically influencing interfaces at an atomic level. The researchers want to design new materials with previously unused property profiles. This requires intensive interdisciplinary collaboration between working groups in materials design, modelling, synthesis, processing and characterization.
The Materials Research Department brings together researchers from different faculties and backgrounds, enabling interdisciplinary problem solving, the integration of experimental and theoretical approaches and a deeper understanding of materials across different scales - from atoms to components - for the discovery and development of novel materials.
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Ongoing projects
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.
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