Bachelor- and Master-theses
You are interested in supramolecular functional materials and liquid crystals? - Then contact Michael Giese for more details on prospective Bachelor- and Master-projects or stop by in his office (room S07 S04 C25)
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The Junior Research Group is affiliated with the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen and was started in June 2014. Our research field is the synthesis and analysis of supramolecular functional aggregates, especially those with liquid crystalline properties. A major goal is to utilize and control the molecular self-assembly of discotic aggregates and understand the underlying principles in detail in order to develop novel supramolecular liquid crystals for potential applications in optical and electronic devices such as organic solar cells or light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).
Contact
Prof. Dr. Michael R. A. Giese
Heisenberg-Professor for Supramolecular Materials
Faculty of Chemistry | Organic Chemistry | University of Duisburg-Essen
Room S07 S00 C21 | Universitätsstraße 7 | 45141 Essen
Phone: +49 201 183-2087
Email: michael.giese@uni-due.de
Web: www.gieselab.de
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Universität Duisburg-Essen | Room S-A 002 | Schützenbahn 70 | 45127 Essen
Phone: +49 201 183 2950
Email: ccl-produktinnovation@uni-due.de
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News
26th April 2023 Is it a Bird? A plane? No! it's Meik with a PHD!
Today Meik Blanke successfully defended his PHD and is now owner of a nice pigeon hat, which he earned through a lot of work. Congratulations and all the best for the future!
22 - 24th March 49th German Liquid Crystal Conference
Also this year our working group participated in the GLCC in Stuttgart. We would like to thank the organizers for a nice conference and hope to see you all again next year in Essen.
March 2023 Welcome to Essen
Roshanak joins the Giese Group for 6 months. In this time she will work on hybrid materials processed by additive manufacturing. Enjoy your time in Essen and good luck with your project!
December 2022 Scientific Exchange with the University of Belgrade
From 21.11 to 12.12.22 Thorben and Tobias joined the group of Prof. Nemanja Trisovic at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) to work on bent-core liquid crystals. Thanks for your hospitality and see you soon!
September 2022 Research Guests from Serbia
Aleksandra and the leader of the serbian working group, Nemanja, join our group in september for a short reasearch stay.
We hope they enjoy their stay here in Essen.
June 2022 DAAD Exchange to Belgrade
In June Alexander travelled to our DAAD cooperation partner in Belgrade. For one Month he worked in the group of Nemanja Trišović. It was a very successful and pleasant stay. We hope that we will meet again soon, this time here in Essen. Vidimo se!
3rd May 2022 Mini-Symposium on Luminescent Materials for Additive Manufacturing
On the 3rd Mai we had our virtual Mini-Symposium on "Luminescent Materials for Additive Manufacturing" with the working group of Yann Molard from the Rennes Institute of Chemical Science in france. We hope on good and productive work together and many successful projects in the future.
8th April 2022 En Route to Adaptive Liquid Crystals with Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Meik's work in Cooperation with Francesco, from the University of British Columbia, on "Manipulation of Liquid Crystalline Properties by Dynamic Covalent Chemistry-En Route to Adaptive Materials" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
30th March 2022 Giese Group strikes again!
From 28. - 30.03.22 a part of our working group participated in the 48th Conference of the German Liquid Crystal Society and our newest group member Tobias won the best poster award. Congratulation! After the price for the best oral contribution in 2021 it is the second price for our working group at the GLCC.
In addition, we would like to thank the organizers and all participants a for nice conference.
17th March 2022 Digitalization of organic chemistry exams
Innovating Exams, Accomplishing Transfer, Fostering Equal Opportunities – these are the key challenges of the PITCH project at the University of Duisburg-Essen, which is funded by the foundation Innovation in University Teaching (Stiftung Innovationen in der Hochschullehre). Together with Dr. Katrin Schüßler and Prof. Dr. Maik Walpuski, Prof. Dr. Michael Giese is currently tackling the challenge of digitalizing organic chemistry exams (details).
Prospective Students, PhD students and Post-Docs
We are looking for motivated students who are interested in supramolecular materials. Students interested in joining the group for their bachelor or master theses or for a research project (Vertiefungspraktikum) are encouraged to apply.
Applications of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are welcome and we are happy to help highly qualified prospective coworkers with their scholarship applications. For details please contact Michael Giese.
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