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29.02.2024Excursion to Hanau
At the end of February this year, we were given an exclusive insight into the production of superconducting cables at Bruker AES GmbH in Hanau. During the excursion, the participants learnt about the latest technologies and process steps used to manufacture superconducting cables. The experience provided the students with valuable insights into the production and application of superconductors.
01.02.2024We have a new PhD student!
Inci Sahin is our new PhD student! She studied NanoEngineering here at the University of Duisburg-Essen and will be working on quantum transport materials as potential electrodes for hydrogen catalysis as part of her doctorate.
18.01.2024Scholarship celebration 2024
An unknown benefactor who gives wings to your dreams. Such wishes come true at the University of Duisburg-Essen. However, the sponsors do not remain anonymous: scholarship holders got to know their supporters at the annual scholarship ceremony on 18 January 2024 - at a stylish dinner in Essen's canteen.
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01.01.2024Our team assistant is here!
Daniela Willemsen took up the position of team assistant in our working group at the beginning of this year. We are very much looking forward to working together and all that we will achieve this year!
20.12.2023It's getting cosier!
Now we finally have a place to exchange ideas in a more relaxed enviorment!
13.12.2023We have a kitchen!
We finally have a fully equipped kitchen!
05.12.2023Group christmas party
As part of this year's Christmas party, we visited the Zeche-Zollverein colliery in Essen and ended the evening at the Ronja restaurant in the Ringlokschuppen in Mülheim.
04.12.2023First general meeting of the RC FEMS
This Monday was the first general meeting of the Research Centre for Future Energy Materials and Systems (RC FEMS) at the Ruhr University Bochum. We had an interesting exchange with the other research groups and look forward to working closely together.
26.11-01.12.2023MRS Fall Meeting in Boston
Best wishes from Boston! Prof. Gabi Schierning was in Boston from 26.11 to 01.12.2023 at the fiftieth Material Research Society (MRS) Autumn Meeting.
25.10.2023Launch of the Research Alliance Ruhr
The University Alliance (UA) Ruhr celebrated the opening of the Research Alliance Ruhr in Essen on 24 October with around 100 guests from politics and science. Founded in 2021 on the initiative of the Ruhr Conference, 50 joint research professorships will be created here to address pressing issues of the future. Science Minister Ina Brandes honoured the successful collaboration between Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the University of Duisburg-Essen and TU Dortmund University.
15.10.2023We have a new PhD student!
Michael Staiger is our new PhD student! He studied NanoEngineering here at the University of Duisburg-Essen and will be working on the influence of alloying elements on the low-temperature transport properties of bismuth telluride as part of his doctorate.
29.09.2023Bochum Colloquium for Martensitic Transformations
The BoKoMaT_8 2023 conference on shape memory alloys offers a wide range of specialist presentations, discussion panels and space for mutual exchange. Gabi Schierning presented the group's work on the electronic causes of the martensitic phase transition in the shape memory alloy NiTi at this conference.
05.09.2023First scientific visit to Duisburg
Assistant Professor Matthias Agne from the University of Oregon in Eugene (USA) visited us in our new premises in Duisburg. In a lecture Matthias shared data and considerations regarding electron transport in highly doped semiconductors as well as tricks for sample preparation. We are looking forward to further scientific exchange and co-operation!
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10.07.2023The new DynaCool is here!
With the new PPMS DynaCool system, we can use the 9 Tesla magnet to analyse the thermal and electrical properties of our samples down to 1.9 Kelvin. We are looking forward to the first results and the new insights gained through the simplified characterisation!
03.07.2023Interdisciplinary view of phase transitions
The Titanic broke apart when it collided with the iceberg. One of several reasons for the disaster: the steel used was extremely brittle. So-called phase transitions in the solid state explain this brittleness of metals. Triggered by temperature changes, material properties can change, as in the collision with the iceberg. Today, a different steel would be used because science knows more about these phase transitions. Experts from the fields of materials science, physics and engineering are researching them. Under the leadership of UDE Professor Gabi Schierning, an article has now been published in Advanced Energy Materials that takes an interdisciplinary look at the field and sets out future research goals.
20.04.2023An new member for the Research Alliance Ruhr
They are developing urgently needed materials for a sustainable energy system of the future: the researchers at the Research Centre Future Energy Materials and Systems of the Research Alliance Ruhr. Prof Dr Gabi Schierning has been conducting research at UDE since February 2023, while Prof. Dr. Silvana Botti and Prof. Dr. Miguel Marques have been at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) since April 2023. With their expertise in the natural and technical sciences, the three new members are sharpening the Research Centre's interdisciplinary approach.
16.04 - 19.04.2023Seminar organised by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
Together with the scientific organisers Prof. Dr. Andreas Hütten and Prof. Dr. Kai Rossnagel, we were able to hold the 784th seminar of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, which had the theme "Microstructure, Magnetic and Electronic Ordering: Interplay and Interactions". The programme, consisting of a total of 21 invited lectures and two poster sessions with excellent contributions, was followed by around 60 active researchers from various research fields. Highlights of the high-calibre seminar were the contributions by Anna Böhmer on electronically driven structural phase transitions in iron-based superconductors, Claus Ropers on ultrafast electron microscopy and diffraction and Dennis Meier on the properties of ferroelectric domain walls.
08.03.2023Our audio publication has been published!
With the collaboration of SciPod, we have published an audio publication. The almost eight-minute audio format sheds light on the properties of bismuth telluride particles. Two of our publications were summarised for the podcast.
To the publications:
Interface-Dominated Topological Transport in Nanograined Bulk Bi2TE3
Density-Dependence of Surface Transport in Tellurium-Enriched Nanograined Bulk Bi2TE3