The Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) is internationally recognized for cutting-edge materials research and development: its members use their fundamental understanding of the nanoscale to develop sustainable solutions to major societal challenges in the fields of energy, information technology and health.

The research center ACTIVE SITES has been created as a platform for scientists with common research interests, in the field of interdisciplinary development of methods for the characterization of active sites in an aqueous functional environment.