Current Projects
GRK 2803: Scalable 2D-Materials Architectures (2D-MATURE): Synthesis and Processing, Characterization and Functionality, Implementation and Demonstration
Partners: University of Waterloo, Canada; University Duisburg-Essen
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher
SPP 2370: The heterogeneous photo-catalytic oxidation of dinitrogen to nitrogen oxides in the gas phase: mechanism and kinetics
Partners: Dr. Jonathan Bloh, DECHEMA Research Institute, Frankfurt; Prof. Dr. Jennifer Strunk, Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock; Prof. Dr. Jennifer Strunk, Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher, M.Sc. Julian Klein
Directly grown PE-CVD graphene as functional layer in GaxAl1-xN UV-LEDs (DiGraL)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher, Dr. Wolfgang Mertin
Magnetic van der Waals Heterostructures
Partners: Prof. Doron Naveh, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Prof. Efrat Lifshitz, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine, TU Dresden
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher, M.Sc. Maurizio Riesner
UA Ruhr-Professur Spectroscopy of novel materials and their hybrids, 2D+x
Partners: Prof. Dr. Manfred Bayer, TU Dortmund; Prof. Dr. Andreas Wieck, RUB
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Franziska Muckel, M.Sc. Leon Spee
Entropy engineering and interface optimization in materials for highly effective thermoelectric energy conversion (MAITEG)
Partners: jun.-Prof. Dr. Johannes de Boor, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, and Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Duisburg, Germany; Prof. Dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Tomasz Wojciechowski, AGH-UST, Krakow, Poland
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Mertin
Investigation of anisotropic spin phenomena in doped nanocrystals by luminescence spectroscopy on single particles in a vector magnetic field
Partners: Prof. Dr. Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher, M.Sc. Jan Bieniek
Scalable 2D Material Architectures (2D-MATURE)
Partners: Prof. Dr. Michael Pope, University of Waterloo, Canada
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher
Multimodal imaging of energy conversion in nanoscale materials and devices with sub-µm resolution
Partners: MPI für Eisenforschung
Contact: M.Sc. Mohamed Abdelbaky
Development and analysis of MOCVD growth processes for binary and ternary 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC)
Partners: Prof. Dr. Andrei Vescan, RWTH Aachen University
Contact: Dr. Tilmar Kümmell
CRC/Transregio 247: Heterogeneous oxidation catalysis in the liquid phases - Mechanisms and materials in thermal, electro- and photocatalysis
Partners: Ruhr-University Bochum, MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion, MPI for Coal Research, Fritz Haber Institute
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher, M.Sc. Laura Kampermann
Exchange interactions in wavefunction engineered, transition metal doped 2D hetero-nanoplatelets
Partners: Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Bilkent University, Turkey
Contact: M.Sc. Maurizio Riesner