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RUB News

CARBON MANAGEMENT

Integrating electrochemical CO2 reduction with industrial processes

Researchers have developed a zero-gap reactor for CO2 electrolysis capable of operating at a differential pressure of up to 40 bar.

AWARD

Two RUB Researchers Join the NRW Academy

Alfred Ludwig and Martin R. Hofmann were ceremoniously inducted on May 14th.

Quantum Communication

Secret mailbox in the crystal

To securely transmit information, researchers generate individual light particles in a high-purity crystal. A team in Bochum is a master at producing the necessary hardware.

ELECTROCATALYSIS

Doctoral Award for Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi

The German Chemical Society honors the chemist’s dissertation.

INTERNATIONALIZATION

Customized Plasmas for Next Generation Microelectronics

An international collaboration is accelerating the transfer of cutting-edge plasma research into real-world applications to strengthen Europe's microelectronics industry.

Science Communication

Investigating traces in metal

How a research project in materials science turned into a detective story.

MATERIALS SCIENCE

Research Project on Next-Generation Superconductors Starts

International research team awarded multi-million-dollar funding to develop and test next-generation superconductors through artificial intelligence and quantum geometry.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Turning Waste into Opportunity: The Genesis Project

The production of metal tools generates an unimaginable amount of grinding chips. Until now, they have ended up in the trash. However, if the team behind the award-winning Genesis project has its way, that is about to change.

CATALYSIS

Recycling CO2 for a Sustainable Future

Design and process management are key to reducing CO2 from exhaust gases or the atmosphere.

Chemistry

Innovative Approach to CO₂ Reduction

In a hybrid cascade, harmful CO2 is converted back into valuable methanol. An international research team has demonstrated how this process works.

New Research Group

Creating new tool geometries using lasers and robots

Laser cladding enables a type of 3D printing with metals. Researchers from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering aim to further enhance this technology using computer simulations and robotics.

ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS

Three prestigious awards granted to RUB researchers

Projects are funded in electrical engineering and information technology, chemistry and psychology.

Electrochemistry

How Catalysts Secretly Lose Their Stability

Covalent organic framework compounds are more active as catalysts than expected. Researchers have now uncovered the reason behind this.

AWARD

Robert Vaßen receives the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award

The physicist is honored for his pioneering work in the development of advanced high-temperature ceramics.

AWARD

Andreas Ostendorf is new in the “Photonics 100”

The Bochum researcher is one of the most influential and innovative personalities in the field of optics and photonics.

Materials Research

Surprise at the grain boundary

For the first time, an international research team has been able to observe how solute elements introduce new grain boundary phases using state-of-the-art microscopy and simulation techniques.

Material Science

Mechanism of Cobalt-Manganese Catalysts Unveiled

Hydrogen as an energy source can be produced from water through electrolysis, particularly effectively with manganese-containing cobalt spinel catalysts.

Chemistry

New Insights into Ammonia Splitting

Ammonia is considered as a promising transport medium for hydrogen. However, an efficient process is necessary to convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen.

MATERIALS RESEARCH

Safe Hydrogen Storage in Solids

At room temperature and low pressure, metal powders are expected to safely store green hydrogen.

ELECTROLYZERS FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Guide to Developing New Materials

Researchers are laying the foundation for industrial-scale hydrogen production.

ERC GRANT

Understanding dislocations networks in metals

Dislocations significantly influence metal properties. Markus Stricker aims to uncover their behavior through simulations.

PROJEKTSTART

AutoMorph: Analyzing microscopic data with AI

In a new project, partners from industry and academia are working together to analyze pharmaceutical substances with much greater precision than before

GREEN HYDROGEN

Making Electrolysis Cost-Efficient and Scalable

Carbon-based bipolar plates have the potential to replace titanium bipolar plates in proton exchange membrane electrolysis

ELECTROCHEMISTRY

Maximizing Hydrogen Peroxide Yield from Water Electrolysis

Producing of hydrogen peroxide from the splitting of water with the presence of carbonate

ELECTROCHEMISTRY

Producing Hydrogen and Fertilizer Simultaneously

This concept could transform both hydrogen and fertilizer production

Project AutoMorph

Automated morphological characterization of pharmaceutical excipients and active ingredients using AI-supported image data analytics

Using AI-supported image data analytics

Materials Research

International Standard Lays the Foundation for AI Training in Materials Research

An extended version of OPTIMADE, detailed in the journal Digital Discovery, was developed with contributions from Prof. Dr. Miguel Marques and Prof. Dr. Silvana Botti of Ruhr University Bochum, members of the interdisciplinary Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems (RC FEMS).

Chemistry

Golden Ball Mills as a Green Catalyst

Prof. Dr. Lars Borchardt's team has developed a gold-coated grinding bowl for ball mills that converts alcohols into aldehydes without harmful solvents. This sustainable, reusable method opens new perspectives in catalysis and environmental problem-solving.

Transregio in Statistics

Two Major Research Successes for Ruhr University

We extend our congratulations to MRD members Professor Viktor Scherer (co-speaker in the Collaborative Research Center) and Professor Holger Dette (vice-speaker of the newly approved Collaborative Research Center in statistics with the Technical University of Dortmund).

Microsystems Technology

Droplet Ballet in a Miniature Wonderland

Techniques borrowed from microchip production can be used to create tiny components. Bochum-based researchers have come up with clever tricks to set them in motion.

Bioeconomy

Sustainable usage of waste materials

6th Materials Chain International Conference

Inorganic Functional Materials

MCIC 2024: Save the Date

Award

Lars Borchardt is a Henriette-Herz-scout

Chemistry

New catalysis system for CO2 conversion

DFG GRANT

9 Million euros for materials research at the RUB

A new research consortium aims to understand and design surfaces of complex metallic solid solutions with atomic precision.

ERC Grant

Two million euros for investigating the processes in batteries

Improving safety and durability of batteries requires a better understanding of processes that take place inside them at the atomic level. Tong Li intends to lay the foundations for this as part of a Consolidator Grant

RUB NEWS: COLLABORATION

Processing Tool Steels Additively

The Chair for Materials Technology and the company Doerrenberg are collaboratively researching 3D-printable high-performance tool steels to integrate energy- and material-saving manufacturing processes.

RUB NEWS: MATERIALS SCIENCE

Isabel Pietka creates new materials from numbers and equations

Isabel Pietka is an avid physicist. And just an avid supporter of early career researchers. As co-organizer of an early career conference, she knows how important it is to be allowed to make and to learn from mistakes.

Physics

Cool solids

Hägele’s team has been studying the caloric effect for many years. Initially, the researchers used magnetic fields to generate cold with solids. However, this requires field strengths similar to those in an MRI machine – and could therefore not be implemented in a refrigerator or air conditioner. This is why Hägele and his colleagues Jörg Rudolph and Jan Fischer are now working with electric fields.

ERC Synergy Grant

ERC Synergy Grant

Catalysts should be efficient and durable. To find them, four teams are systematically working together on new concepts. They are being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with 10 million euros.

RUB NEWS: MATERIALS SCIENCE

More transparency in the data jungle of materials science

Big data – at first glance, the term sounds like a promise. But a lot of data is useless unless someone provides structure. Someone like Markus Stricker.

RUB News: Materials Science

Stress test at the summer school

Girls in grade 10 and older had the opportunity to attend a summer school in materials science this June. And they were allowed to try their hand at experiments set up for destruction.

RUB News: Materials Research

New large-scale research instrument for materials characterisation

The new device will benefit the work of more than 100 researchers at Ruhr University Bochum.

RUB News: Materials research

New profs at the Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems

Three new professorships have been filled in Bochum and Duisburg-Essen, two of them with top-class female researchers.

RUB News: Chemistry

“It’s well worth the effort”

David Zanders completed his doctorate simultaneously in Bochum and Canada. In this interview, he reveals in what way it was a unique experience and how the exchange led him to competitive axe throwing.

RUB News: Incubator Materials

"In a word: motivating"

Founder Chinmay Khare is supported in his venture by the Worldfactory Start-up Center and Worldfactory International.

RUB News: Physics

Twin photons from unequal sources

Researchers have produced identical photons with different quantum dots – an important step towards applications such as tap-proof communications and the quantum internet.

RUB News: Physics

Insights into a unique form of superconductivity

As part of her ERC Starting Grant, Anna Böhmer is researching specific electron states in superconductors. The recently discovered phenomenon raises many questions.

RUB News: Physics

Growing quantum dots in a regular arrangement

With the manufacturing process used so far, it was difficult to control the density of the structures. Now, researchers will be able to create a chessboard pattern. It is a step towards application.

RUB News: Chemistry

A Sieve for Molecules

Scientists have long tried to use graphene, which is composed of carbon, as a kind of sieve. But this material doesn’t have any pores. Now, a team has found an alternative material which comes with pores from the outset.

RUB News: Chemistry

Making the cement industry climate-neutral

In the cement industry, carbon dioxide is an unavoidable by-product: it is formed when calcium carbonate is burned to calcium oxide and is subsequently released. As a result, the cement industry currently contributes four to eight percent of global CO2 emissions. In the newly launched "CO2" joint project, partners from industry and science are working on an alternative.

RUB News: Chemistry

Where Water Meets Metal

A new method can measure the electrical (re-)charging of boundary layers between very small, metallic particles and aqueous solutions and understand it at a molecular level.

RUB News: Materials Science and Engineering

A Treasure Map for the Realm of Electrocatalysts

Research into promising materials is hampered by the sheer number of possible candidates. A German-Danish team has developed an efficient method to solve this problem.

RUB News: Materials Science and Engineering

Catalyst Surface Analysed at Atomic Resolution

Catalyst surfaces have rarely been imaged in such detail before. And yet, every single atom can play a decisive role in catalytic activity.

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