Particle accelerators are usually massive installations stretching over kilometers. But an international physics team has now reproduced similar effects on a tiny chip.
Researchers present opportunities, challenges and potential improvements for the large-scale integration of CO₂ sources and electrolyzers.
Researchers have developed a zero-gap reactor for CO2 electrolysis capable of operating at a differential pressure of up to 40 bar.
Alfred Ludwig and Martin R. Hofmann were ceremoniously inducted on May 14th.
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.
The German Chemical Society honors the chemist’s dissertation.
An international collaboration is accelerating the transfer of cutting-edge plasma research into real-world applications to strengthen Europe's microelectronics industry.
How a research project in materials science turned into a detective story.
International research team awarded multi-million-dollar funding to develop and test next-generation superconductors through artificial intelligence and quantum geometry.
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.
Design and process management are key to reducing CO2 from exhaust gases or the atmosphere.
In a hybrid cascade, harmful CO2 is converted back into valuable methanol. An international research team has demonstrated how this process works.
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.
Projects are funded in electrical engineering and information technology, chemistry and psychology.
Covalent organic framework compounds are more active as catalysts than expected. Researchers have now uncovered the reason behind this.
The physicist is honored for his pioneering work in the development of advanced high-temperature ceramics.
The Bochum researcher is one of the most influential and innovative personalities in the field of optics and photonics.
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.
Hydrogen as an energy source can be produced from water through electrolysis, particularly effectively with manganese-containing cobalt spinel catalysts.
Ammonia is considered as a promising transport medium for hydrogen. However, an efficient process is necessary to convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen.
At room temperature and low pressure, metal powders are expected to safely store green hydrogen.
Researchers are laying the foundation for industrial-scale hydrogen production.
Dislocations significantly influence metal properties. Markus Stricker aims to uncover their behavior through simulations.
In a new project, partners from industry and academia are working together to analyze pharmaceutical substances with much greater precision than before
Carbon-based bipolar plates have the potential to replace titanium bipolar plates in proton exchange membrane electrolysis
Producing of hydrogen peroxide from the splitting of water with the presence of carbonate
This concept could transform both hydrogen and fertilizer production
Using AI-supported image data analytics
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).
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.
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).
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.
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A new research consortium aims to understand and design surfaces of complex metallic solid solutions with atomic precision.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The new device will benefit the work of more than 100 researchers at Ruhr University Bochum.
Three new professorships have been filled in Bochum and Duisburg-Essen, two of them with top-class female researchers.
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.
Founder Chinmay Khare is supported in his venture by the Worldfactory Start-up Center and Worldfactory International.
Researchers have produced identical photons with different quantum dots – an important step towards applications such as tap-proof communications and the quantum internet.
As part of her ERC Starting Grant, Anna Böhmer is researching specific electron states in superconductors. The recently discovered phenomenon raises many questions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Catalyst surfaces have rarely been imaged in such detail before. And yet, every single atom can play a decisive role in catalytic activity.
