- SFB 1441 - Tracking the Active Site in Heterogeneous Catalysis for Emission Control
More than 95% of all chemical products have seen a catalyst during their production, hence, catalysis plays a tremendeous role. Heterogeneous catalysis is a substantial part of it, and the great importance of emission control for environmental and human health is obvious.
Catalyst design has been more empirical than knowledge-driven up to now. More than 60% of the noble metals produced worldwide are used in catalysis. There is an urgent need to reduce their content in catalysts to the effective minimum, the so-called active site. New perspectives are evolving, e.g. in the preparation of defined metal clusters/particles, their characterization, and theoretical modeling, allowing to track and fundamentally understand the active sites in catalytic systems.
- CORAERO - Airborne transmission of SARS Coronavirus
This is a NanoLab cooperation project within the Helmholtz association. The CORAERO project aims at broad interdisciplinary contributions to understanding virus spreading through aerosols and designing technical and administrative measures for mitigation and virus control.
- BlueMat Water-Driven Materials EXC 3120
BlueMat's aim is to develop nature-inspired, sustainable and interactive material systems that reveal their functionality in water or aqueous environments, or that derive their unique functionality from the special properties of water. Many biological materials derive their functionality from hybrid multiscale structures and interaction with water. This distinguishes them from classical engineering materials, which are based on a selection and composition of chemical elements, which are often rare and environmentally unfriendly.
BlueMat's research is true to the motto: “If you can do it with water, do it with water.”
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