Materials Research Department
Cutting-edge research in material sciences is carried out within the Materials Research Department (Integrity of Small-Scale Systems (IS³) / High-Temperature Materials (HTM)) where scientists from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics and geosciences work together. Combining the expertise of the different research groups based at the Ruhr-University Bochum, including ICAMS and RUBION with the expertise of surrounding research institutes (MPI-Eisenforschung Düsseldorf, MPI-Kohlenforschung Mülheim, DLR Köln) enables new perspectives in cooperative research. The Materials Research Department (IS³/HTM) focuses on top-level interdisciplinary research projects.
Plasmas with Complex Interactions
Plasmas with Complex Interactions
Das Research Department (RD) „Plasmas with Complex Interactions” erforscht bislang praktisch unbekannte Bereiche, die sich durch die komplexe Wechselwirkung von Plasmen mit ihrer Umgebung auszeichnen. Das Research Department reicht weit über die traditionellen Grenzen der Plasmaforschung hinaus, indem es Plasmatechniken und -methoden auf die Interfaces zu Festkörperphysik, Materialwissenschaften, Chemie, Biologie und Astronomie überträgt. Das RD ist in vier Sektionen aufgeteilt, jeweils mit intensiver Wechselwirkung von Experiment und Theorie/Modellierung:
- Niedertemperaturplasmen und Mikroplasmen
- Hochenergieplasmen und Astrophysik
- Technische Nicht-Gleichgewichtsplasmen
- Modellierung, Theorie und Computational Plasmaphysik
Research Department Interfacial Systems Chemistry (IFSC)
The Research Departments are an integrated part of the institutional Research Campus strategy of the Ruhr-University Bochum, to promote excellent research in a unique interdisciplinary approach enabling independence of scientist with flat hierarchies.
Based on the understanding of the interaction between single molecules or atoms it is our vision to achieve a microscopic understanding of chemical complexity from interfaces of condensed matter (e.g. metal-substrate-interaction) to complex molecular architectures (e.g. Biomolecule-Interfaces).
This requires a broad arsenal of state-of-the-art methods ranging from synthetic, spectroscopic, analytical and theoretical methods to engineering science related methods which will be further developed in the Research Department and transferred into applied research and industrially employed processes (CES , THz ACC ). RD IFSC promotes interdisciplinary learning and research by enabling early contact to science and networks and supports independent early-stage-research in the career of a young scientist.