The Nanoparticle Process Technology group performs research in synthesis and structuring of nanoparticles using advanced methods of chemical reaction engineering, measurement technology, characterization, modelling and simulation. Our goal is the development of new and improved processes for the production of functional materials with structures in the nanometer regime on the basis of nanoparticles.
Markus Winterer, Nanocrystalline Ceramics – Synthesis and Structure, Springer, Heidelberg 2002
Research topics
- Synthesis and In-situ Process analysis: CVS, AMS
- Processing: Colloids, Compaction and Sintering
- Structural Characterization: EXAFS, RMC
Projects
- Structural Characterization of Complex Oxides for Oxidation Catalysis (Project B1 in CRC 247; funding agency: DFG)
- Pattern Formation during Current Sintering (partner: D. Wolf, UDE; project in Priority Programme ‘Manipulation of matter controlled by electric and magnetic fields: Towards novel synthesis and processing routes of inorganic materials’, SPP 1959; funding agency: DFG)
- Zn-doped Gallium Oxynitride Nanoparticles as Efficient Photocatalyst for Water Splitting (partner: M. Muhler, RUB; project in Priority Programme ‘Fuels Produced Regeneratively Through Light-Driven Water Splitting: Clarification of the Elemental Processes Involved and Prospects for Implementation in Technological Concepts’, SPP 1613; funding agency: DFG)
- Control of the Oxidation State of Iron in Nanoparticles containing Iron Oxides and Iron-Carbon Composites in Chemical Vapor Synthesis (project in the Research Unit 2284; funding agency: DFG)
- Printed Electronics Virtual Institute: Printed Electronics based on Inorganic Nanomaterials: From atoms to functional devices and circuits (partners: KIT, ETHZ, LLNL; funding agency: Helmholtz Association)
- Aerosol Synthesis of doped Gallium Oxide for Photo-catalytic Water Splitting in a Three-phase Reactor (partners: M. Muhler, R. Fischer, RUB; funding agency: Mercur)
- Nanoscaled Nitrides as Precursors for Phosphors (partners: H. Wiggers, OSRAM; funding agency: DFG)
- Electronic Doping of Semiconductor Nanocrystals (partners: W. Gladfelter, U Minnesota, D. Norris, ETH Zürich; funding agency: DFG & NSF)