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This interdisciplinary Graduate School focuses on the function-specific
tailoring and characterisation of outer and inner surfaces as
well as on internally structured compact materials. Our aim is to
develop uses of such materials in heterogeneous catalysis, electrical,
optical and magnetic switches and communication, and to generate
composite materials for specific areas of application within
materials science.
Starting point can be a bulk material, which is
modified - particularly surface-modified - or acts
as a carrier for (mono-layer) coating by physical and chemical
deposition. Alternatively, nano- and micro-structured (multi-layer)
particular materials can be the basis for generating (functionalised)
meso-porous materials, as can molecular to nano-sized precursor compounds,
clusters and colloids.
We employ a wide range of analytical methods, the
most important of which are surface-directed methods to characterise domains
and structural details down to atomic resolution (scanning tunnel and atomic
force microscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy)
and methods to analyse the size, shape and composition of
nano- and micro-sized particles.
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