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| Centre for Molecular Water Science (CMWS) | "The CMWS shall bring together key experts from different areas of water-related sciences with the common goal of achieving a detailed molecular understanding of water. This includes the dynamic processes in water and at water interfaces, which are highly relevant for chemistry, biology, earth, and the environment as well as for technology. The scope of the CMWS will range from studies of the fundamental properties of water to its role in real-time chemical dynamics, and biochemical- and biological reactions. It will cover water in geophysics, climate and environment as well as energy research and technology. The research program will build on the suite of enabling technologies (coherent ultrafast imaging and scattering techniques, novel sample manipulation technologies) available in the unique Hamburg Light Sources environment as well as on our substantial expertise in simulation and theory. Cooperation with local, regional, national and international partners (both in Europe and overseas) via collaborative platforms and joint appointments will be a key ingredient of the centre from the very beginning."[1] | |
| DFG Cluster of Excellence „CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” (AIM) |
"Functionalities are at the heart of the cluster of excellence „CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter“. Atoms bind together and form solids, molecules interact and react - new functionalities emerge with increasing complexity and growing system size. 160 scientists from different disciplines such as physics, chemistry, and structural biology have joined forces to observe, understand, and control these processes. Thereby teams of Universität Hamburg cooperate with scientists of the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), and the European XFEL GmbH (XFEL)."[2] Principal investigators of the LFF project are involved in subprojects on the dynamics of colloidal nanoparticles and biometric water channels, among others. |
Link to AIM website |
| „Center for Integrated Multiscale Materials Systems“ (CIMMS) | The goal of the CIMMS is the production of novel materials using 3D printing to develop more cost-effective and durable products with novel functions. These so-called three-dimensional, multi-scale, multifunctional, hybrid and integrated material systems are fundamentally different from existing materials. Similar to natural, biological materials, these material systems can contain better and more diverse properties, thus broadening their range of applications. These improved material properties allow new technological developments, for example in the fields of energy, mobility, medicine and health, and also promise greater sustainability. Researchers from the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH, applicant university), the University of Hamburg (UHH), the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) are working together on the project. The aim is to strengthen the cooperation of materials scientists across the borders of the research institutions in order to achieve innovative research results and to create the conditions for a promising materials science proposal in the next call for proposals under the Federal Excellence Strategy.[3] | Link to CIMMS press release |
| DFG Priority Programme 2171 "Dynamische Benetzung flexibler, adaptiver und schaltbarer Oberflächen; Teilprojekt „Dynamische Elektrobenetzung an Nanoporösen Oberflächen: Schaltbare Tropfenspreitung, Imbibition und Elastokapillarität“ | In this project, the wetting dynamics of aqueous electrolytes under controlled external electrical potentials and the closely related deformation kinetics on tailored silicon surfaces traversed by parallel tubular nanopores will be experimentally investigated. The overall goal is to gain a predictive, fundamental understanding of the electrically switchable static and dynamic wetting on nanoporous solids.[4] | Link to GEPRIS website |
| DFG Graduate School "Prozesse in natürlichen und technologischen Partikel-Fluid Systemen" (PintPFS) |
Soil is a natural particle-fluid system (PFS) in which complex physical, chemical and biological processes, interface phenomena and phase transitions occur that are insufficiently investigated experimentally, understood and numerically modelled. In technical PFS, certain particle properties are created by controlled physical, chemical and biological processes, interface phenomena and phase transitions (e.g. functionalized particles). Here, too, there is a need for research in terms of understanding, modelling and process optimisation. The questions in natural and technical PFS are partly analogous. Therefore, it is obvious to investigate processes in natural and technical PFS in an interdisciplinary way in order to gain knowledge on both sides. This is precisely where the originality and potential of the planned research training group lies. The individual disciplines name, model and simulate similar processes in the same or different ways. The main differences are the length scales on which PFS are experimentally investigated, modelled and simulated.[5] | Link to GEPRIS website |