Materials Chain
Materials Chain is the first and largest flagship program of the University Alliance Ruhr. It offers a platform for interdisciplinary networking that brings together researchers from fundamental natural sciences to applied materials science and production technology. More than 200 scientists from more than 150 chairs and research groups from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the University of Duisburg-Essen research and teach under the umbrella of the flagship program. The profile is complemented by cooperations with 11 regional partner institutions.
Building on the proven strengths at the respective university locations, Materials Chain initiates new research projects and associations to strengthen the role of the Ruhr Area as an internationally leading research region for modern materials and their production.
Take a look behind the laboratory doors of some of the natural scientists and engineers working within the Materials Chain network:
Upcoming Events
- 07Sep
2021 ECMolS2021: European Conference on Molecular Spintronics 2021
TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany - 22Nov
2021 MCIC 2021: Materials Discovery and Processing for Energy
Ruhr-Universität Bochum Convention Centre / Veranstaltungszentrum Universitätsstr. 150 44801 Bochum - more
Who are we? Why is collaboration important in modern materials science? And what are we working on?
Materials Chain International Conference 2021
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The third Materials Chain International Conference, MCIC 2021: Materials Discovery and Processing for Energy, will take place from November 22 to November 23, 2021 in Bochum, Germany. The conference will focus on the following topics:
- Data-driven and combinatorial materials discovery
- Materials for physical energy conversion, 2D and hybrid fuctional materials
- Materials for chemical energy conversion
- Magnetic materials energy conversion
- Metals and alloys
- Production engineering and additive manufacturing
- Transfer: Start-ups and systems
Latest News
Entangled Catalysts
Interlocked Molecules Provide High Product Selectivity
They are inseparable, but not rigidly connected: Mechanically interlocked molecular architectures have only recently been discovered. They can look like two connected chain links or a ring on an axis closed on both sides, for example. Chemists from the Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE) at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have now successfully tested them as cooperative catalysts for the first time. Two renowned trade journals have reported on this. Nowadays, more than 90 percent of all chemical... read more
Award for German-Russian Cooperation
Tailor-made Miniature Solutions Against Cancer
Their nanoparticles of gold and magnetite have been specially developed for the diagnosis and therapy of tumors: Physicists from the Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE) at University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and Moscow colleagues will be honored for their successful collaboration on September 15. "Theranostics" is a portmanteau word combining "therapy" and "diagnostics" and is of crucial importance in medicine: In the project that has now received the award, it refers to the potential applications... read more
Tuning Nanoparticles for Green Catalysis
ERC Grant
Krsitina Tschulik's team is studying individual nanoparticles. They are to become models for optimized catalysts.In the search for alternatives for precious metal-based catalysts, the research team has considered nanoparticles based on transition metals. To be able to design them optimally, their catalytic activity must be analyzed as a function of their properties. This is the focus of the project "Microfluidic Tuning of Individual Nanoparticles to Understand and Improve Electrocatalysis", or Miticat... read more