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New PIs within the Research Department
During the last general meeting of the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions, new Senior PIs were elected to join the collaboration of different scientists over the campus. Due to changed cooperations, the group was enlarged by four new Senior PIs: Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler from the chair for technical chemistry, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dirk Tischler from the chair for microbial biotechnology, and Dr. Julian Schulze as well as Jun.-Prof. Andrew Gibson from the chair for electrical engineering and plasma technology.
With the coming into force of the new by-laws, the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions now includes Associated PIs from other universitites, who work together with the scientists on campus. Here, the new memebers are: Prof. Dr. Jan Benedikt from the chair for plasma physics at the CAU Kiel, Prof. Dr. Guido Grundmeier from the chair for technichal and macomolecular chemistry at the university of Paderborn, Prof. Dr. Timo Jacob from the Insitute for Electrochemistry at the Uni Ulm, Prof. Dr. Thomas Mussenbrock from the chair for theoretical electrical engineering at the BTU Cottbus Senftenberg, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Oberrath from the institute for product and prozess innovation at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya from the institute for Interface Science at the Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin, Prof. Dr. Jochen M. Schneider from the chair for material chemistry at the RWTH Aachen, and finally Dr.-Ing. Jan Trieschmann from the chair for theoretical electrical engineering at the BTU Cottbus.
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Blue Square of Ruhr-Universität celebrates a jubilee
On Septmeber 15th, 2018, the Blue Square in Bochum celebrates a jubilee. At 11:30 the opening of the event starts with an official presentation of the heads of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Afterwards, scientific experiments for children and adults are presented on the different levels of the Blue Square. Furthermore, oral presentations are shown. Especially, Prof. Achim von Keudell holds a preseantion about Plasmas supporting energy storage. This presenation starts at 14:30 on level 3 of the Blue Square.
A short description of the presentation is: Plasmas may play a central role for the energy revolution. The vision of scientists is to build a small plasma system, which can be developed at the foot of a wind turbine producing solar energy, so-called solar fuels. Find out how exactly the could look like.
More information about the celebrating day can be found on the webpage of the Blue Square.
Am 15. September 2018 feiert der Blue Square in Bochum ein Jubiläum. Um 11:30 Uhr beginnt die Eröffnung der Veranstaltung mit einer offiziellen Präsentation der Leiter der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Anschließend werden auf den verschiedenen Ebenen des Blue Sqaure wissenschaftliche Experimente für Kinder und Erwachsene vorgestellt. Darüber hinaus werden mündliche Vorträge gezeigt. Insbesondere hält Prof. Achim von Keudell eine Vorlesung über Plasmen zur Unterstützung der Energiespeicherung. Diese Präsentation beginnt um 14:30 Uhr auf Ebene 3 des Blue Squares.
Eine Kurzbeschreibung des Vortrags lautet: Plasmen können für die Energiewende eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Die Vision von Wissenschaftlern ist es, eine kleine Plasmaanlage zu entwickeln, die am Fuße eines Windrades aus Sonnenenergie sogenannte solare Kraftstoffe erzeugt. Erfahren Sie, wie genau das aussehen könnte.
Weitere Informationen über die Feier im Blue Square können auf der Homepage des Blue Square gefunden werden.
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Prof. Achim von Keudell at TedX
Prof. Achim von Keudell had the honour to join the Tedx event on 19th May 2018 in Bochum with a 15 minutes talk on the impact of plasma technology on the daily life with a small focus on HiPIMS. The overarching topic of the event was "Changing Perspectives". Only 200 tickets for the audience were avaible.
TEDx is a wolrdwide offspring of the TED conference series. The range of topics of the TEDx event was extremly broad covering societal and scientific challenges of the future.
- The video of the presentation can be found here.
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WissensNacht Ruhr 2018
At 29th September 2018, the event WissensNacht Ruhr, which is located at seven different locations within the Ruhr Area takes place. We are going to present plasmas in the Blue Sqaure in Bochum. Everybody is welcome to join our exhibition.
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SFB-TR 87 approved for third funding phase
The German Research Foundation approved the proposal of Prof. Peter Awakowicz from the Electrical Engineering Departement and his consortium concerning the funding of a collaborative research project with the title " Pulsed high power plasmas for the synthesis of nanostructured functional layers". Within the consortium, 20 research projects on different topics are addressed. Especially, two transfer projects with industrial partners is also approved. The funding period is from July 2018 until June 2022.
- For more information see SFB-TR 87.
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CRC 1316 approved by German Research Foundation
The German Research Foundation approved the proposal of Prof. Achim von Keudell and his consortium concerning the funding of a collaborative research project with the title "Transient atmospheric plasmas - from plasmas to liquids to solids". Within the consortium, 17 research projects on different topics are addressed. The funding period is from 2018 until 2022.
For more information see SFB 1316.
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Prof. Dr. Jan Benedikt moves to Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
At April 1st, 2017 Jan Benedikt was appointed full professor for experimental plasma physics at Christian-Albrechts University Kiel. The research department will continue the collaboration with the group of Prof. Benedikt and will strenghten thereby the ties with CAU.
In 2004 Dr. Jan Benedikt joined RUB as a PostDoc in the research group reactive plasmas of Prof. von Keudell. He build up the experiments on mass spectrometry, µ-plasmas, and plasma medicine. In 2010 he was appointed a junior professorship for Coupled Plasma-Solid State Systems at the faculty for plasma physics and astronomy. During his time at RUB, he supervised six PhD thesis and numereous master and bachelor thesis.
The research department plasmas with complex interactions whishes Jan Benedikt all the best for his future and looks forward to many fruitful collaborations.
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JUN.-PROF. DR.-Ing. KATHARINA STAPELMANN: "PLASMA - THE NEW ALL-PURPOSE WAFFER IN MEDICINE".
As part of the lecture series "Everything Plasma!", Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Stapelmann will give a lecture on "Plasma - the new all-purpose weapon in medicine?" on December 1, 2016. The lecture will take place on floor 1 in BlueSquare starting at 6:00 pm.
Plasma medicine is a comparably young field of research. One method, cold atmospheric pressure plasma, has proven particularly effective in healing chronic wounds. Plasma has many different mechanisms of action. For example, it not only helps to reduce the bacterial load in the wound, but also stimulates the body's own immune system, promotes blood circulation and thus supports wound healing on many levels. However, plasma medicine is being researched worldwide for a wide variety of applications, for example as a new cancer therapy or as a painless alternative to root canal treatment in dentistry. Plasma can also be used to sterilize medical instruments or surfaces in hospitals and is also reliably effective against so-called "hospital germs".
The lecture will give an overview of current research topics in plasma medicine with a focus on wound healing. We will trace the mechanisms of action and find out why plasma is so effective and can be used in so many different ways. At the end there will be an opportunity to look at a plasma for wound healing - touching allowed!
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Prof. Bernhard Unterberg "Hotter than the Sun"
On November 3, Prof. Bernhard Unterberg will give a lecture on "Hotter than the Sun" as part of the "All Plasma" lecture series. This will take place at Blue Square starting at 18:00. Interested parties are welcome to attend!
A new primary energy source modeled on our sun - to realize this vision, plasmas with extreme temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius must be confined. This is already possible today with the help of magnetic fields, and now fusion researchers are building the fusion experiment "ITER" (lat. the way), in which 500 MW of fusion power will be generated for the first time.
In this lecture, we will explain the physical principles of fusion in magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas and what challenges have to be overcome on the way to a fusion reactor - especially with regard to the wall materials, which have to withstand the highest stresses in the fusion reactor.
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Awakowicz "Plasma, the all-rounder"
PD Dr. Horst Fichtner could introduce in his lecture different plasmas of the solar system and for phenomena like "the solar fire", the hundred thousand degrees hot solar wind, to which interplanetary space probes and astronauts are exposed, detailed and vrständliche explanations supply. Also the energetic cosmic rays he conveyed with an ease in his execution.
He was able to explain why the understanding of these plasmas is important for fundamental physics as well as for the prediction of the so-called space weather and space climate.
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100 Ruhr researchers study cosmic rays
They are constantly raining down on us from space: cosmic ray particles. Scientists from the Ruhr University Alliance are founding a center to study them.
Cosmic rays are the link between the research areas of the working groups that have joined forces in the Ruhr Astroparticle and Plasma Physics Center, or RAPP Center for short. Around 100 researchers will celebrate the opening of the facility in the Ruhr University Alliance on September 21, starting at 7 p.m. in the Bochum Planetarium. An inaugural conference will have been held at RUB on September 22 and 23.
Questions from dark matter to planet formation
At the RAPP Center, researchers ranging from students to professors will work at the intersection of astrophysics, plasma physics and particle physics. They will ask questions like: What is dark matter, anyway? Where does cosmic radiation come from? Why is there more matter than antimatter? Which interactions of elementary particles are relevant and how can they be studied? What is the role of magnetic fields in the universe? How does planet formation work?
Funding
The RAPP Center is funded by the Mercator Research Center Ruhr (Mercur) with about 330,000 euros.