October 2011

The picture shows Dipl.-Chem. Manuel Pölleth after completing his PhD oral exam. In his dissertation Manuel Pölleth has studied electrochemical processes at the interface between a plasma and a liquid. In this process he has deposited silver nanoparticles at this interface to investigate the influence of various physical properties on the particle size distribution and morphology, e.g. viscosity and surface tension of the liquid,. Due to their low vapor pressures ionic liquids were particularly suitable as a template for such a plasma-electrochemical deposition. Picture submitted by M. Göttlicher