03.-08. July 2022

Oliver Osswald vists the Carbon-Conference in London as part of his carbon research.

01. April 20222

Dr. Jaime Gallego from the Universidad de Antioquia starts his research at AG Smarsly.

06. Mai 2021

Sebastian Werners publication Porous SiO₂ Nanofibers Loaded with CuO Nanoparticles for the Dosimetric Detection of H₂S appears in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials.

03. November 2021

Sebastian Werners publication H₂S Dosimetry by CuO: Towards Stable Sensors by Unravelling the Underlying Solid-State Chemistry appears in the journal Chemistry - A European Journal.

October 04, 2021

Two new research projects habe started in the Gatti group:

The DFG-founded project "Funktionelle Nano-Hybride für die Optoelektronik: von 0/1/2D Nanostrukturen bis zu Cross-Linked Heteronanoübergänge" ("Functional nano-hybrids for optoelectronics: from 0/1/2D nanostructures to cross-linked heteronano-transitions"; https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/46060916) as well as that of the HMWK-Program "Horizon Hessen" funded project "NANOHYLUM"  (https://www.hessen.de/presse/pressemitteilung/von-hessen-nach-europa-hessen-horizon-ist-gestartet).

Dezember 21, 2020

Kevin Turkes publicationAmine-Functionalized Nanoporous Silica Monoliths for Heterogeneous Catalysis of the Knoevenagel Condensation in Flow appears in the journal ACS Omega.

31. Januar 2021

The joint study by Oliver Osswald in cooperation with Volker Strauß from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung Laser-carbonization: Peering into the formation of micro-thermally produced (N-doped)carbons appears in the journal Carbon.

February 16, 2021

The joint study by Elifkübra Özkan in cooperation with Umicore and Prof. Kübel am KIT Comprehensive Characterization of a Mesoporous Cerium Oxide Nanomaterial with High Surface Area and High Thermal Stability appears in the journal Langmuir.

January 05, 2021

The H2020 FET-PROACTIVE project "MULTI-ELECTRON PROCESSES FOR LIGHT DRIVEN ELECTRODES AND ELECTROLYTES IN CONVERSION AND STORAGE OF SOLAR ENERGY (LIGHT-CAP)" financed by the European Commission has started on 1st January 2021 and will last until 31st December 2024. Dr. Gatti's and Prof. Smarsly's group will contribute to the LIGHT-CAP consortium as a single research unit in charge of the realization of porous light harvesting and/or charge accumulating thin film architectures based on zero- and bi-dimensional semiconducting materials. The project is coordinated by Dr. Ilka Kriegel at the Italian Institute of Technology and include as other cooperation partners TU Dresden (Prof. X. Feng), EPFL (Prof. F. Stellacci), TU Milan (Prof. F. Scotognella), IMDEA-Energy (Dr. R. Marcilla) and Okinawa.

For information:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017821

November 26, 2020

Melanie Sielands publication "Synthesis of Ti(OH)OF ⋅ 0.66 H2O in Imidazolium‐based Ionic Liquids" appears in the journal ChemistryOpen.

October 2020 to March 2021

Shiho Sakurai from Kansai University is visiting the Smarsly group as part of her master's degree.

October 13, 2020

Dr. Pascal Cop's dissertation on "CeO₂-based nanostructures as model catalysts for HCl-oxidation" received the doctoral prize in the field of inorganic solid-state chemistry and materials research from the Solid State Chemistry & Materials Research group of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).

September to November 2020

Matteo Crisci from the University of Padova (Prof. Dr. Silvia Gross) performs a research stay of 3 months as an ERASMUS fellow in the research group of Prof. Bernd Smarsly.

July 28-30, 2020

Melanie Sieland, Oliver Oßwald, Eric Prates da Costa and Sebastian Werner visit the Elettra Synchrotron in Triest for time-dependent in-situ SAXS and WAXS measurements of ionic liquids for the synthesis of various titanium oxide modifications.

Juli and August 2020

Prof. Silvia Gross (University of Padova) visits the Smarsly group as part of a DFG Mercator Fellowship. During her stay she teaches within the GRK 2204 and offers in particular two courses for students and doctoral students on the topics "X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy", "X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy" and "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the EU". Further information: Course description on the GRK 2204 website. Other activities include advising students who are interested in staying abroad in Padua as part of the double degree agreement, completing five joint publications with JLU scientists and discussing and planning new ones scientific projects.

March to August 2020

Valentine Genot from the Le Mans Université in France stays 5-month in the Smarsly's group as part of her master's thesis.

March 07, 2020

Melanie Sielands picture for the publication "Ionic Liquid-Mediated Low-Temperature Formation of Hexagonal Titanium-Oxyhydroxyfluoride Particles" appears as the cover photo in the journal CrystEngComm.

January 21, 2020

Julia Schulzes publication "TEMPO-functionalized mesoporous silica particles as heterogeneous oxidation catalysts in flow" appears in the journal J. Mater. Chem. A.

February 10, 2020

Felix Badaczewskis publication "An advanced structural characterization of templated meso-macroporous carbon monoliths by small- and wide-angle scattering techniques" appears in the journal Beilstein Journal Of Nanotechnology.

February 19-20, 2020

Prof. Dr. Bernd Smarsly, Oliver Oßwald, Eric Prates da Costa, Kevin Turke andSebastian Werner attend the seminar on the characterization of porous materials. Prof. Dr. Bernd Smarsly gave a lecture on "In-situ small-angle scattering / physisorption on disordered mesoporous SiO₂ materials".