CRC 1411 News

The 2025 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of a new type of molecular architecture. The constructions they created – metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) – contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. Rese...

CRC 1411 researcher Dr. Carlos L. Bassani has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project kineticSHAPES – Kinetic Pathways to Control Nanocrystal Shapes. The project will investigate how nanocrystal morphologies emerge under non-equilibrium conditions. By developing simulation methods that span f...

CRC 1411 Project C01 is seeking a talented doctoral researcher (f/m/d) to advance scale-bridging correlative tomography at FAU—leveraging state-of-the-art electron and X-ray imaging to unravel hierarchical porous structures. Apply by 30 September 2025. More information and application here: https...

Just a few days into 2025, CRC 1411 PI Robin Klupp Taylor found himself trading a Bavarian winter holiday for a lecture hall at Kyoto University in Japan. While colleagues back home savoured their final post-Christmas relaxation, on January 6, Prof. Klupp Taylor was already engaging graduate student...

At a DECHEMA/VDI conference in February 2024, CRC 1411's research was prominently featured, with Nabi Traoré (Project A01) and Lukas Hartmann (Project B04) receiving awards for their presentations. Their contributions highlight CRC 1411's impactful role in advancing particulate systems research.

The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov for their discovery of quantum dots, nanoparticles that are so small that their physical size determines the quantum mechanical states of the material’s charge carriers. Quantum dots constitute a new...

At PARTEC 2023, held from 26 - 28 September 2023, several of our researchers presented the results achieved during the first funding period with the particle technology community. During the event, Johannes Walter was awarded the prestigious Löffler Prize.

CRC1411 research combines the strength of simulation predictions with cutting edge characterization technique to discover new materials. In a collaboration between project D04 and C01, and researchers of Indiana University, simulated crystalline structures were finally observed experimentally. In...

CRC 1411 PI and Vice-Spokesperson Martin Hartmann will receive the Klaus-Unger-Award 2024 of the Zeolite division of DECHEMA for his work on porous solids, which has resulted in "ground-breaking progress in the synthesis and application of these materials".  His work has inspired and shaped the zeol...

Using gold nanocrystal seeds to guide the growth of silver patches, CRC 1411 scientists have unlocked a scalable way to produce a rainbow of tunable nanoparticles, opening the door to a range of applications.