Seminars

PANH (nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) are of considerable interest in optoelectronics as electron-conducting materials, but also in interstellar chemistry, where they are considered as carriers of the unidentified infrared bands. [more]

Universitäten weltweit sind nach Jahren politischer Zurückhaltung wieder Plattformen des gesellschaftlichen Diskurses geworden. Wurden sie dabei Brutstätten von Extremisten? Oder sind sie nicht gerade in ihrer neuen Rolle Garantinnen des Gemeinwesens, offene Räume, in denen Meinungen sich im Kontext von akademischer Forschung und Lehre behaupten müssen? [more]

A clear understanding of molecular chirality in aqueous solution is directly relevant for chemical and life sciences. [more]

Correlation plays a central role in emergent phenomena. Examples include, among others, quantum ground states and collective excitations. Here, I will discuss what we can learn from time-domain views of correlation in two dimensional (2D) vdW materials. In the 2D vdW magnetic semiconductor, CrSBr, excitonic transition is found to strongly couple to magnetic order [1] and this allows the easy detection of low energy (GHz-THz) magnons by visible-NIR light [2]. [more]

Power-to-Liquid (PtL) processes, which produce liquid fuels from captured CO₂ and green H₂ via methanol synthesis or Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, offer a promising route to sustainable carbon-based energy carriers for sectors that cannot be readily electrified. [more]

Advanced LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is designed to measure the quadrupolar strain of space itself arising from passing gravitational waves and in 2015 made the first observation of a binary black hole merger [Abbot et al, Phys Rev A, 116, 061102 (2016)]. [more]

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