Seasons Greetings!
Dear members and friends of the RD IFSC:
2011 was a good, productive, and successful year for the department. The department activities required everyone's input. We highly appreciate your support!
Nice and recreative holidays, and a good start into 2012!
Your RD IFSC Team
The Research Departments are an integrated part of the institutional "Research Campus RUB" strategy of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum , to promote excellent research in a unique interdisciplinary approach enabling independence of scientists with flat hierarchies.
Based on the understanding of the interaction between single molecules or atoms it is our vision to achieve a microscopic understanding of chemical complexity from interfaces of condensed matter (e.g. metal-substrate-interaction) to complex molecular architectures (e.g. Biomolecule-Interfaces).
This requires a broad arsenal of state-of-the-art methods ranging from synthetic, spectroscopic, analytical and theoretical methods to engineering science related methods which will be further developed in the Research Department Interfacial Systems Chemistry (RD IFSC). Advances of basic research will be transferred to applied research and industrially employed processes (CES , THz ACC ). RD IFSC promotes interdisciplinary learning and research by enabling early contact to science and networks and supports independent early-stage-research in the career of young scientists.
Central research topics are Solvation and Materials (SFB 558) . Cooperative research projects are dealing with Microsolvation and Microaggregation (FOR 618) , the development of smart drug carriers (FOR 630) , the understanding of intermolecular interaction (INTCHEM) , electrochemistry and mobility, the design of ionic liquids (ERC Starting grant), innovative concepts for fabrication as well as integration and characterisation of thin-layer materials (ENHANCE) , the development of spectroscopic methods and deployment of a comprehensive arsenal of theoretical methods (TheoChem) . Constructing the first electronically programmable chemical cells should establish a novel basis for future adaptive embedded information technology at the molecular level by conception of electronic cells.
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