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Experience physics
Announcement of the Students' Project Week Easter 2023
From April 3rd to 6th 2023, the Alfried Krupp School Laboratory of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum will once again host the project week for all girls in grades 8, 9 and 10. Registration is possible online. During the week, girls have the opportunity to conduct research within a project, attend a lecture, experience a performance at the Zeiss-Planetarium Bochum, and take part in an exciting quiz and poster session. During the week, a free lunch is provided daily, and on selected days there is also a free breakfast. In order to make it possible for all students to participate, a ticket for public transportion can be provided upon request.
In the project "From Plasma to Gold Layers", the participants will gain an insight into the generation and use of plasmas and will be able to deposit and examine gold layers themselves.
- Information on the projects and the planned programme can be found on the official project week page.
Award
Martin Muhler receives Alwin Mittasch Award 2023
Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler was awarded the Alwin Mittasch Prize 2023 for his "fundamental contributions to the cross-scale understanding of the mode of action of catalyst materials in chemical reactions for future-oriented technologies". This award is given to researchers for outstanding achievements in the field of catalyst research by German Society for Catalysis. The award will be handed over in Weimar on March 16, 2023.
Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler holds the Chair of Technical Chemistry at Ruhr-Universität and is a board member of SFB 1316, PI in project A7 "Plasma catalysis for conversion of volatile organic compounds (VOC)", as well as a member of the MGK.
- More information about the award can be found in the RUB article.
Company visit
Visit of the company Plasmatreat
The lecture "Introduction to plasma physics II" and Bachelor, Master and PhD students of the chair EP2 and the group Plasma Interface Physics visited the company Plasmatreat in Steinhagen near Bielefeld. The company excels in the production of atmospheric pressure plasma jets for polymer functionalization.
Outreach
Kick-off event of the Science Year 2023
On Saturday, 11.02.2023, the kick-off event of the Science Year 2023 "Our Universe" took place. The SFB 1316 was represented with a booth at the Zeiss Planetarium Bochum.
Besides live experiments, there was a varied program with a plasma quiz, coloring pictures and slide show. As live experiments, the plasma sphere and plasma mass were presented as hands-on experiments, and the plasma speaker and COST jet were shown for demonstration. Here, the new portable COST-Jet could be used for the first time outside the university. Thanks to its construction on a plate with gas supply, generator and holders for optical fibre and spectrometer, another experiment and authentic diagnostics from the laboratory can now be shown at events.
A big thank you to the many helping hands and all interested people who visited us!
- Further information on the Science Year can be found here.