Materials Analysis Group

4 – 6 September 2022

On 6th September Prof. Ensinger gave a presentation at the Electrochem 2022 conference of the Royal Society of Chemistry in Edinburgh. The title of the presentation was „Single conical nanochannels as core of electrochemical biomolecular sensors“.

26 – 27 September 2022

Marco Colombo, within his PhD project research on large-area laboratory-based µ-XRF analysis of historical paintings, has recently presented a poster at the 3rd Workshop on MA-XRF scanning in Conservation, Art, and Archaeology. The poster is entitled “Investigations around the power of MA-XRF for identifying trace elements to distinguish different painting materials and to gather information on the production of copper panel paintings” and can now be found in the 2nd floor hall of the MaWi building (L2|01).

18 July – 24 July 2022

Marco Colombo, within his PhD project collaboration with the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt and Prof. Maria McNamara’s University College Cork research group, gave a poster presentation at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Association in Cork. The poster is entitled “First in-situ spatially-resolved micro- X-ray Fluorescence imaging analysis of fossils from Messel preserved in different media using a large area micro-XRF scanner”. The poster is now hanging in the 2nd floor hall of the MaWi building (L2|01).

26 June – 1 July 2022

Marco Colombo, in the context of his PhD project collaboration with the Städel Museum Frankfurt, recently gave a presentation at the European Conference on X-ray Spectrometry 2022. The title of the presentation was “Combining the optical and MA-XRF elemental information with advanced data processing routines to distinguish earth pigments in 17th century paintings”.

Defense of Marvin Gröb

Marvin Gröb, external PhD student in our research group, has successfully completed his PhD studies on 22 July 2022.

We congratulate Kristina Fröhlich to her successful defense of her PhD dissertation. The topic of her defense is: “Fabrication and Ion-Conducting Behavior of Heavy Ion Track-Etched Nanochannels und Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Conditions”. For her future career we wish Kristina all the best.

On 3 June 2022 we met for a BBQ after a long pause. It was nice that a few former team members had also come.

European Society of Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology

Marvin Gröb, external PhD student at Kern Microtechnik GmbH, held a presentation on 2nd June in Geneva at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN) on “Ductile cutting regime in ball milling of monocrystalline silicon”.

iNAPO Ion Conducting Nanopores

The Hessian Ministry of Science and Art has published the final report of the LOEWE project iNAPO (ion-conducting nanopores), in which the Material Analysis group played a leading role.

Prof. W. Ensinger hielt am 5. April 2022 auf der 7th International Conference on Recent Advantages in Nanotechnology (RAN’22) eine Keynote Lecture zu „Ion Damage Tracks in Polymers – Fabrication of 1-Dimensional Nanostructures: Nanochannels, Nanowires and Nanotubes“